Vox Writer Mad That ‘Ellen’ Producer Had a Reasonable Conversation About Guns With Dana Loesch
2nd September 2019
Vox writer Aaron Rupar scolded “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” producer Andy Lassner for talking about guns with former NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch.
Apparently he ought to have been talking to Aaron Rupar.
Following the most recent shootings in Odessa and Midland, Texas, Lassner took to Twitter to voice his frustration with the seemingly repetitive nature of such tragedies, especially lately. Conceding that he did not have the answers himself, he made an appeal for a bipartisan conversation that could lead to some solutions.
I’d like an explanation of how that differs from what is actually going on. (I wish I had a dime for every time some wingnut on the Left appealed for a bipartisan conversation of some subject of Vital National Interest.) I suspect that a ‘bipartisan conversation’ these days would consist of endless repetitions of ‘You suck! ‘No, YOU suck!’, which doesn’t strike me as being calculated to ‘lead to some solutions’, other than perhaps confiscating all the guns and using them to wipe out the other side.
“Here’s the truth. I don’t have the answer to the gun problem. The mass shootings. I don’t want to take guns away from law abiding citizens. Many people in my life own guns. But, we have a serious problem and we MUST start talking about gun violence solutions in a bipartisan way,” Lassner tweeted.
Whenever somebody says that we MUST start doing something, it’s a guarantee that such a thing won’t ever get done. Trust me.
Rupar fired back at Lassner then, arguing that there was no point in having a discussion with anyone who had ever been associated with the NRA. “It’s silly to earnestly engage with a former paid NRA gun shill on the topic of preventing gun violence,” he claimed.
I guess he missed the part about ‘bipartisan conversation’ … which suggests a reason why ‘bipartisan conversations’ don’t happen; there are too many partisan loud-mouths out there.