CNN "journalist" threatens to shoot census workers

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ERICKSON: This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I'm not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They're not going on my property. They can't do that. They don't have the legal right, and yet they're trying.
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"Liberal media."
 
I'm glad I never tried to sell Girl Scout cookies at his house.
 
Where does he even dream up that those are the kinds of questions asked on the form?

Maybe he's angling for a job at Fox.

BTW, Peephole, where is this quote from? I usually peruse CNN's website, and I haven't seen this. A link would be nice.
 
If you get the long form they ask all kinds of odd questions like, "how much do you spend on electricity per month?" but I don't recall any questions about toilet flushing.
 
JoeTheJuggler said:
Ah, I see--that's why Peephole used the scare quotes. I see that CNN refers to him as a "contributor", and none of this was actually on CNN at all.
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Right. Peephole's OP fails on alll counts.

1) Erick Erickson is not a journalist, nor pretends to be one.

2) Erick Erickson's comment was made on his radio show, not CNN

3) Erick Erickson didn't say anything about "shooting" anyone.

4) Therefore, Erick Erickson's comment has zero to do with how and why the lame stream media is irrefutably liberal.
 
Cicero said:
1) Erick Erickson is not a journalist, nor pretends to be one.
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I'm sorry for thinking CNN is trying to be a news channel and their people are journalists.
Cicero said:
2) Erick Erickson's comment was made on his radio show, not CNN
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Where did I say it was aired on CNN? And why is it relevant?

Do you think Erickson suddenly turns into a sane person when he gets on CNN?

Cicero said:
3) Erick Erickson didn't say anything about "shooting" anyone.
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Are you illiterate? He's literally saying he's going to threaten people with shooting them:

"Pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door."
 
Oh Peephole, you silly liberal! Erickson merely suggested he would threaten census workers with a shotgun, not actually shoot them. Heck, we don't even know if the shotgun will be loaded!

Therefore, Erickson is not at all a rightwing nutjob, and Cicero's comments are not at all reactionary and completely divorced from reality.
 
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I wonder what he'd do if he saw a census worker on an airplane? Erickson, hmmm could be Danish...
 
Peephole said:
I'm sorry for thinking CNN is trying to be a news channel and their people are journalists.
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You're sorry? Think how CNN feels. Even CNN's identified news anchors, reporters and journalists, i.e. Wolf Blitzer, Christiane Amanpour, Anderson Cooper, etc routinely undermine CNN's credibility as a news organization.

Where did I say it was aired on CNN? And why is it relevant?
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It is relevant because Erickson said it on WMAC's In the Morning with Erick Erickson. What deso CNN have to do with it?

Do you think Erickson suddenly turns into a sane person when he gets on CNN?
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Does Larry King?

Are you illiterate? He's literally saying he's going to threaten people with shooting them:

"Pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door."
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You obviously have no clue what literally means. Where did he say "shooting?" I understand you know zip about firearms and you have never owned one much less fired one. How does Erickson pulling out his wife's shotgun (he didn't say loaded shotgun or that he pointed it at the geek) when he answers the door turn into "a threat of shooting?" Erickson only says that the twerp would be "scared." So if you understood what "literally" meant, you would have said in the OP "intends to scare" the twerp.
 
johnny karate said:
Oh Peephole, you silly liberal! Erickson merely suggested he would threaten census workers with a shotgun, not actually shoot them. Heck, we don't even know if the shotgun will be loaded!

Therefore, Erickson is not at all a rightwing nutjob, and Cicero's comments are not at all reactionary and completely divorced from reality.
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Instead of you and your fellow libs making up what was not said, why not stick to what was said? He didn't say "threaten," and he didn't say "shoot." he did say the twerp would be "scared" at the sight of his wife's shotgun. Perhaps you will explain how you shoot someone with an unloaded shotgun?

You make reactionary sound as if it is a pejorative. Do you support socialism and communism?
 
Cicero said:
Instead of you and your fellow libs making up what was not said, why not stick to what was said? He didn't say "threaten," and he didn't say "shoot." he did say the twerp would be "scared" at the sight of his wife's shotgun. Perhaps you will explain how you shoot someone with an unloaded shotgun?

You make reactionary sound as if it is a pejorative. Do you support socialism and communism?
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I totally agree. It's perfectly normal to react to a person who knocks on your door by grabbing a shotgun and pointing it at them.

Any suggestion that this is unhinged, antisocial, bat-**** insane freak behavior is liberal propaganda.
 
Cicero said:
Instead of you and your fellow libs making up what was not said, why not stick to what was said? He didn't say "threaten," and he didn't say "shoot." he did say the twerp would be "scared" at the sight of his wife's shotgun. Perhaps you will explain how you shoot someone with an unloaded shotgun?

You make reactionary sound as if it is a pejorative. Do you support socialism and communism?
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Are you genuinely trying to say that someone talking about pulling a shotgun and scaring someone with it isn't making a blatant reference to threatening them with it?

Of course you are, I almost forgot what you were like. Carry on.
 
Unabogie said:
I totally agree. It's perfectly normal to react to a person who knocks on your door by grabbing a shotgun and pointing it at them.

Any suggestion that this is unhinged, antisocial, bat-**** insane freak behavior is liberal propaganda.
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He never said "point" the shotgun at the twerp. Since this never actually occurred, what the Hell are you blathering about?
 
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MarkCorrigan said:
Are you genuinely trying to say that someone talking about pulling a shotgun and scaring someone with it isn't making a blatant reference to threatening them with it?

Of course you are, I almost forgot what you were like. Carry on.
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What need is there to reinterpret what Erickson said? The twerp would be scared at the mere sight of his wife's shotgun. That is literally what he said.
 
Cicero said:
You obviously have no clue what literally means. Where did he say "shooting?" I understand you know zip about firearms and you have never owned one much less fired one. How does Erickson pulling out his wife's shotgun (he didn't say loaded shotgun or that he pointed it at the geek) when he answers the door turn into "a threat of shooting?" Erickson only says that the twerp would be "scared." So if you understood what "literally" meant, you would have said in the OP "intends to scare" the twerp.
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The intent of answering the door wielding a shotgun is to intimidate someone into thinking you might shoot them.

I figure there will be some wingnut VS census worker altercation in the coming months.
 
Cicero said:
He never said "point" the shotgun at the twerp. Since this never actually occurred, what the Hell are you blathering about?
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Hey buddy, I'm agreeing with you! I think it's totally normal to point shotguns at people who knock at your door. It's even MORE normal to just hold the shotgun to scare them. That's perfectly normal, and any suggestion otherwise is liberal blathering.

But why stop at shotguns? I think Erick, son of Erick should answer the door nude, covered in feces, holding a cow heart. That way, the poor census worker twerp will be even MORE scared. Wouldn't that be a hoot!?

Man, do I love Teabaggerville America! Anything goes!
 
Cicero said:
. How does Erickson pulling out his wife's shotgun (he didn't say loaded shotgun or that he pointed it at the geek) when he answers the door turn into "a threat of shooting?" Erickson only says that the twerp would be "scared."
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if a cop knocks on your door, and you answer it with a shotgun in your hand, don't be surprised if you get your head blown off.

and I believe, when this fine officer faces a review board, they will find that his shooting was "legitimate".
 
Cicero said:
Instead of you and your fellow libs making up what was not said, why not stick to what was said? He didn't say "threaten," and he didn't say "shoot." he did say the twerp would be "scared" at the sight of his wife's shotgun. Perhaps you will explain how you shoot someone with an unloaded shotgun?
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Your pathetic semantic argument would be laughable if what you are defending wasn't so disturbing. I truly pity people like this clown who feel they have to use a gun as a means of expressing the fear and hatred they otherwise lack the capacity to articulate.

Cicero said:
Do you support socialism and communism?
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I'll take idiotic non sequiturs for 1000, Alex.
 
i was actually dissapointed with how simple the form was.

it didnt ask for my income, my job, it didnt ask any interesting questions.

we could have gotten a lot of very cool info from this thing. but didnt.

i am also really annoyed, that all "white" people are grouped together, while Hispanics have like 7 different categories.

Sicilians are the same as folks from the Isle of Man?

Jews from Egypt are the same as Slovaks??

Bavarians are the same as Spartans?

give me a break.

...sorry for the derail. please continue.
 
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Hey everybody come on now. OP's title says "CNN 'journalist' threatens to shoot census workers'

Clearly peephole and the title both agree with you that Erickson is not a journalist, though he was just hired by CNN, and the title did not say he said it on CNN. If Wolf Blitzer did the same thing while eating at planet hollywood, one could still write "CNN host Wolf Blitzer threatens to shoot census workers," and the title would be completely accurate.

Where he said it is not necessary information. If one serves as an anchor, alleged journalist or cable news show host, then their inflammatory words have impact and the person has a responsibility not to incite violence. Their influence does not magically disappear when their time slot is up.

It seems like you're purposely misreading the title in order to accuse peephole of misleading you. Stop it. I know you can read better than that. Get a brain, morans.

cicero said:
3) Erick Erickson didn't say anything about "shooting" anyone.
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I'm confused. Exactly what do you think is the point of the imagery of a gun, then? DERP! Of course that's a threat about shooting somebody. Thanks for proving my point right out of the gate.

I'm glad to see there's more than one person pointing out Cicero's disingenuous comments..
 
every weapon...is a loaded weapon and meant to kill...unless it has its breach open and its safety on.

show up at a door with a gun...and you are asking for trouble.
 
Since Time-Warner Cable (in NYC) kicked CNN down the dial from 10 to 78 last June, I've watched a lot less of them. This is testament that I only was watching to the extent that I did before because of their prime position was in my remote browse path.

Now that they've gone looking for political insight from a a slack-jawed yokel who wants to run the revenuers off his land with shotgun, I have no reason to ever visit the channel again.

(FYI: The channel line-up switch occurred a few months after TW Cable was spun off from Time-Warner.)
 
parky76 said:
every weapon...is a loaded weapon and meant to kill...unless it has its breach open and its safety on.

show up at a door with a gun...and you are asking for trouble.
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By your definition, a firearm that fires from an open bolt is more secure when the bolt is open and safety on when actually it is in the firing position. Revolvers do not have external safeties and they have cylinders.
 
Cicero said:
By your definition, a firearm that fires from an open bolt is more secure when the bolt is open and safety on when actually it is in the firing position. Revolvers do not have external safeties and they have cylinders.
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it is not my definition. it is the definition given to me during my NRA firearm safety course at WVU in 1994.

can anyone else confirm that the the NRA defines a loaded and ready to kill firearm, as any one that does not have its safety on and breach open?

as for a revolver, that would mean having its section that holds the bullets, opened and not in its locked position.
 
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can someone press charges if they ring the wrong doorbell and the person answers it with a shotgun in hand?
 
parky76 said:
it is not my definition. it is the definition given to me during my NRA firearm safety course at WVU in 1994.

can anyone else confirm that the the NRA defines a loaded and ready to kill firearm, as any one that does not have its safety on and breach open?

as for a revolver, that would mean having its section that holds the bullets, opened and not in its locked position.
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Exactly how do you engage the safety on a Colt Government 1911 .45 with the slide open?

The "section" is called the cylinder and opening it is called breaking the cylinder.
 
Cicero said:
If you didn't have a concave chest, it could have been painful.
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Yeah, maybe I should just join the Tea Party Movement. Then I wouldn't need physical stature, common sense, or the ability to articulate a rational thought in order to deal with my problems.

I could just use my gun.
 
Cicero said:
Right. Peephole's OP fails on alll counts.

1) Erick Erickson is not a journalist, nor pretends to be one.

2) Erick Erickson's comment was made on his radio show, not CNN

3) Erick Erickson didn't say anything about "shooting" anyone.

4) Therefore, Erick Erickson's comment has zero to do with how and why the lame stream media is irrefutably liberal.
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No. Fox. Now go play with the other children.
 
Rogue1stclass said:
His wife's shotgun?

Oh yeah, he's frightening, this guy.
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Is that the Lady Mossberg?

In any case, I wouldn't want to be a census taker at Dick Cheney's door. He's got the demonstrated willingness to shoot someone in the face with a shotgun.
 
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