MSNBC Urges Viewers to Boycott Gun Manufacturers

[libertygrl]

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 1, 2013

News network MSNBC – which is effectively owned by arms manufacturer General Electric – put out a tweet yesterday urging its viewers to financially boycott gun manufacturers, in another example of how gun control is being advanced under the radar.

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“Do you know where your $$ is? Maybe it’s invested in the #gun business. Use your wallet to support #gunlimits,” the network tweeted, adding a link to a story about NYC mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio pressuring investment firms to remove funding from gun companies.

The idea of MSNBC telling viewers to boycott investments in gun manufacturers is chillingly ironic given the fact that the network is is part-owned by one of Obama’s biggest campaign contributors, General Electric, which also just happens to be one of the biggest arms manufacturers on the planet.

It’s also a flagrant example of a supposedly neutral media outlet pushing its skewed political agenda.

In response to the tweet, one user responded, “@msnbc reporting news or creating it now.”

As we have previously highlighted, prominent gun control advocates are resorting to economic warfare in a bid to accomplish what they have thus far failed to achieve through the normal legislative path – gun control via mafia-style threats of blackmail.

Last month, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter threatened gun makers and firearms sellers with what amounted to economic sanctions unless they followed draconian new gun control regulations. Nutter warned that the city would take “economic divestment actions” unless gun retailers hosted “semi-annual gun buy-back programs to retire weapons from general public circulation,” amidst a deluge of other mandates.

Nutter’s move is being mirrored by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the man who once called for a ‘no gun buy list’ similar to the no fly list, who announced that he would, “ask all his city’s pension funds to investigate whether they have any holdings in assault weapons makers and sellers, a step toward divesting of those companies.”

Other lawmakers have demanded that gun retailers stop selling semi-automatic assault rifles altogether, an order that stores like Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods have adhered to.

Last month, Bank of American also froze the funds of licensed firearms manufacturer American Spirit Arms, telling owner Joe Sirochman he “should not be selling guns and parts on the internet.”

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[WarAnonymous]

Oh, cuz I already boycotted MSNBC

[VBRonPaulFan]

I'm pretty sure you can't buy things made/sponsored by gun companies with food stamps.

[Anti Federalist]

LOL @ MSNBC.

[Acala]

Hahahahahaha. Fail.

[Anti Federalist]

http://www.daveweinbaum.com/images/121.jpg

[Anti Federalist]

And this is from a "left wing" source.

ROFL - they are eating themselves.


Sometimes a media-owning corporation is itself a significant weapons merchant. In 1991, when my colleague Martin A. Lee and I looked into the stake that one major media-invested company had in the latest war, what we found was sobering: NBC’s owner General Electric designed, manufactured or supplied parts or maintenance for nearly every major weapon system used by the U.S. during the Gulf War—including the Patriot and Tomahawk Cruise missiles, the Stealth bomber, the B-52 bomber, the AWACS plane, and the NAVSTAR spy satellite system. “In other words,” we wrote in Unreliable Sources, “when correspondents and paid consultants on NBC television praised the performance of U.S. weapons, they were extolling equipment made by GE, the corporation that pays their salaries.”

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/the-military-industrial-media-complex/

[DamianTV]

Solution: Buy stuff from these manufacturers and BOYCOTT MSNBC.

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Edit: For the record, MSNBC is owned by NBC, which was owned by GE, the biggest National Defense Contracter to the US Govt there is.

My conclusion is that GE does not want the public to have guns, but are more than happy to sell all sorts of weapons to the US Govt to attack a completely disarmed public.

[mad cow]

A rare case of Dump and Pump.

I am sure that in today's market,any guns or ammo dealer stock dropped by a socialist MSNBC listener will be snapped up instantly by anybody with half a brain.

[acptulsa]

I already boycott General Electric, thank you. Have for years.

[nobody's_hero]

Solution: Buy stuff from these manufacturers and BOYCOTT MSNBC.

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Edit: For the record, MSNBC is owned by NBC, which was owned by GE, the biggest National Defense Contracter to the US Govt there is.

My conclusion is that GE does not want the public to have guns, but are more than happy to sell all sorts of weapons to the US Govt to attack a completely disarmed public.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0h5gjO6cOA

[BlackJack]

Who even watches MSM anymore, let alone buy GE products.

[Cowlesy]

Good! Sell your shares! Those of us with dry powder and realize they're companies that can't make goods fast enough, will happily take your shares.

[akforme]

As we have previously highlighted, prominent gun control advocates are resorting to economic warfare in a bid to accomplish what they have thus far failed to achieve through the normal legislative path.

The writer isn't too sharp either since government force is being sold as better than a free market solution, which is now considered economic warfare.

[jmdrake]

LOL. So people who don't like guns are going to stop buying guns? WTF?

Edit: Oh I get it. They're going to sell off their gun stock. Sounds like a buying opportunity to me.

[HOLLYWOOD]

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[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
February 1, 2013

News network MSNBC – which is effectively owned by arms manufacturer General Electric – put out a tweet yesterday urging its viewers to financially boycott gun manufacturers, in another example of how gun control is being advanced under the radar.

http://static.prisonplanet.com/p/images/february2013/010213tweet.png

“Do you know where your $$ is? Maybe it’s invested in the #gun business. Use your wallet to support #gunlimits,” the network tweeted, adding a link to a story about NYC mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio pressuring investment firms to remove funding from gun companies.

The idea of MSNBC telling viewers to boycott investments in gun manufacturers is chillingly ironic given the fact that the network is is part-owned by one of Obama’s biggest campaign contributors, General Electric, which also just happens to be one of the biggest arms manufacturers on the planet.

It’s also a flagrant example of a supposedly neutral media outlet pushing its skewed political agenda.

In response to the tweet, one user responded, “@msnbc reporting news or creating it now.”

As we have previously highlighted, prominent gun control advocates are resorting to economic warfare in a bid to accomplish what they have thus far failed to achieve through the normal legislative path – gun control via mafia-style threats of blackmail.

Last month, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter threatened gun makers and firearms sellers with what amounted to economic sanctions unless they followed draconian new gun control regulations. Nutter warned that the city would take “economic divestment actions” unless gun retailers hosted “semi-annual gun buy-back programs to retire weapons from general public circulation,” amidst a deluge of other mandates.

Nutter’s move is being mirrored by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the man who once called for a ‘no gun buy list’ similar to the no fly list, who announced that he would, “ask all his city’s pension funds to investigate whether they have any holdings in assault weapons makers and sellers, a step toward divesting of those companies.”

Other lawmakers have demanded that gun retailers stop selling semi-automatic assault rifles altogether, an order that stores like Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods have adhered to.

Last month, Bank of American also froze the funds of licensed firearms manufacturer American Spirit Arms, telling owner Joe Sirochman he “should not be selling guns and parts on the internet.”

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As the only quality items of mass production built in the United States today are weapons of mass destruction, wouldn't a weapons ban hurt the economy and do away with even more jobs? Oh, I forget about the porn industry. So, that makes just two quality items of mass production.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

LOL. So people who don't like guns are going to stop buying guns? WTF?

Edit: Oh I get it. They're going to sell off their gun stock. Sounds like a buying opportunity to me.

You obviously aren't standing on your head thinking about this. These people are devious. Try to imagine that you are sitting in a Starbucks having just left an orgy when this idea pops into your head. Suddenly, a patron across from you at another table jumps up to spout his communist manifesto. Startled, you grab a pair of scissors from your purse . . .