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You Decide: Is This Anti-Gun Tweet Something You’d Expect From a National News Organization?

Jan. 31, 2013 8:30pm Jason Howerton

While no one would attempt to argue that MSNBC is an unbiased news network, they are a news organization either way. That’s why some Twitters users were a little thrown off when MSNBC’s official Twitter account advocated so transparently against firearms.

“Do you know where your $$ is? Maybe it’s invested in the #gun business. Use your wallet to support #gunlimits,” the network tweeted on Thursday, linking to a story about that same topic.

MSNBC Sends Anti Gun Tweet Telling Veiwers Not to Support Gun Business

(Twitter)

After reading the first portion of the tweet, it’s pretty obvious what MSNBC is saying. However, the network doubles down and encourages its viewers to support “gun limits” by making sure none of their money is supporting gun manufacturers, as if none of them could possibly be pro-gun.

Perhaps more entertaining than the actual tweet were some of the responses that come from Twitter users afterwards (Warning! Some strong language):

(Twitter)

Weigh in with your thoughts in the comments section below.

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love the kids
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:30pm
MSNBC stands for “Must Support Nothing But Communism”.
It’s tough having morals, if a news outlet I was watching did something like this, I would stop watching them, but these stations do things like this constantly, and the sheep just follow and justify it. I feel so sorry for them

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- lovenfl3
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:47pm
  Of course it is….where have you guys been? I expect nothing less than childish antics, complete deceit, and total demonization of anyone that disagrees with the liberal mantra. This is why most of us have found alternative sources of information. I do have to give credit though to Matt Lauer this week for sticking it to Al Gore. That was an exception to the rule.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABfZi7PPFSU
  
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- marine249
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:13pm
  @lovenfl73
  
  may I say, I agree with you 100%
  
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- Ballot_Box_Revolution
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:26pm
  Is This Anti-Gun Tweet Something You’d Expect From a National News Organization?
  
  No, but i would expect it from MSNBC
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:52pm
  MSNBC, that blank spot on my TV where I blocked the channel. If Obama takes a dump, it is headline news on MSNBC.
  
  MSNBC – The Voice of the Regime.
  
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- ToddinVB
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:16pm
  This story is misleading. It refers to MSNBC as a NEWS organization.
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:32pm
  these people are going to be so screwed when shtf………..next they will pass a gun registration………..in the 20th century alone gun confiscation by countries china-russia and others have led to 56 million people being rounded up and executed…….but they were law abding and registered their firearms
  
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- SUNTZU
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 3:26am
  MSNBC
  A family of Squidbillies on Glug
  
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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 9:31am
  Now this is what I’m talking about!
  
  http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/time-to-roll-back-all-gun-bans/
  
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- Trigus
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 9:40am
  if 1000 people can make coke and pepsi cringe, then what can 10, 20, or 30 million Firearm owners do by boycotting any sponsor on MSNBC. No sponsors = off the air in 90 days or less.
  
  As Americans, As Tax Payers, As Firearms owners it is time for us to take a stand. 90 million legal firearm owners. It is time for the Giant to show it is nothing to be triffle with. We must make our voice heard and make those who do not support the United States Constitution, the 2nd Amendment, and your rights to protect and defend yourselves and your family, know that We will not support their: businesses, cities, or state. We must recall any elected Official that infringes on our Constitutional RIGHTS. We must let them know: You represent us and not D.C.
  
  Time for the Giant’s grassroots campaign to start: “Shut it Down”. We must as a whole boycott any and all companies that do not support the United States Constitution, or support infringing on our Constitutional Rights. Send letters to advertisers and let them know why you will not buy their products.
  
  “Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.”
  Patrick Henry
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 12:14pm
  “You Decide: Is This Anti-Gun Tweet Something You’d Expect From a National News Organization?”
  
  Yes. And worse.
  
  The MSM became officially the PRAVDA of rabid left-wing zealots several years ago.
  
  They tried to hide it then, claiming to be neutral.
  
  Now they don’t even try to deny their airhead liberalism.
  
  Isn’t it odd that Russia is becoming freer and more sensible than the US, while the US is being dominated by a minority culture of kooks, oddballs and flakes?
  
  Russia also passed a law declaring homosexuals could not try to propagandize their youth, while the decadent States of America is pressing the Boy Scouts to accept homosexuals who want to force their way into the organization in order to have more victims available to them.
  
  Putin is also advocatig Russia for the Russians and encouraging Russian couples to have more children, and Russia DOES NOT place hateful inundators from the third world on a pedestal to be glorified and catered to.
  
  In the near future I wouldn’t be suprised to see US citizens migrating to Russia, if the community organizer continues to cause the same massive deterioration he has caused in the last four years.
  
  Certainly, the secessionist movement will be getting adherents in the tens of millions, as the country continues to go the way of Detroit and Atlanta.
  
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- RETIREDUSAFDEFENDER
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 12:17pm
  TODDINVB: Love It! MSNBC is NOT news, its liberal drivel !!!
  
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Ragnars Repos
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:29pm
Still waiting for Conservatives to fight back–not sure what the “defenders of the constitution” are waiting for.

I guess if they wait for their new masters to steal their guns they won’t have to bother with fighting back. Perhaps that’s their plan.

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- Wolf
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:15pm
  Why don’t YOU open the ball rather than wait for someone else? The only thing you can change in the world is yourself- so start now.
  
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- r3dbull4dd1kt
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:32pm
  THEY have yet to provoke any response…the RINOs have started to circle the wagons around their fakers, it is but a matter of time
  
  The forces are galvanizing themselves; people are starting to plan and prepare–get behind them or get outta the way
  
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- southernarkansas
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 8:33am
  If you move too fast,you show your hand. Something the libs never learn…..
  
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Nesty1972
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:29pm
Yes. It is MSNBC, their next move is goat sex and satanist rituals.

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Tmaster
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:25pm
Liberals not investing in gun companies is a good thing it will allow those who do invest to make more money. And put more pro gun investors owning these companies. Great news

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- MDKing
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:39pm
  I don’t understand why Most of the weapons manufacturing is done in the north east, why not just close those plants and reopen them in the south, Like my state of Texas, no state taxes, homes are about a third of what they cost up in the north, and a right to work state on top of it. And a lot of investors just waiting to put there money in said companies. What is keeping them up there?
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:11pm
  MDKING……Yo bro…. I fly bipes. Oklahoma is ready too.
  
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klatoo
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:18pm
MSNBC is run by a bunch crazy nut jobs. A real insane asylum.

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perry1980
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:16pm
Typical New York politician trying to disarm its citizens so the govt can control them

I prefer to sip a 32 oz soda while firing my semi auto handgun with 16 capacity magazine.

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Tri-ox
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:10pm
MSNBC has absolutely nothing to do with “NEWS” – they are obama’s number one state-run propaganda outlet – nothing more.

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- dealer@678
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:22pm
  Follow the money. MSNBC is being paid BIGTIME MONEY. But by who
  
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Bonnieblue2A
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:03pm
Yes, this is exactly what I expect from the statists at MSNBC. These are the same pieces of garbage who edited a film of one of the Sandy Hook elementary victim’s father’s testimony before Congress to falsely give the impression that he was heckeled.

Where are the punishments or fines for the press when they intentionally abuse and misuse the First Amendment?

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fingerprintguy
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:59pm
I simply shake my head in amazement at the mentality of people like this.

The strategy of disinvesting from gun manufactures to get them to stop producing guns is stupid at best. This kind of tactic could force these manufacturers to go out of business. While the gun grabbers would dance in the streets like islamists on 9/11 ver a gun manufacturer going out of business, they fail to realize that, with out these companies, our military and law enforcement personnel will also not have new weapons.

During the entire course of my career in the military and law enforcement, I do not recall one time ever seeing anyone poop out a weapon.

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DagneyT
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:59pm
These people are so deluded. They have no idea the hornet’s nest they’ve just poked!

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SHOESHINEBOY
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:55pm
What do you expect from
MARXISTS
SOCIALISTS
NATIONALISTS
BROADCASTING
COMMUNISM
and where each employee there wants to do a Cathy Griffin to Anderson Cooper on New Years Eve TV to their Lord Barry…..

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- gyro
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:09pm
  Bend over breath slowly it will al be ok
  Uncle barry will take care of you when the crap hits the fan
  Or not
  
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SilentReader
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:54pm
It’s what I have come to expect from msnbc! I have long since expected it NOT to be a real news organization, nor do I watch it. It’s just another arm of the egregious and criminal Progressive-Left whose policies are leading us toward tyranny and death by government. That’s precisely what they mean when they say forward.

So, when this guy is tweeting for his followers to not donate their money to gun manufacturers he’s just pushing the usual things they push on msnbc. Not shocking, really. Just something you expect from msnbc.

Just remember one thing. All acts of genocide were preceded with disarming the civilian population so that they wouldn’t be able to defend themselves against an authoritarian government. And, this is what the Left has to do in order to control us and make incapable of defending ourselves and our families.

So, carry on, msnbc, with your complete deceit and deception. Just know that your transparency is why most of us are no longer watching, or listening to you.

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BARRYS_BEARD
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:53pm
QUESTION: “Is This Anti-Gun Tweet Something You’d Expect From a National News Organization?”

ANSWER: No, but it IS something I’d expect from MSNBC.

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- gyro
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:05pm
  Wait A Second !
  Ok continue
  Your correct again dam it
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:07pm
  Grohhhhmmmm
  
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Saff SGT
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:50pm
Ill make my own guns and screw Obama and all the other Communists

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- BARRYS_BEARD
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:56pm
  May I suggest you rephrase your statement. Although I suspect we all understand your intent, the wording could use some work.
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:04pm
  Ok, MSNBC, The Onion, CBS, NBC, ABC, Monty Python, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends or Saturday Night Live. Which one is real???? Its becoming very blurry I’m leaning towards Fosters but……..
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:23pm
  When a single comma will suffice…
  
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- sndrman
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 10:04pm
  yea gun marks on a person are not attractive…………..but i also get the gist of it
  
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countrygirl56
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:49pm
PMSNBC is a PROPAGANDA ORGANIZATION!!!!

@FUBARED Agreed! IAMROT for NYC mayor…or maybe President!

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:48pm
I am the Fretto Banditto.

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- M13
  Posted on February 1, 2013 at 10:30am
  No you are the idiot who posted something stupid again.
  
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theBru
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:47pm
Too funny, the only business in America that is growing and doing great, and these morons want us to take our money out of a sure thing??? rammin rahm started all of this money bs, threatening banks, etc, taking money out of pensions, hell as bankrupt as all these leftist city & state gov’t are, they should double down on the gun trade, not sell it off and put it the fishing industry in the nor’east, the latest bhoLE example of how to destroy the economy!!! what a bunch of losers, but I think America is starting to wake up…

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- 13th Imam
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:07pm
  Actually Chris “Waitress Sandwich” Dodd and Barney “Take it up the wazoo” Frank started this by threatening banks for not loaning money to schmucks that could never repay morgages. The housing debacle followed from their threats .
  
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- theBru
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:38pm
  that goes back to billary in ’94, that is when that started, and the housing bubble got bigger & bigger, until it took the nose dive that everyone knew it would…but, all the crooks that set it in motion, had already stole all of the profit, and left the taxpayers holding their ****** in the hand, flat broke…and bushman was riding it like a surfer on a never ending wave…what we have today, has been in the making since they shot Kennedy, he was the last president we had that tried to do away with the fed, and you see what they did to him…slowly stealing our rights, one at a time…
  
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TotallyNotATroll
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:45pm
Wait, I thought they were satire like the onion or dailycurrant

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FISH_BONE
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:42pm
Frankly I’m happy to support gun control for libs. The fewer guns the leftist idiots have, the better. On Hannity today Lanny Davis (a major idiot) said he prefers to have no guns in his house. Hey criminals, guess where you can find an easy score: The Lanny Davis Residence. Get to it.

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Small World
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:42pm
I think I will be sure to invest my $$ in gun business. Wounder how many Catholics know that there $$ goes to Planned Parenthood????

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AnAmerican111
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:42pm
Who cares! It’s MSNBC!
The Liberal Cartoon Network with Talk Show Hosts that can barely speak English (AL Sharpton) along other Comic Book Wannabees!

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:42pm
News Agency? Is that like Santa Clause or a uni-corn?
I Better check my Goebbels’ diary and see if this qualifies as a news agency.

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- Stelex
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:57pm
  Goebbels’ would be in awe of these guys.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:52pm
  Like Gobbels, BSNBC anchors must also have studied Edward L. Bernays. He was known even back then as Woodrow Wilson’s Minister of Propaganda.
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:41pm
Here’s an idea…cancel your cable and stop subsidizing channels like MSNBC! You know that when you pay Time Warner or Comcast for your cable, you are in effect paying Al Sharpton’s salary?

Cancel your cable…go streaming…you’ll never go back to cable.

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- commies.in.the.wire
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:41pm
  I just cancelled my cable yesterday!
  
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Fubared
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:40pm
IAMROT for NYC mayor.

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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:06pm
  FUBARED, you’re looking particularly crazy tonight. Did you just get those teeth whitened?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on January 31, 2013 at 9:21pm
  Weekly, the alcohol and Bill’s left over cigars leave un-Godly stains. Weeeeee.
  
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mrunner
Posted on January 31, 2013 at 8:38pm
They ceased being a “News Organization” almost at inception. The only people I know that watch MSLSD are either brain dead liberals- or watch it for its comedic value (almost like watching intellectually challenged kids trying to put on a play). I know of nobody who actually watches it for “news”.

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