From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun May 18 2003 - 18:10:06 MDT
I finally found a transcript of the Wayne LaPierre interview from
Friday night. Rather than breaking segments of a large program up into
multiple transcripts as they usually do, they bulked the whole program
into one transcript, then didn't mention the LaPierre segment in the
contents list at the top of the page or on the list of the days
programming. This is a more insidious form of censorship, a
misdirection or 'hide in plain sight' technique of propganda.
It was from the "Wolf Blitzer Presents" show, hosted that evening by
Kyra Phillips. Anyway, here it is:
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
PHILLIPS: Viewers are speaking out on a segment we aired yesterday
concerning the federal ban on assault weapons. The 1994 ban could
expire in September 2004 if Congress doesn't extend it.
Now here's a sampling of your viewer e-mail.
From David in Calhoun, Georgia: "It's not the weapon which has the
knockdown power, it's the ammo."
From Andrei in Washington, D.C.: "You made no mention that many
Americans legally own fully automatic weapons with a special permit."
And from Jim in San Francisco: "Your sources implied that assault
weapons are more powerful than currently legal guns, but it appeared
that the only functional distinction was in the size of the clip."
We want to thank our viewers for their feedback and for viewers who
didn't watch yesterday, we asked the Broward County, Florida's
sheriff's office for a demonstration of the assault weapon. The deputy
fired an illegal weapon at cinder blocks and bulletproof vests and you
can see the impact here. And then the deputy fired a legal weapon, but
the deputy did not fire at the cinder blocks so you could not see
similar damage the ammunition would have caused.
Also yesterday on the program former L.A. police chief, Bernard Parks,
who's in favor of keeping assault weapons illegal, gave his opinion.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BERNARD PARKS, FORMER L.A. POLICE CHIEF: There's only one reason for it
and you cannot hunt with it. It's only one reason and that is that it
kills people. It's a military weapon. It should be kept in a military
arsenal and out of the domestic society.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: Now we give you the other side from the executive vice
president of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre
Wayne, thanks for being with us.
WAYNE LAPIERRE, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, NRA: Hi, Kyra. Good to be
with you.
PHILLIPS: Well, if the ban on assault weapons expires, what kind of
weapons would be legal?
LAPIERRE: Kyra, let me say this to start: I'm glad you ran the story
because apparently the only difference between "The New York Times" and
CNN is that when a reporter for "The New York Times" fakes a story,
he's fired, and at CNN he's not.
Your bureau chief, John Zarrella, deliberately faked the story
yesterday and intending to show that the performance characteristics of
banned firearms on the list are somehow different from the performance
characteristics of firearms not on the banned list. He was -- he was
implying that these were machine guns or fully automatic guns. That's
not true.
PHILLIPS: Mr. LaPierre, I have to stop you there. No one fakes stories
at CNN and John Zarrella definitely did not fake a story at CNN. You're
very off base. I'm going to let you say your opinion, and let's have a
conversation, but don't accuse our reporter of faking any stories, sir.
LAPIERRE: Let me say it again. In front of the whole country, your
reporter faked that story yesterday. It deliberately misread...
PHILLIPS: All right, we're going...
LAPIERRE: There's no way it could be true and I challenge CNN to defend
it.
PHILLIPS: Well, we're not going to continue this interview because our
reporter did not fake...
LAPIERRE: Because you don't want the truth. The truth you don't want
out there.
PHILLIPS: OK, that is not true. We did not a fake a story.
LAPIERRE: You ought to register your -- you ought to fill out a lobby
form and register.
PHILLIPS: Why don't we ask another question? What are the uses for an
assault weapon? Tell me what the uses are for this.
LAPIERRE: Why can't you accept the truth? There is no difference, Kyra,
in the performance characteristics of the guns on the banned list and
the guns not on the banned list. They don't shoot any faster, they're
not more powerful, they're not machine guns, they don't make any bigger
holes, all which your reporter, John Zarrella, implied in that story.
PHILLIPS: Let's talk about the ammunition. Folks had problem with the
ammunition. We've heard a lot in the last 24 hours from viewers who
made the point that it's not the weapons who do the damage, it's the
ammo. OK? Can legally be bought, ammunition. Now does this do -- do
just as much damage than an illegal weapon?
LAPIERRE: Kyra, they all fire the same ammunition. Why can't you accept
the truth? There is no difference in the guns on the banned list and
the guns not on the banned list.
Your reporter's story was deliberately misleading the viewers. Bill
Clinton deliberately misrepresented the House and the facts to the
House of Representatives in the Congress and I don't believe this House
of Representatives is going to fall and have the wool pulled over their
eyes the way what happened did in '94.
The truth matters. The public needs to hear the truth and the truth is
every police officer on the street knows it. There's not a dime worth
of difference between the guns on the banned list and the guns off the
banned list in terms of their performance characteristics and I
challenge CNN again to defend that story to its viewers because it's
not true.
PHILLIPS: What do you say...
LAPIERRE: All day yesterday you misled the viewers.
PHILLIPS: What do you say to the members of the law enforcement
community that we had on the air who say assault weapons don't belong
on the streets?
LAPIERRE: Kyra, I got calls all day yesterday from law enforcement
officers going crazy over that story you ran saying it's not true. They
were dismayed that there was a law enforcement officer on there lending
himself to it.
The story misrepresented the facts. What we need to do to stop crime --
every time you catch a criminal, 100 percent of the time, prosecute
him. Put him in prison.
We have all kinds of gun laws. Catch a violent felon with a gun, put
him in jail. Catch a violent drug dealer with a gun, put them in jail
100 percent of the time. That's what rank-and-file cops know stops
crime. But again, I challenge CNN in the headquarters to take an
objective look at that story and defend it because it's simply not
true.
PHILLIPS: All right. Executive vice president...
LAPIERRE: "The New York Times" reporter was fired, John Zarrella ought
to be fired.
PHILLIPS: Executive vice president of the National Rifle Association,
Wayne LaPierre, that's why we are interviewing you today and that's why
we're addressing this to show both sides of that story.
And we all stick by John Zarrella and how credible of a reporter he is.
Thank you for your time, sir.
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Mike Lorrey
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