Kimmel Writer Calls Out GOP In Blistering Replies To Prayers After Florida Shooting

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This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by muriel_volestrangler (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Huffington Post

Lawmakers sending “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of Wednesday’s deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, are getting slammed for their financial ties to the gun lobby.

Bess Kalb, a writer for “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” is responding to each lawmaker tweeting condolences over the murders by listing how much they’ve taken from the National Rifle Association, which has consistently fought any move to tighten gun control laws.

Here are some of those tweets and Kalb’s replies:

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bess-kalb-nra-tweets_us_5a84ee69e4b0058d5565cbac

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1. Good for her

God damn the NRA. And its rent boys.

[madamesilverspurs]

2. That damn list

includes my congressman (Buck) and senator (Gardner).
Effing embarrassing!


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[BigmanPigman]

3. Their names and amounts should be run on a continuous loop

on every news site for the next 9 months (until the midterms).

[FirstLight]

17. AMEN!!! (n/t)

[MyOwnPeace]

18. Glad you said

9 months rather than "until the next mass shooting" - we wouldn't have much time to see the list.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. YES! scroll it on every screen

People need to know how much their children are sold for.

[summer_in_TX]

4. Righteous fury.

Go, Bess Kalb!

[Stallion]

5. Excellent--Keep it Coming

[sarcasmo]

6. NRA is #BLoodMoney

[Angry Dragon]

7. KICK for Truth

[flibbitygiblets]

8. This is amazing.

Yes yes yes.

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[onecaliberal]

10. K&R

[Cha]

11. Brilliant! Shine the

Light!

[KT2000]

12. Bess Kalb has got it!

She's got the receipts!! Certainly Rachel and Lawrence can pick this up.

[dchill]

13. Sleazy tools all.

Death panelists.

[AlexSFCA]

14. NRA is a sponsor of terrorism

[Honeycombe8]

15. There are so many smart, knowledgeable people in the public eye who take the ...

politicians to task.

[DFW]

16. This list should be on the front page of every newspaper in the USA

But it won't be, of course. Thoughts and prayers will.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Locking - the hosts feel the tweets of one writer do not reach the LBN standard

of "important news of national interest". Please repost in GD. Thanks.