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NRA Shill Dave Kopel Adds 'Misogynist' To His CV

Posted on the 31 August 2014 by Mikeb302000
And why the heck not?  After all, if you have bigot, racist, liar, and Holocaust-revisionist on the list---well, what the hell--why not try for the whole shebang?
Seems Dishonest Dave is really, really upset (in a manly way, of course) about Shannon Watts calling herself a 'stay-at-home-mom.'  Because she used to be a communications and PR exec with bigtime firms like GE and Monsanto--Dishonest Dave believes a woman couldn't possibly be a a mom and also head up a group called "Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America."

It's impossible.  You can't do both, reasons Dishonest Dave.  Therefore, Shannon Watts is just a canard to fool innocent Americans.
Et tu, Dishonest Dave?
Prose and cons: Back in '93, local Click|keyword[Independence+Institute]" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #660000; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Independence+Institute/" title="Independence Institute">Independence Institute activist Click|keyword[David+Kopel]" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #660000; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/David+Kopel/" title="David Kopel">David Kopel co-wrote an op-ed piece with a fellow named Click|keyword[Theodore+Fiddleman]" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #660000; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Theodore+Fiddleman/" title="Theodore Fiddleman">Theodore H. Fiddleman that accused the federal government of a "coverup" in the Click|keyword[Branch+Davidians]" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #660000; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Branch+Davidians/" title="Branch Davidians">Branch Davidian debacle. The only "coverup" that can be proven so far is that Theodore H. Fiddleman doesn't exist. The name is a pseudonym used by Click|keyword[Paul+Blackman]" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #660000; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Paul+Blackman/" title="Paul Blackman">Paul Blackman, chief researcher for the Click|keyword[National+Rifle+Association]" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #660000; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/National+Rifle+Association/" title="National Rifle Association">National Rifle Association's research and lobbying arm. Readers of numerous letters to the editor across the nation haven't known, of course, that "Fiddleman," instead of being "a freelance writer from Click|keyword[Arlington]" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #660000; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/Arlington/" title="Arlington">Arlington, Virginia," is really the grinder-in-chief of the NRA's propaganda mill. The charade was uncovered in July by the Click|keyword[The+Washington+Post+Company]" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #660000; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" href="http://www.westword.com/related/to/The+Washington+Post+Company/" title="The Washington Post Company">Washington Post, and there was much hemming and hawing by Blackman and his allies. Kopel, who merited only a small part in the Post story, doesn't hem or haw. He knew Blackman was Fiddleman, he says, and he defends his pal.

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