Pandas are among the cutest animals in the world, and yet the Rev. Al Sharpton thinks the National Rifle Association is out to get them.
“The NRA is out with a brand-new enemies list,” the MSNBC host said on “Politics Nation” Wednesday night. “Topping the list – this guy – that’s right, Yun Zi, from the San Diego Zoo…just celebrated his fourth birthday. And the NRA considers him and the rest of the liberal do-gooders at the zoo to be ‘threats to freedom’.”
While the NRA did make an announcement Friday, that announcement did not include pandas – or any other zoo animal. Rather, it was a new plan for its project “Hunt for Truth,” which will target scientists, environmental groups, government regulators and people who support banning the use of lead in gun ammunition.
“Anti-lead ammunition groups will not rest until all lead ammunition, and ultimately hunting, is banned,” the gun lobby claimed in a Friday press release, as reported by The Huffington Post.
Moreover, according to HuffPo, as of Monday the NRA had yet to specifically list the scientists – not animals – it planned to target through “Hunt for Truth.”
That didn’t stop the Reverend from poking fun at the NRA’s past so-called “enemies” lists – or its executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre.
“Call you crazy?” Sharpton said in reference to LaPierre. “I’ll take a pass on that…Did the NRA think we’ll ignore their latest dive off the deep end?”
“And leave the poor pandas alone,” he added.
Watch the Reverend’s diatribe below.
