Father Of Florida Shooting Survivor Admits He Altered Email From CNN

[bodecea]

Father Of Florida Shooting Survivor Admits He Altered Email From CNN | HuffPost

The father of a Florida shooting survivor who accused CNN of wanting him to ask a “scripted” question during a town hall on gun rights last week admitted to altering the contents of an email he received from a producer working on the show.

Glenn Haab, the father of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Colton Haab, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he left out some words when forwarding an email that he and his son received from CNN producer Carrie Stevenson. Haab sent an altered version of the email to HuffPost and Fox News last week in an attempt to corroborate his son’s claim.

He told AP that there was “nothing malicious behind” his decision to leave out certain words. But the omitted words show that CNN was clearly asking his son to stick to asking the question he had already submitted.

CNN hit back against the claims on Friday, releasing a copy of the email exchange that shows Stevenson was informing Haab that his son had to ask a question “that he submitted” instead of a 700-word opening statement plus three questions and a closing statement that was sent over to the network after one question had already been agreed upon. Stevenson said in the email that they wanted to allow as many students as possible to ask questions, and the version Colton’s father submitted was “way too long.”



You mean, President Orange and his halfwit supporters attacked CNN without knowing all of the facts?

You don’t say...

And once again...the RW trumpanzee types are caught doing what they accuse the Left of doing.

 

[J.E.D]

So CNN got caught producing fake news again, no surprise there.

What? The father admitted he mislead the media. Did you even read the article?

What the father said is irrelevant. It was still fake news.

What was fake news?

 

[Muhammed]

So CNN got caught producing fake news again, no surprise there.

What? The father admitted he mislead the media. Did you even read the article?

What the father said is irrelevant. It was still fake news.

What was fake news?

CNN.

 

[J.E.D]

So CNN got caught producing fake news again, no surprise there.

What? The father admitted he mislead the media. Did you even read the article?

What the father said is irrelevant. It was still fake news.

What was fake news?

CNN.

Ok... but this father admitted to misleading the media. I guess you’re okay with that since it was against CNN. Very nice

 

[usmbguest5318]

• https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sean-ha...hall-claim-after-email-admission-from-father/
• Shooting survivor's father admits email changes in CNN spat

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The detritus filled minds of how many USMB members cried foul and berated CNN after Fox (perhaps others members of the conservative echo chamber) reported the untruth that Colton Haab had been by CNN given a script from which to read? Well, one can get a sense of the answer by clicking here -- CNN Tries to Script Students’ Meeting with President Trump -- because the "peanut gallery" was out in full force in that thread.

Well, now Sean Hannity, yes, even that jackass, hs sheepishly recanted, and not made nearly as much noise about Fox's, Hannity's, rush to judgment. What happened? Colton Haab's father admitted to removing words from the email he forwarded to Fox. What's even more astounding is that he claims he didn't do it on purpose. Yea, right....Because it's so common that in the process of clicking "forward" and entering an email address in the "to" field, one might accidentally delete words in the middle in the body of the email one's forwarding.

And what had I to say about it?

I cannot say Haab's attestation about being given a "scripted' question is untruthful; however, neither can I say that I'd put it past a CNN producer or someone providing editing support to the kids so the questions were succinct. I'd like very much to see the question(s) Haab composed and what be the scripted question(s) he says CNN gave him.

I can add that an acquaintance who attended a presidential town hall some years back shared that he was required to share his questions with the event moderator and informed that he had to ask the question he shared not one he conjured later.

I don't even need to say it.....

In one exchange, 17-year-old Colton Haab proposes several questions to ask at the town hall, including one on whether to arm teachers. His father, a Republican gun owner, later emailed Stevenson a four-page document with a roughly 700-word speech and a series of questions he said Colton wanted to ask.

Stevenson told the father the additional language he proposed was "way too long" and Colton would need to stick to the question "that he submitted." The words "that he submitted" were left off the email sent to Fox News and Huffington Post.

CNN said Stevenson had discussed which one of Colton's several questions to ask at the forum and they mutually agreed on one using his own words and a statement he made during another television appearance.
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What I will say is that if Republicans spent as much energy ruminating as they do ranting, we'd all be better off.

Shooting survivor’s father admits email changes in CNN spat


EDIT:

How hard would it have been for Fox to verify that man's claim?

Not hard at all; it'd be literally child's play to do so. All a Fox staffer had to do was forward the email to CNN, asking, "Is this email authentic?" CNN, of course, would have said, "no," and simply forwarded the original unedited email to the Fox staffer.

A quick check of the email header info would have confirmed that CNN was telling the truth and that Haab SOB wasn't and that'd have been that. No story, but no embarrassment for not upholding the most basic of journalistic standards later either.​

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

The words "that he submitted" were left off the email sent to Fox News and Huffington Post.

So, if words were omitted from the first email, what WERE they supposed to surmise?
Let me get this straight...you are berating people for interpreting the information given to them...regardless of whether it was the complete information? Trite much?

 

[Faun]

So CNN got caught producing fake news again, no surprise there.

What? The father admitted he mislead the media. Did you even read the article?

What the father said is irrelevant. It was still fake news.

What was fake news?

CNN.

What was fake about the story?

 

[BULLDOG]

The words "that he submitted" were left off the email sent to Fox News and Huffington Post.

So, if words were omitted from the first email, what WERE they supposed to surmise?
Let me get this straight...you are berating people for interpreting the information given to them...regardless of whether it was the complete information? Trite much?

Any legitimate news source had a responsibility to determine if what was given to them was true. Of course, fox isn't legitimate, but they should have at least made an effort.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What difference does the "that he submitted" make?

Stupid of him to edit the email mail and then forward, but still doesn't change that CNN was scripting the questions

 

[Slade3200]

More fake news out of the conspiracy buckets of Hannity and Mr Tucker Carlson, who has been quickly digressing into wingnut land with his new show.... after reporting all week that CNN gave scripted questions for their townhall, both anchors now had to rescind the story as the family they were sourcing admitting to editing CNN emails to inaccurately support their narrative. Funny how the formula of attacking the messenger instead of reporting on the substance is playing out for these kooks...

I couldn’t find a video to link up but I saw Tucker’s crow feast last night on his show and found a transcript:

Carlson said FNC had contacted CNN last week to verify Haab’s assertion and comment. CNN, Carlson said, sent FNC emails that did not match what the Haabs had given FNC. Contacted to discuss the inconsistency, the Haabs had told FNC “they were being slandered by CNN,” Carlson said.

Now that the family has acknowledged the removal of words in a CNN email, Carlson said, “There is no evidence, as of right now, that CNN tried to give Colton Haab a scripted question.”

Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson Set Record Straight On Shooting Survivor’s Claim CNN Scripted Town Hall Question

 

[RDD_1210]

What difference does the "that he submitted" make?

Stupid of him to edit the email mail and then forward, but still doesn't change that CNN was scripting the questions

Doubling down on retarded today I see.

Good boy Frank.

 

[edthecynic]

What difference does the "that he submitted" make?

Stupid of him to edit the email mail and then forward, but still doesn't change that CNN was scripting the questions

The Right-wing dumb act again.

The difference is the the question that followed was the acceptable shortened version of the question HE submitted to CNN that was too long.

 

[BULLDOG]

What difference does the "that he submitted" make?

Stupid of him to edit the email mail and then forward, but still doesn't change that CNN was scripting the questions

Ask a grownup to explain it to you.

 

[tyroneweaver]

ya I'm sure this episode rises to the level of faking arrest statistic to get Fed. money

 

[KeiserC]

I've also wondered why Fox News refuses to acknowledge Michael Savage when he's making international news. For instance NY Times best seller #1 books, Sen. run against Di-Fi etc. Makes you wonder what cool aid the ' "Conservative" Cartel' is serving us...
(Ancient hx Savage was on Fox. a few times... granted)

 

[grainbely]

The words "that he submitted" were left off the email sent to Fox News and Huffington Post.

So, if words were omitted from the first email, what WERE they supposed to surmise?
Let me get this straight...you are berating people for interpreting the information given to them...regardless of whether it was the complete information? Trite much?

Maybe try not to be such hysterical alarmists over insignificant minutiae. You dont want that boy who cried wolf label.

 

[edthecynic]

ya I'm sure this episode rises to the level of faking arrest statistic to get Fed. money

Another fool swallowing a Limbaugh Lie.

 

[jc456]

More fake news out of the conspiracy buckets of Hannity and Mr Tucker Carlson, who has been quickly digressing into wingnut land with his new show.... after reporting all week that CNN gave scripted questions for their townhall, both anchors now had to rescind the story as the family they were sourcing admitting to editing CNN emails to inaccurately support their narrative. Funny how the formula of attacking the messenger instead of reporting on the substance is playing out for these kooks...

I couldn’t find a video to link up but I saw Tucker’s crow feast last night on his show and found a transcript:

Carlson said FNC had contacted CNN last week to verify Haab’s assertion and comment. CNN, Carlson said, sent FNC emails that did not match what the Haabs had given FNC. Contacted to discuss the inconsistency, the Haabs had told FNC “they were being slandered by CNN,” Carlson said.

Now that the family has acknowledged the removal of words in a CNN email, Carlson said, “There is no evidence, as of right now, that CNN tried to give Colton Haab a scripted question.”

Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson Set Record Straight On Shooting Survivor’s Claim CNN Scripted Town Hall Question

well duh, the father fked with the email. Tucker was exposing what the kid said, that's it.

And the man he is, he addressed it last night and corrected his previous program that CNN didn't script it. He did the correct journalistic step and asked CNN for their emails and that's how he found the father fked up.

Quite the man. See that's integrity, that with which no leftist journalist has.

Shows Honesty

 

[RDD_1210]

So CNN got caught producing fake news again, no surprise there.

What? The father admitted he mislead the media. Did you even read the article?

What the father said is irrelevant. It was still fake news.

What was fake news?

CNN.

Ok... but this father admitted to misleading the media. I guess you’re okay with that since it was against CNN. Very nice

He is the definition of a troll. Ignore him.

I literally added 50 of these idiots to my ignore list in the last week and this site is much more tolerable now.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Thread #2....let's see if we can make #10 by the end of the day