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Liberals everywhere beware there is a new voice to be reckoned with – that of Dana Loesch – the National Rifle Association’s chief spokeswoman. She has blasted upon the political landscape taking on mainstream media often appearing on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and, of course — FOX News. There is something about Loesch that breaks through the TV screen and smart phones. When this woman speaks it’s hard to look away.

It is highly recommended Democrats, Republicans and Independents from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans listen carefully to every word of Loesch’s 16 minute speech from last week’s American Conservative Union’s CPAC 2018 conference held in National Harbor, Maryland. As of Sunday, a 2-minute edited version (video Below) of her comments has been viewed more than 13-million times on social media. Here, she calls out mainstream media over their coverage of mass shootings in America like they have never been called out before. Not even President Donald Trump’s constant “fake news” chants compare to Loesch’s powerful, intense and stinging public commentary beautifully delivered. For 16-minutes she owned that stage.

“Many in legacy media love mass shootings. You guys love it. Now I’m not saying you love the tragedy, but I am saying you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you and many of the legacy media in the back (of the room). And notice I say crying white mothers because there are thousands of grieving black mothers in Chicago every weekend and you don’t see Town Halls for them, do you? Where’s the CNN Town Hall for Chicago? Where’s the CNN Town Hall for sanctuary cities? … Where was the voice for those junior ROTC members last night CNN? If it bleeds, it leads – but it has to be the right people from the right communities at the right time. I’m really looking at a lot of legacy media back there on the (media) platform – you can write whatever you want about me, and you can come find me in the hallways and you can scream at me, and you can try to confront me, but I’m here, we’re here and we’re not going anywhere. I call BS!”

Loesch spoke just before Vice President Mike Pence. She serves as the Special Assistant to NRA’s Executive Vice President for Public Communication. She also hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio show “The Dana Show,” as well as “Dana” on Blaze TV. She co-hosted — for a time — on ABC’s controversial daytime TV-talk show “The View.”

The night before Loesch spoke at CPAC 2018, she appeared on stage Wednesday representing the NRA during CNN’s Town Hall meeting on gun violence that followed soon after the Valentine’s Day Florida high school mass shooting in which 14 students were killed, plus a football coach and two teachers. The arena was packed with about 5,000 mostly hostile people. This CNN event was hosted by long-time President Trump hater Jake Tapper.

It was apparent Loesch became the whipping post as the crowd — fueled by the understandable emotional loss felt by student survivors and victims’ families — and CNN’s scripted questions that students complained about receiving from CNN before the broadcast. Afterwards, she said she felt threatened on stage by all the hatred misdirected toward her.

“You heard that town hall last night, they cheered the confiscation of firearms,” Loesch told Sean Hannity in a FOX News interview. “I had to have a security detail to get out. I wouldn’t have been able to exit if I did not have a private security detail. There were people rushing the stage and screaming ‘burn her.’ And I came there to talk solutions.”

Loesch said at one point during CNN’s Town Hall shouts of “shame” and “you’re a murderer” could be heard from the crowd as she attempted to answer questions.

The raging debate over gun violence and ways to stop it will go on for however long it takes, but anyone with a lick of sense can see meaningful changes to the USA’s gun laws are coming and Loesch is helping to pave the way by representing 5-million members of the NRA but also every conservative and moderate voice in America.

“What is wrong with this country where sick minds over look Chicago’s mothers that lose a child to handguns every day?” Loesch asks. “Where is the media on these issues?”

Of course asking liberals to watch16-minutes of Loesch at CPAC 2018 would be like torturing a bunch of radical Islamists at the ‘Gitmo’ prison with 16-minutes of Hank Williams Sr. singing “Hey Good Lookin,” “There’s a Tear in My Beer,” and “Howlin’ at the Moon.”

Loesch and her approach to politics in the upcoming mid-term elections should be listened to by Democrats, Republicans and Independents. If ‘Libby Nation’ Democrats want gains in November but fail to listen to people like Loesch and fiery Tomi Lahren — they are the ones doomed to failure.

About the Author Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.