NRATV Host Destroys a TV to Attack the ‘Fake News’

At NRATV, our greatest weapon against the lying #fakenews #MSM is Truth. pic.twitter.com/4om2Aatqgm

— NRATV (@NRATV) February 12, 2018

The National Rifle Association’s media affiliate NRATV — which brands itself as a media outlet for viewers who don’t think Fox News and talk radio are right-wing enough — has launched its most amazing advertising campaign yet, as the outlet is now destroying their own televisions in an attempt to defeat the “fake news.”

While the NRATV’s previous, more extreme ads have been taken as an “an open call to violence” against mainstream news organizations, their latest batch of promotions take a more headass approach.

The series started with right-wing talk radio host and NRATV newcomer Dan Bongino performing a bizarre turning-lemons-to-lemonade anti-media metaphor, but he apparently has no idea to actually make lemonade. Another video featured the notorious Dana Loesch trying to burn an issue of the New York Times with a Zippo, only to back off the threat because the paper is doing a “good enough job burning down your reputations.”

Grant Stinchfield has now taken it up a notch, as the NRA released a clip of the host violently swinging a sledgehammer at a television displaying a highlight reel of news coverage painting Donald Trump in a negative light.

Stinchfield — who donned safety glasses for the stunt, just in case the headass-ery got out of control — slammed the TV right as a Morning Joe panel popped on the screen.

Another layer of the ad is the host’s t-shirt, which read “SOCIALIST TEARS.” It’s not entirely clear why the NRA thinks destroying their own private property will make socialists cry, but Stinchfield apparently found the approach to be effective as he stared directly into the camera with a defiant, constipated expression.

Of course, Stinchfield has a long history of outrageous stunts. He once called for North Korea to launch an ICBM toward California, referred to Democratic Senator Chris Murphy as a “puppet master of the modern violent left,” and suggested Black Lives Matter is trying to have white people “tortured and killed.”

Watch above, via NRATV.

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