An inauspicious turn of events
We have a candidate for the nation's highest office publicly declaring that our nation's premier authority on firearm safety, the National Rifle Association (NRA), is an "enemy", while the current administration climbs into bed with Morris Dees' Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Dees is known to be the architect of one of SPLC's most effective—and most controversial—tactics: exaggerating the prevalence and capabilities of racist and extremist rightwing groups operating in the United States in order to frighten supporters into donating money to SPLC...
JoAnn Wypijewski, who writes for the far-left Nation magazine, says: “No one has been more assiduous in inflating the profile of [hate] groups than [SPLC's] millionaire huckster, Morris Dees...
...the late left-wing journalist Alexander Cockburn in 2009 called Dees the “arch-salesman of hate-mongering,” a man who profited by “selling the notion there’s a right resurgence out there in the hinterland with massed legions of haters...
In an interview with the Boston Globe Friday, Hillary backed away from her [enemies] applause line saying it was “a little tongue in cheek” and promising that after the election she would “start trying to bring people together.”
Another example of a "tongue in cheek" comment might be: "when we see a blue haze hanging low over the Potomac River Valley, accompanied by the acrid odor of smoldering cellulite, we'll know that Trey Gowdy finally has Hillary Clinton in the hot seat before his committee investigating the death of four American's that were denied timely assistance."
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