NRA Host Says Prodding North Korea To Attack Sacramento Was A Joke

Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Grant Stinchfield, a host on the National Rifle Association’s video platform NRATV, said Friday that he was only joking when he suggested North Korea point its missiles at Sacramento instead of the American territory of Guam.

“Let’s send a note to North Korea that Sacramento changed its name to Guam!” Stinchfield wrote, in a tweet that was later deleted.

KXTV captured a screen shot of the tweet:

“It was meant as a joke and I regret it,” Stinchfield later told the New York Daily News over the phone.

Amid rising U.S. tensions with North Korea over its gradual development of nuclear weapons capabilities, the country threatened to surround the Guam with an enveloping fire.”

It wasn’t immediately clear why Stinchfield named Sacramento as his preferred target. The Daily News suggested he may have meant it as a criticism of California’s strict gun laws, as Sacramento is the state’s capital.

NRATV, with gun-friendly Republicans controlling nearly every aspect of the federal government and most statehouses, has focused its programming on sometimes completely gun-free topics, like the New York Times and the moral requirement to combat progressives with the “clenched fist of truth.”

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) wrote Thursday night that the NRA and another NRATV host, Dana Loesch, “are quickly becoming domestic security threats under President Trump. We can’t ignore that.”

Latest Livewire

Notable Replies

  1. Yeah, we got that you thought you were “joking” you fascist hate-mogering douchenozzle trash. Because all Republican “humor” is about ha-ha-not-really-but-okay-really wishes to see people who aren’t just like you harmed.

  2. Avatar for bsankr bsankr says:

    weird how terrible things that they (NRA, DJT, Rs in general) choose to walk back are always “jokes.”

  3. Jokes are meant to be funny.

    This anti-American scum are just that.

  4. It’s always “a joke”. NoK slaughtering Americans. Putin firing US diplomats.

    The thing about jokes are that they should be distinguishable from serious statements. They should be so absurd on their face that no rational person could take them for objective reality.

    Look at Obama’s WHPC speeches. Clearly, jokes.

    When the “reality” is so bizzare that it is indistinguishable from parody, then it’s time to stop with the “jokes”.

  5. Vlade Divac would emerge unscathed, there are more seasons to tank.

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

117 more replies

Participants

Avatar for daveminnj Avatar for littlegirlblue Avatar for mattinpa Avatar for asanders91360 Avatar for bradbennett Avatar for irasdad Avatar for randyabraham Avatar for ralph_vonholst Avatar for sonsofares Avatar for lastroth Avatar for fiftygigs Avatar for darrtown Avatar for tena Avatar for dommyluc Avatar for antisachetdethe Avatar for professorpoopypants Avatar for susanintheoc Avatar for nigeldh Avatar for cub_calloway Avatar for thinski Avatar for somuchforsubtlety Avatar for drtv Avatar for justruss Avatar for outsidertrading618

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: