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CNN Denies Pressuring Florida School Shooting Survivor to Ask Scripted Question
Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2018 | Chris Reeves

Posted on 02/22/2018 12:09:16 PM PST by Kaslin

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21 posted on 02/22/2018 1:09:57 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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22 posted on 02/22/2018 1:20:03 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Kaslin

How much I wish someone on our side would simply SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER, rather than let themselves be bullied by it.

In this case, he should have taken the spoon-fed question, then say something like:

“Senator Rubio, you have always been against common-sense controls on weapons of war...OH SCREW IT, I’m going to ask MY QUESTION, not the one CNN handed to me. So let me start again: Senator Rubio, are you willing to support President Trump’s proposal to allow qualified and well-trained school workers to carry guns on campus, for the immediately protection of students, should another horrific event like this one occur again?”

I WISH he had done something like that. Our side needs to go along with the Fake News Media, and then go OFF SCRIPT - and NAIL THEM LIVE. Only then will we begin turning this boat around. In this case, while I admire him for not letting himself be used as a tool of the Left, this whole episode will be relegated to right-wing news sites, and will not reach the people we need to reach.


23 posted on 02/22/2018 1:31:47 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: UCANSEE2

LOL, thanks! I would have posted if I could have found it.


24 posted on 02/22/2018 1:31:51 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: Kaslin; All

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So, I had a question for Ms. Loesch but she’s not here yet. So for her and the NRA — she’s probably watching — and all of you puppet politicians that they are backing. Was the blood of my classmates and my teachers worth your blood money?
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“First, I’m sorry that the GOVT failed your classmates. The *same* govt you now put your faith behind as the ‘solution’.

2nd, any $ received/given, was done so LEGALLY.

Lastly, numerous times across this Country, arms to used to deter/prevent/end crime. If guns were removed the equation, would YOU take responsibility for the blood from those unable to protect themselves from rape, murder\homicide or defending/protecting themselves, their property or others?

Are YOU willing to be responsible for their lives for infringing upon our inalienable Rights?”


25 posted on 02/22/2018 1:34:40 PM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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26 posted on 02/22/2018 1:49:19 PM PST by timestax
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To: Kaslin

I am sure they weren’t “pressuring”, they just wanted to be “helpful”, so the kid asks “the right question”.

Not surprising what CNN said.


27 posted on 02/22/2018 1:50:25 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Kaslin

Think about the term “gun violence”. I’ve never met a VIOLENT gun. I’ve met some violent people. And THEY will, if disposed to become killers, find ways to kill! Would you also prohibit sale of materials like diesel fuel, ammonium nitrate and steel pipe and fittings - ALL necessary to the functioning of a modern society and innocent enough alone but - as demonstrated by muslim morons - capable of killing hundreds at a time in an instant?
The FBI COULD have kept this idiot in Florida away from his guns BUT THEY WERE TOO BUSY to even INTERVIEW HIM???
And ask yourself WHY - in this highly computerized culture - our various law enforcement agencies DO NOT share background information with one another? Am I paranoid to think that perhaps these sad murders of innocents aid in advancing some totalitarian agenda as they attempt to whip otherwise intelligent people into a frenzy to herd them in a direction they wish them to go? Look up Hegelian Dialectic for starters. There are forces at work in the world today that pay no heed to what most of us consider rules of civilized behavior. They are only guided by what advances their agenda. Does the old phrase “You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs” come to mind.
Some quotes to ponder:
“A free people should not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might abuse them, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT.” That from George Washington!

And the late DEMOCRAT Senator and presidential candidate Hubert Humphery offered this on the topic:
“The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against
arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny
which now appears remote in America, but which historically
has proved to be always possible.” 
(Ed. Comment: Heavens, how the Democrats have changed!)

And consider the IRONY that the 4th Estate (which has largely morphed into a 5TH COLUMN) always raises the false argument that the Founders never envisioned the advent of weapons like the AR15 and other modern arms. Those 56 men were students of history and the knew well the failings of human nature. They understood that the Constitutional economic and political system they sought to leave as their legacy would produce abundance and liberty for more people than any in history. They ALSO knew that it would spawn advances in technology that would some day make the physical artifacts common in THEIR day the relics they have become in ours. THAT INCLUDED WEAPONS of all sorts!
Now here’s the irony: If one applies to the Second Amendment the media’s claim that ordinary citizens “...the people..” today should ONLY be allowed to possess unrifiled, muzzle loaded flintlock muskets, that “logic” would limit THEM to writing today’s latest “fake news” by dipping quill pens into ink wells and scribbling on parchment!
And for those who still believe that the media are benign innocents simply “journalizing” events here, I’m compelled to add this from Mark Twain:
“Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR.  That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.”

Let me wrap this with a fact MOST humans find so disturbing that they refuse to confront it: MOST OF THE HUMANS KILLED OVER HISTORY WERE MURDERED BY GOVERNMENTS.
It’s called DEMOCIDE and 260 MILLION people died at the hands of a government in just the 20th century.
And THAT is why those of us who still possess critical thinking skills and have families STILL outnumber those who repeatedly call for steps toward the ultimate goal of the left: Total disarmament of this population.


28 posted on 02/22/2018 1:52:35 PM PST by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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To: i_robot73
The *same* govt you now put your faith behind as the ‘solution’.

Is there any doubt when these 'teen activists' get an actual look at what's being proposed to make their schools safe that their DNC controllers will go ape. The concerted howl from the left and the teens will be the Police State their demands have wrought. Armed police with rifles at the door, metal detectors, detector wands, restricted access. They will all scream 'Nazi police state, Trump is a dictator'. They have no idea what they demanded not unlike the flying public after 9/11 who got the TSA inspections and 2 hour screenings for a 45 minute flight.

29 posted on 02/22/2018 1:59:34 PM PST by redcatcherb412 (Emerged intact.)
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Is there any doubt when these ‘teen activists’ get an actual look at what’s being proposed to make their schools safe that their DNC controllers will go ape. The concerted howl from the left and the teens will be the Police State their demands have wrought. Armed police with rifles at the door, metal detectors, detector wands, restricted access. They will all scream ‘Nazi police state, Trump is a dictator’. They have no idea what they demanded not unlike the flying public after 9/11 who got the TSA inspections and 2 hour screenings for a 45 minute flight.
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Like BLM “Cops bad. Get out”. BLAM BLAM “Where were the cops when we needed ‘em?”.

Those snowflakes were be screaming, “Fascist” on the 1st locker-check, or taking away their cell-phone (why they’re even ALLOWED is beyond me), or...

No the Left can’t see beyond their next ‘win’. Course, the (R)N(C) doesn’t have one iota of talent to ‘spell it out’ either


30 posted on 02/22/2018 2:21:00 PM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Kaslin

And so....CNN is calling a “Parkland Shooting Survivor” a LIAR?

Really?


31 posted on 02/22/2018 2:49:47 PM PST by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: timestax
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32 posted on 02/22/2018 2:54:33 PM PST by timestax
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To: Kaslin

CNN - the #FakeNews network.


33 posted on 02/22/2018 2:54:43 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Kaslin

CNN continues to pile lies on top of lies.


34 posted on 02/22/2018 3:03:19 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: Kaslin

Cameron Kasky from NYC performing art school is another Soros pawn, he already has publicist, organized rallies. His facebook appears gone. It’s no accident he go to be up there at debate. Whole thing is orchestrated.


35 posted on 02/22/2018 3:40:32 PM PST by TheBigJ
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To: Diogenesis

kid is a Michael Moore wanna be, and uses the deaths to promote himself and his agenda the sicko.

CNN on the other hand , how can anyone watch that crap? Boycott all sponsors, call them, and tell others how corrupt CNN is.


36 posted on 02/22/2018 4:08:31 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: kaehurowing

Has Hannity showed this?


37 posted on 02/22/2018 4:10:07 PM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: Kaslin

They have done it before, leopards don’t change their spots.


38 posted on 02/22/2018 5:39:55 PM PST by Amish with an attitude
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CNN Denies Pressuring Florida School Shooting Survivor to Ask Scripted Question

Perhaps it is just their reputation for false reporting that is clouding my judgment, but I am inclined not to believe them.

39 posted on 02/22/2018 10:19:23 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Kaslin; Cboldt; dontreadthis; bigbob; iontheball; Diogenesis; M Kehoe; txrefugee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ju4Gla2odw

Today this could be Charlton Heston’s beautiful answer to CNN and their slimey ilk.

40 posted on 02/23/2018 4:04:00 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
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