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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWayne LaPierre's mental illness (#NervousDisorder ) granted him a draft deferment.
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Should he have a gun??
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this jewel of info came (via @Nikluk) they deserve the credit.
jazzimov
(1,456 posts)that he shouldn't be carrying a gun. And if anyone thinks he's better now, just listen to any of his speeches.
JI7
(89,183 posts)DakotaLady
(246 posts)why should any of us being surprised.
That list is very telling.
Thank you for posting this thread --- it is a must read IMO.
sweetloukillbot
(10,816 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Lots of his media friends warned him but he just became obsessed about it.
I would have to say that Hendrie always gave credit to vets and loved lambasting paper tigers like the rest of the guys on the list.
lexw
(804 posts)Even if he changed his stance a bit, putting him on a list of folks like that seems a tad extreme.
But, I (like many I'm sure) haven't listened to him in some time.
Love his work, though!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Response to sasha031 (Original post)
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riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)They keep arguing that it's not the guns but people with mental illness. So why doesn't someone confront him with his OWN mental illness. And to me, someone with a nervous disorder (translation: itchy trigger finger) shouldn't be anywhere near a gun.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)sasha031
(6,700 posts)I more than suspected it being a projection
This is what RWNJ's always do.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)He was really stung by your OP!
sasha031
(6,700 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)He may not be the most liberal of commentators at there, but he sure isn't anything like the list of people he's included in.
sasha031
(6,700 posts)They were quite good, at the time Chris Matthews was not a good friend to Progressives.
MSNBC was slanted right like the rest of the media, I think Keith Olbermann had a huge hand in changing things.
The network learned quickly there was a market for liberals, and thing started to change. It was pretty awful during Bush yrs.
I think once Kieth opened it up, it gave Chris freedom to become a way better pundit.
As far as Meida Whores, I think allot of the people probably went to work for Media Matters.
JI7
(89,183 posts)Matthews was Pretty bad back then.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)arthritisR_US
(7,269 posts)guns! What a fecking hypocrite
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)and not have guns. Ruining it for everyone, they are. (rude gesture to LaPierre)
Ian Iam
(386 posts)Forget the word 'chickenhawk:' the proper term is coward.
BlueMTexpat
(15,350 posts)at least Charlton Heston served. Much as I disliked Heston's NRA advocacy, it's really not fair to cite the Michael Moore interview b/c Heston was clearly in advanced stages of Alzheimer's by then. God help anyone ravaged by that disease!
Another Alzheimer's sufferer who seemed to believe that he served - when he didn't except in fantasy - was St Ronnie of Raygun.
Scalia did attend a Catholic military school. He likely believes that was the same as serving. In some ways, it might have been. http://www.biography.com/people/antonin-scalia-9473091
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)during WWII. He never left the states and saw combat, but he did fly a make-up table. I guess he would not be classified as a REMF (Rear Echelon Mother Fucker), but as a RMF (Revlon Mother Fucker)
BlueMTexpat
(15,350 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,411 posts)Now he is the mouth piece for the NRA to promote gun sales. What a nauseating nasty sick waste of space.
Kablooie
(18,572 posts)should be declared mentally unstable and therefore denied access to guns.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)like Ted Nugent did, shouldn't that be a history of mental illness too?
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)National standard is adjudicated incompetent by a court or involuntarily committed under fort order.
I think to judge anyone in the present for a long-past mental health issue is extremely unfair. People can and are successfully treated, recover, and move on. I personally know several people, one a prominent DU member, who have overcome far more serious symptoms than LaPierre and live very fulfilling lives, almost "transparent" in their mental health issues, virtually no one around them has a clue. The same applies to me, even though I'm only months down this road, the only people who know are those I choose to tell. A few people obviously at the outset knew something was up, but not what - it was kinda hard to cover up the locking myself in the office and crying/puking thing.
ALL of that being said, LaPierre is a vile man, a hypocrite of the worst kind. I hate the NRA with a passion, the entire post-Newtown thing has upset me tremendously, and old Wayne deserves whatever bad comes to him for the pain he has caused others through his "work".
Berlum
(7,044 posts)These Republicans all need to take a long, hard look in the mirror to detect the deranged, fear-driven quiver that perpetually pulses up and down their spines.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I would love to add the draft deferment information to LaPierre's bio in Wikipedia, but the awolbush website isn't sufficiently mainstream to satisfy many Wikipedia editors. Besides, although awolbush links to sources for some of its assertions, it has no backup for that one. If the information is valid it must have come from somewhere.
I did a quick skim of the first couple pages of Google hits but didn't turn up anything.
Surely someone dislikes Wayne LaPierre enough to dig up the dirt on him?