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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJimmy Kimmel: "We have 59 innocent people dead-because the NRA has the GOP's balls in a money clip."
HAB911
(9,326 posts)Kimmel is becoming a force to be reckoned with
and who can forget girls on trampolines?
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Kimmel's doing better than any broadcast journalist.
If you want to fix gun laws in this country, the underlying issue is money in politics -- specifically the way the gun lobby has purchased part of the GOP agenda.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)amuse bouche
(3,663 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)PEACE!
billh58
(6,641 posts)Stuart G
(38,726 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)The NRA is our enemy, but legal private money is their weapon.
Cosmocat
(14,904 posts)just saying ...
BSdetect
(9,046 posts)More people like Kimmel are needed to speak up.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Duppers
(28,221 posts)As Hubs and I watched him last night, I clapped at that line.
Love, love Kimmel's monologues lately. Don't care for most talk show celebrity interviews though.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He was the speaker in the California Assembly for several years. One of the quotes attributed to him boiled down to: If you can't take a lobbyist's money and then turn around and screw him, you've got no business being in politics. The most noteworthy thing to me is how little a congressional soul goes for. Many of them aren't even charging the NRA six figures for their vote.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)TomSlick
(11,713 posts)I recognize the quote - if no one else did.
volstork
(5,584 posts)Performances recorded on film (IMO)!
Mr.Bill
(24,708 posts)Willie Brown, with more, shall we say, colorful language. The context was he was asked how he voted against the tobacco industry after taking contributions from them. Perhaps Willie was dressing up Unruh's quote and recycling it.
Jesse Unruh is known for the public accommodation law, which is named after him and was the model for similar laws in other states.
IronLionZion
(46,844 posts)[Of lobbyists and California legislators:] If you can't take their money, drink their booze, screw their women, and look them in the eye and vote against them, you don't belong here.
mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)We need a prime time talk show. Jimmy,Seth Myers,Oprah, Michelle Obama .Whoopi,
.
The people will listen
Thank you, Jimmy Kimmel .
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Paladin
(28,707 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)Good Lord, Trump's cult are sick sick people.
gopiscrap
(24,130 posts)SunSeeker
(53,445 posts)Hekate
(94,207 posts)Generic Brad
(14,374 posts)I strongly suspect a combo of Russia and arms manufacturers.
Gothmog
(153,721 posts)TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)"progressive" men find some insults for repugs that don't depend on insulting women and/or gays? oh, because they want to make themselves feel "macho" and they really don't care about truth or respect for other people.