{"id":1688637,"date":"2022-10-13T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T01:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1688637"},"modified":"2022-10-14T09:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T13:00:29","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-blows-up-both-parties-in-op-ed-theyve-been-selling-us-soft-porn-at-the-pep-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matthew-mcconaughey-blows-up-both-parties-in-op-ed-theyve-been-selling-us-soft-porn-at-the-pep-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey Blows Up Both Parties In Op-Ed: \u2018They\u2019ve Been Selling Us Soft Porn At The Pep Rally\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmatthew-mcconaughey-blows-up-both-parties-in-op-ed-theyve-been-selling-us-soft-porn-at-the-pep-rally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1688637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/matthew-mcconaughey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a> visited Congress shortly after the horrific school shooting in his home town of Uvalde, Texas, and he shared what he learned in a no-holds-barred op-ed that blistered both parties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/conservatives-slam-gun-control-activist-matthew-mcconaughey-thats-gonna-be-a-no-from-me-dawg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McConaughey<\/a> explained in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/a41502792\/matthew-mcconaughey-gun-reform-uvalde\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>, which was published on Tuesday, that he had gone to Washington, D.C., hoping to find people there who wanted to see change and perhaps to be a part of bringing about that change. Instead, he said, he found a number who were unwilling to take risks because they feared it could impact their chances at being re-elected.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">i hope i told it well <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zm8bV9JUPI\">https:\/\/t.co\/Zm8bV9JUPI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esquire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@esquire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AoF3zq2ztO\">pic.twitter.com\/AoF3zq2ztO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McConaughey\/status\/1579828994182029312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i hope i told it well <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zm8bV9JUPI\">https:\/\/t.co\/Zm8bV9JUPI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esquire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@esquire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AoF3zq2ztO\">pic.twitter.com\/AoF3zq2ztO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McConaughey\/status\/1579828994182029312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWriting this story was hard. It\u2019s personal\u2014for me, but more so for the victims and their families, who have paid the ultimate cost. Which is why I\u2019ve hesitated to write it,\u201d McConaughey prefaced the article. \u201cObserving from the front lines, then sharing what I saw\u2014it makes me feel a bit like a fraud. Am I trespassing? Sharing sacred secrets that are not my stories to tell? I hope not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar-winning actor, who grew up in Uvalde, headed home as soon as he heard about the shooting. \u201cThis would be a journey with a one-way ticket. We had no sense of how long we\u2019d go for, nor a plan beyond showing up. But we knew that if we did, purpose would intercept us,\u201d he said \u2014 and when he arrived with his wife, model Camila Alves, they made a point to avoid media. Instead, they went from home to home \u2014 where they hugged, listened to, and spoke with the families who had just endured the unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>He then turned to the topic of gun control \u2014 and his own early experience with a father who taught him that firearms were to be treated with respect and used only in the proper fashion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u00a0was nine, and I still remember the sober tone he assumed while presenting it. \u2018This is a tool, son,\u2019 he said. \u2018It can feed you, and it can take a life. You must give it full respect,\u2019\u201d McConaughey wrote of receiving his first BB gun. \u201cHe instilled in me the rules of engagement: barrel management, muzzle control, safety catch, secure storage, the awareness of what\u2019s behind your target.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His belief that protecting the Second Amendment came along with a responsibility to protect children sent him to Washington, D.C., shortly thereafter. He said that he had initially intended to try to meet with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but that he had eventually set up a number of meetings with members of both parties from all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI arrived in Washington with such a reverence for our government and those who run it. While I\u2019m not going to say that I lost that reverence, I did see the most powerful legislators in America playing an implicit political game, one they seemed to be handcuffed to, even systematically imprisoned by, as if it were the price of entry,\u201d the actor continued, noting that one of the key takeaways from his trip to the nation\u2019s capital was a crash course in just how frustrating politics can be for those in the middle of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sometimes feels like politicians don\u2019t really want solutions, because solutions would put them out of a job. Optics are often prized over substance\u2014who gets the credit often takes precedence over whom that credit is serving, or how well,\u201d he wrote, adding, \u201cWith a disparity between belief and action, it\u2019s hard to be in the make-a-difference business if you\u2019re only in the reelection business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McConaughey\u2019s conclusion was simple: the American people needed to take the power back from both party\u2019s extremes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are reasonable and responsible, and we share more values than we\u2019re being told we do\u2014and we believe that meeting each other in the middle is in service of the greater good. We have the majority. We have the numbers,\u201d he explained. \u201cThat\u2019s why it\u2019s high time we take the megaphone back from the extremists who\u2019ve been manufacturing these false fractures among us. They\u2019ve been selling us soft porn at the pep rally for too long. It\u2019s time to kick them off the port and starboard sides of the boat on which American democracy sails \u2026 or at least relegate them to mopping the deck.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Matthew McConaughey visited Congress shortly after the horrific school shooting in his home town of Uvalde, Texas, and he shared what he learned in a no-holds-barred op-ed that blistered both parties. 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