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Glenn Beck was the keynote speaker at the NRA insanity convention: Bloomberg is a Nazi
and more news out of that vile little get together.

Conservative firebrand Glenn Beck took aim squarely at New York City and its mayor Saturday night

Delivering the keynote address at the National Rifle Association convention, Beck suggested that the Big Apple’s slogan under Mayor Bloomberg should be, “You Will Heart New York” — and he flashed a graphic of a man making a Hitler-esque salute.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hundreds-kids-play-guns-nra-convention-article-1.1335250


On Friday, the convention felt like a mini-CPAC, in that several potential presidential candidates took turns on the stage — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Perry — or appeared in video form, as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan did. Perhaps that explains the feeling of doom amid glorious triumph, because the gun legislation victory came just a few months after devastating electoral defeat. And so there were many displays of masculine swagger, enough to show that all these tough young guns could take on all of the week young gun-grabbers currently occupying the White House. Perry was introduced with a comically over-the-top video of himself showing great manliness while shooting at targets and wearing safety equipment. There's that GIF above, but you need the Ted Nugent soundtrack for full effect:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/nra-convention-2013/64875/

he NRA is supposed to be a non-partisan group. But in the second night of its annual meeting and exhibition, the catalog of speakers–including Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz and John Bolton–and the rhetoric espoused by them, does not point to non-partisanship. Instead, it points to a deeper and more aggressive embrace of the far right.

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/03/the-nra-moves-dangerously-far-to-the-right/