{"id":8321,"date":"2013-05-02T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=8321"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:40:29","slug":"shameless-schumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=8321","title":{"rendered":"Shameless Schumer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schumer.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Schumer<\/a> credit: He&#8217;s very good at being a politician. \u00a0He can say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/country-gun-control-turning-point-sen-chuck-schumer-article-1.1332509\" target=\"_blank\">the most outrageous B.S.<\/a>\u00a0with a straight face:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; \u201cOne of the big changes, and one of the reasons that I am truly optimistic we will get something done, is that I am hearing support for gun safety in places I&#8217;ve never heard it before,\u201d Schumer told the Daily News. \u00a0\u201cWe&#8217;re at a turning point now, even in redder states, the broad middle is now engaged, and saying they want common sense measures,\u201d he added &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True, he knows the DN isn&#8217;t going to question him even though they covered his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=8198\">blatantly obvious astroturf rally<\/a> a couple weeks ago. \u00a0Objective\u00a0journalists would have asked who exactly he&#8217;s been talking to considering he&#8217;s not even hearing support for gun control from real people outside his downtown Manhattan office.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D8321&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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