Following up on my Charlton Heston post:
I missed most of the TV news coverage on the weekend, but the excellent Media Research Center in the U.S. caught this typical liberal media take, in which any conservative-thinking person and what he or she says or thinks is automatically presumed to be self-evidently “controversial”.
Nets Remember Heston as ‘Polarizing’ and ‘Controversial’
Remembering Charlton Heston, who died Saturday night in his Beverly Hills home at age 84, the ABC and CBS anchors on Sunday tarnished the actor’s political activity on behalf of conservative causes, particularly his leadership of the NRA, as “polarizing” and “controversial.” Dan Harris, anchor of ABC’s World News, asserted: “As President of the National Rifle Association, he became one of the most-polarizing figures in American politics.” CBS Evening News anchor Russ Mitchell declared: “Once the quintessential big screen hero, in his later years he drew as much attention for his controversial politics.”
Those pro-gun rights views were certainly “controversial” to network journalists who disagreed with him and so hit him repeatedly from the left on the issue in 1998 and 2001 morning show interviews, especially Katie Couric. …
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And here’s some words from the peaceful, pacifist, gentle Dalai Lama on guns (from 2001) that I’ve been harboring on my hard disk for a long time, waiting for a good reason to post them in a blog entry:
“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”
— The Dalai Lama, (May 15, 2001, The Seattle Times) speaking at the “Educating Heart Summit” in Portland, Oregon, when asked by a girl how to react when a shooter takes aim at a classmate.
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