Fox Nation baselessly claims Sotomayor "Wants to Ban Guns"
SUMMARY: A Fox Nation headline baselessly claimed that Sonia Sotomayor "Wants to Ban Guns." The story it linked to reported only that Sotomayor was part of a panel that cited precedent from an 1886 Supreme Court case to rule that "the Second Amendment only restricted the federal government" -- not state governments.
In a May 28 headline, The Fox Nation baselessly claimed that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor "Wants to Ban Guns." The headline linked to a May 28 CNSNews.com article that made no mention of Sotomayor expressing or indicating a desire to "ban guns." Rather, CNS News reported that Sotomayor was part of a three-judge 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that cited Supreme Court precedent in ruling that "the Second Amendment does not protect individuals from having their right to keep and bear arms restricted by state governments." As CNS News noted, in the case Maloney v. Cuomo, the Second Circuit "cited the 1886 Supreme Court case of Presser v. Illinois," which found that "the Second Amendment only restricted the federal government" -- not state governments.
As Media Matters for America has noted, media conservatives have previously engaged in similar fearmongering by claiming without basis that President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) want to "ban" or "confiscate" guns.
From The Fox Nation on May 28:
FOX translation: She wants to ban guns
This would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.
It's fun watching the Republican party disappear.
Hafta wash out my brain... don't know how the MM folks can listen and watch this sewage and not become deranged.
Rush Limbaugh -
"And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents and military equipment to Saddam Hussein, and why? Because Saddam 'allegedly' gassed a few Kurds in his own country. Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a 'war criminal' or 'committing crimes against humanity' is the same old thing. LIBERAL HATE SPEECH! And speaking of poison gas ...I SAY WE ROUND UP ALL THE DRUG ADDICTS AND GAS THEM."
-Rush Limbaugh, Nov. 3, 1988
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh2.asp
A retraction? I wont hold me breath!
Maybe Slickens has a different definition of "incessantly" than I do.
I consider myself more conservative than liberal and would not even stop for a second on a station that broadcasts Limbaugh. Do you feel the need to monitor him or what? You caught this statement in passing :) The guy gets power only because people mention his name for better or worse.
That's just the way GOP hypocrisy works.
The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today,
And black's white today,
And day's night today.........
...when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead.
Thanks Irony! Now I know.
Yes, when it's something they don't like.
The same thing with "local control." They're always screaming about bringing back local control, but if local control means rent control, they go nuts and pass statewide laws to ban it.
Same thing when local authorities want to restrict access to certain types of guns, like the handgun ban in DC....
car sales are regulated in all states as are food sales and lots of other commodities. what of it? in my state all i need is an id showing im over 18
Make a note of it.
They do strongly oppose facts and common sense.
To see a conservative fight against that is quite a sight indeed.
Facts don't matter at fox I guess, especially the important ones.
Glen Beck is biggest violator when it comes to leaving out Vidal facts.
Run out of town
"We are now officially subjects not citizens. They'll have to take my gunfire before they take my guns."
its comments like this (and many others) that are typical on fox nation... all these paranoid nutcases worried about who takes their rights away, and nobody is even trying to do it.
We were armed to the teeth before that horrible DC gun law was overturned. Now, we can really let her rip.
I look forward to your next post, after a loved one is slaughtered in the next rampage.
I don't want to take away anyone's gun, but I do support common sense.
Yes. When George Bush and his friends took land from a private citizen to build the Texas Rangers ballpark in Arlington, Texas. By "eminent domain." It helps to know the right people in government!
Eminent domain has been used many different times over the years, for many different purposes. There is no right to own land in the Constitution, or in this country. First, you have to be able to afford it, and then if it is taken from you unjustly, you are availed of the legal system, which happened in the case that you're speaking of, which then went to SCOTUS, where they ruled in favor of the corporations, unfortunately.
Just as, if you actually READ the 2nd amendment, that if you take it at face value, as many of you conservatives claim to be strict Constitutionalists, it says that the right to bear arms is so that we can have a well regulated militia, which during the time the Constitution was written, was how we had military defense for the country, as a lot of the Founding Fathers didn't believe in having a standing army.
the second amendment is an explanation (militia) then a regulation
YAY for their well-regulated militias, I say!
I'm getting ready to retire after a 27 year military career. I think I've earned the right to own my two guns which I enjoy shooting once or twice a month. I was born and raised in NYC, obviously no guns, but am retiring in TX. If Texas decided tomorrow that I can no longer own my guns, I guess I'd have to decide how important they are in my life and if I should move.
It saddens me to see how badly we fight internally in our great nation. I love being an American and could not fathom what my life would have been like if I was born anywhere else. Maybe it's me getting older but I keep thinking the effort we put into negativity, Republican - Democrat; Liberal - Conservative, these days is so much more than we put forth trying to help each other and maintain the mantle of the "Greatest Nation" ever. Other nations say statements like that are American arrogance yet our sons and daughters, past and present, have given more to maintain freedom throughout the world in times of war (WWI, WWII, Desert Storm, Somalia, etc.) and more so in humanitarian efforts than any other 10+ nations combined. Our democratic system has served us and the world well over the last 200+ years but sometimes I think our current politicians and self proclaimed know-it-all's (Limbaugh and whoever his latest liberal counterpart is) are causing a division among us that may take a couple of generations to fix.