{"id":10475,"date":"2013-05-10T08:24:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2013-05-10T22:37:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T04:37:18","slug":"jon-stewart-on-the-nra-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/jon-stewart-on-the-nra-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart on the NRA Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:426067\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/mon-may-6-2013\/nra-convention-2013\">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart<\/a><\/b><br \/>Get More: <a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/full-episodes\/'>Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/indecision'>Indecision Political Humor<\/a>,<a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedailyshow'>The Daily Show on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So much to appreciate here&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pointing out both sides use fear to promote their agenda &#8212; one of my BIGGEST complaints with our political system.<\/li>\n<li>Showing the irony in calling the government the evil tyrant that we must protect ourselves from and then applauding the government for being the good guys.<\/li>\n<li>Pointing out that there&#8217;s no way to always know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are &#8212; and if they&#8217;ll always stay that way.<\/li>\n<li>And pointing out that if a good guy becomes a bad guy (as sometimes happens) in the NRA&#8217;s mindset, you&#8217;ve already given them a gun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A co-worker pointed out last week that if the real reason we need guns is to protect us from the evil tyrant of a government &#8211; he wants an F-16. Because an AR-15 isn&#8217;t going to protect him from the largest military in the world.<\/p>\n<p>I agree. <\/p>\n<p>Seems we&#8217;re going to either really have to up our own personal weapons arsenal &#8211; or drastically downgrade the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nAlso &#8211; for some additional fun, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/tue-may-7-2013\/the-real-cinco-de-mayo\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show came to Dallas<\/a> this past week to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.<\/p>\n<p>The clincher line &#8211; &#8220;They do the jobs we don&#8217;t want to do, staying sober and staying politically engaged.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook &nbsp; So much to appreciate here&#8230; Pointing out both sides use fear to promote their agenda &#8212; one of my BIGGEST complaints with our political system. Showing the irony in calling the government the evil tyrant that we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/jon-stewart-on-the-nra-convention\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jon Stewart on the NRA Convention<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[771,2039,3684,2123,4431],"class_list":["post-10475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-politics","tag-daily-show","tag-gun-control","tag-guns","tag-jon-stewart","tag-nra","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-2IX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10475"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10491,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10475\/revisions\/10491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}