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NRA Attacks New York Times, Mocks Oscars Ad

Accuses paper of ignoring crises under Democrats.

The National Rifle Association on Tuesday released a video advertisement mocking the New York Times ad that ran during Sunday evening’s Oscars telecast. The NRA’s video highlights instances of perceived chaos during the Obama administration—including terror attacks, a tanking economy, and the former president’s broken promise on healthcare—in order to portray the newspaper as having a liberal bias. “The truth is that the truth didn’t matter to The New York Times then as much as now—because as long as liberals were ‘progressing,’ the truth was depressing,” the ad reads, concluding that Americans have “stopped looking to The New York Times for the truth.”