Sometimes the liberal media is forced to cover the heroes of the Second Amendment, sometimes they even talk to us instead of using unnamed sources.
Gottlieb, 66, is the bookish, balding guy with the bow tie and nerdy eyeglasses who founded the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue.
By his appearance, he does seem an unlikely spokesman for the pro-gun cause. The guys who star in “Duck Dynasty” would likely stare at Gottlieb in befuddlement.
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Really? Because all gun owners hunt ducks and grow beards? And how would you know how the Duck Dynasty stars feel about beardless people? Idiot reporter.
But more and more, with 300 television and radio appearances a year, he’s becoming the national spokesman you see in the gun-control battle.
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Gottlieb knew Morgan would try to verbally skewer him, but Gottlieb says that unlike the NRA, which prefers friendly venues, he’ll take his message into hostile territory.
“Maybe I’m crazy going into the lion’s den,” he says. “If they ask me to appear, I’ll appear.”
I think he’s very courageous to do that, you gotta speak truth to power, even low-rated power like Piers Morgan.
“Media Matters would not be spending the money, time and effort attacking me if I were not being effective in stopping their anti-gun-rights agenda that is being financed by billionaire George Soros,” he says.
Media Matters says that in 2010, it did get a one-time $1 million contribution from Soros, the billionaire known for supporting liberal causes.
“I wish we got $1 million donations,” says Gottlieb.
Soros has proxy organizations he uses to finance causes he likes, I’m sure Media Matters s getting more than a million.
The way Gottlieb sees the gun-control battle, things are going very well.
A few years ago, he says, gun-rights advocates rightfully fretted that their membership was getting older and grayer.
“But now, when I speak at a college or high school, the kids know more technically about firearms than I do. And they’ve never shot one,” he says.
“It’s the video games, where you can pick and choose which guns to use, and they give you the specs and how to operate them.
“And then, like it or not, with the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, you had young people go into the infantry who had never shot off a gun. Then they used them every day, and now they want one.”
Alan should know, he’s been in the fighting this issue for many years.