Pity the poor Kansas City Star and its editorial columnist Yael T. Abouhalkah.
Fresh out of facts, science or logic to attack gun rights advocates, he resorts to name-calling, right out of the gate in his recent, high-profile editorial “Repugnant NRA mocks gun victims, hijacks #WhateverItTakes” in the Kansas City Star.
You would think a paid, professional journalist would be above inept ad hominem attacks on the law-abiding civil rights activists.
You might think that, but you would be wrong. You be the judge!
The National Rifle Association truly is a repugnant organization led by despicable people.
Why was he so upset? The NRA made a couple of tweets pointing out the fallacies of “Whatever it takes”:
“Criminals will do #WhateverItTakes to be criminals. More laws won’t help,” said one NRA tweet. “What does #WhateverItTakes mean to anti-gunners? Repealing the #2A? Confiscating all firearms? Creating a defenseless citizenry?” said another. And in a third, the NRA promised: “We’ll do #WhateverItTakes to protect the #2A!”
How pathetic. Is that the best you’ve got to advance your cause, Mr. Yael T. Abouhalkah?
In the end, this man’s whining like a petulant child that the NRA “highjacked” a Twitter handle.
Someone hand him a box of tissues.
Bull Connor didn’t have a lot of nice things to say about the civil rights activists in his time either. His name calling, police dogs and firehoses didn’t win him a lot of friends either.
Theophilus Eugene Connor, known as Bull Connor (July 11, 1897 – March 10, 1973), was an American politician who served as a Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama, during the American Civil Rights Movement. A Democrat, Connor’s office, under the city commission government, gave him responsibility for administrative oversight of the Birmingham Fire Department and the Birmingham Police Department, which had their own chiefs.
Connor’s actions to enforce racial segregation and deny civil rights to black citizens, especially during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Birmingham campaign of 1963, made him an international symbol of racism. Bull Connor directed the use of fire hoses and police attack dogs against civil rights activists; that included the children of many protestors.[1][2] These tactics exposed the extent of racism when shown on national television. They served as one of the catalysts for major social and legal change in the Southern United States and contributed to passage by the United States Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.[3]
Will Yael T. Abouhalkah have better luck with his ugly tactics?
History will tell, but right now, it’s not looking good for Mr. Yael T. Abouhalkah.
For that matter, it’s not looking good for the KC Star or mainstream media newspapers in general, thanks to declining circulation from (former) readers just sick and tired of the hate-filled, leftist tone found in their pages.
Just look at Air America if you want to better understand the commercial viability of the left’s hate-speech.
Yael is smarter than the rest of the rubes that live in his city. If you doubt it, just ask him.