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<\/a>\u00a9 Kevin Lamarque \/ Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n
RT.com<\/p>\n
Congress is made of millionaires who just suck up money \u2013 but pressure is building for them to be more responsive to public will, with millennials out there with NRA boycotts, investigative journalist Dave Lindorff told RT.<\/p>\n
The US gun lobby is fighting back against calls for tougher firearm controls. The National Rifle Association (NRA) has come under intense scrutiny since the school shooting in Florida. In a new promotional clip, NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch issued a stern warning to the media.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve had enough of the lies, the sanctimony, the arrogance, the hatred, the pettiness, the fake news\u2026we are done with your agenda to undermine voters’ will and individual liberty in America\u2026 To those who bring bias and propaganda to CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Listen up! Your Time is running out,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in the promotional video.<\/p>\n According to investigative journalist Dave Lindorff, the new ad shows\u00a0\u201cdesperation on the part of the NRA.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Dave Lindorff:<\/strong>\u00a0They are resorting to this very scary commercial with a black background: she [Dana Loesch] looked like the Queen in a Disney Snow White, the floating head in the Wizard of Oz, timer running out and saying\u00a0\u201cYour time is up\u201d<\/em>. If you say that and you are the gun organization, it sounds like there is an execution coming for journalists and media people. It is designed to be very intimidating. I see it as a sign of desperation. This is the most powerful lobby along with the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC in the country. And they suddenly are seeing huge companies abandoning them and not offering their members discounts because of the fears of a boycott. If Apple and Amazon are worried now about the boycott, and these are two of the largest companies in America. That is amazing.<\/p>\n RT:\u00a0<\/strong>The Florida school massacre seems to have sparked an unprecedented wave of protests calling for tougher gun laws. Do you expect to see any consensus emerge on this issue? Is this latest incident going to change anything?<\/em><\/p>\n DL:<\/strong>\u00a0This seems a little different to me. We haven\u2019t seen these kinds of boycotts against the NRA, we haven\u2019t seen Republicans backing away from the NRA, and we haven\u2019t especially seen a mobilized mass of the articulate people like these high school students. I am sort of thrown back to the \u201860s when I was teenager myself and was opposing the Vietnam War. Really, it was kids that were behind the movement against the Vietnam War, teenagers… And that is what we are seeing these quiescent millennials are suddenly out there, mobilizing on social media. We haven\u2019t seen that before.<\/p>\n RT:\u00a0<\/strong>A recent double-page ad in the New York Times listed almost\u00a0300 members<\/a>\u00a0of Congress who received money from the NRA along with their phone numbers. Could this be an explanation for the NRA lashing out at media now?<\/em><\/p>\n DL:<\/strong>\u00a0We saw a weakening of AIPAC recently which is a new thing. I think what is happening is that there is a popular movement that has been growing to get Congress to be more responsive to the public. Congress is a bunch of millionaires who just suck up money. And they have been pretty immune from public pressure because all people do is writing email messages. But I think things are getting hotter now for members of Congress to be more responsive to public will.<\/p>\n \u201cTo every lying member of the media, to every Hollywood phony, to the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents\u2026Your Time is running out. The clock starts now." — NRATV (@NRATV) March 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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