Responses to these memes calling Obama hypocrite on guns/violence?

[alp227]

Last edited Sun Dec 23, 2012, 08:24 PM - Edit history (1)

I've already seen two anti-Obama graphics from right wing friends on facebook:



first one juxtaposes a photo/passage from Obama's Newtown speech concerning violence in our culture with a photo of Obama shaking hand with rapper Jay-Z captioned with lyrics from Jay Z song "Threat":

Put that knife in ya, take a little bit of life from ya
Am I frightenin ya? Shall I continue?
I put the gun to ya, I let it sing you a song
I let it hum to ya, the other one sing along

conservatives have complained about how Obama likes listening to Jay Z and other hip hop musicians, and now they're complaining that because of it, obama should not be one to complain about violence in culture.

I think this graphic is absurd, since no evidence exists that Adam Lanza listened to gangsta rap. and Jay z has a lot of non violent songs like "Song Cry", "Otis", "Young Forever", "Already Home", and parts in Beyonce's "Crazy in Love" and Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker". I remember Obama saying in an interview that he has Jay z songs in his iPod. But how do the wingnuts know Obama enjoys listening to the songs like "Threat" or heavy hip hop like "Straight Outta Compton"?

Oh well. If Obama boasted he had Beethoven in his iPod the wingmuts would be calling him a limousine liberal. If Obama said he listened to gospel music daily, the RW response = he is trying to hide his muslim faith.

The other one was generated with the some e cards website and reads: "looking forward to being lectured about my gun rights from an administration responsible for giving guns to Mexican drug cartels", of course referring to Fast & Furious. But wait. Didn't a certain administration responsible for arming Iranians also regulate gun rights? And F&F problems date back BEFORE Obama, and the nonpartisan, independent inspector general report "t found no evidence that higher officials at the Justice Department in Washington had authorized or approved of the tactics used in the Fast and Furious investigations" (Wikipedia).

[Scootaloo]

1. ...Say people who respect Ted Nugent

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