By Brent Bozell
The school shooting in Parkland, Florida, shows how quickly our media
elites move horrors from tragedy to political opportunity. They
amplified the loudest voices of the shooting aftermath: teenage
survivors who demanded gun control "solutions" like banning all
semi-automatic assault weapons. These teenagers might accomplish in one
week what the anti-Second Amendment crowd, led by these same media
elites, has failed to do for decades.
Survivors of failed
abortions (like Gianna Jessen or Melissa Ohden) have never held their
attention for five seconds. That conflicts with the narrative.
Liberal
journalists have openly discussed how these teenage advocates could be a
crucial factor in defeating the gun-rights lobby. They could become the
key to the kind of turnout necessary for putting Democrats in the
majority in Congress. So they gave them every opportunity to push for
liberal victory without any need to be civil.
David Hogg, the
most prominent student survivor, went on CNN and proclaimed politicians
shouldn't take money from the National Rifle Association because they
are "child murderers." CNN morning anchor Alisyn Camerota didn't correct
him -- or condemn his statement, regardless of the fact that he'd just
stained the reputations of millions of NRA members by labeling them
killers. She said nothing. She was satisfied -- pleased, in fact.
CNN.com happily posted the clip with the headline "Shooting Survivor
Calls NRA 'Child Murderers.'"
CNN's motto is "Facts First."
CNN
hosted a "town hall" full of leftist rage against anyone who believes
in Second Amendment rights. Their agenda was obvious from the program's
title: "Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action." They
used the hashtag #StudentsStandUp to promote it. Florida Sen. Marco
Rubio and NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch were verbally slashed by the
students without mercy.
Survivor Cameron Kasky stood a few feet
from Rubio and smeared him on national television: "it's hard to look at
you and not look down the barrel of an AR-15 and not look at [the
Parkland shooter], but the point is you're here, and there are some
people who are not." Kasky also said he wished he could have questioned
"the NRA lady" (Loesch), since he "would ask her how she can look in the
mirror, considering the fact she has children, but, you know, maybe she
avoids those."
In the next hour, when Loesch was on, people in
the audience shouted "murderer," and "burn her," and student survivor
Emma Gonzalez lectured her that she would be a better mother: "Dana
Loesch, I want you to know that we will support your two children in the
way that ... you will not."
Moderator Jake Tapper allowed the audience to be as immoderate as it
wanted. He tweeted afterward: "People freestyled a bit" -- a bit? --
"and I wasn't inclined to reprimand a school shooting survivor or parent
who lost a child for expressing him or herself in a question -- even if
aggressively."
But this is the most amazing part. In the
aftermath, no one in television "news" replayed the students' rudeness
as a storyline worthy of condemnation, or even comment. It matched their
own political agenda and emotional temperature. When Rep. Joe Wilson
yelled, "You lie!" at then-President Obama in 2009, these networks all
angrily replayed it ad infinitum as a national disgrace. They called it
"infamous." CNN's headline on the video clip read "The Heckling Heard
'Round the World."
Even Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito shaking his head at the 2010 State of the Union was projected as inappropriate.
Remember
these student hecklers when CNN and their colleagues decry how
President Donald Trump has single-handedly ruined civil discourse. Trump
mocking CNN as "fake news" caused far more media outrage than Hogg
calling the NRA "child murderers."
It will happen again and again. They are hell-bent on ridding this country of the Second Amendment, one tragedy at a time.
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