“Mayor Daley Threatens to Shoot the Messenger—Namely, Me” | Now regrets his dumb remark
Here’s what I wrote to the man who wrote the post below who had a rifle pointed in his direction as the MAYOR of this pit in hell said this:
He grabbed a rifle, held it up, and looked right at me. He was chuckling but there was no smile.
“If I put this up your—ha!—your butt—ha ha!—you’ll find out how effective this is!”
Isn’t that hilarious? Yet another “if a conservative did this he’d be mocked and ridiculed for a decade” moment which happen Daily and pun intended…… ie Dick Cheney who happens to hunt and had an accident like many who hunt do.
See what a liberal does when they don’t like you pointing out facts as opposed to sitting back and listening to their bullshit? They attack the messenger which is ironically the title of the post at the Chicago reader we’re talking about embedded in my headline above.
We all know this dumb gun ban is illegal and is about to be overturned and the crime will drop like a rock because all the criminals won’t be the only people armed any more in that city at least. I’m armed and that’s one of the main reasons I would never live in that city if you paid my mortgage
My comment to the Author there is here:
If he said that to me I’d have him arrested. Pointing a gun at anyone is the first thing anyone who knows anything about guns is never done unless you intend to fire it.
Firing is exactly what should done with this Midget King. I’m sick of the blood in the streets of this city that he and Obama have raped and pillaged for a half century when the old man is included and he’s only dead in body because his spirit lives on in Obama and his son.
And Chicago is the big loser. We couldn’t even beat out a third world dump like Rio for the Olympics. But liberals didn’t get the message because they don’t listen to us, only themselves. They always know better at least they THINK they do.
And this is the story behind it, part of it.
Mayor Daley loves to bag on the local media, and given my recent line of inquiry into his politics and policies, I’ve never expected to be greeted with a fruit basket at City Hall.
But even I was a bit taken aback this morning when the mayor grabbed a rifle and threatened to shoot me.
The mayor was holding a press conference to discuss what the city was doing to prepare for the Supreme Court’s expected decision to overturn the city’s gun ban. The short answer: all sorts of things, but we’ll just have to wait until the court weighs in next month to find out the details. “We’re hoping for the best,” Daley said.
Guns are one of the mayor’s favorite soapbox topics—he regularly goes out of his way to point out that he despises gun manufacturers and “extremists” like the NRA. “It’s really amazing how powerful they are,” he said today, standing next to a table covered with handguns, rifles, and even a machine gun that police had seized. “They’re bigger than the oil industry, bigger than the gas industry, bigger than Google, bigger than President Obama and the rest of them.”
Daley also likes to highlight what he considers to be flagrant hypocrisy on the part of the defenders of gun rights. “Now you can’t walk into the Supreme Court—you have to walk in the side way. They’re going to barricade the doors or something now. I mean, they’re barricading the doors but they’re saying everyone else should have guns. That’s the thing that bothers me in Washington. As you know in Washington all things are being barricaded, all federal buildings. But they’re saying everybody else should be able to carry guns.”
via Mayor Daley Threatens to Shoot the Messenger—Namely, Me | The Blog | Chicago Reader.
And now dumb assed Daley has come out and said this just a few minutes ago:
Mayor Richard Daley today said he regrets his choice of words in suggesting he’d put a rifle up a reporter’s “butt,” but hopes the attention over the incident spurs a wider discussion of the perils of firearms.
“Sure, I’ll be sorry,” said Daley, who added that the focus should not be on his contrition. “I’m not going to sing the song ‘I’m Sorry’ now, but sure, you can write it. But I hope I shocked you that you can write about now the gun manufacturers.”
The mayor was addressing his remark at a Thursday news conference on the city’s gun ban and what will happen if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the 1982 law. Asked by a reporter if the ban has been effective, given that so many people are shot in the city, Daley picked up a long rifle with a bayonet on the end from among dozens of seized weapons the Chicago Police Department displayed on a table.
“It’s been very effective. If I put this up your butt, you’ll find out how effective it is. Let me put a round up your, you know,” said Daley, who chuckled during the remark.
Today, Daley walked back the comment under questioning from reporters.
“Yeah, it could be, yes,” Daley replied when asked if there was a better way he could have addressed the seriousness of the gun issue.
“Right, yeah,” Daley said when asked if he regrets his choice of words. continued
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