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July 15, 2014

Did Mike Pintek REALLY Host Larry Pratt on KDKA?

If you were listening to Mike Pintek a few days ago, you were privileged to hear this:


Yea, that would be the same Larry Pratt profiled in Rolling Stone magazine.

Some highlights of the profile.  In a comparison between the Gun Owners of America with the NRA we can read this:
"The NRA describes itself as a religion, and Larry Pratt is the snake handler," says Tom Diaz, a former analyst at the Violence Policy Center, a Washington-based gun control group, and author of two books on the gun lobby. "The NRA debates using arguable premises of the American system: What is the meaning of the Second Amendment, of self-defense? Pratt unconnects from all that, and appeals to the least informed, most paranoid people." In parallel with his frequent national media appearances, Pratt aggressively pursues smaller radio audiences to peddle conspiracy theories and recycled John Birch Society propaganda from the 1960s. In recent years he has argued that the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting was an inside job and that the Justice Department was pursuing charges against George Zimmerman to stir up racial animosity, trigger social chaos, and "build their own communist society."
Then there's this (are you paying attention, Mike?):
As with Pratt's frequent appearances on cable television over the years, no mention was made by the Times of his fringe political and religious beliefs, or the dark corners of American gun culture and rightwing politics to which these beliefs have led over the years. But these links between mainstream and fringe have long been at the core of his role in rightwing politics.

"Larry Pratt has served over the years as an extremely important bridge between the more rabid parts of the gun rights movement and the radical right," says Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center. "The fact that he's been linked to so many different extremists for so long — including Klansman and Christian Identity leaders — together with his roaming around on the militia circuit for God knows how long — it should put him beyond the pale."
And this is what the SPLC has to say about Larry Pratt (again, Mike. ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION?):
Larry Pratt stands at the intersection of guns and Jesus, lobbying for absolutely unrestricted distribution of firearms while advocating a theocratic society based upon Old Testament civil and religious laws. A pivotal figure in the rise of right-wing militia, or “Patriot,” groups, he spoke at the notorious 1992 “Gathering of Christian Men” in Estes Park, Colo., where 160 neo-Nazis, Klan members, anti-Semitic Christian Identity adherents and others arguably laid the groundwork for the militia movement that would explode in 1994. He believes that white Christians must arm themselves for self-protection in the inevitable social implosions and riots that are soon to come.
But back to Rolling Stone:
On the afternoon of the Oklahoma City bombing, Pratt was in Washington, D.C., demonstrating in front of FBI headquarters for its role in the Waco tragedy. Three days later, Pratt spoke before a gathering of 600 Christian Identity adherents and assorted radicals convened by Pete Peters at the Lodge of the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri. Pratt addressed the "Biblical Mandate to Arm" and seemed to justify McVeigh's act of terror, at the time the bloodiest in American history. According to an account by Michael Reynolds in Playboy, Pratt told the gathered, "The government behaves as a beast. It did in Waco, and we have somebody, whoever it might have been, whatever group it might have been, assuming they can't rely on the Lord to take vengeance."
Mike, that's the guy you had on your air the other day.

8 comments:

Social Justice NPC Anti-Paladin™ said...

Also profiled in Rolling Stone, a excellent Michael Bloomberg interview where he points out that Colorado Springs and Pueblo are roadless Third World backwaters.

"seemed to justify McVeigh's act of terror,"
As progressives do with demonizing the 1%.

It seems to justify Social Justice Warriors Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky as just part of the poor 99% getting payback against the rich 1% Petit family.

Support the Police officer's bill of rights.
1) Sealing of all law enforcement records from the public.
2) Automatic search warrant/SWAT raid for anyone in possession of video and/or audio of wiretapping Police Officers in Public.

BTW Garrity v. New Jersey is not enough
http://windypundit.com/2010/02/ive_always_known_that_police/
"In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved it with what came to be known as the Garrity Rule. It says a public employee can be compelled by threat of discipline to admit criminal activity, but the information cannot be used for prosecution."

Social Justice NPC Anti-Paladin™ said...

" In recent years he has argued that the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting was an inside job "

Linked this article at the professional Nixonian wiretappers at Motherjones.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/07/right-wing-gun-group-aurora-was-inside-job
"…In other words, this has all the signs of Fast & Furious, Episode II. I wouldn't be surprised to discover someone in Washington was behind it all. "

That is really a Dishonest Media Matters level smear Dayvoe.

Social Justice NPC Anti-Paladin™ said...

"Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting was an inside job "'

And on the left the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers was a false flag operation by the Mossad.

Reagan had secret talks with the Iranians to keep the Hostages until after the elections in exchange for arms sales.

412libertarian.com said...

What's your point? Because one religious wackjob supports the individual's right to own guns, everyone who supports that right is a wackjob?

If the point is supposed to be "guns are dangerous and bad," I can't think of a more dangerous situation than allowing the government to keep its guns while taking our right to own them away.

-412LIBERTARIAN

Zeus0209 said...

I thought the point was pretty clear. No matter what the raw data said, Pintek knew (shame on him if he didnt) exactly what spin Pratt was going to put on it.

If his lead in line holds any water at all, 2nd amendment activists should be angry with Pintek for this more than anybody. His tease is a possible support of Am 2, but his professional evaluator couldn't be any more clearly biased and, thus, lacks credibility to adequately analyze the data.

It only supports why I stopped listening to Pintek long ago.

412libertarian.com said...

I mean "Mike Pintek is a lying moron" isn't exactly headline news, or even worthy of a blog post IMO. Totally standard

Ol' Froth said...

WOW!! Heir outdid himself with gibberish today!

Social Justice NPC Anti-Paladin™ said...

Ol
They are strawmen on par with the War on Women.