{"id":34952,"date":"2013-04-06T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T12:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34952"},"modified":"2013-04-06T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T12:53:12","slug":"astroturfing-the-national-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34952","title":{"rendered":"Astroturfing the “national discussion”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politico<\/a> ran an article about a supposedly “non-partisan” organization of hunters called the Bull Moose Sportsmen<\/a> which commissioned a poll about universal background checks which found that 72% of hunters that were polled supported that measure.<\/p>\n

\u201dWhile we take a conservative view of the Second Amendment, we\u2019re also mothers and fathers. We share the outrage of the atrocities like those in Aurora and Newtown,\u201d [Bull Moose Sportsmen co-director Gaspar] Perricone said. \u201c[Protecting] our children while our Second Amendment [rights] are protected \u2014 both can be accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perricone met with President Barack Obama later Wednesday in Denver as part of Obama\u2019s trip to drum up support for gun reform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess the name “Bull Moose” is supposed to conjure images of Republican President Teddy Roosevelt with his elephant gun stalking the African plains. But, Bull Moose Sportsmen is no more non-partisan than VoteVets, discovers Emily Miller at the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

In fact, Bull Moose Sportsmen is a fringe organization run by Democratic activists that has been rejected from membership into the major gun and hunting groups\u2019 umbrella organization because it refuses to reveal its funding sources.<\/p>\n

The American Wildlife Conservation Partners (AWCP) is a consortium of 42 organizations, including major groups such as Safari Club International, Ducks Unlimited, National Wildlife Turkey Federation, National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The groups together represent 6 million individual members.<\/p>\n

Members of AWCP tell me that Bull Moose has been denied entry into their organization because it refused to reveal its mysterious funding sources.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The co-founders of the Bull Moose Sportsmen were both staffers of former Colorado Senator Mark Udall, of course, a Democrat. So, how, exactly, are we supposed to have a national discussion about guns, when there is so much deceit as to who is talking. In the Washington Post<\/a> today, they blame the NRA for derailing gun control with political maneuvers, but if they want someone to blame, they should look at the Democrats and their flood of “information” that the Democrats have inflicted on the “national discussion”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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