The Daily Beast: NRA the New Marlboro Man, Santa Barbara
Its Fault
by AWR Hawkins 25 May 2014, 1:13
PM PDT
n May 24 The Daily Beast ran a column by Cliff
Schecter comparing the NRA to tobacco
companies and blaming it for Elliot Rodger's heinous Santa Barbara attacks.
According to Schecter, "the
NRA enables massacres" by rejecting "science and information,"
just their like "[its] friends on the right from the tobacco industry." In fact, he claims the NRA "will do
whatever it takes to make sure we have less [science and information], and more
Santa Barbaras."
He attempted to support these
claims by focusing on how the NRA is fighting to prevent Democrats from
spending millions of taxpayer dollars to treat guns like cigarettes at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). This
somehow makes the group culpable in a "public health catastrophe"
that the "rich, entitled thugs" who run the NRA perpetuate – along
with the "blood drenched 1 percenters who own various staples of the gun
industry."
The NRA is to blame for Santa
Barbara because it allegedly spent its time
fighting to be sure Americans "have as little access to information as possible
that might help save lives."
By the way, Elliot Rodger is the
person who actually carried out the attacks in Santa Barbara. His name does not appear in
Schecter's column.
Daily Beast
IAC/InterActiveCorp
was a funder for the Daily Beast.
Note: Steven L. Rattner
was a director at the IAC/InterActiveCorp,
a trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the deputy chairman and deputy CEO for the Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, and a
friend of Michael R. Bloomberg.
Richard C.
Blum is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, a regent at the University of
California, and a board member for the Haas School of Business.
Janet
A. Napolitano is the president for the University of California,
and the homeland security secretary for the Barack Obama administration.
Haas
School of Business is a business school at the University
of California, Berkeley.
Christina
D. Romer is a professor at the University
of California, Berkeley, married to David H. Romer,
and was the council of economic advisers chairman for the Barack Obama
administration.
David H.
Romer is married to Christina D. Romer, a professor at the University of California,
Berkeley,
and is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon
E. Jordan Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at
the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a life trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank), a senior managing director for Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Melvin L.
Oliver was a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and a
professor at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Rampage mirrors threats made
on YouTube video (Past Research for the University of California
Santa Barbara)
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Urban Institute (think tank), the Harlem Children's Zone,
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor
for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, the New York (NY) mayor, is a co-chair for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the
founder of the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, and a friend of Steven
L. Rattner.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC
Foundation, and the Campaign for
Tobacco-Free Kids.
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
D. Ronald Daniel
is a director at the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, and was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Steven L. Rattner
is a friend of Michael R. Bloomberg,
was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the deputy chairman and deputy CEO for the Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, and a director at the IAC/InterActiveCorp.
IAC/InterActiveCorp
was a funder for the Daily Beast.
Stephen
M. Wolf is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a director at Philip Morris International Inc., was a senior adviser for Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, and a
director at the Altria Group Inc.
Elizabeth E.
Bailey is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and was a director at the Altria Group Inc.
Altria Group
Inc. was the parent group for Philip
Morris International Inc., and is a tobacco
company for the tobacco industry.
Philip Morris
USA is an operating company for the Altria
Group Inc.
Marlboro
is a brand of cigarette for Philip
Morris USA.
Tina
Brown is the founder of the Daily
Beast, and a friend of Arianna
Huffington.
Arianna
Huffington is a friend of Tina Brown,
the president & editor-in-chief for the Huffington Post, a co-founder for Americans for Fuel Efficient Cars, a director at the Center for Public Integrity, and an advisory
council member for the Acumen Fund.
Cliff Schecter is
a blogger for the Huffington Post,
and a senior fellow at Working America.
Working America
is a national partner with America Votes.
Ari
Emanuel is a co-founder for Americans
for Fuel Efficient Cars, the co-CEO & director for the William Morris Endeavor Entertainment,
and Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother.
Barbra Streisand
is a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client, and the founder of the Barbra Streisand Foundation.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Center for Public Integrity, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is Ari Emanuel’s brother, a senior
fellow at the Center for American
Progress, and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
George
Soros was a supporter for the Center
for American Progress, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and is Andrea Soros’s father.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the People for the American Way.
Andrea
Soros is George Soros’s
daughter, and a director at the Acumen
Fund.
Margery Tabankin
is a director at People for the American
Way, and the treasurer for the Barbra
Streisand Foundation.
People
for the American Way is a national partner with America Votes.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America Votes.
Cecile Richards
was the founder & president for America
Votes, is the president of the Planned
Parenthood Action Fund, and the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Steven L. Rattner
was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the deputy chairman and deputy CEO for the Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, a director
at the IAC/InterActiveCorp, and is a
friend of Michael R. Bloomberg.
IAC/InterActiveCorp
was a funder for the Daily Beast.
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