Press & Sun
Bulltin page 3D sports section. SEPT.29 1999
RETAILERS OFFER SUPPORT FOR GUNS
Rosie O"Donnel-Talk show host, Comedienne and actress-apperently
has quite a national following.
Known alternately as the "Queen on Nice"
by the media in refrence to her soft-subject talk show and "Rosie
O'Doughnuts" By Don Imus' irreverent crew in refrence to her
heftiness,O'Donnell grabbed national headlines last spring when she
shouted down guest Tom Selleck when he defended his rights as a
gun owneron her talk show. The incedent occured shortly after the
Columbine and Conyers gun tragedies. Using her talk show seat as a
podium, Rosie the next day essentially told the TV audience that it
was "tough" if hunters and shooters would miss their guns and that
"...only military and police should have guns"
O'Donnell is certainly entitled to her opinions, and is entitled to
express them in her national TV forum. That's what Kmart, for which
Rosie was a paid spokesperson, said in a statment shortly
thereafter. O'Donnell, coincidentaly,immediiatly issued a statment
that Kmart was OK because it sold legal guns and ammunition to
hunters and shooters who used lawfully-ignoring the fact that she
attacked those very people previously. Wall, according to published
reports, the threatend boycott did come to pass and-with its
margins on hunting items cut deeply entering hunting season-Kmart
has dissmissed O'Donnell as a spokesperson.
The move apparently has triggered an even biger response as
Wal-MArt, the nation's leading retailer has reacted to the move
bymaking arrangments with firearms trainng orginazations to
support and provide meeting
room space for training sessions nationwide.
Kmart and Wal-Mart, incidentally, are the nation's leading retailers
of sporting arms and ammunition. The adage "when you really want
their attention,hit them in the wallet"certainly proved itelf in this
case.
Joe
Joe's Second Amendment Message Board
Bulltin page 3D sports section. SEPT.29 1999
RETAILERS OFFER SUPPORT FOR GUNS
Rosie O"Donnel-Talk show host, Comedienne and actress-apperently
has quite a national following.
Known alternately as the "Queen on Nice"
by the media in refrence to her soft-subject talk show and "Rosie
O'Doughnuts" By Don Imus' irreverent crew in refrence to her
heftiness,O'Donnell grabbed national headlines last spring when she
shouted down guest Tom Selleck when he defended his rights as a
gun owneron her talk show. The incedent occured shortly after the
Columbine and Conyers gun tragedies. Using her talk show seat as a
podium, Rosie the next day essentially told the TV audience that it
was "tough" if hunters and shooters would miss their guns and that
"...only military and police should have guns"
O'Donnell is certainly entitled to her opinions, and is entitled to
express them in her national TV forum. That's what Kmart, for which
Rosie was a paid spokesperson, said in a statment shortly
thereafter. O'Donnell, coincidentaly,immediiatly issued a statment
that Kmart was OK because it sold legal guns and ammunition to
hunters and shooters who used lawfully-ignoring the fact that she
attacked those very people previously. Wall, according to published
reports, the threatend boycott did come to pass and-with its
margins on hunting items cut deeply entering hunting season-Kmart
has dissmissed O'Donnell as a spokesperson.
The move apparently has triggered an even biger response as
Wal-MArt, the nation's leading retailer has reacted to the move
bymaking arrangments with firearms trainng orginazations to
support and provide meeting
room space for training sessions nationwide.
Kmart and Wal-Mart, incidentally, are the nation's leading retailers
of sporting arms and ammunition. The adage "when you really want
their attention,hit them in the wallet"certainly proved itelf in this
case.
Joe
Joe's Second Amendment Message Board