Did you ever wonder why ignorant politicians, while lying and cheating and working hard at deceiving voters, pose for pictures with guns in their hands hoping someone will believe they are a hunter? I recall the brazenly moronic photograph of Sen. John Kerry, then candidate for President, standing in a half squat with a shotgun, poorly aimed while his hunting dog was thrashing the tall grasses in the opposite direction. There is a reason these guys do this. It’s because the media are dumber than they are and buy into it all. (Just to note here: Because candidate Huckabee of Arkansas actually is a hunter, the media didn’t know how to deal with both a real hunter and a republican and so they made reference that Huckabee must have been trying to prove his manhood……or something. Right Chris Matthews and Angrier Mitchell?)
Texas Governor Rick Perry was out for a jog. Simple story really, well for anybody with a brain. Perry is jogging with his dog, a puppy belonging to his daughter from what I gather, when a coyote comes out of the brush and begins menacing the dog. Perry took out his .380 Ruger, which happens to be equipped with a laser site and wastes the coyote….one shot.
On Michelle Malkin’s blog, she references an AP story and as is typical begins their piece by describing Perry as “pistol packing”. I doubt the AP knows which end of a gun a bullet comes out of. All they know is that guns walk away by themselves and kill people. I also recall the day that President Reagan was shot. Listening to the television news, I heard a reporter exclaim, “A man stepped from the crowd and fired several shots from an automatic revolver.”
But the ignorance born of hatred reared its head in other places. Newsbusters reported that MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan wanted Perry arrested for hunting with a gun equipped with a laser site. That’s funny. I thought Perry was jogging and was defending his dog, which Texas law clearly says in permitted.
But that doesn’t stop the ignorant media from taking every opportunity to demonize their enemy, particularly if they can link that together with a little Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome. Ratigan couldn’t let it go and so he had to liken Perry’s shooting, what he must have perceived as a poor defenseless coyote, as being the same as shooting a moose in Alaska.
Much of this would have been acceptable if Ratigan was a comedian. Maybe he is a comedian pretending to be a reporter. He should decide because if he’s going to be a reporter, he should learn to know what in hell he’s talking about before he makes himself out to look like the south end of one of those north bound Alaska moose.
Tom Remington
