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NBC's Todd underscored the emotionalism of the President's speech; CBS' Garrett its legislative complexity, a point of view reinforced by his colleague Nancy Cordes on Capitol Hill. ABC also covered the issue from the White House, but Jonathan Karl chose to focus on the opposition to Obama's proposals rather than on his agenda per se. Karl rounded up a scurrilous National Rifle Association ad, a sarcastic Rush Limbaugh, and threats of nullification from Mississippi and Oregon. CBS' Bill Plante portrayed the NRA as more sober-minded than Karl, focusing on the measured tones of its president David Keene. NBC's Andrea Mitchell combined the two, showing both the NRA's calm public face and its incendiary online fundraising.
Both NBC and CBS rounded out the gun story from Chicago. NBC's John Yang offered a general vox pop survey. CBS, which paid extra attention to the Windy City's gun carnage all last year, had Dean Reynolds offer an uninterrupted platform to Annette Nance-Holt, the bereaved mother of a slain teenage boy, now a gun-control activist with Purpose Over Pain.
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