{"id":31690,"date":"2021-11-09T22:13:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T22:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31690"},"modified":"2021-11-09T22:14:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T22:14:03","slug":"why-does-marion-hate-appalachian-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31690","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Marion Hate Appalachian-Americans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2175,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ammoland.com\\\/2018\\\/01\\\/nra-2018-board-election-commentary-marion-hammer&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ammoland.com\\\/2018\\\/01\\\/nra-2018-board-election-commentary-marion-hammer\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3444,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/2021\\\/11\\\/09\\\/1049054141\\\/a-secret-tape-made-after-columbine-shows-the-nras-evolution-on-school-shootings&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>You probably have read in the past former NRA President Marion Hammer&#8217;s<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2018\/01\/20\/the-enemy-within-is-not-adam-krau.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> warning<\/a><\/strong> about the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2018\/01\/nra-2018-board-election-commentary-marion-hammer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;enemies within&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> and how they are going to destroy the NRA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always assumed she meant <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2019\/05\/16\/the-resolution-from-nra-meeting-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">those of us<\/a><\/strong> who opposed her gravy train and board candidates or <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2019\/08\/02\/what-classy-broad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">members <\/a><\/strong>who would <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2019\/05\/23\/the-empire-circles-wagons.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not toe the party<\/a><\/strong> line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evidently I was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/09\/1049054141\/a-secret-tape-made-after-columbine-shows-the-nras-evolution-on-school-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">secret tape recording obtained by NPR<\/a><\/strong> of NRA officials talking about a response to the Columbine murders, Marion actually meant Appalachian-Americans. The more colloquial term for us &#8211; and I consider myself one &#8211; is &#8220;hillbilly&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/09\/1049054141\/a-secret-tape-made-after-columbine-shows-the-nras-evolution-on-school-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">From the story:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;You know, the other problem is holding a member meeting without an exhibit hall. The people you are most likely to get in that member meeting without an exhibit hall are the nuts,&#8221; says LaPierre.<\/p><p>&#8220;Made that point earlier. I agree,&#8221; says Makris. &#8220;The fruitcakes are going to show up.&#8221;<\/p><p>Says Hammer: &#8220;If you pull down the exhibit hall, that&#8217;s not going to leave anything for the media except the members meeting, and you&#8217;re going to have the wackos &#8230; with all kinds of crazy resolutions, with all kinds of, of dressing like a bunch of hillbillies and idiots. And, and it&#8217;s gonna, it&#8217;s gonna be the worst thing you can imagine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So Wayne thinks those attending the Meeting of Members are &#8220;the nuts&#8221;, his former-BFF Tony Makris thinks they are &#8220;fruitcakes&#8221;, and dear old Marion refers to these dedicated members as &#8220;wackos&#8221;, &#8220;hillbillies&#8221;, and &#8220;idiots&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen for yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1049054141\/1053671217\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>It is discouraging to know that the powers that be at the NRA think so little of their own members. If only more voting members would come to this understanding and actually vote, we might be rid of these parasites. In the meantime, it sucks that we have to put our hopes in the Attorney General of New York having some limited success in her lawsuit.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably have read in the past former NRA President Marion Hammer&#8217;s warning about the &#8220;enemies within&#8221; and how&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5841,112,526,26,5840,5638,27],"class_list":["post-31690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-columbine","tag-marion-hammer","tag-npr","tag-nra","tag-tim-mak","tag-tony-makris","tag-wayne-lapierre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31691,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31690\/revisions\/31691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}