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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 09:38 AM Feb 2013

NRA Enemies, Rolling Stone Friends

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What does it take to secure a spot on the National Rifle Association's enemies list? Appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't hurt


NRA Enemies, Rolling Stone Friends

When the National Rifle Association's angry list of famous people and organizations that have lent "notoriety to anti-gun causes" surfaced the other week, we here at Rolling Stone took a keen interest – and not just because our magazine was itself singled out among the publications that have supposedly "assisted in the attack on Second Amendment rights." (The NRA has since removed the enemies list from its website. It lives on here.)

Like many in the media, we were initially wowed by the extreme lengths that the NRA is determined to hold a grudge. Why would any self-respecting enemies list published in 2013 include Motown stars the Temptations, 1980s Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton or 97-year-old author Herman Wouk?

But as we puzzled over the individuals deemed most threatening to the gun lobby, we were struck by an odd symmetry. In some cosmic sense, is Rolling Stone is the yin to the NRA's yang? Literally dozens – and dozens – of the NRA's enemies have not only been profiled in the pages of Rolling Stone, they've been celebrated on our cover. 61 enemies in all.

Read on to see the NRA enemies from the worlds of music, movies, comedy and television who have made it to Rolling Stone's cover through the decades.
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NRA Enemies, Rolling Stone Friends (Original Post) unhappycamper Feb 2013 OP
nra madokie Feb 2013 #1

madokie

(51,076 posts)
1. nra
Wed Feb 20, 2013, 09:57 AM
Feb 2013

can kiss my ass.
A few months ago I got some shit from them in the mail and inside I found a number to call concerning whatever it was, don't remember because I didn't pay any attention to what ever they were selling. Anyway I call the number and it is was a clearing house type operation where they contracted to do, promote or whatever something for the nra. I demanded they take my address and phone number out of their data base and then stayed with them until they patched me to a nra representative, all total I was on the phone for 30 some odd minutes. I demanded that he do the same there at their cesspool. So far I've not received any more shit from them and it's been several months. For some reason when I see something with nra on the envelope it just pisses me off to no end.

I seen all the killing and guns I want to see in my lifetime.

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