Remember that story we brought you yesterday, Think Progress claiming that the Moms Demand Action anti-gun group was intimidated by 40 armed members of Open Carry Texas?

They put out a picture that appeared intimidating from one perspective, which picture was not at all threatening once you understood that people were posing for a photo. Turned out the “poor intimidated moms” were the ones who somehow dared to take the pictures and had the “intimidating gun bullies” pose for them.

The MDA leader, Shannon Watts, compounded the deception. Showing she was just a bit unhinged, she spoke with the National Review and claimed the Open Carry group were like the Taliban and may have wanted to rape the moms.

Today, keeping up the PR, Watts appeared on MSNBC, that bastion of fair reporting (not). Watch the video and see how MSNBC continues to repeat the seemingly intimidating picture, and repeatedly calls the incident a “face-off”. At no time do they clarify what was actually going on, or show the other picture we noted above. At no point do they say that the MDA members took the pictures and apparently had no problem interacting with the Open Carry group. That wouldn’t fit the narrative.

Watts makes it clear that she interpreted just the act of the OCT having rifles as being intimidating, which of course, is legal in Texas. At no point did the group do anything that was intimidating with the guns, apart from simply having them.

Watts then came up with the following whoppers:
1. about 40% of people get guns without background checks. Eh, Not so much.
2. “we’ve had a lot of threats from this group”. I don’t know the OCT from Adam. But if that were true, then where are the threats, where are the police reports, and where are the arrests? Hmm, I’m guessing there haven’t been any…
3. “OCT are the people making the laws, and that’s why we have a mass shooting every day”. Wait what? This woman already looks way too spun up, now she comes out with this whopper? What is she smoking? Needless to say, mass shooting is still a very rare occurrence.
4. We lose eight children and teens to gun violence every day. This is a deceptive statistic. If you look at the statistics, very few children are killed with guns. The numbers go up with teenagers between age 15-19, when you add in young adults, thereby picking up gang and criminal activity, and suicide. Most of those uses would be illegal and therefore not impacted by any proposed checks or controls.

But, hey, it serves the narrative, even if it truly doesn’t serve “the children”….