Secret Tapes Bust NRA Leaders Calling Their Members Hillbillies And Fruitcakes

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Secret tapes of NRA leaders meeting after the Columbine shooting caught them referring to their members as hillbillies and fruitcakes.

NPR got the tapes:

In addition to mapping out their national strategy, NRA leaders can also be heard describing the organization’s more activist members in surprisingly harsh terms, deriding them as “hillbillies” and “fruitcakes” who might go off-script after Columbine and embarrass them. - PoliticusUSA

"You know, the other problem is holding a member meeting without an exhibit hall. The people you are most likely to get in that member meeting without an exhibit hall are the nuts," says LaPierre.

"Made that point earlier. I agree," says Makris. "The fruitcakes are going to show up." - NPR

Could you imagine if any democratic organization called their members fruitcakes and other derogatory names? Those members would flee and have every right to. But not these NRA hillbillies! They're sticking with the NRA brand and proud to be labeled fruitcakes and basically pawns, by their own.



Audio clips at NPR links

[Champp]

1. Republicans dumping on Republicans

I suppose they think of their members as "suckers and losers" just like their ungodly Republican Casino-hustler-in-chief called our US troops "suckers and losers."

Disgusting Republican "values."

[TheBlackAdder]

11. That sounds like something for a PornHub subchannel. 💩

[Elwood P Dowd]

2. We need more of these Patricia Neal type scenes

to expose all the repuke Lonesome Rhodes.

[SheltieLover]

3. Kicking for visability

[gratuitous]

4. You don't have to imagine the response

Anything that isn't fawning obeisance to the cult of gun nuts draws the hillbillies and fruitcakes like ants to honey. Even a criticism as mild as "That's not really true" to their latest whack job conspiracy theory brings the howlers in droves.

[MagickMuffin]

5. And they (the hillbillies and fruitcakes) were on FULL DISPLAY on Jan 6th

Acting out on their basic instincts to be who they are.

[BlueJac]

6. Republicans always escape justice...

Stay tuned for more of the same old bullshit...coming to 2022 in the near future.

[UTUSN]

7. K&R

And DRUMPF has contempt for his own followers, the unwashed with whom he would never fraternize.

But back in my more Liberal *charitable* mode, it’s common for groups to try to distance themselves from or try to make more palatable its more fringe members – like when the national organizers of Vietnam Vet marches on D.C. put out the word to ditch the surplus fatigues uniforms and wear neat civilian clothes.

[BigmanPigman]

17. He certainly did think his fans/cult members were

the scum of the earth. When he got Covid he said he saw the silver lining...he wouldn't have to shake hands with any of "them". Years earlier he said that as long as he had Fux Ruse in his pocket all their GOP sheep would follow him to anywhere yet he is disgusted with his own base.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. .

Could you imagine if any democratic organization called their members fruitcakes and other derogatory names?

Lol what yes absolutely.

[AZLD4Candidate]

9. That's because their "hillbillies" and "fruitcakes" are solid votes for them

They won't give up the NRA even if Wayne LaPierre showed up loaded on crank, fondled their wives, attacking their children, and burned down their houses.

Single issue voters are just that. . .single issue. As long as you stroke their issue, they will go through Hell for you.

[infullview]

10. Exactly right.

[Amishman]

12. The NRA is a zombie already, the support has shifted to other gun groups

Though the longer it survives in it's current undead state, the longer it keeps splitting the gun lobby's resources

[FakeNoose]

14. All it ever was, was a way to funnel money into Repukes' campaigns

... from the manufacturers. They're just a lobby group with resourceful PR/media contacts. The NRA never cared about the rank-and-file "membership" and I'm sure that's why they ridiculed them.

[Torchlight]

16. Not too zombified, yet. NRA is still the biggest contributor to the GOP of any US gun organization.

It holds clout, it ghost-writes legislation and receives millions in donations from gun manufacturers such as Smith & Wesson and Beretta USA (these donations are not spare change, either: between 2005 and 2013, the NRA received over $50 million in industry contributions alone).

While their public missteps as of late are a leading indicator another will take its place, that's nothing I'd bet on anytime soon after realizing their membership grew (net, not gross) by 225,000 members this year alone.

[FakeNoose]

13. There's a huge overlap between the gun-lovers, the racists, and the Q-people

I'm not saying they are all racists, they're not all hillbillies, and they're not all gun-lovers.

But you know ... overlapping and intersecting deplorables with common interests.

[hatrack]

20. Yes, like a Venn diagram drawn with shit . . .

[Demovictory9]

15. Lol 😀

[ZonkerHarris]

18. NRA members will buy Nuts & Fruitcakes Tee shirts from the NRA and wear them proudly

[LunaSea]

19. I bought Wayne LaPierre ten thousand dollar suits...

and all I got was this lousy sticker.

Suckers.