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Nov 16 2009
06:02 pm
By: R. Neal
Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester said state Rep. Richard Floyd owes Hamilton County residents an apology for his outrageous claims that the president is a socialist who wants to infringe on gun-owners’ rights and turn private businesses into community property.
Floyd reportedly forwarded a bogus e-mail to constituents claiming that a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would tax guns, require fingerprints and mandate that gun owners submit to mental and physical evaluations. The National Rifle Association has even determined the e-mail’s claim to be exaggerated.
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Paranoid style
I'm struck by how much right-wing extremists like Richard Floyd read like characters out of Richard Hofstadter's "Paranoid Style of American Politics".
Rep. Floyd said in a
Rep. Floyd said in a Chattanooga Times Free Press interview, "I didn't research that thing (SB2099) back far enough before I sent that e-mail. It just made me mad when I saw it."
Are they going to find this guy babbling in his back yard someday?
I got that email from a
I got that email from a gun-nutty friend and, when I threw it back at him with a note saying only an idiot would suck this stuff up and forward it, he said he knew it was bogus and he only sent it as a joke.
Yeah right! This guy also doesn't trust Snopes either so it's no use trying to confuse him with the facts.
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