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The NRA s Wayne LaPierre Is an Emblem for a Conservative Movement Full of Snake-Oil Salesmen Esquire 4/28/2021 Jack Holmes © Joe Raedle - Getty Images The revelation that he isn t much of a marksman is right in line with the rest of his service to the gun-rights nonprofit, which has declared bankruptcy amid a hail of malfeasance allegations.
One unfortunate consequence of the conservative movement s descent into nihilism and madness is that it has produced increasingly mediocre stars who distinguish themselves only by their willingness to behave more shamelessly than everyone else. It s enough to make you yearn for the days of Paul Ryan, who at least rose to prominence by tricking Beltway types into thinking his customer service for plutocrats, chock full of discredited economics and bad math, was actually a wonky platform rooted in a coherent philosophy of government. Now we re subjected to the grotesque stylings of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene,
NRA s Wayne LaPierre inspires backlash over video showing his horrifying elephant hunt Image via Wikimedia Commons.
For 40 years
Wayne LaPierre has been the executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, and yet can t seem to shoot straight.
A just-published article at The New Yorker exposes the top gun lobby group s chief as having clumsy marksmanship, as a video of him on safari with his wife (below) reveals. After the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in 2012, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, told Americans agitating for new gun regulations, The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Less than a year later, LaPierre and his wife, Susan, travelled to Botswana s Okavango Delta, where they hoped to show N.R.A. members that they had the grit to take on a different adversary: African bush elephants, the largest land mammals on Earth. The trip was filmed by a crew from
The Daily 202: Experts assess Biden on the pandemic, the border and bringing ‘normal’ back Olivier Knox
with Mariana Alfaro
Welcome to The Daily 202 newsletter! One year ago today, the U.S. passed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. But with
President Biden poised to mark the occasion with his first speech to a joint session of Congress, The Daily 202 reached out to a handful of experts to get their sense of how he has done on a handful of key challenges,
from the pandemic to the economy to immigration. We have separated their responses and will be running them in two waves, today and tomorrow. Their contributions have been edited for clarity and length.
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