I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

On PBS Washington Week in Review last night, Jonathan Capehart & David Brooks both agreed that the media should start graphically showing the bodies of mass-shooting victims, to drive home the point of what assault weapons do--they don't just stop a beating heart, they destroy an entire body. In Uvalde, parents had to give DNA samples to be able to identify their dead kids. If gun rights advocates were forced to see that AR-15 victims are basically turned into mangled raw meat (rather than neatly dropped like in the movies or disappear in a blast "poof" like in video games), maybe Congress can at least ban high-capacity ammo magazines. Capehart gave as an example Mamie Till's decision to hold an open-casket wake & funeral for her son Emmett, so all could see how the killers utterly maimed and disfigured him--and national outrage over lynchings kicked up by more than just several notches.

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I did wonder why many on that side seemed sort of ho-hum when it came to 1/6 and the hearings that were to come. Then again if my recollection is correct this seems to be something they have fought against since the committee was formed. Even more so when it became bi-partisan. I think this will always be a huge regret for McCarthy who thought it was so 'cute' to try and load his side with all extremists. When he got told no -- he pouted I think and chose to not send anyone. That was when we got Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. Anyway, it has been in some ways a somewhat tedious process and I think some of the Reps. may have been lulled by this -- perhaps why they weren't overly concerned until now.

The moment is almost at hand and i sounds like the Democrats ( plus Cheney and Kinzinger ) are going to include all the extremes of what they have found to the nth. degree. A bit of no holds barred. I think it really likely if one considers the leaks that were taking place along the way. Will be interesting to hear what the newspeople ( hosts ) have to say during breaks etc.

So there is a campaign to try and drive focus away from all this -- but as pointed out -- this is all to expose lies, cover ups and other deeds that should not have taken place ever. They haven't had a realistic defense ( how could you ) for this up to now and they won't have one afterwards either.

VERY true for me.

Excellent article by Woodward and Bernstein. Lots of comparisons of Nixon and Trump. Hope WashPo lets you read this article.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/05/woodward-bernstein-nixon-trump/

Woodward and Bernstein thought Nixon defined corruption. Then came Trump.

Chisandy, your post about what the AR-15 does leaving a body raw, mangled flesh is very sobering. Even though I’ve read that before, it seemed to really sink in this time thinking of the bereaved parents and the bodies of their children so mutilated by the gunfire they could only be identified with DNA. The mother of Emmett Till set a precedent in 1955 by having an open casket for her son’s funeral to show the world the results of his barbaric lynching, pushing the Civil Rights movement forward. Today, graphically showing the bodies of mass shooting victims seems like an unfathomable threshold to cross, and yet…. Is that what it’s going to take? And the fear might be would that even be enough to enact true change?

So many of us live in such sanitized worlds. We see the parents crying, we see the police chiefs at press conferences, we see tiny caskets being made for children. But we are shielded from the sight of 19 slaughtered bodies.

How can so many in political power turn away from enacting gun laws?

Divine. The Reps. are very hardened souls -- but I think they should have to go first with those pictures. Many yrs. ago I saw some pictures ( worked for a corner at the time ) and it is something I've never been able to totally get out of my head. These were people who were each shot once and not with an AR-15 or any war weapon. To this day I'm not sure why I chose to look at those pictures -- but it never goes away.

I'm hanging a lot of hope on those hearings coming up. I am praying they do have the impact Adam Schiff thought they would. We need the boost but just as much -- we deserve to know a lot more of the truth. Of course we have known all along who rigged, who cheated, who became the traitors etc. but we are missing a lot of the details. Also, I feel if REAL and very un-varnished information comes it will not only get some people ready to be firm with their feelings about truth and also will allow them perhaps to see how possible the realization that they have been lied too about many other things. Ultimately, I hope the hearings make it a whole lot harder to be a Republican. I hope the effect is a total collapse of the current Reps. party and people with some sense and brains ready to regroup -- if they still want a party.

ruthbru - love the compare of Cruz. Have you seen this one?

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Pupmom -- some things are never a surprise when it is Fox. I did hear that ( and the news came out quite late ) that the 1/6 Committee hired a big well-known producer ( documentary type ) to especially do this first showing for the 1/6 committee. It seems to have flummoxed the Reps. who were not ( I think neither were a lot of us ) expecting it. This would certainly explain what was meant when we were told that people were going to be flabbergasted by the amt. of materials and backed up evidences that the committee were able to gather. Expected that we would all be blown away -- so perhaps the committee planned early on to make things so deeply pervasive that a lot of the people who might otherwise not get it, actually will. If it is on all networks ( save Fox ) and able to be pin-pointed and high-lighted by special production measures ( something the committee would not be likely good at producing on their own ) then we might reach those who need to be reached.

I hope this as well, will encourage continued viewing each week. We do have to do as much as we can since Stephanic and other Reps. are going to have a counter-narrative. I do think though that the committee has a great chance of being much more effective because they will not only be telling the truth about 1/6 but will also likely confirm for anyone still on the fence what took place for sure. For me, the truth has always been there. It does not hurt that many on the Reps. side are getting tired of the Loon helping them lose. They know it, but have walked a fine line trying to keep his voters. Well, you can keep the voters or lose the elections. Bad candidates may be good fealty to one person, but will lose for a whole party in the end. This election might actually be the end of the Loon.