Thanks Steyr, for 3 or so minutes that I’ll never get back. Got my hopes up when Silverman pointed that gun at her head, then seriously disappointed when she remained among the living.
Never mind.
Did you follow him before he got on with the NRA? I used to watch him quite a bit. He had honest, genuine opinions on the guns and gear he was reviewing. He was unique in the tone of his videos, and brought something other than the typical shooting background noise videos. Like I said, he was one of my very favorite Youtube gun guys. I am happy for him that he’s arrived, and he is making money doing something that he loves. However, I wish it was with someone other than the NRA supporting him, because now he has to discuss guns, and topics he would never touch before, and he truly doesn’t seem as genuine as he did before. My humble opinion. We are all on the same team after all. Like I said earlier, he is the NRA’s wet dream.
Say what? I don’t see him as a phony at all. He has been active pro-2A long before he was a NRA spokesman. Both videos below are related to the OP and were published prior to his involvement with NRA news.
None of the above.
I think he knows what he’s selling and his customer is eager to buy.
Everything about his persona is carefully cultivated and curated towards what he and his customer “think” is what a hip, millennial, black gun enthusiast would say or do… and the black thing just gets so exploited it’s ridiculous… I mean… the guy calls himself “Noir!”
It just doesn’t ring as genuine… and you sort of feel bad for the guy for so blatantly selling himself.
Can anyone watch him without groaning in real pain when he delivers those ridiculous lines, in that Kid Cudi-esque stoner speach?
“I felt like I was thuh black adopted son of Jerry Miculek…”
OK dude… we get it… you’re black… you told us… plus we saw…
And what the heck is his team??? Everytime you see him he has a different hat on his head? Is he trying to appeal to every fan of every team? How much budget does the costume department get to spend on hats?
I have actually commented telling him to pick a team on his videos. No loyalty drives me freaking nuts, it’s a big pet peeve. “Well this Giants hat matched my shoes.” It doesn’t match my blue Nikes and I still wear it proudly.
Yes, and for the record, I don’t think he’s a “phony”, I think he has a job and does his job to the satisfaction of his employer.
Maybe he collects baseball caps and doesn’t really give a damn about any specific team.
Anyway, when he did his 9mm vs. 45 video, I knew he was real. At least as real as any of us. He had studied the sutra’s, he knew the inside jokes.
Now he is a paid employee doing his job to the satisfaction of his employer, I don’t think that makes him phony, I think that makes him a good employee. I think he get’s the “phony” shit tossed at him because he is black, we don’t bother calling the white chicks on Fox News “phony” and they do essentially the same thing only without the baseball caps.
About the only thing “phony” is the implication that his videos are still just personal youtube opinions rather than scripted messages, of course we could say the same for most youtube videos anymore.
The NRA needs more, not less diversity, for long term success.
Sadly that is the reality. I just wish it was a case of more people from the black, hispanic or whatever community realizing they have NOTHING in common with criminal elements who share common skin pigment, heritage, etc. and that they should defend their homes, lives and freedoms when they come under attack.
If somebody steals from me I don’t feel better or worse about it if they happen to be black, white or whatever. I wish I could drag this country kicking and screaming to that realization. I have far more in common with Colion Noir than I do with most members of Congress.
If the NRA suddenly racially inverted and most members were black or hispanic, so long as they weren’t a bunch of Zumbo sellouts, it wouldn’t matter to me at all. In fact, we could use a few more Arron Zelman’s, and not because he was jewish.
Some of you guys issues are with his hats!? Oh my…
Now the name “Noir” I can get on board with thinking that is lame but the man’s hats? Wow.
Oh shit !!! he dosent sheepishly follow a certain sports team made up of random people getting paid who he dosent know run by other people of which he has no affiliation.
ive got a honda hat that i wear sometime despite owning a kawasaki and havent had a honda since i was 13. guess i better stop that asap.
DING! DING! DING!
Precisely. I don’t get it either. This is not a racist quote, it’s simply the TRUTH.
Mace
I’m not completely seeing the parallel there, but is anyone else kind of repelled by those ladies too?
Not by their looks, and “repelled” is definitely too strong a word, I don’t want to say “turned off,” but it’s like…
“I’ve got the tits! And this is the news! SMILE!”
or
“YO DAWG! I feel like the black Larry Vickers toting this 1911, kickin it straight old skool! Fist bump, my brova!”
At least Conor McGregor backs up his wee-little-leprachaun shtick by being the greatest in the featherweight division, but I’m just put off by folks who sell themselves on their race or some other irrelevant factor/ feature. That’s just me. I like substance, not gimmicks.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ, you guys are impossible to please. You’re ripping apart a guy who is a spokesman you probably agree with over perceived lack of loyalty to any one sports franchise, or his fashion statement, or how his wardrobe guy spending $200 on hats in an era where a few minutes of TV broadcast costs millions.
You could discuss his videos, or use some of the talking points to win over a liberal, but wait… “To hell with the man, I don’t like his hat!”
I’m just happy he’s not touting some leftist progressive statism agenda, and actually spouts things that sound reasonably intelligent. These days, people like him are rare enough without criticizing them over stuff that really doesn’t matter.
See…a black dude likes what white guys like and he’s an oreo or fake to white folks or an Uncle Tom to other black guys.
Back in this magical time known as ‘the 90s’ I knew this guy who was really in to Soundgarden, the Cardigans, and so forth. I was too (still am). He wasn’t from a mixed family. His folks were Army and he lived all over the world before living in America. Like he wasn’t used to other non-army kids. He suffered an extreme culture shock in normal school. Because he didn’t sag, didn’t look like a clown, or blast rap, and called any and every adult sir or ma’am he spoke to.
Now…the black kids saw this as weakness. NOPE. He set a few noses in his time. But it bewildered him how people could act that way. He dug what he dug.
I don’t see anything wrong with CN’s stuff at all. It’s a lot better than a white boy pretending to be Russian or another white boy pretending to be some ‘operator’
But that’s the sad paradox. Too black or not black enough.
How about, you dig what you dig?
And that’s the problem, the truth doesn’t fit into the narrative… Part of Gobbels famous quote says exactly that. “For the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the greatest enemy of the state.” I honestly that whole quote means more now,then when it was made.
Are you even reading the posts before substituting your own race driven narrative?
No one has called him an Uncle Tom… at all.
What I am saying, and I think others too, is who cares if he’s black? He’s a cartoon character cooked up to serve an agenda. It doesn’t matter if it’s the same agenda we all happen to support- the whole play is ridiculous!
If they launched a lisp talking homosexual NRA commentator called “Gabriel McButtlube” I would have the same criticism… and no, it would not have anything to do with him being gay, just that it’s so blatant pandering/ exploitation…
I think Colion Noir is terrific.