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In a very serious and pointed opening monologue during her Thursday show on HLN, conservative host S.E. Cupp scolded the liberal media, including references to her network CNN, for shunning serious discussion and understanding of guns and gun owners for unbridled political activism.
“I do know that there isn’t likely a law, existing or imagined, that would have prevented it. Anyone who says otherwise is not being honest with you,” she began her media rebuke. “Speaking of honesty. If you're like me, you turn on the news to get information, a set of facts … Well, if you turn on cable news last night and this morning, it is safe to say you didn't get the news.”
Cupp expertly observed that “when it comes to guns, news anchors take off their journalist hats and put on their activist hats. And they do it without shame or disclaimer because they believe righteousness is the same thing as being right.” That was followed up by the calling out of her colleagues for their ridiculous finger pointing and blame assigning that did nothing but alienate reasonable people.
“Many of these journalists blame the gun lobby for what happened yesterday. They blamed the NRA, which represents law-abiding gun owners, like me. I'll say it again, law-abiding gun owners,” she said with a sarcastic emphasis on the word “journalists” and a slam against their anti-Republican bias:
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