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Right-wing media spent much of 2015 lashing out at celebrities. From seething over celebrities who spoke out against sexism and pay inequality in Hollywood and supported the Black Lives Matter movement, to objectifying female bodies, bashing the Pope, and telling an actress to "deport herself," Media Matters looks back at some of conservative media's most outrageous temper tantrums of 2015:
A contributor to the National Rifle Association's (NRA) Frontlines series suggested that an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on America could kill 90 percent of the population and cause people on food assistance to start "eating each other in the streets."
The NRA routinely fearmongers that an EMP attack -- where a nuclear bomb is detonated in space, supposedly causing the destruction of the power grid -- would cause widespread chaos and death, even though experts have dismissed such claims as coming from a "crowd of cranks and threat inflators."
During the September 22 broadcast of the NRA's radio show Cam & Company, Frontlines contributor Chuck Holton promoted an episode of his series featuring former CIA director James Woolsey. Called "The Fight for Light: The Coming Catastrophe," the episode largely speculated about the prospect of North Korea using a satellite to detonate a nuclear bomb in space to destroy the United States' power grid.
Frontlines is hosted by NRA board member and Iran-Contra figure Oliver North and takes viewers "inside the most dangerous threats and critical events concerning your freedom."
While promoting the North Korea EMP episode, Holton said on Cam & Company, "Like Admiral Woolsey said in that piece -- you know, this is the former director of the CIA, it's not just some old guy that we found on the street, OK? He knows what he is talking about. And they're estimating that 90 percent of Americans would die in the case of a large-scale grid down situation."
"You're talking about mass starvation, disease breaking out," Holton continued. "It's not just like people are going to die because their iPhone doesn't work anymore, you're talking about large scale -- people eating each other in the streets, because when you have these sort of systemic issues in our government of nearly half of the people in the United States receiving some sort of subsidy from the government, imagine what happens when all the EBT cards start flashing zeroes."
The NRA's claims about the chance of an EMP attack are greatly overblown. For one thing, North Korean satellites are not sophisticated enough to be used as reliable delivery systems for nuclear bombs (and look nothing like the highly-sophisticated satellite depicted as exploding over the United States in the Frontlines' episode.)
As Wired noted after "hysterical headlines" in 2012 about how North Korea had "finally managed to put an object into orbit around the Earth after 14 years of trying," North Korea's satellite is 2.5 feet by 3.5 feet tall and weighs just 220 pounds. While the satellite was supposed to transmit "scientific data when orbiting over the DPRK and the hymns of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il the rest of the time," it is apparently non-functional.
Woolsey, whom the NRA's considers its expert on EMP attacks, has also been criticized for his EMP claims and promotion of the conspiracy theory that Iraqis were responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
In a 2013 article in Foreign Policy, nonproliferation expert Jeffrey Lewis criticized Woolsey for a Wall Street Journal op-ed suggesting the United States should launch pre-emptive strike on North Korea to prevent an EMP attack on the United States.
Even if an EMP attack somehow occurred, Lewis demonstrated how past experimentation suggests that the "EMP crowd" has baselessly speculated about what would actually happen during an attack:
Even if we understand how an electromagnetic pulse works and have data about the vulnerability of equipment, a modern system like a power grid or communications network presents just too complex a set of resiliencies and vulnerabilities.
The solution of the EMP Commission was simply to collect more data, essentially creating laundry lists of things that might go wrong. For example, the EMP Commission exposed 37 cars and 18 trucks to EMP effects in a laboratory environment. While EMP advocates claim the results of an EMP attack would be "planes falling from the sky, cars stalling on the roadways, electrical networks failing, food rotting," the actual results were much more modest. Of the 55 vehicles exposed to EMP, six at the highest levels of exposure needed to be restarted. A few more showed "nuisance" damage to electronics, such as blinking dashboard displays.
The NRA routinely fills its magazines with advertisements for bulk survival food and alternative power sources in case the grid goes offline.
Just before the 2014 elections, NRA leader Wayne LaPierre urged supporters to "vote your guns" while fear mongering over the prospect of a Russia, China or North Korea-led EMP attack that could kill "as much as 90 percent of the population of the U.S." by bringing about the reemergence of "Third World" diseases like "amoebic dysentery, typhoid, [and] cholera -- killing our youngest and frailest family members."
The host of the National Rifle Association's radio show reacted to the fatal shooting of two journalists in Virginia by attacking "anti-gun politicians" and "anti-gun activists" for using the tragedy to call for stronger gun laws, claiming they "politicized" it and demonstrated "a lack of shared humanity."
But not only is the NRA hypocritical for saying gun policy debates should be off-limits after a shooting -- it has used mass shootings to call for looser gun laws -- it's also self-serving, because its political agenda benefits when potential new laws that it opposes are not debated and discussed.
The NRA's declaration that this is not the time to discuss gun policy also stands in stark contrast to comments made just hours after the shooting by the father of one of the victims, who said publicly that he will make it his life's work to convince politicians to close loopholes in gun laws.
During the morning of August 26, reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, of Roanoke, Virginia's ABC affiliate station WDBJ, were gunned down while doing a live report from a recreation area. The shooter, who later that day committed suicide, was a disgruntled former co-worker. The tragedy quickly made national headlines and prompted calls for stronger gun laws and action by President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Virginia Gov. Terry McAullife (D).
Later that same day during an afternoon broadcast, Cam Edwards, host of the NRA radio show, Cam & Company, lashed out at people who consider this latest incident of shocking public gun violence as more evidence the nation needs stronger gun laws.
Edwards complained, "Before we know any of the details, we are seeing anti-gun politicians, anti-gun activists trying to turn this tragedy into some sort of political advantage," and went on to characterize calls for new gun laws as "the wrong response to take here. I think it shows a lack of shared humanity."
He went on to lament, "It has been really disheartening to see in a matter of minutes how this story became politicized," and said, "This is a community that is absolutely heartbroken right now and you've got people who are trying to turn this tragedy into some sort of political advantage for them[selves]. I just think it's gross."
That reaction typifies the gun group's strategy whenever a shooting captures national headlines. Hiding behind expressions of concern for the victims of the attack, the NRA condemns anyone who sees the violence as a reason to change or reform laws and accuses them of "politicizing" a tragedy.
This argument is nonsensical. As Ezra Klein explained for The Washington Post following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, saying that it's not appropriate to talk about new gun laws "is a form of politicization":
When we first collected much of this data, it was after the Aurora, Colo. shootings, and the air was thick with calls to avoid "politicizing" the tragedy. That is code, essentially, for "don't talk about reforming our gun control laws."
Let's be clear: That is a form of politicization. When political actors construct a political argument that threatens political consequences if other political actors pursue a certain political outcome, that is, almost by definition, a politicization of the issue. It's just a form of politicization favoring those who prefer the status quo to stricter gun control laws.
With statements that attempt to police what can and can't be said following a shooting, the NRA not only seeks to shut down debate that could lead to tougher gun laws, it also purports to speak for the victims and their family members.
But no one who has been personally affected by gun violence needs the NRA to speak for them. Certainly not Parker's father, who appeared on Fox News the night his daughter was shot and made an impassioned plea for gun reform.
Noting that he had spoken by phone with Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Andy Parker said: "I'm going to do something, whatever it takes, to get gun legislation to shame people, to shame legislators into doing something about closing loopholes in background checks and making sure crazy people don't get guns," adding that McAullife told him, "I'm right there with you":
ANDY PARKER: And, you know, I'm not going to let this issue drop. We've got to do something about crazy people getting guns. And, you know, and the problem that you guys have is that -- and I know it's the news business and this is a big story. But next week it isn't going to be a story anymore and everybody is going to forget it. But you mark my words, my mission in life -- and I talked to the governor today. He called me and he said -- and I told him, I said, I'm going to do something, whatever it takes, to get gun legislation to shame people, to shame legislators into doing something about closing loopholes in background checks and making sure crazy people don't get guns. And he said, you go, I'm right there with you. So, you know, this is not the last you've heard of me. This is something that is Alison's legacy that I want to make happen.
A flack for the lobbying arm of the National Rifle Association (NRA) used the Jim Crow-era term "poll tax" to describe a new Seattle ordinance that imposes a tax on the sale of guns and ammunition to fund research on gun violence, which the NRA has challenged in a lawsuit.
On August 10, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved a new tax on firearm and ammunition sales. Beginning in January, firearms will be subject to a $25 tax, while most types of ammunition will be taxed at 5 cents per round. Seattle has embraced a research-based approach to preventing gun violence and already has a "hospital-based intervention program for gun violence victims." Revenue from the new tax will fund additional research. Seattle City Council data shows that in 2014, Seattle taxpayers paid $12 million to cover the direct medical costs of gunshot wounds.
During the August 21 broadcast of the NRA's radio show, Cam & Company, NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) media liaison Lars Dalseide -- who has been attacking the tax in media interviews -- compared the measure to a "poll tax" that is "meant to punish a certain group."
Dalseide said, "Basically what this really is is a poll tax. It's something to stop people from doing something. I know traditionally here in the states a poll tax is tied to voting, but if you go worldwide, a poll tax is just meant to punish a certain group, and this is exactly what this is doing."
In the United States, poll taxes were voter registration fees aimed primarily at disenfranchising African-Americans that began during the 19th century following the ratification of the 15th Amendment. Poll taxes also disenfranchised poor people and women in some states. The practice was barred in federal elections by the 24th Amendment and state poll taxes have been found to violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Outside of the United States, the term "poll tax" is synonymous with a "head tax" -- a fee imposed on certain immigrants depending on their country of origin that was most infamously levied against Chinese immigrants to Canada and New Zealand in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dalseide's inflammatory comparison ignores the fact that firearm sales are already taxed -- gun and ammunition sales have been subject to a federal excise tax for decades that is used to fund conservation programs.
The NRA -- which is joined in its lawsuit by the Second Amendment Foundation and a gun industry trade group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- says the tax violates a Washington state law limiting the kinds of gun regulations localities can enact. The Seattle City Council contends that the new tax does not regulate firearms and falls within their taxation authority.
In an August 24 NRA-ILA press release, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Larry Keane also referred to the tax as "nothing but a 'poll tax' on the Second Amendment..."
The NRA frequently compares the conditions placed on firearm ownership to racial discrimination, and draws parallels with Jim Crow laws and the segregation-era "separate but equal" doctrine.
National Rifle Association past president and Florida gun lobbyist Marion Hammer promoted the NRA's plan to force Florida colleges and universities to allow students to carry guns by claiming that opponents of the measure are "engaged in a war on women," given the epidemic of campus sexual assault.
The NRA has increasingly co-opted the issue of sexual assault on college campuses to push legislation that would allow guns on campus, even though no evidence exists that more guns would make campuses safer for women. In fact, research has repeatedly indicated that where there are more guns, women are more likely to be murdered, often by an intimate partner.
During an Aug. 10 appearance on the NRA radio show, Cam & Company, Hammer touted the re-filing of a proposed law in Florida to allow guns on campus that died in committee in the last legislative session. Florida's next legislative session begins in January.
Hammer, a paid NRA lobbyist and past president of the NRA who also heads NRA affiliate group Unified Sportsmen of Florida, was one of the chief architects of the nation's first Stand Your Ground law, which was signed into law in 2005 by then-Gov. Jeb Bush.
On Cam & Company, Hammer claimed that "a gun-free-zone campus" is "a sanctuary where criminals can rape and commit mass murder without fear of resistance," adding, "Not only are opponents of this bill engaging in a war against the Second Amendment and self-defense, they are engaging in a war against women who need to be able to defend themselves against rape and physical violence on a college campus."
Hammer also attacked the League of Women Voters of Florida, a prominent opponent of the NRA's legislation, saying the group is part of an "anti-women, anti-self-defense movement."
According to the Tallahassee Democrat, the League of Women Voters of Florida is hosting a "Gun Safety Summit" on Aug. 13 with the goal of "uniting with students, professors, administrators and the national organization, Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus" to oppose the bill in 2016 .
Hammer ended her appearance on Cam & Company by lashing out at higher-ed administrators and educators who oppose "campus carry" laws, saying, "The message should be very clear that college administrators and liberal anti-gun professors who oppose self-defense on campus are turning a blind eye to rape and violent crime."
All available evidence, however, indicates that guns are not an antidote to the epidemic of campus sexual assault and that the presence of firearms actually increases danger for women.
In fact, according to academic research, students who carried guns while at college were more likely to report "being victims and perpetrators of physical and sexual violence at college" compared to students who did not carry guns. A 2002 study in the Journal of American College Health suggested that students who kept firearms on campus did not help make the school grounds safer, finding that they were more likely to engage in risky or illegal behaviors.
There is also no evidence that women rely on guns to defend themselves from sexual assaults. David Hemenway, the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, studied 10 years of data from the National Crime Victimization Survey and found that out of 1,100 victims who reported experiencing sexual assault, just one used a firearm in self-defense.
On the contrary, research has repeatedly indicated that the presence of firearms increases danger for women, because most male attackers target someone they know. Although the NRA is framing "campus carry" legislation as a women's issue, the legislation would apply to women and men, who are much more likely to carry guns. And where men have more guns, more women die in domestic violence incidents.
According to a fact sheet issued by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, "A study of risk factors for violent death of women in the home found that women living in homes with 1 or more guns were more than 3 times more likely to be killed in their homes. The same study concluded that women killed by a spouse, intimate acquaintance, or close relative were 7 times more likely to live in homes with 1 or more guns."
Research from the Harvard Injury Control Research Center found that in states where more guns are owned, women are more likely to die violent deaths from unintentional shootings, suicides, and homicides. The Atlantic reported that this is true "even after controlling for factors such as urbanization, alcohol use, education, poverty, and divorce rates."
Despite all evidence indicating that guns on campus are not the solution to campus sexual assault, the NRA has increasingly cited sexual assault in its campaign to arm college students nationwide. The host of Cam & Company, Cam Edwards, has argued that people who oppose guns on campus legislation are "OK with some sexual assaults occurring when they could be prevented."
Edwards has also attacked the argument that women should not have to carry guns to defend themselves, saying that the burden is on the victim to stop the attack. According to Edwards, "It is the truth that if you are the victim of violent crime or the victim of an attempted violent crime, it is not the patriarchy that puts the burden on you to defend yourself, it is not rigid gender roles, it is -- it's a fact of life."
Breitbart.com's John Nolte attacked actress and comedian Amy Schumer's recent call for gun safety measures, claiming that the Trainwreck star doesn't actually care about a mass shooting that occurred during a screening of her film, but rather that she hoped to cynically use the shooting as "a great opportunity" to advance her career.
Two women were killed and nine other people were injured after a gunman opened fire during a screening of Trainwreck at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana on July 23. The gunman, who had a history of domestic violence and bizarre behavior, committed suicide.
Following up on her pledge to engage on the issue of gun violence following the shooting, Schumer appeared alongside her cousin, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), at a press conference to promote new legislation to ensure that disqualifying records are submitted by states into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The bill includes other measures to address substance abuse and mental health issues.
During the Aug. 3 press conference, Amy Schumer said, "We're here today to say is enough is enough. To mass shootings in our schools, our college campuses, our military bases, and even in our movie theaters. These shootings have got to stop." She continued, "For me, the pain I share with so many other Americans on the issue of gun violence was made extremely personal to me on Thursday, July 23 when ... he sat down for my movie, Trainwreck, at the Grand Theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. Two lives were tragically lost and others injured and I've thought about these victims each day since the tragedy."
A visibly emotional Schumer concluded her remarks by saying, "These are my first public comments on the issue of gun violence, but I can promise you they will not be my last."
On the Aug. 3 broadcast of the National Rifle Association's radio show Cam & Company, Breitbart News editor-at-large John Nolte attacked Schumer's motives, claiming that she did not care about the shooting but rather wished to use the tragedy to advance her career.
According to Nolte, Schumer sees the mass shooting as "a great opportunity, this occurred at my movie and now the focus is on me, and what can I do to enhance my career."
"If she had any moral courage and she actually cared about what happened she would come out and she would say, 'Listen putting a sign on a movie theater that says no one inside it is armed, that this is a gun-free zone, is stupid.' She has the power to do this. She could make jokes about how stupid these gun-free zones are," Nolte continued.
Instead, Schumer "is dressing up like she is a grown-up and she's just exploiting the situation because it's an opportunity for her to maybe increase her box office over the weekend," he said, calling her advocacy "cowardly."
Nolte continued to claim that Schumer was using the shooting to advance her career, saying, "She's not thinking, she's just trying to please the right people to enhance her career. And she also -- there is a lot Oscar talk around her movie and that probably has something to do with it, too. You go the Angelina Jolie route so everybody suddenly starts to take you seriously." Nolte said all he sees "is cynicism behind" Schumer's call for action.
Cam & Company host Cam Edwards said that he disagreed with Nolte's assessment and would not impugn Schumer with a cynical motive for her comments on gun violence. Nolte responded, "You're a nicer guy than I am, but I just see these unthinking Hollywood types and it just enrages me."
After a gunman killed nine people in a historically African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, gun safety advocates responded with calls to expand the national background check system. Just as quickly, the National Rifle Association (NRA) reacted to those calls, slamming gun safety groups for "exploiting" the tragedy for "political purposes."
One month later, another gunman killed five members of the military at a naval facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The NRA was again quick to respond, but this time claimed the incident provided proof that firearm policies on military bases must be changed to loosen the rules about service members carrying guns.
So which is it? The NRA apparently thinks it is exploitative to discuss gun violence following mass shootings -- unless, of course, the discussion is about why we should loosen gun laws. Their stance on the issue changes based on how to best advance the organization's interests.
Following the mass murder at Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, the NRA went into its post-mass shooting standard operating procedure -- shutting down its social media accounts and refusing to speak to the press. Two days later, the NRA's media arm addressed the shooting, with NRA News host Cam Edwards opining that it was "completely inappropriate" to discuss gun policies the day after the incident, adding, "I did not receive a single email communication chastising me or complaining that we should have been talking about policy and politics as opposed to remembering the victims in Charleston."
Soon, though, the NRA was forced to issue an official statement after one of its board members created controversy by blaming the shooting on the church's slain pastor, who was a supporter of gun safety policies.
While distancing itself from the board member's comments, the NRA claimed on June 20 that out of "respect" for the victims, "we do not feel that this is [a] appropriate time for a political debate," adding, "We will have no further comment until all the facts are known."
Three weeks later, the NRA did offer an additional comment on the Charleston shooting, following a push by gun safety advocates for expanded background checks. (It would later be revealed that the gunman was able to purchase a weapon despite being legally prohibited because of an NRA-backed loophole in federal law.) In a July 8 statement attacking gun safety groups, the NRA said, "gun control advocates are offering a solution that won't solve the problem. Even they admit that the legislation they are pushing wouldn't have prevented the tragic crimes they are exploiting for political purposes."
The NRA has continued to advance this narrative on the Charleston shooting and proposed gun law reforms. In a July 17 post on the website of its lobbying arm, the NRA lashed out at Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) after the South Carolina congressman proposed eliminating the NRA-backed loophole that helped arm the Charleston gunman.
Clyburn was "exploiting a recent tragedy" according to the NRA, which also said, "Gun control advocates are shameless in their willingness to exploit tragedy to achieve their agenda." The NRA re-published its attack on Clyburn at the conservative news website Daily Caller on July 19.
The very next day, the NRA's top lobbyist used the July 16 Chattanooga mass shooting to call for changes to gun laws, telling Military Times, "It's outrageous that members of our armed services have lost their lives because the government has forced them to be disarmed in the workplace. Congress should pursue a legislative fix to ensure that our service men and women are allowed to defend themselves on U.S. soil."
So when the NRA called for a policy change it claimed was justified by the Chattanooga shooting, was it exploiting those victims?
The fact is that after pretty much any high-profile national event, mass shooting or otherwise, policy debates are often triggered. In the NRA's hypocritical world view, however, calls for stronger gun laws are disrespectful, exploitative, and shameless -- while calls for less restrictions are sensible, timely, and relevant. Even worse, the gun group's post-shooting strategy operates from behind a façade of "respect" for the victims.
The NRA's doublespeak on Charleston and Chattanooga, however, reveals that its real concern is its own agenda.
A Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation has found no evidence that the anti-fraud program "Operation Choke Point" targeted gun retailers, contrary to what conservative media outlets and the National Rifle Association (NRA) have long claimed.
Operation Choke Point was conceived as an anti-fraud program by the DOJ's Consumer Protection Branch in November 2012 based on the suspicion that some banks -- acting with knowledge or willful blindness -- entered into businesses relationships with individuals engaged in fraud. As an early memo explained, Choke Point was designed as "a strategy to attack Internet, telemarketing, mail, and other mass market fraud against consumers, by choking fraudsters' access to the banking system."
Conservative media and the NRA have repeatedly insisted that Choke Point was part of a government conspiracy to target gun retailers -- based on the belief that the Obama administration is "anti-gun." But a new report from the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) -- the office responsible for "investigating allegations of misconduct involving Department attorneys" -- has decisively concluded "that the evidence did not demonstrate that Operation Choke Point" was used to target firearm sellers.
In January 2014, the Republican-led House Oversight Committee opened an investigation into Choke Point to determine whether the program may have "inappropriately target[ed] two lawful financial services: third-party payment processing and online lending."
Although no mention of gun retailers was made during the first congressional inquiries, NRA News host Cam Edwards began connecting Choke Point to claims by some firearm retailers that banks were refusing to do business with them.
With no evidence to bear that claim out, Choke Point then became a regular topic of discussion by the NRA and conservative media, which characterized it as another Obama administration scandal. The anti-fraud program was discussed dozens of times on the NRA's radio and (since-cancelled) television show, and the NRA's lobbying wing, the Institute for Legislation Action, offered frequent updates on the so-called scandal.
Choke Point was also widely reported on by the conservative Washington Times, which interviewed gun retailers who claimed their business relationships with banks had been terminated because of the program. (At the time, Media Matters exposed the dubiousness of these claims. For example, one gun retailer had his account terminated by his bank months before Choke Point was even proposed by DOJ.) The Washington Times editorial board declared, "Obama wants to use the banks to void the Second Amendment."
False claims about Choke Point's targets were also picked up by Fox News, with network contributor Katie Pavlich claiming that DOJ was "discriminating" against gun owners. As recently as April 13, Fox News correspondent Trace Gallagher falsely reported on The Kelly File that "Operation Choke Point was created by the Obama administration to choke out businesses it finds objectionable, like gun shops, casinos, and tobacco sellers."
None of this is true, according to the DOJ OPR investigation, which examined "memoranda, subpoenas, and contemporaneous emails" related to the operation. The July 7 report found no evidence that Choke Point had "compelled banks to terminate business relationships" with firearm sellers (emphasis added):
OPR also concluded that the evidence did not demonstrate that Operation Choke Point compelled banks to terminate business relationships with other lawful businesses, a concern raised in your letter and the Staff Report. Indeed, OPR found no evidence establishing that any CPB attorney intentionally targeted any of the industries listed in the Staff Report (including credit repair companies, debt consolidation and forgiveness programs, online gambling-related operations, government grant or will-writing kits, pornography, online tobacco or firearms sales, pharmaceutical sales, sweepstakes, magazine subscriptions, etc.). None of the subpoenas or memoranda issued or drafted in connection with Operation Choke Point focused on specific categories of purportedly fraudulent businesses, except for fraudulent Internet payday lending, to the limited extent discussed above. Moreover, the CPB attorneys' e-mail records contained no discussion or even mention of targeting any such specific industries.
As the report noted, there was no evidence that attorneys involved in Choke Point ever discussed firearm businesses at any time during Choke Point.
The Sportsman Channel has decided to not renew the National Rifle Association's (NRA) weekday news show, Cam & Company, ending the program's two-and-a-half year run on the outdoor-themed network.
The hour-long show served as a vehicle for the NRA's frequent misinformation and extremism on the issue of gun violence. During the June 26 broadcast, host Cam Edwards announced the end of the series, effective that day.
Edwards said, "Beginning next Monday, you will be seeing a different program here at 5 p.m. Eastern on Sportsman Channel. We do want to thank all the folks at Sportsman Channel for our time here on the program. I wish I -- there's no drama, there's no dramatic backstory to this. It's just one of those decisions that has happened."
The NRA's three-hour weekday radio show, also called Cam & Company, will continue to air at NRANews.com and on SiriusXM.
Cam & Company debuted on Sportsman Channel on January 15, 2013. In a press release, the network claimed the show would be "the one and only news-talk series on television that can authoritatively address the issues that are vital to America's more than 80 million sportsmen and sportswomen."
In a nod to the fact that the show debuted just one month after the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting, the release stated, "With national passions running high on the issue of firearms ownership and rights in America, the series launch is especially timely."
The NRA's executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre added, "The partnership expansion of these two great American brands, the Sportsman Channel and the NRA, comes at a critical time in the history of preserving our Second Amendment freedom."
The launch of the show kicked off a growing partnership between Sportsman Channel and the NRA, with the network participating in both the 2014 and 2015 NRA annual meetings. In January 2015, Sportsman Channel was acquired by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, a media company that has a "strategic partnership" with the NRA through its Outdoor Channel.
In a June 24 press release, Sportsman Channel announced several changes to its lineup for the third quarter, including 13 new series, beginning on June 29.
Sportsman Channel issued the following statement to Media Matters about the end of the Cam & Company television show:
We have enjoyed our relationship with Cam & Company and appreciate their efforts over the 2 1/2 years they were on our air. Sportsman Channel was proud to be the first network to take the forward step to air a daily show focused on our second amendment rights. Unfortunately, we are not able to continue with the program. We continue to support Cam & Company and the NRA, as well as to air a robust schedule of the best in class firearms programming.
Viewers can continue to watch the Cam & Company show on NRANews.com from 2-5 p.m. each weekday. Also, previously aired shows and interviews are available at http://www.nranews.com/cam/list/cam-company and podcasts can be found on iHeartRadio and iTunes. In addition, Cam & Company is simulcast on SiriusXM.
The complete schedule can be viewed at www.nranews.com/cam/list/cam-and-co-schedule.
Conservative media used the Supreme Court decision affirming that marriage is a fundamental right of all Americans to argue that the Constitution also requires states to recognize concealed carry permits issued by other states. But the Supreme Court has never held that carrying a gun in public is a fundamental right.
On June 26, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that the Fourteenth Amendment requires that states issue marriage licenses to same sex couples.
Conservative media and the National Rifle Association (NRA) quickly seized on the decision to draw a parallel with concealed carry reciprocity, a top federal legislative priority of the NRA. Reciprocity legislation, also known as federally mandated concealed carry, would force states to recognize permits to carry concealed guns issued by other states, regardless of what the issuing state's standards are for issuing permits.
Reciprocity legislation has been introduced in both chambers of the U.S. Congress, but conservative media and the NRA view Obergefell as an opportunity to argue that the Constitution extends at least some right to reciprocal permit recognition regardless of whether Congress acts. The problem with that argument, however, is that the 2008 landmark Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller limited the scope of the Second Amendment right to gun possession to people's homes.
Despite this, on the June 26 broadcast of the NRA's news show Cam & Company, host Cam Edwards made the argument that the marriage ruling "might present an additional argument to make at the legal level for extending reciprocity nationwide," remarking, "Since we're talking about licenses, a lot of gun owners are wondering, ok, does this, could this have an impact on the debate for instance over right-to-carry reciprocity?"
During an appearance on the National Rifle Association's radio show, conservative radio host Tony Katz said relatives of the victims of the Charleston church shooting showed "serious weakness" in forgiving the accused gunman and suggested that it would be justifiable to kill members of the gunman's family out of retribution.
On June 19 several family members of victims killed in a June 17 mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, attended the first court appearance of the alleged gunman and forgave the man for killing members of their family.
Hours later Katz, who makes regular Friday appearances on the NRA program Cam & Company, reacted to the court appearance by calling the move to forgive not "a moment of strength" but rather "a moment of serious weakness that we do not respond with a 'you don't get to kill us, we kill you.'"
Katz continued, "As a matter of fact, we kill you tenfold, who's in your family today?" -- putting forward the suggestion that the family members of accused murderers should be murdered themselves in retribution.
He concluded by calling his reaction -- which included advocacy for the killing of innocent people -- "far more natural and in many ways far more decent than sometimes the reactions I see." Host Cam Edwards responded, "All right, far more natural I might agree with, far more decent, I don't -- I'm going to have to disagree with you there."
KATZ: Now we know me and we know you and others who may think about being attacked and put ourselves in positions not to be or at least be able to fight back, but that's what I come to and I get the fact, I get it, not everybody is going to agree with me, but I think that my reaction is far more natural and in many ways far more decent than sometimes the reactions I see.
EDWARDS: All right, far more natural I might agree with, far more decent, I don't -- I'm going to have to disagree with you there.
Katz previously appeared on NRA News to criticize the victims of several calamities, including Hurricane Katrina, for not doing enough to save themselves from death or injury.
Katz is not the first conservative figure to criticize those affected by the Charleston shooting. In a June 18 post on a pro-gun web forum, NRA board member Charles L. Cotton wrote that the victims "died because of" Reverend Clementa Pinckney's advocacy for gun safety laws. Pinckney was also killed in the attack.
During the June 24 broadcast of Tony Katz and the Morning News on 93.1 WIBC, Katz addressed his June 19 comments he made on NRA News about the Charleston shooting victims' family members forgiving the gunman. Katz said that he was "sickened," "disgusted," and "very bothered" by the forgiveness shown to the alleged perpetrator, but also said it was "probably wrong" of him to characterize the forgiveness given by victims' family members as "weakness" and that he was not "entitled" to say so.
He also said, "I think I did a poor job of pivoting, which has happened to me before, and I don't believe in hiding these things. I don't believe in saying, 'Oh, it's just one conversation, it's no big deal.' And some people will tell me, 'Tony, you dwell on this stuff too much.' I believe that if we're going to be honest with each other the only way to do that is to when you think you don't do it right, or you don't do it clearly, you go back and do it clearly. Let me say it again, and I don't apologize for what I said, I'm going to go for clarity. I look at forgiveness of somebody who murders your family not as a virtue. I look at it and I say, 'I don't get it.'"
Katz also talked about his suggestion that it would be acceptable to murder members of the gunman's family out of retribution. During his June 19 appearance on NRA News, Katz said, "We do not respond with a 'you don't get to kill us, we kill you.' As a matter of fact, we kill you tenfold, who's in your family today?" During his June 24 WIBC broadcast, Katz said, "One of the non-journalistic organizations of the world, Media Matters for America, picked it up they called me bloodthirsty because they were discussing how I'm proactively wishing that these family members would go out and kill the family members of this murderer, Dylann Roof. Which is not-- it, it goes to a much larger conversation that I have, and that conversation is about being prepared for moments and being a society in which those who wish to do harm, because you can't stop people from doing harm if they really want to, you can't stop the sick, you can't stop the demented, but those who want to do harm, they should at least have to question whether or not they should do it to you."
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The National Rifle Association is falsely characterizing a legislative proposal from Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) that would allow felons to petition the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for restoration of their gun ownership rights, saying the option would only be available to "non-violent felons."
In fact, any felon could apply to have their right to own a firearm restored under Buck's proposal, which is why the ATF program that used to provide that option was defunded in the early 1990s -- research showed that even violent felons had won their appeals, and in some cases went on to commit new violent crimes.
For the past 23 years, standard language in appropriations legislation -- first inserted by then-Rep. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) -- has prohibited the ATF from using budget money on a program that allowed people who had lost their legal right to buy or own a gun because of a felony conviction to apply for restoration of that right. That longtime prohibition was challenged on June 2, however, when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives adopted by voice vote a rider introduced by Buck that would re-fund the program.
During a floor speech, Buck argued for support by citing an example of a man who is prohibited from owning a gun because he wrote a bad check 40 years ago. He declared, "This bill does not intend in any way shape or form to allow a violent criminal to possess a firearm, only those non-violent criminals that ATF deems are not a danger."
But in fact, there is no language in the proposal that limits the right to appeal to non-violent felons. Buck's rider merely reverses the prohibition on funding, changing the words "none of the" funds to "such" funds in the following line: "Provided, That such funds appropriated herein shall be available to investigate or act upon applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under section 925(c) of title 18, United States Code."
Despite this, the NRA and some conservative media outlets have run with the blatantly false talking point that the program would only apply to "non-violent felons" in coverage trumpeting Buck's proposal.
The National Rifle Association's media arm is deliberately misrepresenting a proposed new law in North Carolina that would repeal background checks on private pistol sales, falsely claiming that it would merely shift required background checks from one government system to another.
In reality, the bill would eliminate a pistol permit requirement that currently ensures that buyers of pistols from private sellers at gun shows and online undergo a background check, thus creating a loophole for felons and other persons prohibited by law from purchasing firearms.
Members of the North Carolina House of Representatives are currently considering H.B. 562, a piece of legislation that would repeal a state requirement that anyone who wants to purchase a pistol first obtain a permit from their local county sheriff -- a process that involves undergoing a background check. H.B. 562 has so far passed two House committees, although an effort to fast-track it was recently abruptly canceled.
If the pistol permit requirement is repealed, individuals who buy from private sellers at gun shows or online would no longer have to undergo a background check before completing their purchase.
Following Loretta Lynch's historic confirmation as U.S. Attorney General, media have been silent about the implications for the National Rifle Association losing in a second consecutive high-profile nomination fight.
On April 23, Lynch was confirmed in the U.S. Senate by a vote of 56 to 43 following a protracted effort by many Republicans in the Senate to stall or sink her confirmation. She will be the first African-American female attorney general in United States history.
A Media Matters review of major U.S. newspapers and television transcripts in Nexis and internal video archives following her confirmation did not identify any instance where the NRA was discussed in relation to Lynch.
But Lynch's confirmation provides more evidence that the NRA does not win every time. According to a tired -- and incorrect -- media narrative, the NRA is always successful in its federal lobbying efforts and also has the ability to punish legislators who refuse to support the gun group's agenda. Research on election outcomes has long-indicated, however, that the NRA in fact has little effect on politicians' Election Day results through endorsements or campaign spending.
Now the failure of the NRA to stop the confirmation of two high-profile Obama nominees -- Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in December 2014 and now Lynch -- offers evidence that the NRA also does not always get its way in Congress
Newly elected National Rifle Association president Allan D. Cors riffed on the NRA's "Stand and Fight" slogan by appending the words "or die" to the end and offered blatant falsehoods about a new background check law in an interview promoted on NRA News.
Cors was elected to a two year term as president of the NRA during the April 10 - 12 NRA annual meetings in Nashville, Tennessee, and replaces Jim Porter, who began his term in 2013. Before becoming president, Cors was the NRA's first vice president. Pete Brownell, who owns a company that manufactures gun parts and ammunition, was elected as the new first vice president at the meeting, meaning that he will likely become NRA president in 2017.
Cors has served on the NRA's board of directors since 1972 and is a past president of the NRA Foundation. According to an NRA profile, Cors, who has a background in governmental affairs, "enjoys his work on Capitol Hill, advocating for or against legislation."
Under the NRA's organizational structure, the direction of the gun group will still be led by executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre, who was also reelected to his position at the meeting but made headlines for complaining about the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency by saying, "eight years of one demographically symbolic president is enough."
The NRA is now introducing Cors to its supporters with an interview that aired on the April 14 edition of NRA News show Cam & Company.
During the interview, Cors described the NRA as "stronger than ever" by comparing the modern day NRA to the NRA of the 1960s that he said did not do enough to oppose the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968. That legislation, enacted in the wake of the gun assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, created the federal framework for the regulation of firearms.
The main provisions of the Gun Control Act prohibit the sale of guns to felons and other dangerous people, require individuals "engaged in the business" of selling guns to obtain a Federal Firearms License, give authority to the federal government to prohibit the importation of firearms that lack "sporting purposes," and require manufacturers to affix serial numbers to guns.
Speaking of his efforts during the legislation's consideration, Cors said, "we did as much as we could to hold back some of the really bad things, but we did get rolled finally when Martin Luther King was -- when Bobby Kennedy was assassinated."


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Jurors in the Joe Nacchio insider-trading trial said Wednesday they were pleased their conviction was upheld by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
"I'm pleased because I think it's the correct decision," said Doug Stoneman, 55, of Milliken. "Nobody in that (jury deliberation room) took the decision lightly, and nobody in there had any vendettas. Nobody wanted to see this man go to prison.
"But this is refreshing. It's nice that the system works. It may have taken awhile, but it worked."
David McCanless, 58, of Lakewood, became a student of the judicial process, reading a three-volume history of the Supreme Court after serving on the Nacchio jury.
"It's popular to bash our system, but more often than not, the right thing happens in the end," he said.
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After the Thai navy sued a news website in Thailand over the publication of a story claiming it helped traffick Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya refugees, its editor says he is prepared to go to jail to defend what he called an attack on media freedom.
A Royal Thai Navy (RTN) official accused Alan Morison, the Australian editor of the Phuket-based English-language website Phuketwan and his Thai reporter colleague Chutima Sidasathian of criminal defamation. The lawsuit also alleged the two violated the country's Computer Crimes Act, which bars the circulation of information on the Internet deemed to threaten national security or spread panic.
"Chutima and I have been charged under two of the most severe and contentious laws in the country and we face seven years in jail. We run a small website. The navy is using a sledgehammer to crack a little walnut," said Morison, 66.
"It's an outrageous attempt to muzzle the media."
Several international media and human rights groups have criticised the navy's action, and urged Thai authorities to drop the lawsuit.
We are puzzled as to why the Phuketwan is being singled out when scores of outlets around the world had the opportunity to republish the Reuters report.
- Alan Morison, Phuketwan editor
But the commander of the naval authority said it would not withdraw it. "False information" about the RTN published by Phuketwan damaged the image of Thailand and caused the navy to take legal action, Vice Admiral Tharathorn Khajitsuwan told Thailand's Channel 3 TV.
"We shall not withdraw the case. They should face the trial. Let the court find out the truth and take the decision in the case."
Morison, who has lived in Thailand for 11 years, said at the heart of the issue is the plight of the Rohingya, thousands of whom flee ethnic violence in neighbouring Myanmar each year.
"The problem for us is that we are willing to go to jail to stand against a bad law and to uphold the principle that the media should be free and unfettered, particularly when reporting the activities of the military," said Morison, who also freelances for international media including The Sydney Morning Herald, South China Morning Post and CNN.
"But if we go to jail, our coverage of the Rohingya boat people and their treatment by traffickers in Thailand will cease for as long as we are in prison. That's the huge dilemma for us."
Thai navy officials refused an interview request for this story.
Reporting on Rohingya
For many years, Myanmar's stateless Muslim Rohingya minority have fled via Thailand to the mostly Muslim countries of Malaysia and Indonesia.
In recent years, Thailand's official policy has been to assist the Rohingya boats by providing food and water and "help" them move towards Malaysian waters. But allegations have surfaced about rights abuses of the Rohingya refugees and a nexus between Thai security agencies and human trafficking gangs.
Since Phuketwan was founded in 2008, it has been known for its leading role in reporting on issues related to Rohingya refugees. The website has won international awards for upholding human rights and for its coverage of the plight of the boat people.
A story published on the website on July 17 headlined "Thai Military Profiting from Trade in Boatpeople, Says Special Report" cited an investigation by Reuters news agency claiming members of the navy worked "systematically with smugglers to profit from the surge in fleeing Rohingya". This caused the navy to file a suit against Phuketwan on December 16.
Morison said the legal action against him and his colleague was based on an allegation that navy officials earned "about 2,000 baht [$61] per Rohingya for spotting a boat or turning a blind eye", which was taken from a Reuters article that Phuketwan simply republished.
"We have been sued over the paragraph, but it was repeated straight from the Reuters special report. We are puzzled as to why the Phuketwan is being singled out when scores of outlets around the world had the opportunity to republish the Reuters report," Morison told Al Jazeera.
"The case clearly has ramifications for every media outlet that carries a story from any news agency."
Morison and Sidasathian denied both charges, but police are obliged to proceed, and the two journalists could face court as early as this month.
Morison recently lodged an appeal with Phuket's provincial Governor Maitree Intrusud seeking to persuade the navy to withdraw the suit.
If the charges are not dropped and the journalists are convicted, they could face up to two years' imprisonment on the criminal defamation charges and five years in prison for breaching the controversial Computer Crimes Act, as well as a fine of up to 100,000 baht ($3,037).
Activists condemn lawsuit
The lawsuit against Phuketwan has been condemned by human rights groups.
"Thanks to the fair investigative reporting by the Phuketwan journalists, the involvement of various Thai agencies in the massive smuggling and trafficking operations of Rohingya refugees and their related miseries is no more a secret," said Chris Lewa, director of Arakan Project, a humanitarian group. "Rights groups should unite to call on Thailand to quash these defamation charges."
Clearly, this strategy is designed to protect official impunity by punishing the two courageous journalists who have reported stories about officials either pushing off Rohingya boats, or selling Rohingya into the hands of traffickers.
- Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch
On December 29, Human Rights Watch said the navy was seeking to "punish" Phuketwan by adopting a "shoot the messenger" strategy.
"Clearly, this strategy is designed to protect official impunity by punishing the two courageous journalists who have reported stories about officials either pushing off Rohingya boats, or selling Rohingya into the hands of traffickers," Phil Robertson, Human Rights Watch's deputy Asia director, told Al Jazeera.
"The Navy's actions send a chilling message to other journalists and researchers that draconian criminal libel laws and the Computer Crimes Act can and will be used to ensure silence when they uncover unpleasant truths that portray government officials in a bad light."
Robertson also sought the intervention of Thailand's prime minister in the case. "Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra should immediately order the navy to stand down by withdrawing the complaint, and should instruct her attorney general to refuse to prosecute the case," he said.
Yingluck has pledged to work with the United Nations and United States to investigate allegations of Rohingya abuse at the hands of Thai authorities.
In an editorial headlined "Yingluck's empty promise over Rohingya", The Nation newspaper wrote on December 29: "If the Navy thinks this lawsuit will restore its tarnished image, it needs to think again. If it really wants to improve its reputation, the Navy needs to launch a thorough investigation into the allegations. It's not too late. But the longer the authorities wait, the dumber they look."
'Must fight on'
While the Phuketwan journalists have been sued, the Reuters writers have not faced any action over the original report as of yet, the news agency said in an email.
Morison said the website would continue to cover the Rohingya issue.
"The Rohingya are still fleeing Myanmar and are often being abused and mistreated in and around Thailand. They have no spokesperson, no leader, but through Phuketwan's ongoing coverage, the torment of one of the world's most persecuted minorities continues to be revealed," Morison said. "We have to keep doing our duty as journalists."
He said Phuketwan is mostly funded by his savings, adding he often thought of shutting it down before the navy sued him.
"But now having the navy try to close us down means we must fight on," he said.
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I am breastfeeding and am getting more and more miserable as each bf'ing day goes by. I'd love to write a book that details the realities of breastfeeding, not the sugarcoated, guilt laden crap that is the norm for breastfeeding how to books. Perhaps had I known from day one how horrible it would be, I would be better prepared and be able to cope better.
No one spells out for you that the 1-3 hours between feeding is from the start of the last feeding to the beginning of the next and that it means you could literally be up 24/7 for weeks on end because your baby wants to eat constantly and takes naps while on your boob so that when you lay him down he starts crying again and you end up having 7 minutes between feedings after diaper changes and soothing take place. Sure you might be lucky enough to be able to pump an adequate amount and have a baby that doesn't spit out every bottle and nipple ever manufactured so that someone else can feed while you get a 2 hour nap, but again, there are no guarantees.
There is the beast known as cluster feeding. I would describe it the following way: Your baby will be attached to your boobs for 3-7 hours at a time, possibly for days on end, and at regular baby milestone intervals as he grows, so find a comfortable place to sit and set up all the activities and entertainment you can possibly think of and put it all within arms reach. This would include a cooler full of beverages and snacks too. Oh yes and don't forget a breastfeeding pillow and like 10 other pillows and a few blankets so that you can prop yourself and the baby in order to have your hands free to do something that helps you stay awake. Yes some can sleep, I cannot because I'm afraid of smothering my baby.
The pain and discomfort...Your nipples may become cracked, sore, bruised, and may turn colors, sometimes colors not seen in nature. Sure they make lanolin, ice packs, heat packs and nipple shileds to soothe. Yes, it helps until the baby latches on again which as mentioned above in paragraph one may mean a 7 minute break from the pain every 3 hours or so. I've yet to experience thrush, a blocked milk duct or worst of all, mastitis, but I'm just waiting. Now in addition to being in pain and sleep deprived thrush and mastitis usually involve one or more trips to the doctor and a pharmacy. I'm sure that is great when you are in pain and sick with an infection to be at the doctor and pharmacy. Then you have to go back home and have a toothless pirhanna like infant attach to your breast because he went more than 7 minutes between feedings.
I'd also write about the bizarre behaviors...you know the baby frantically turns his head from side to side with his mouth open, often starting to cry because he is ticked off that the milk isn't coming fast enough or possibly because it is coming too fast.
I really love the advice to eat well, take care of yourself and drink plenty of fluids. I'm sure if I had a personal chef and someone to wait on me hand and foot 24/7 I could accomplish this. I think you lose weight because you are too busy and exhausted to eat not because your body is burning calories as more and more milk is made and consumed. I'm fortunate and have a good husband who helps me out but that isn't enough at times. God bless those women who are single, have more than one child who needs attention or who have husbands who are away or work multiple jobs.
So I'd like to start weaning because I feel like I'm being tortured psychologically at times, but now I can't until I get him used to a bottle again. I know it is wonderful that he is getting the 'perfect' food right now, that I don't have to prepare or pay for formula and that his poo doesn't smell as foul as a formula fed babies, but right now I wish I could throw in the towel.
Thank you for reading my rant, I hope you got a laugh out of it and I hope if you are a bf'ing zealot and read this you didn't get too angry =)


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I started off watching pokemon when that came on sky one in like 99. However soon DBZ started coming on Cartoon Network. That was infinitely cooler than the kiddy pokeymanz. Briefly saw some of the other series they were showing on there. But couldnt see many due to the fact I never got control of the tv. Then the anime got put on CNX a channel we didnt have. So I couldnt really see anything for a few years. Then when I was killing time in the library at collage I found this magazine called SFX. There was this article on anime films and a synopsis of several. Allsuspiciouslyreleased by manga entertainment ... I suspect it may have all been a big ad. I read about Ghost in the shell and how it was the inspiration for the matrix. A film I loved as a teenager. And also Akira which sounded pretty cool. So I went onto play.com ordered the DVDs since they were pretty cheap, and that led me to becoming an anime fan. Years later Id recall that Id actually seen Laputa as a child when i was very very young and had a very poor memory of it. The part that stood out was when the robot thing was walking up a flaming staircase. I remember being scared of staircases for a while.. So laputa would be my first anime.
When I rate anime I tend to look at all parts of it as a whole, but my enjoyment of it can push the rating up or down. But at some point soon Im going to have to redo many of the the older ratings I have so far since I didnt put as much thought into them.
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*hit* hi vin ^.^
Sorry, couldnt help myself! You'll probably overtake me during the week when I'm swamped with new releases :P
As opposed to yours? :P
I tried Beck; it's pretty good...I'm glad you convinced me to give it a try =) I take back what I say before...the artwork's not that bad when you start to read it...it especially like the dog...patchwork always gets to me in the end...I've given it a 3.5* at the moment but I will continue reading so it's subject to change =)
That's good =D and ye I agree about sasuke...although I never gave the series enough time to see him grow up I also never paid much attention to spoiler warnings; guessing I'd never take the series up again...his brother's story seems really sad...whereas even in shippuden where sasuke should have matured with the rest of the characters he still seems a bit angsty and self involved =S


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Intercept - 08.10.10
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Jenny Tate
The following is a mini interview of generic questions that we posed to all bands that wanted to answer:
If you were a furry, what animal would you be? Why that animal?
Jason: Furries right out of the gate!
Jeff: A bunny. Duh.
Phil: An Easter bunny� no, a Clydesdale.
Christian: That�s no good� you go with Clydesales and hippos and elephants and you set the bar too high. Start from a place like �Platypus� and you�ve got nowhere to go but up.
Jason: No comment on what he just said. I�d be a giraffe. They are graceful as they munch through the savanna.
Christian: The opossum has a forked penis.
What music reminds you of your childhood?
Jeff: I was in a cover band and we played Bush, Silverchair and Nirvana. Hearing any of those bands makes me feel like I�m in Middle school.
Jason: Nirvana and Weird Al Yankovic.
Phil: Jazz fusion � my dad had an extensive LP collection like Return to Forever, Weather Report or Frank Zappa.
Christian: I was the nerd with the dual cassette player, auto-dubbing things and trying to create weird sounds. Phil Collins, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Grateful Dead� practically anything that came out in the 80�s found its way into my fucked up mix tapes.
How did this band get started?
Jeff: It�s the common story of guys trying out different projects and all arriving at the one that works sort of by accident. What�s interesting with us, though, is how �temporary� we all felt it was � it was just a little project originally and we were all just doing it for fun, with no ego or ambition, really. But the doors started opening for the music in a way that none of our other projects had ever seen, so we started to stick with it and explore it and good things kept coming.
Phil: Which doesn�t mean it was always easy.
Jeff: For sure � we had tons of bad news and rejection. But it was just those little pieces of good news � they were always spaced out just right and you got the feeling you were being kept on a certain track.
Why should people listen to your band?
Jeff: We make the music that we want to listen to� we work every day to make sure that we�ve got material that doesn�t sound like something else. You never get away from people making comparisons, but if someone brings something to the writing session that is immediately recognizable � maybe it sounds exactly like the same chord changes or guitar sound from some really famous song or album � we ditch it.
Jason: We want to come from as original a place as possible, so you have to kick that off at the very beginning of the songwriting process. If it starts out sounding like something else, you spend the rest of the time chasing after that feel� you compromise to get it to sound specific to some idea instead of growing the song organically.
Memorable tour experience?
Jeff: We took some time to take a tour of the bayou somewhere in Louisiana. We fed alligators with marshmallows. Our tour guide was awesome and told us how you can catch Flathead catfish with Ivory soap.
Jason: Finding out Idaho isn�t just good for potatoes�we drove through the entire northern part and it was the most beautiful place we saw.
Phil: Let�s say it was in an �undisclosed city.� We were offered meth by a white supremacist.
Christian: We have so many friends and family in Kansas�hard to beat feeling at home when so much of the rest of the tour is spent worrying about your gear and trying to figure out where you are.
If you were chosen to be in Guitar Hero/Rock Band, what song would you want in the game? How hard do you think it would be to five-star on expert?
Jeff: �Made To Fall� � it would be easy if it was from the record, but the live version would be almost impossible.
Jason: �A Hundred Times.� It�d be in the realm of �My Name is Jonas� from Weezer�you can get the 5 stars, but it�ll take a while.
Phil: �On My Own� � it�s such a heavy song and there are so many notes.
Christian: �No Surprise.� Or maybe �So Say Whatever.� Several riffs on the album are deceptively simple � I remember hearing �Satellite� by Dave Matthews and thinking, �Cool song, I�ll learn that real quick and play it for my friends when we�re drunk.� A couple of our songs are like that�just a little tougher to actually perform than you think.
What does AP.net mean to you?
Jeff: It�s a place where every artist can have a voice. It�s so hard to find sites or radio stations that will let you stand shoulder to shoulder with the bands that are currently being shoved down everyone�s throats.
Christian: We�re an independent band. The music industry has changed so much that �getting signed� has a whole different meaning than it used to. Nothing at all against the major labels - but the way things are today you have to make some really honest decisions about how much control you�re ready to give up. Absolutepunk gives us a chance to get some attention as a small band and see what we can do on our own for a little while, instead of shutting us out because we didn�t grease the right palm.
What is your favorite song to play?
Jason: �One Hundred Times.� It�s got the most changes and different times. It�s a nice little 3 minute roller coaster ride.
Jeff: �Last One to Show� � I think it�s a powerful and likeable rock song.
Phil: Because of the time changes � �So Say Whatever�� it�s a challenge to keep track.
Christian: �So Say Whatever.� I�m proud of it�making something that sounds like it flows even though it actually moves around quite a bit was a challenge, and I think it works.
What is your vacation spot of choice?
Jeff: Somewhere I can learn something. You could say �Cancun� or �Bora Bora,� but really I can get drunk and lie in the sun at home. Paris, Thailand�someplace you can get some culture and see what else the world has to offer. And then go get drunk and lie in the sun afterward.
Jason: Fuck that: Bora Bora. Because it�s awesome looking. It�s the place where they have the crystal blue water, white sand and huts on the water. It looks bad ass.
Phil: Mexico City � I�ve never been there, and I�d like to see where my parents were born and what they saw early in their life.
Christian: If I dropped everything to transport someplace, I�d have to go to Ireland. I just have to see it before I die � I want to live in a small Irish town, full of interesting characters and strong beer.
If you could have any super power, what would it be? Why?
Jeff: Just flying. Because it would be awesome.
Jason: Me, too � flight! I wouldn�t have to pay for parking.
Phil: I would like to be immortal. I want to see the span of civilization and how it ends.
Christian: Would you die at the end?
Phil: No I�d keep on going on � a vampire that does not suck blood, because there�s no blood left.
Christian: OK�well, I wish I could focus on one. But I always imagined what I�d do with three wishes: flying, the ability to stop/restart time, and invisibility. Then I could see historical moments as they happened just by figuring out where to go by reading the newspaper, stopping time and flying there, restarting time and turning invisible.
Do you feel that your band has "made it"?
Jeff: Yes � every time I struggle to pay the rent, it reminds me of how big we are.
Jason: If by �it� you mean �serving shrimp to patrons.� OK, we�ve done a lot, but there�s always room to grow. Unless you are one of like 10 bands � Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, Radiohead, etc., -- you can�t really ever say you�ve �made it.�
Phil: Yeah�but not having to worry about paying the electricity bill is a good mile-marker.
What is something that most fans don't know about you?
Jeff: Growing up I wanted to be a herpetologist and I spent my days catching snakes and lizards.
Christian: That�s absolutely true about him.
Jason : When I was 12 I entered a karate tournament and I took 4th place out of 4 people.
Phil: I used to want to be a priest. I went to church a lot and I thought it was cool that everyone had to listen to the guy in the front. That seemed really cool.
Christian: I misspelled �tidal� in my 2nd grade spelling bee - even though the judge defined it. I was so excited to get �TITLE� right that I didn�t even listen.
How did you get your band name?
Christian: My brother and I come from the same place, but settled on widely different styles of music. I originally focused on singer/songwriters, while Jeff loved much harder stuff. He used to sit in his room and learn the changes to songs by Tool and note-by-note Eddie Van Halen solos by pausing the music every few measures. He�d be in there for days until he could play a solo perfectly. The name �Intercept� seemed perfect because it expressed how each song we wrote together featured both of us pulling in our respective directions and settling on a middle ground, where the styles intercept. Jason and Phil bring even more diversity to the songwriting, so when you hear a track from us you can hear four creative guys each contributing a little piece of themselves and what they like musically. It makes the compositions uniquely �us� and has helped to give us an identity.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
Phil: Netflix.
Christian: I have many leather bound books.
Jason: What do cool people do? Hiking, biking and fishing? I like to play Angry Birds on my iPhone. But also say: while hiking in the mountains.
Jeff: Play rock music in a rock band.
What's your favorite holiday?
Christian: Thanksgiving. Amazing food, football�why don�t I make green bean casserole more than once a year? That makes no sense!
Jeff: As a whole: Christmas. But 4th of July if I was still living in Kansas. You can�t legally buy any good fireworks (in Los Angeles). Sparklers are good. Nothing against sparklers - except that Roman Candles kick their ass.
Jason: When we were on tour we found this awesome spot outside of Las Vegas � an Indian reservation where you can buy every kind of firework known to man and then fire it off in a huge dirt lot out back.
Jeff: But Phil never did an artillery shell before and he lit it upside down. We have video of everyone running for their lives as it blows up on the ground and fireballs are flying past us.
Phil: (Laughing) � OK�Christmas. Downtime from work, friends and family�and in California it�s the closest we get to winter.
Jason: Passover � it allowed me to pass over school when I was young.
What kind of hidden talents do you have?
Jeff: I can make a mean cocktail. (EDITOR�S NOTE: Jeff is a professionally trained �Mixologist.� Should Intercept come to your town, supply him with a full bar and prepare yourself). Also, I could probably hold my own in a pro fishing tournament.
Christian: I can say all 50 states in alphabetical order in less than 15 seconds.
Phil: I know every lyric to every hip hop song made in 1992.
Jason: I can unscrew a bottle cap with my bicep. But it has to be a twist off. Also: drumming.
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$530—$835 1—3 bed 701 Cedar Lane, Knoxville TN, 37912
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The rent at Woodgate Apartments ranges from $530 for a one bedroom to a $835 three bedroom. Apartments in this building are about 21% less expensive than the Knoxville average.
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About this listing
Typical apartment in a Roman/medieval house, very close to the main square. Outdoor area on the Landing with creeping plants and table with chairs
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
Central heating or a heater in the listing
The Space
This apartment is included in a 3-story Roman and Medieval house which is set back from the street in a small nice courtyard, a five-minute walk to Todi's main square, with its 12th century cathedral, town hall, clustering of outdoor cafes and frequent cultural events. All of Umbria stretches out below you from the windows. Owned by an Italian painter in early 20th century who decorated the ceilings of the majestic buildings in the square and then by a great Pulitzer-prize poet, the apartment still keeps the charm of the Roman and Medieval times: the nice large outdoor landing in front of the main door where you can sit and enjoy the view of a typical Medieval street and courtyard, the old arches, vaults and Roman well in the basement, the imposing century-old wooden beams and terracotta tiles of the ceilings and floors. People love the apartment not only for its charm but also for its privacy while being so close to the square. The apartment and the whole house were restored in 2006 by retrieving all original materials, such as terracotta tiles on the floors, massive wooden beams on the ceilings, stone walls, stone fireplaces
FEATURES: a few terracotta steps lead up to the communal 7- sq m large outdoor landing/balcony that leads to the main door and communal hall
The Apartment sleeps 2+ 2, 70 sq m NET area on one level (first floor)
Spacious eat-in kitchen with view over the landing and the countryside around Todi. It features a wood burning old stone fireplace, the whole cabinets made of antique wood and countertop of white Carrara marble; dishwasher, double sink, refrigerator, freezer, cooker and oven
Large living room with massive central stone fireplace and windows overlooking a private garden, a quiet neighbourhood and the surrounding countryside. It features 1 sofa bed
Twin/Double bedroom with balcony and window overlooking a private garden and surrounding countryside
Bathroom (large shower, sink, WC, bidet)
A communal laundry room / storage also serves the Apartment. It features 1 washing machine and 1 dryer, iron, ironing board, sink
Amenities and Services: hair dryer, toaster, entry phone, satellite TV, full kitchen, dishwasher, cooking utensils and all linens, ADSL (broadband) Wi-Fi, fly screens. PETS ALLOWED
Amenities and Services in Common (in the Basement): iron, ironing board, washing machine, dryer, storage for wood
The Neighborhood
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Getting Around
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