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Jon Stewart, Reactionary

by Andrew Potter | 10:06 am, January 12th, 2011

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The clearest sign of the political cowardice and intellectual impotence of liberal America is its collective worship of Jon Stewart. Once upon a time, The Daily Show was probably funny – that’s presumably why it appears on Comedy Central. But Stewart long ago turned into the Oprah Winfrey for urban hipsters, his self-appointment as the arbiter-in-chief of smirking moderation masking a profoundly reactionary worldview.

Stewart is reaping accolades this week for his handling on Monday night of the shooting in Arizona that left six people (including a judge) dead, and fourteen people wounded, most notably the Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

As Mediaite’s Colby Hall reported, Stewart didn’t bother trying to bring the power of political satire to bear on the issue. Instead he went full-emo, taking “a meaningful, measured and earnest approach to the current political finger pointing over the incident.” Which is to say, instead of taking sides, placing blame, and ultimately doing the satirist’s crucial job of holding a mirror up to power, he took the safest route imaginable and blamed the media:

“It would be really nice if the ramblings of crazy people didn’t in any way resemble how we actually talk to each other on TV.”

Gee thanks Jon. You know what would be nice? If Republicans weren’t hell-bent on gutting every serious attempt at legislation that would keep semi-automatic pistols with 30-round clips out of the hands of lunatics. But no, here’s Uncle Jon once again, handing everyone their twitter-points for the next day:

“Boy would it be nice to be able to draw a straight line of causation from this horror to something tangible… You cannot outsmart crazy”.

As it happens, “you can’t outsmart crazy” is the preferred conservative framing of the Arizona shootings. Writing for the National Review Online, the war historian Victor David Hanson mocked any attempt to tie Jared Lee Loughner’s rampage to anything the right has said or done. Loughner, he said, “more likely fit the profile of an unhinged killer like Ted Kaczynski or John Hinckley” than that of some rabid partisan or cold-blooded political assassin. Thanks to the “political vultures” on the left, we are suddenly back in “a 1963 mood of blaming politics for deranged shootings.”

But blaming the media is the last refuge of the failed satirist, the TV-host equivalent to a dying stand-up comedian picking on the fat guy in the front row. After all, everyone hates the media. So while we can all agree that Acorn was as bad as the Tea Party, and that Keith Olbermann is as over the top as Bill O’Reilly, treating the media as the essence of the problem has the ultimately conservative effect of encouraging acceptance of the political status quo.

This is not the first time that Stewart has taken refuge in media criticism as a way of avoiding the tough questions of the day. His 2004 appearance on Crossfire established him as a so-called voice of reason, even though all he really did was sit there and condescend to his hosts, repeating “just stop,” over and over again.

And then there was last October’s Rally For Sanity, where he repeated the shtick in front of a quarter million people on the Washington Mall. Did he dare make the obvious and necessary point, which is that since Obama’s election, the Republican Party has descended into vicious nihilism? Nope. As David Carr wrote about the rally in the New York Times:

“So instead the host of ‘The Daily Show’ took steady aim on the one American institution that everyone can agree to hate: The Media. Within the first minute of his deft, very articulate stump speech at the end of the rally, Mr. Stewart turned his gun sights on the, um, fake news, which he called, ‘the country’s 24-hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator,’ which, he added, ‘did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder.’

‘The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous, flaming ant epidemic,’ he said, to roars of approval from the crowd.”

Ah yes, to roars of approval from the crowd, the same roars of approval that Roman emperors once used to keep the people complacent. Instead of throwing gladiators to the lions we now throw journalists before the mob, and pray that no one notices that all they are doing is eating the messenger alive.

Leave it to Mediaite’s own Rachel Sklar to call bullshit on this oh-so-meta media self-flagellation. As she tweeted Tuesday afternoon:

I’m getting tired of the inflamed rhetoric about inflamed rhetoric. I’d like to see people more inflamed about gun control.

Andrew Potter is a columnist for Maclean’s Magazine, and the author of The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves, published by HarperCollins.

Arizona shooting, David Carr, Gabrielle Giffords, Jon Stewart, Rally To Restore Sanity, Victor David Hanson

errxn

Translation: Dear Jon Stewart, you suck, because I want to use this incident as an excuse to irrationally hammer Republicans, and YOU’RE RUINING IT FOR ME!

Regards, Andrew Potter
yungchii

Are you freakin serious? OMG this is the most ridiculous piece I have ever read. You are mad at a comedian? this article stinks of jealousy. He is a COMEDIAN for God’s sake. you are angry because he’s got millions of 18-29 year olds and probably the most rational man on Night TV right now…
my dogs gone

This only illustrates how the ability to produce a blog or write a book does NOT make you a pundit or an expert.
Real journalists or editorialists only turn on each other when they run out of factual information.

Re: the Arizona shooting there are two approaches to reporting on this tragedy.
1. Report the story.
2. Wring your hands and emote about the tragedy.

The first is the province of the news.
The second belongs to the 24/7 talking heads and their networks.
Atticus Draco

yungchii said:
Are you freakin serious? OMG this is the most ridiculous piece I have ever read. You are mad at a comedian? this article stinks of jealousy. He is a COMEDIAN for God’s sake. you are angry because he’s got millions of 18-29 year olds and probably the most rational man on Night TV right now…

uhmm,, ‘fraid NOT
reported here on Mediaite
and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show/Colbert Report tandem (about 829,000 for the hour).”

CONAN BEATS HIM
HA!
isnt that lovely?!?
lol
yungchii

Atticus Draco said:
uhmm,, ‘fraid NOT
reported here on Mediaite
and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show/Colbert Report tandem (about 829,000 for the hour).”

CONAN BEATS HIM
HA!
isnt that lovely?!?
lol

i missed the word “Fans.” that’s what i meant. I could care less about TV ratings. stewart got more blog hits/views than Conan will ever imagine
Atticus Draco

yungchii said:
i missed the word “Fans.” that’s what i meant. I could care less about TV ratings. stewart got more blog hits/views than Conan will ever imagine

how do you know that?!?!?
lol,, has that been reported?!
Atticus Draco

Atticus Draco said:
how do you know that?!?!?
lol,, has that been reported?!

i mean,, Conan beats him soundly,,
Conan O’Brien’s new show is averaging 1.44 million viewers in the advertiser-friendly demo, “about 100,000 more than nemesis Jay Leno (1.35 million) and substantially more than CBS’s David Letterman (1.16 million) and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show/Colbert Report tandem (about 829,000 for the hour).”
M Colins

This certainly proves that no matter what you say, someone will always accuse you of playing into the other sides hands!

Whats sort of amusing is that based on literally every follow up of Loughner, Stewart’s take is actually the right one. Every day there is a mounting evidence essentially dismantling the narrative that began probably 6 minutes after the news of the shootings hit the airwaves.

To Potter toxic and dangerous Right Wing discourse is self evident and needs no further discussion. It is directly contributory to this terrible incident despite there only being evidence contradicting that possibility. He is outraged that Stewart has seen this and refuses to promulgate that false narrative. In Potter’s mind the good is indeed the enemy of the perfect since Stewart’s usually reliable left wing take on everything is ignored because he has in this one instance gotten a bit ahead of the curve on his Lefty brethren and arrived at the correct conclusion.

Potter in fact is miffed because Stewart has ignored Rahm Emanuel’s philosophy and let a “good crisis go to waste”.
tjames

Just a thought on that whole “gun control” thought:

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” –Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishment, quoted by Thomas Jefferson in Commonplace Book
yungchii

Atticus Draco said:
i mean,, Conan beats him soundly,,
Conan O’Brien’s new show is averaging 1.44 million viewers in the advertiser-friendly demo, “about 100,000 more than nemesis Jay Leno (1.35 million) and substantially more than CBS’s David Letterman (1.16 million) and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show/Colbert Report tandem (about 829,000 for the hour).”

…and i won’t argue with the data. but then, whose videos are mostly being used to get hits by blogs? Stewart/colbert or conan? c’mon, you know who it is..google stewart and then conan to see how much results you get then compare
Atticus Draco

yungchii said:
…and i won’t argue with the data. but then, whose videos are mostly being used to get hits by blogs? Stewart/colbert or conan? c’mon, you know who it is..google stewart and then conan to see how much results you get then compare

OKAY,, YOU’RE GUESSING,,
that’s fine with me,, just state it,,
you ASSUME Jon is viewed by more people than Conan via GOOGLE
lol

i personally dont watch any of the shows listed
i dislike Jon so much,, i dont bother watching his posted videos here
TIME IS TOO GDAM SHORT TO WASTE IT ON STEWART,, imo

but it’s easy to imagine,, stewart is gonna be posted at a lot of political blogs
and POLITICS is in vogue right now
many that would otherwise ignore Jon,, are vforced to watch him,, in a sense,,
WITH THAT SAID,,
IT CERTAINLY AINT HELPING HIS FREAKIN’ RATINGS .. NOW IS IT??!
Call_Me_Ishmael

And some wonder why many of us despise the Kool-aid drinking true believers on both sides of the political spectrum. Potter’s as much of an idiot as Riehan.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Who is Andrew Potter? He has the liberal gene. The guy is flat out nuts. Gun control, LOL. Why not claim global warming shot all those people?

Potter needs to see my gun cam video. I know he won’t get it but here it is so he can watch it and go crazy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ojXtVtRFmw
Atticus Draco

gordonbloyershow said:
Why not claim global warming shot all those people?

that will be the mantra next week
CosmosDan

Which is to say, instead of taking sides, placing blame, and ultimately doing the satirist’s crucial job of holding a mirror up to power, he took the safest route imaginable and blamed the media:

If your comprehension is so bad that you heard Jon’s words and thought he blamed the media, your opinion doesn’t count for much.

Jon acknowledges that both sides have their issues and then demonstrates the proportions on his show. It seems very ineffective to me to play the “yes we are bad , but they are much worse” game, and then start some ridiculous scorecard of quotes and childish bickering. IF , we can agree that language has gone over the top and gotten too inflammatory, {and I doubt that will happen} then maybe we can find a way to disagree without seeing our fellow Americans as the enemy and every piece of legislation as a plot to destroy and enslave America.
CosmosDan

Atticus Draco said:
i mean,, Conan beats him soundly,,
Conan O’Brien’s new show is averaging 1.44 million viewers in the advertiser-friendly demo, “about 100,000 more than nemesis Jay Leno (1.35 million) and substantially more than CBS’s David Letterman (1.16 million) and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show/Colbert Report tandem (about 829,000 for the hour).”

And those numbers are completely meaningless for this discussion. But thanks anyway.

I wonder if the ratings take into consideration that the full episodes are online the next day. I don’t have comedy central but I watch them there.
Atticus Draco

CosmosDan said:
And those numbers are completely meaningless for this discussion. But thanks anyway.

I wonder if the ratings take into consideration that the full episodes are online the next day. I don’t have comedy central but I watch them there.

jon is a liberal hack,, NOT worthy of attention
the numbers prove that

And i’m NOT surprised you watch that BS!
Atticus Draco

CosmosDan said:
full episodes are online the next day. I don’t have comedy central but I watch them there.

hell,, i wouldnt be a bit surprised in your liberal ways to USE your employer’s internet connection to watch ‘em you cheap liberal!!!
IndyGal2011

Good god! Not everyone in this country wants to be a rabid, fire-breathing ideologue who toes the party line 24/7, and some of us would prefer that calmer heads prevail, because the insanity following this event has absolutely exploded. The fact of the matter is, we don’t know what set this guy off. Everything right now is pure speculation, which cannot be taken for fact. Who knows, maybe the guy was hearing voices, or thought he was communicating with aliens. Christ, maybe the dog told him to do it.

And quite frankly, it’s the media’s job (not a flippin’ comedian) to call attention to the gun laws (or lack thereof) in this country — a job they fail miserably at on a daily basis because they waste their time on crap like this — and it’s a citizen’s job to contact their representatives regarding the same. So instead of pissing and moaning about what a comedian said or didn’t say, that was or wasn’t to your liking, and wasting a web page to rake him over the coals, put your money where your mouth is and start delivering the facts on the gun issue so you can, oh, I don’t know, apprise the public of the facts so they can make an informed decision? Just a thought.

Jesus! If the media spent as much time actually INFORMING the public instead of navel-gazing and obsessing over itself and every word uttered by others in its immediate sphere, if they actually took up the mantle of trying to serve the citizens with genuine information and facts, we might actually see some progress. Unfortunately, as evidenced by this article, I doubt that will happen, because the monster has become self-aware, and like Narcissus before it, it will be the downfall of itself.
CosmosDan

Atticus Draco said:
jon is a liberal hack,, NOT worthy of attention
the numbers prove that

And i’m NOT surprised you watch that BS!

Atticus Draco said:
hell,, i wouldnt be a bit surprised in your liberal ways to USE your employer’s internet connection to watch ‘em you cheap liberal!!!

Guess you showed me.
Atticus Draco

IndyGal2011 said:
Good god! Not everyone in this country wants to be a rabid, fire-breathing ideologue who toes the party line 24/7, and some of us would prefer that calmer heads prevail, because the insanity following this event has absolutely exploded. The fact of the matter is, we don’t know what set this guy off. Everything right now is pure speculation, which cannot be taken for fact. Who knows, maybe the guy was hearing voices, or thought he was communicating with aliens. Christ, maybe the dog told him to do it.

And quite frankly, it’s the media’s job (not a flippin’ comedian) to call attention to the gun laws (or lack thereof) in this country — a job they fail miserably at on a daily basis because they waste their time on crap like this — and it’s a citizen’s job to contact their representatives regarding the same. So instead of pissing and moaning about what a comedian said or didn’t say, that was or wasn’t to your liking, and wasting a web page to rake him over the coals, put your money where your mouth is and start delivering the facts on the gun issue so you can, oh, I don’t know, apprise the public of the facts so they can make an informed decision? Just a thought.

Jesus! If the media spent as much time actually INFORMING the public instead of navel-gazing and obsessing over itself and every word uttered by others in its immediate sphere, if they actually took up the mantle of trying to serve the citizens with genuine information and facts, we might actually see some progress. Unfortunately, as evidenced by this article, I doubt that will happen, because the monster has become self-aware, and like Narcissus before it, it will be the downfall of itself.

NOT to bust your bubble,, ‘coz i kinda agree,,
but the left,, especially the committed left,, hold stewart in very high regard
i kinda see their grievances toward him
“Moses let ‘em down!”
tee hee
Atticus Draco

CosmosDan said:
Guess you showed me.

no,, i know you’re liberal,, you gotta be dependent on something you believe is an entitlement
Jon Stewart is an “entitlement” aint he?
CosmosDan

IndyGal2011 said:
Jesus! If the media spent as much time actually INFORMING the public instead of navel-gazing and obsessing over itself and every word uttered by others in its immediate sphere, if they actually took up the mantle of trying to serve the citizens with genuine information and facts, we might actually see some progress. Unfortunately, as evidenced by this article, I doubt that will happen, because the monster has become self-aware, and like Narcissus before it, it will be the downfall of itself.

Right.
I have several wonderful conservative friends and we are able to discuss things over a beer or two without it driving a wedge between us. The starting point is one of mutual respect and love of country. You wouldn’t think it would be that difficult a concept.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Elaine-Jesmer/614756658 Elaine Jesmer

So now we have the media backlash, taking potshots at Stewart, who couldn’t be more accurate in his assessment of the media’s responsibility in all of this. Go, Potter, it’s the only avenue that hasn’t been explored yet, so you have the field pretty much to yourself. As a publicist for the past 50 years, someone who worked at CBS when Cronkite was still there and the media exercised a sense of responsibility for the news they fed the public, Stewart’s voice of sanity is one of the few that actually reaches people. There is no editorial control exercising good judgment about what’s news and what isn’t. It’s what sells, period. Palin, the funeral protesters, the guy who now has a job because he scored a radio gig thru YouTube…you asked for it, so that’s what you’re getting.
CosmosDan

Atticus Draco said:
Jon Stewart is an “entitlement” aint he?

Atticus that doesn’t even make sense, and ftr neither does this

Atticus Draco said:
jon is a liberal hack,, NOT worthy of attention
the numbers prove that

Having just shy of 900,000 viewers doesn’t really prove he’s not worthy of attention. It’s fine by me that you think he sucks. It’s kinda okay for human beings to have different preferences.
tigerprez

Thanks, Andrew. You’ve provided the answer to the question, “What does Jon Stewart have to do to make the left turn on him?” Apparently, the answer is “Not be willing to exploit a tragedy for political gain.” Enjoy your time on the ash heap of history, Mr. Potter. You’ll be staying there for awhile.
WilsonTheHeretic

WOW. Thumbs up if you think this Andrew guy is just AWFUL.
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

CosmosDan says:
“If your comprehension is so bad that you heard Jon’s words and thought he blamed the media, your opinion doesn’t count for much.”

Dan, it’s not what Stewart said at his rally that fell short. What he said was spot on. It’s what he or nearly anyone else did NOT say until the very end, literally walking off the stage when one musician yelled out “vote.”

This is not a partisan matter, Dan; Jon should have used that stage and his audience to implore people to engage politically. Without taking sides, he could have done the Republic a great service by getting his audience to not just vote, but to get others to the polls. He fell short. “You go, I go, you go, I go.” Oh and f#$king VOTE NEXT WEEK!

On gun control. I was initially pissed off at Potter for these remarks, but the more I read the more I got his point. Until we employ strict, domestic arms control in this country, we’re going to keep seeing these mass slaughters semi-regularly. In my view, the 2nd Amendment is quaint and obsolete. The SCOTUS, and particularly Scalia, screwed the pooch when the ruled that this right is an individual right. I point directly at Scalia because he comes off as Mr. Original Intent, and the 2nd Amendment is clearly written and historically developed as a matter of national security, a collective need. Is is Stewart’s function to dive into this? No, that’s what MSNBC is for.

That written, Potter’s claim that Stewart has a “profoundly reactionary worldview” strongly suggests to me that he doesn’t know the meaning of the word reactionary. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have profoundly reactionary worldviews, Andrew. Stewart, you could argue, has a profoundly lame worldview. THAT I could agree with, although I don’t think it’s all that fair to point fingers at the clown on the stage. He’s a comedian. In his interview with Maddow, Stewart made it clear that he didn’t want to get off the stage and into the game. Lame, yes. Reactionary? GTF out!
J Baustian

Macleans? Isn’t that a Canadian newspaper or news weekly? Why should a Canadian be telling Americans how we ought to interpret our Constitution and particularly the Second Amendment? And why does Mediaite give him a platform to lecture US?
Thelonious Funk

This article is garbage.

I want to poop on it.
Biscuit

The Right has had Reagan, Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, Palin, etc.

The left has had intelligent, caring, decent human beings who don’t murder children.
LarryB

So, Potter, you are angry at a comedian for not blaming this shooting on lack of gun control? Who is the comedian here?
The people who want to strip Americans of their right to bear arms are pouncing on this new opportunity for new gun laws, complete with new restrictions. That isn’t going to fly with those of us who believe in our Constitution. Instead, why don’t you make a constructive argument. Maybe we should explore denying gun possession rights to anyone who is medically determined to be schizophrenic. I don’t know if any doctors had actually determined this wacko Loughner to be schizo, but that might actually be a law both sides would agree on.
Instead, Potter, you are accomplishing nothing with your attack on Stewart. Hmmm, maybe that’s not exactly true. It does appear you have managed to make both the right and left dislike your views, and getting these two polarized groups to agree on anything is indeed an accomplishment.
marcus.lewis

Atticus Draco said:
uhmm,, ‘fraid NOT
reported here on Mediaite
and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show/Colbert Report tandem (about 829,000 for the hour).”

CONAN BEATS HIM
HA!
isnt that lovely?!?
lol

The thing about ratings and late night shows, is that they can be whatever a reader wants them to mean. The numbers released by TBS were live + 5 days (dvr). TDS/TCR comes on several times a day, and Comedy Central does not release numbers very often, as they don’t have to try to increase PR for the show. But, if you took the numbers for the shows that come on again throughout the next 24 hours after the first airing, you’d see that TDS draws in more viewers than Conan does with the live + 5 days.

Now I personally like Conan, so it doesn’t bother me if either of them are winning or not. But to take some stupid PR that a company puts out and take it at face value is naive.
realitycheck

MR Potter is a Canadian. That means Pres Obama is right wing neo con of ultimate proportions, comparatively. Why they would post his article dabbling in USA politics is disingenuous. Canadas favorite past time is our self congratulatory on how we really are the Morally superior society. Especially because a mass murder would never happen here due to our gun laws. Yeah right. Mr potter would due well to google the Surrey Six.
Honestly, if you want to test drive the progressive utopian dream. Come to Canada. We have gov regulations for everything! We haven’t created a substantial product excluding the blackberry of course, we mooch off your medical & pharmaceutical advances. Im not sure why Potter is concerned with USA gun laws, He lives the gun control dream, And that hasn’t stop murders resulting from handguns…
Michael_T

Perhaps the single most unfair article I have ever read on Mediaite.

Andrew Potter has some agenda that defies logic, fairness and accuracy.

Dan Abrams has to be embarrassed in his heart of hearts.
realitycheck

“So while we can all agree that Acorn was as bad as the Tea Party, and that Keith Olbermann is as over the top as Bill O’Reilly,”

…. Ummmm no we don’t.

And while I don’t agree with Stewarts Politics, or his Rally. I applaud his going “full emo” in reguards to the Arizona Tragedy. That’s what grown ups do.
Gasket

I’m left of center but I still find this article lacking.
Fused

I’m no expert columnist or anything, but it seems a bit unprofessional to use language like ‘bullshit’ in an article. The whole thing is just a big angry mess.
http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Bullock/732934536 John Bullock

Potter, you are so far off base here I don’t even know where to begin. Stewart considers himself a comedian and entertainer first, not a political idealogue.
For all those above who called him a liberal hack you are wrong. Liberal, yes, hack, no. If he was a hack he would have jumped on the blame Palin note like a cat on a laser pointer. But he didn’t, so there goes your hack theory.

The fact is, he was smart enough to know that after the Arizona aftermath, a regular night of dick & fart jokes mixed with politics just wouldn’t cut it. He was also level headed enough to try not to stir up the pot. He was also honest and polite enough to apologize at the end of the first segment and point out that it was self-serving.

Now about his “attack on the media” If you observe the quote you used:

“It would be really nice if the ramblings of crazy people didn’t in any way resemble how we actually talk to each other on TV.”

You might notice the words WE and EACH OTHER in that sentence. That is not an attack on the media so much as it is a sad observation on society as whole which is only reflected by the media. He includes himself in there to some degree I’m sure.
You also reveal an unreasonable dislike of Stewart when you say he “condescended to his hosts” during his appearance on Crossfire. That appearance was anything but condescending and even then I thought he had a good point that has been supported by other journalistic endeavors, not to mention the fact that Crossfire was canceled.
Next, there is your own tepid points about gun control. If you are mad at Stewart for not screaming “Gun Control Now!” at the top of his lungs while stomping on pictures of various conservative leaders and pundits, well don’t whine about it. Go lead the charge. If you want to promote gun control, write an article about gun control, not Jon Stewart.
Finally, you are probably right about one thing. Jon Stewart is loved by the left and probably is the Oprah of urban hipsters. I bet everyone who truly does love gun control loves him and I bet most gun loving Neo Con moron hate his guts. I see some of their snide comments on this thread. They love this article and I bet they are the 34 people on facebook who “liked” this article. Now who is playing into the Republican’s hands?

By the way, attacking the media is not the last resort of a failed satirist. The last resort of a failed satirist these days is the blogosphere.

Get over yourself

(Full disclosure. I myself support the 2nd Amendment and gun ownership. I do not own a gun myself, but many friends and family members do and none of them have ever killed or hurt anyone. That being said, there must be an intelligent solution to the problem of crazed wierdos killing innocent bystanders in America and I believe reasonable and concerened people on both sides of the aisle can come together and have a serious discussion about this situation and discover methods that save lives and protects civil liberties.)
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

Potter: you’ve been called out and exposed here as a fraud. Your response? Crickets.

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http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

Ah, was Jon reading this post? Just arrived in e-mail:

“How would law-abiding gun owners know how far they are from government officials? Jon asks the tough questions about gun bans proposed in the wake of the Tucson shooting. ”

Reactionary world view my ass!