Promoted by Steven D.
Aw, you feel bad for the pro-murder and mayhem lobby. That mean Gabby Giffords may have hurt some feelings down at the shooting range, and Politico thinks it’s news.
Headline: Gabby Giffords gets mean
And here’s Alex Isentadt’s breathless, rather incredible lede: “Gabby Giffords, irreproachable figure of sympathy, has fashioned an improbable new role for herself this election year: ruthless attack dog.”
Yeah, it’s “improbable” that the nation’s most prominent surviving public figure of gun violence – now that Jim Brady has slipped this mortal coil – should actually go on offense against the gun lobby and the politicians that scrape and bow before its trigger happy lobbyists.
At issue: some modestly (in my view) tough political ads aimed at separating those gun toadies from the public offices they cling to. More handkerchief clutching from Isentadt:
Some of the toughest spots from Giffords’ newly formed pro-gun-control super PAC, Americans for Responsible Solutions, hammer Republican Martha McSally, a retired Air Force pilot who is running for the Arizona seat Giffords once held. One features a wrenching testimonial from a woman named Vicki who weeps and stumbles over her words as she recounts how her 19-year-old daughter was hunted down and murdered by an enraged ex-boyfriend.
Meanwhile, I’m with Laura Clawson over at dKos:
Apparently the emotion involved in testimony from a mother whose daughter was murdered is over the line–mean–even though there’s nothing false in the ad. People die because of America’s weak gun laws. McSally opposes tighter gun laws. The fact that the ad is effective doesn’t make it “offensive, selfish, or unaccommodating; nasty; malicious” or “small-minded or ignoble”
Go Gabby! What do you think?
[PS – get well soon, Booman]