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The New York Times vs. Virginia gun rights

If you want to know how obsessed The New York Times is with gun control in Virginia, take a look at the Web version of its story on John Patrick Bedell, the ill fated Pentagon shooter. In one of its first stories on the subject, the writers shoe horned the gun control issue into it to no seeming purpose. Of course, the Times did have a purpose: slapping the backward yahoos down South.

Read About It: The Daily News Record (Harrisonburg, Va.)

Posted: 3/12/2010 10:14:37 AM

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