Oliver North to be NRA's new president
Source: CNN
Oliver North, the Fox News contributor and central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, will be the National Rifle Association's new president, the group announced Monday.
"Oliver North is, hands down, the absolute best choice to lead our NRA Board, to fully engage with our members, and to unflinchingly stand and fight for the great freedoms he has defended his entire life," NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre said in a statement on the pick.
In his statement, LaPierre compared North favorably to Charlton Heston, the Hollywood icon who was once president of the group.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/07/politics/nra-oliver-north/index.html
Just to clarify: NRA "President" is primarily a messaging position. Wayne LaPierre will still be running things.
deurbano
(2,896 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)flotsam
(3,268 posts)They sure love their treason weasels and war crimes practitioners
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)The right seems to think of him as some sort of cold war hero.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,939 posts)Who else to better promote the selling of weapons, no matter what the occasion, reason, or purpose?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Submariner
(12,509 posts)so having a disgraceful traitor to the uniform of the United States Marines run his slaughter lobby makes perfect sense.
IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)They already support domestic enemies.
PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)He loves guns.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)enough
(13,262 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)and got away with it, this seems fitting. Charlton Heston had too much honour outside of the NRA to be truly emblematic of it.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)it's getting clearer all the time that republicans don't want the country most americans do.
underpants
(182,904 posts)"Opening Arguments" Toobin was hired just after passing the bar to be on Walsh's Special Prosecutor team. The lengths they had to go to to avoid hearing what North testified about were incredible but Silberman's overturned the conviction saying that Walsh's didn't avoid it enough. Complete bullshit.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)cabal of criminals
rickford66
(5,528 posts)The same turds rise to the top.
cstanleytech
(26,320 posts)well at night.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)of our leaders following the law? Granted, they were lying about Hillary, but still, that is what they said.
Now they have hired a criminal to be their president.
I wonder if the media will point out that a criminal and a traitor now runs the NRA.
TygrBright
(20,771 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)yet another criminal into the mix.
How much welfare is he collecting for this spot. (Didn't get his faux bonus this year?)
FailureToCommunicate
(14,023 posts)In the Iran Contra Hearings, North had snidely replied to a question about telling lies, "That's what a good soldier does"
Senator Inouye stiffened and calmly recited the part of the Army's military code of conduct dealing lies and duty.
Inouye had only one arm. He left the other one back on a battlefield in Italy when a German hand grenade went off.
He was part of the Army outfit -- the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost entirely of Japanese-Americans.
Some of them had spent time in barbed wire internment camps until the government decided they could be trusted to spill their blood for their own country. So they said goodbye to their families -- still behind barbed wire -- and went off to fight.
They were know as the Go for Broke outfit and were the most decorated unit in the war.
Olie North was a bit more subdued after a finger wagging from a real American hero.
sandensea
(21,674 posts)Perfect.
rurallib
(62,451 posts)as the CEO. That should give much solace to Putin.
Add this one to the "Crime Does Not Pay Is Bullshit" list.
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)Judge Refuses To Renew Oliver North's Gun Permit
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-08-07/news/9408061023_1_berry-north-gun-permit
August 7, 1994
CHANTILLY, VA. A judge has disarmed Oliver North. Judge James L. Berry refused to renew North's gun permit because the former Marine is ''not of good character.'' North, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, was convicted in 1991 for his role in the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages deal. The verdict was overturned on appeal, but Berry said he could not ignore North's conviction ''for crimes involving moral turpitude.'' North, who received notice of Berry's decision in the mail Friday, had been allowed to carry up to three concealed handguns, but his permit expired in March. His campaign staff called the decision politically motivated. Berry, a Democrat, granted North his permit in 1992.
former9thward
(32,082 posts)Gov. George Allen appointed a Winchester lawyer May 7 to replace the judge who was ousted by the General Assembly after revoking Oliver North's concealed weapons permit. Clarke County Circuit Judge James L. Berry's reappointment was blocked earlier this year by a GOP state senator representing Berry's district.
https://valawyersweekly.com/1997/05/19/allen-replaces-judge-who-denied-oliver-norths-gun-permit/
Paladin
(28,276 posts)Moving on......
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)Sold weapons to Iran. The NRA conspired with Russia.
Nothing like stabbing your country in the back while pretending to be patriotic.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)How appropriate.
mpcamb
(2,878 posts)shredded White House documents and accepted a $14,000 security fence from an Iran-contra arms profiteer.
Maxheader
(4,374 posts)During the trial a protestor interrupted the proceedings and north
went into combat mode...turned around real quick like and went into
a crouch...anyone remember that?