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HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:20:06 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8 content-length: 164073 cache-control: public, max-age=300 x-drupal-cache: MISS x-content-type-options: nosniff content-language: en x-generator: Drupal 7 (http://drupal.org) link: ; rel="canonical",; rel="shortlink" last-modified: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:02:14 GMT expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT vary: Cookie,Accept-Encoding x-request-id: v-6c6d642c-45ec-11e9-92b1-22000bde935c x-ah-environment: prod age: 158 etag: W/"1552521734-1" via: varnish x-cache: HIT x-cache-hits: 12 accept-ranges: bytes The National Rifle Association’s media operation has been around for more than a decade and it’s always been a cesspool Spreads hatred, bigotry, sexism and misinformation[1] Serves as an authoritarian defense and propaganda operation for President Trump[2] Launches inflammatory attacks on progressives[3] Uses violent and unhinged rhetoric when talking about the press [4] Smears peaceful protests as violent mobs[5] Makes false, misleading, and inflammatory claims about gun violence[6] Honed its extremism first as NRA News[7] The New York Times reports[8] that several National Rifle Association board members are questioning “the value of” NRATV after one of its hosts showed an image last fall of cartoon characters wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods. But NRATV has been a cesspool of hate and outlandish claims since the beginning. Launched in late 2016 as a rebranding of NRA News, which debuted in 2004, NRATV serves as the often-inflammatory propaganda arm of the National Rifle Association and, as of late, President Donald Trump as well. In September, NRA spokesperson and NRATV host Dana Loesch showed an image of Thomas & Friends characters wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods during a broadcast. NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre was “livid and embarrassed,” according to the Times’ new report. It quotes NRA board members and Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer saying that since then, she and others on the board “have questioned the value of” NRATV -- though Hammer herself previously appeared on NRA News to make an embarrassing comparison between assault weapons bans and racial discrimination. The reported fracture between some NRA board members and the NRATV network comes amid reports of

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