Aug 19 2009
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“ They don’t have criminal records… They just like their guns. And in Arizona, gosh darn it, that’s normal.
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— Ernest Hancock, who staged the now-notorious interview with a man carrying an assault rifle at an Obama town hall event in Phoenix, AZ. This quotation is from 1996, when Hancock spoke in defense of members of the so-called “Viper Team Militia,” which was convicted for planning terrorist attacks on government buildings in Arizona. Source: “Viper Militia: A Profile of 12 Angry Americans,” The Seattle Times (July 3, 1996), archived at The Free Library. Via TPMMuckraker.
