Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 21, 2013
Despite the fact that its subsidiary Warner Bros. routinely
distributes blockbuster movies that are replete with gratuitous gun violence,
Time Warner Cable has issued a company-wide ban on television ads that show
“guns pointed at people,” another illustration of how firearms ownership is
being made taboo to coincide with the Obama administration’s gun control
agenda.
“We no longer accept ads showing semiautomatic weapons and guns
pointed at people,” Time
Warner Cable said in a statement. “We stand by this policy. If it’s
essential to a business owner to show this kind of imagery in their commercials,
there are other advertising options in the marketplace.”
However, this new found conscience on reducing violent gun imagery
will not be embraced by movie productions funded by Time Warner itself and
distributed by Warner Bros., such as the upcoming Sylvester Stallone
film Bullet to the Head, the trailer for
which features a plethora of gun violence, with the poster for the movie
being riddled with illustrative bullet holes.
Nor was a concern for showing “guns pointed at people” much of a
worry for Time Warner when Warner Bros. began distribution of the movie Gangster Squad in
theaters last weekend. The film even features a scene showing machine guns being
fired inside a cinema, an eerie reminder of James Holmes’ Aurora massacre. The
trailer shows a man being shot in the head at point blank range.
The fact that Time
Warner contributed heavily to Barack Obama during his 2012 campaign suggests
their decision to ban ads showing semi-automatic weapons is a political move
designed to fuel the manufactured meme that gun ownership is taboo, and that
Americans should be ashamed of possessing assault rifles.
Believing that Time Warner genuinely wants to reduce violent gun
scenes on television when it makes hundreds of millions of dollars every year
from movies that are based around gratuitous gun violence is beyond naive.
The world’s largest media conglomerate also owns CNN, which has
pushed draconian gun control via prime time shows like Piers Morgan
Tonight. Host Morgan’s views on gun control have been supported
by CNN President Jeff Zucker.
As
we previously reported, other major media companies such as the Discovery
Channel acted aggressively to demonize guns in the aftermath of Sandy Hook,
canceling two successful shows about firearms, American Guns
and Sons of Guns, despite both enjoying good ratings.
Discovery also mothballed a planned show entitled Ted Nugent’s
Gun Country, which the rock star said the channel had promised him would go
into production in 2013.
In outlining its reasons for the decision to cancel American
Guns, Discovery stated that the program made “buying/owning guns seem fun,
glamorous, even normal.” Given the fact that over 70 million Americans exercise
their second amendment right to own firearms, this statement sounds completely
absurd.
Firearms retailers like Walmart, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Cheaper
Than Dirt also contributed to the meme that gun ownership is something to be
ashamed of by banning sales of semi-autos.
The hypocrisy of major actors calling for gun control in the
aftermath of Sandy Hook while simultaneously making movies that glorify gun
violence – many of which are produced by Warner Bros. – was also captured
perfectly in the video below.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order
Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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