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4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:15 am
by Jumping Frog
4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Last Sunday's season finale of
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown had Anthony Bourdain sitting in a Las Vegas bar with CNN host Don Lemon, Roy Choi (author of L.A. Son) and actor Wendell Pierce.
Bourdain, an avowed “New York lefty,” admitted that he likes guns and expressed his respect for American gun owners:
These people in the segment, as many people in red state America — in gun country America — these are nice people. They like guns. As a matter of fact, I’ve gotta admit, I like guns. I like holding guns. I like shooting guns.
He explained more in a blog post about the New Mexico episode:
In New York, where I live, the appearance of a gun—anywhere—is a cause for immediate and extreme alarm. Yet, in much of America, I have come to find, it’s perfectly normal. I’ve walked many times into bars in Missouri, Nevada, Texas, where absolutely everyone is packing. I’ve sat down many times to dinner in perfectly nice family homes where—at end of dinner—Mom swings open the gun locker and invites us all to step into the back yard and pot some beer cans. That may not be Piers Morgan’s idea of normal. It may not be yours. But that’s a facet of American life that’s unlikely to change.
As info, Roy Choi's family defended their restaurant in Koreatown in the '92 LA riots using rifles and shotguns.
There is surely a lot about guns and about political views that I would disagree with Bourdain. But one statement I can agree with is:
Gun culture goes DEEP in this country. Deep….When people start equating guns—ALL guns—as evil—as something to be eradicated, a whole helluva lot of people are going to get defensive. The conversation so far has illuminated, instead of any substantial issues, mostly the huge cultural divide between those like me who live in coastal cities with restrictive gun laws—and that vast swath of America who live very differently. We don’t understand how they live. And they don’t understand how we could POSSIBLY live the way we live. A little respect for that difference might be a good thing. The contempt, mockery and total lack of understanding for all those people “out there” by deep thinkers and pundits who’ve never sat down for a cold beer in a bar full of camo-wearing duck hunters is both despicable and counterproductive…There are a lot of nice people in this country. A whole helluva lot of them, like it or not, own AR 15s. If we can’t have at least, a conversation with them, sit down, break bread— about where we are going and how we are going to get there, there is no hope at all.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:20 am
by nightmare69
I’ve walked many times into bars in Missouri, Nevada, Texas, where absolutely everyone is packing.
No you didn't.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:42 am
by Purplehood
nightmare69 wrote: I’ve walked many times into bars in Missouri, Nevada, Texas, where absolutely everyone is packing.
No you didn't.
I got a chuckle out of that one too...
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 9:16 am
by chasfm11
I’ve walked many times into bars in Missouri, Nevada, Texas, where absolutely everyone is packing
Is this what you call "poetic license?"
That is a perception of many of the people in the NE so I'm not at all surprised that he said it. Unfortunately, it is also coupled with the perception that the love of guns and the love of religion is only for those who are not smart enough to know any better. That is why the President gets away with making those statements, too.
Personally, I'll take all of the Liberals who want to say or write that they enjoy guns and that the people who share that enjoyment are not the buffoons that they are made out to be. I wish a few more of the so called Conservatives would do the same. We could start with Christie.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 10:18 am
by Redneck_Buddha
I like Bourdain. He likes beef, pork, and guns and someone who likes those things will always have a seat at my table. For those who don't know much of him, he has a deep disdain for vegans and not much use for communists, either.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 11:45 am
by baldeagle
Redneck_Buddha wrote:I like Bourdain. He likes beef, pork, and guns and someone who likes those things will always have a seat at my table. For those who don't know much of him, he has a deep disdain for vegans and not much use for communists, either.
And yet he's a lefty. Go figure. They call us dumb, yet they can't even see the similarities between their leftist philosophy and communism. That's a special kind of brain dead.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:08 pm
by anygunanywhere
Bourdain is an obnoxious foul mouthed jerk. The fact that he claims to like guns does not change my opinion of him.
Anygunanywhere
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:41 pm
by RoyGBiv
I thought Bourdain's show on Travel Channel was among the best food/travel shows ever. (yes, ever). His CNN incarnation is not nearly as entertaining. Ok, it's been pretty boring, with a few sparks of goodness. I'm still hopeful he'll find his way on CNN. His show on Detroit last week was a solid double, not nearly a home run. I don't watch him for my news or a history lesson, so, I find his CNN show a bit "preachy" and not nearly enough about the food.
Saw him at Bass hall earlier this year with Eric Ripert... Very funny show.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:42 pm
by RoyGBiv
anygunanywhere wrote:Bourdain is an obnoxious foul mouthed jerk.
I suspect he would agree with you completely.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 3:36 pm
by jimlongley
Purplehood wrote:nightmare69 wrote: I’ve walked many times into bars in Missouri, Nevada, Texas, where absolutely everyone is packing.
No you didn't.
I got a chuckle out of that one too...
That just makes him a liar.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 7:48 pm
by Redneck_Buddha
RoyGBiv wrote:I thought Bourdain's show on Travel Channel was among the best food/travel shows ever. (yes, ever). His CNN incarnation is not nearly as entertaining. Ok, it's been pretty boring, with a few sparks of goodness. I'm still hopeful he'll find his way on CNN. His show on Detroit last week was a solid double, not nearly a home run. I don't watch him for my news or a history lesson, so, I find his CNN show a bit "preachy" and not nearly enough about the food.
Saw him at Bass hall earlier this year with Eric Ripert... Very funny show.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:17 pm
by C-dub
jimlongley wrote:Purplehood wrote:nightmare69 wrote: I’ve walked many times into bars in Missouri, Nevada, Texas, where absolutely everyone is packing.
No you didn't.
I got a chuckle out of that one too...
That just makes him a liar.
And it makes me suspicious of everything else he says. It may have been poetic license and he was completely honest about everything else, but to make such a blatantly false, stereotypical, and misleading statement brings one's credibility into question.
Re: 4 CNN Liberals Walk into a Bar… and Defend Gun Rights?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:32 pm
by jimlongley
C-dub wrote:jimlongley wrote:Purplehood wrote:nightmare69 wrote: I’ve walked many times into bars in Missouri, Nevada, Texas, where absolutely everyone is packing.
No you didn't.
I got a chuckle out of that one too...
That just makes him a liar.
And it makes me suspicious of everything else he says. It may have been poetic license and he was completely honest about everything else, but to make such a blatantly false, stereotypical, and misleading statement brings one's credibility into question.
EXACTLY!