Not helpful
by digby
This piece on Piers Morgan’s personal anti-gun crusade is spot on. I think he may be setting back the gon control movement single-handedly simply because of his obnoxiousness. I’m anything but a gun lover and yet his smug, self-righteous approach is rankling me more and more:
Pumped full of a sense of his own mission, he is a caricature of what gun owners imagine their antagonists to be: smug, patronizing urbanites. So he often ends up playing into the anxieties of right-wing extremists rather than puncturing them. He once compared American gun culture to the “racist culture” of previous decades, prompting one liberal guest to reply, “That’s not fair, a Southern gun owner is not like a Klan member—I mean, come on.” Above all, he has reduced one of the most sensitive, knotty issues in U.S. politics into a mere soapbox for the Piers Morgan brand.
He’d be doing a lot more for the cause if he’d let all these pro gun proliferation activists just speak for themselves as he did with Alex Jones. When he starts blathering on he sounds a little too much like his antagonists. It’s not helpful.
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