There are real advocacy groups. The NRA and ACLU, love ’em or not, have headquarters, affiliates, and budgets in the tens of millions of dollars or more.
Then there are fake advocacy groups. The linked article is about a letter from a group calling itself the “Empire State Consumer Project.” It had net income of $1,625 in the 2017 fiscal year, according to its financial disclosures, and net assets of $1,706. These are not typos. This group’s assets are less than what many of us pay every month in rent and groceries. Its website is a free blogspot site that says, under “current issues,” it was last updated in 2011.
These advocacy groups are real in the sense that they may have a legal existence and be registered with one government entity or another. But then again you or I could identify ourselves a consumer group and send out anti-constitutional demand letters as well. (One suspects that there may even be an incentive for so-called consumer groups to make silly demands.)
The #MediaJackals know this. They know that writing a story about this letter is fake news in the same vein as reporting on expert historian Alyssa Milano’s tweets about the original intent of the Second Amendment. But they do it anyway. They are #MediaJackals. They cannot help themselves from yipping and baying and spreading anti-constitutionalist propaganda. It is their nature.
Why is it every time I read an article like this, or see a a similar report on ‘Le Toob Du Beub’, all that happens is I hear South Park’s Mr. Mackey repeating over and over and over, “Gunsarebadmmmmmkay.”
There are real advocacy groups. The NRA and ACLU, love ’em or not, have headquarters, affiliates, and budgets in the tens of millions of dollars or more.
Then there are fake advocacy groups. The linked article is about a letter from a group calling itself the “Empire State Consumer Project.” It had net income of $1,625 in the 2017 fiscal year, according to its financial disclosures, and net assets of $1,706. These are not typos. This group’s assets are less than what many of us pay every month in rent and groceries. Its website is a free blogspot site that says, under “current issues,” it was last updated in 2011.
These advocacy groups are real in the sense that they may have a legal existence and be registered with one government entity or another. But then again you or I could identify ourselves a consumer group and send out anti-constitutional demand letters as well. (One suspects that there may even be an incentive for so-called consumer groups to make silly demands.)
The #MediaJackals know this. They know that writing a story about this letter is fake news in the same vein as reporting on expert historian Alyssa Milano’s tweets about the original intent of the Second Amendment. But they do it anyway. They are #MediaJackals. They cannot help themselves from yipping and baying and spreading anti-constitutionalist propaganda. It is their nature.
Why is it every time I read an article like this, or see a a similar report on ‘Le Toob Du Beub’, all that happens is I hear South Park’s Mr. Mackey repeating over and over and over, “Gunsarebadmmmmmkay.”