Children of the Parkland Tragedy Vilified for Speaking Out and Condemned as Phonies

[Steve_McGarrett]

A lot of those kids interviewed were crisis actors. They deserve every bit of ridicule.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Question: Who would dare, who has the temerity, who has the viciousness in them to target distraught, children who survived a school shooting and are desperate for adults to stop the killing, with a smear campaign? Who is willing to join in the chorus of voices advancing the absurd claim that they, the student survivors of the Parkland massacre are puppets of larger, nefarious forces” and participants in a conspiracy.

Answer: (A partial list)

1) Fox News

2) Donald Trump Jr.

3) The Gateway Pundit

4) One America News Network

5) Rush Limbaugh

6) Alex Jones

My guess is that I will soon be adding USMB participants to this list



https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-parkland-smear-5331b78ee3e4/

(selected excerpts)

The unifying principle of the right-wing smear campaign against the student survivors of the Parkland massacre is that they are puppets of larger, nefarious forces. The attacks first gained prominence on Monday on the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit which claimed, without any evidence, that student David Hogg was a pawn of the FBI and was “merely reciting a script” in media interviews. By Tuesday, as the initial attacks gained support from Donald Trump Jr. and a former congressman, Gateway Pundit escalated the attacks, suggesting. Hogg and other students were crisis actors recruited from the school’s theater department by far-left groups controlled by George Soros. Similar outlandish claims went viral on Facebook.

Even if these kids are being coached or encouraged in some way, even if they are networking as part of a larger movement- and I hope that they are-it’s no excuse for people who are supposed to be adults to vilify them. That is no different than what right-wingers do in order to advance their agenda They were even called un-American. What is more American than protesting and exercising one’s right to free speech?

This is a thinly vailed attempt to silence them. This is evidence that the right is running scared. Scared of these children who are livid and rising up. The NRA, Trump, and their lackeys may have well met their match.

The initial attack was even more despicable and vicious:

https://thinkprogress.org/the-new-smear-campaign-against-students-who-survived-the-parkland-massacre-b71c1e1d722c/

(selected excerpts)

Students who survived the gun massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have emerged as powerful advocates of gun control and fierce critics of the NRA. Now they are being targeted by a right-wing smear campaign.

David Hogg, a senior at the school, was one of the first to appear on national television and demand action. “We’re children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together. Come over your politics and get something done,” Hogg said, looking directly into the camera.

Hogg is now being targeted by Gateway Pundit, a far-right blog that has press credentials from the Trump White House. A post published on Monday by the site’s White House correspondent, Lucian Wintrich, features Hogg’s photo with the word “EXPOSED” stamped in red.

The Gateway Pundit story is spreading quickly on Facebook and has already been picked up by One American News Network, another right-wing outlet with White House media credentials.

In yet another account of what is happening…

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html

(selected excerpts)

The teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who a week ago lost 17 of their classmates and school staff members in a mass shooting, have emerged as passionate advocates for reform, speaking openly of their anger in the hope of forcing a reckoning on guns.

But in certain right-wing corners of the web — and, increasingly, from more mainstream voices like Rush Limbaugh and a commentator on CNN — the students are being portrayed not as grief-ridden survivors but as pawns and conspiracists intent on exploiting a tragedy to undermine the nation’s laws.

The theories are far-fetched. But they are finding a broad and prominent audience online. On Tuesday, the president’s son Donald J. Trump Jr. liked a pair of tweets that accused David Hogg, a 17-year-old who is among the most outspoken of the Parkland students, of criticizing the Trump administration in an effort to protect his father, whom Mr. Hogg has described as a retired F.B.I. agent.

And your gripe is exactly why the left decided to go with children in making the argument, so that the adults who were tired of getting their behinds handed to them in these debates could have a rebuttal free charge leveled at their opponents, now they do not even have to take responsibility for their irresponsibility, just point at the kids they requite making the same arguments they have been so wrong about previously and say look how they pick on kids...I am sure you see the truth here so you may want to find a child if you want to dispute my point

Translation: " You can add my name to the list of feckless stupid asses who either believe that the kids were put up to this, are lying out of fear that this is real"

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

Question: Who would dare, who has the temerity, who has the viciousness in them to target distraught, children who survived a school shooting and are desperate for adults to stop the killing, with a smear campaign? Who is willing to join in the chorus of voices advancing the absurd claim that they, the student survivors of the Parkland massacre are puppets of larger, nefarious forces” and participants in a conspiracy.

Answer: (A partial list)

1) Fox News

2) Donald Trump Jr.

3) The Gateway Pundit

4) One America News Network

5) Rush Limbaugh

6) Alex Jones

My guess is that I will soon be adding USMB participants to this list



https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-parkland-smear-5331b78ee3e4/

(selected excerpts)

The unifying principle of the right-wing smear campaign against the student survivors of the Parkland massacre is that they are puppets of larger, nefarious forces. The attacks first gained prominence on Monday on the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit which claimed, without any evidence, that student David Hogg was a pawn of the FBI and was “merely reciting a script” in media interviews. By Tuesday, as the initial attacks gained support from Donald Trump Jr. and a former congressman, Gateway Pundit escalated the attacks, suggesting. Hogg and other students were crisis actors recruited from the school’s theater department by far-left groups controlled by George Soros. Similar outlandish claims went viral on Facebook.

Even if these kids are being coached or encouraged in some way, even if they are networking as part of a larger movement- and I hope that they are-it’s no excuse for people who are supposed to be adults to vilify them. That is no different than what right-wingers do in order to advance their agenda They were even called un-American. What is more American than protesting and exercising one’s right to free speech?

This is a thinly vailed attempt to silence them. This is evidence that the right is running scared. Scared of these children who are livid and rising up. The NRA, Trump, and their lackeys may have well met their match.

The initial attack was even more despicable and vicious:

https://thinkprogress.org/the-new-smear-campaign-against-students-who-survived-the-parkland-massacre-b71c1e1d722c/

(selected excerpts)

Students who survived the gun massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have emerged as powerful advocates of gun control and fierce critics of the NRA. Now they are being targeted by a right-wing smear campaign.

David Hogg, a senior at the school, was one of the first to appear on national television and demand action. “We’re children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together. Come over your politics and get something done,” Hogg said, looking directly into the camera.

Hogg is now being targeted by Gateway Pundit, a far-right blog that has press credentials from the Trump White House. A post published on Monday by the site’s White House correspondent, Lucian Wintrich, features Hogg’s photo with the word “EXPOSED” stamped in red.

The Gateway Pundit story is spreading quickly on Facebook and has already been picked up by One American News Network, another right-wing outlet with White House media credentials.

In yet another account of what is happening…

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html

(selected excerpts)

The teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who a week ago lost 17 of their classmates and school staff members in a mass shooting, have emerged as passionate advocates for reform, speaking openly of their anger in the hope of forcing a reckoning on guns.

But in certain right-wing corners of the web — and, increasingly, from more mainstream voices like Rush Limbaugh and a commentator on CNN — the students are being portrayed not as grief-ridden survivors but as pawns and conspiracists intent on exploiting a tragedy to undermine the nation’s laws.

The theories are far-fetched. But they are finding a broad and prominent audience online. On Tuesday, the president’s son Donald J. Trump Jr. liked a pair of tweets that accused David Hogg, a 17-year-old who is among the most outspoken of the Parkland students, of criticizing the Trump administration in an effort to protect his father, whom Mr. Hogg has described as a retired F.B.I. agent.

And your gripe is exactly why the left decided to go with children in making the argument, so that the adults who were tired of getting their behinds handed to them in these debates could have a rebuttal free charge leveled at their opponents, now they do not even have to take responsibility for their irresponsibility, just point at the kids they requite making the same arguments they have been so wrong about previously and say look how they pick on kids...I am sure you see the truth here so you may want to find a child if you want to dispute my point

That's EXACTLY why they use children. The shame factor. "How DARE you speak ill of the pooooor suffering chilllllldren". Spare me.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

A lot of those kids interviewed were crisis actors. They deserve every bit of ridicule.

Prove it!! Your name is on this list too

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Question: Who would dare, who has the temerity, who has the viciousness in them to target distraught, children who survived a school shooting and are desperate for adults to stop the killing, with a smear campaign? Who is willing to join in the chorus of voices advancing the absurd claim that they, the student survivors of the Parkland massacre are puppets of larger, nefarious forces” and participants in a conspiracy.

Answer: (A partial list)

1) Fox News

2) Donald Trump Jr.

3) The Gateway Pundit

4) One America News Network

5) Rush Limbaugh

6) Alex Jones

My guess is that I will soon be adding USMB participants to this list



https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-parkland-smear-5331b78ee3e4/

(selected excerpts)

The unifying principle of the right-wing smear campaign against the student survivors of the Parkland massacre is that they are puppets of larger, nefarious forces. The attacks first gained prominence on Monday on the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit which claimed, without any evidence, that student David Hogg was a pawn of the FBI and was “merely reciting a script” in media interviews. By Tuesday, as the initial attacks gained support from Donald Trump Jr. and a former congressman, Gateway Pundit escalated the attacks, suggesting. Hogg and other students were crisis actors recruited from the school’s theater department by far-left groups controlled by George Soros. Similar outlandish claims went viral on Facebook.

Even if these kids are being coached or encouraged in some way, even if they are networking as part of a larger movement- and I hope that they are-it’s no excuse for people who are supposed to be adults to vilify them. That is no different than what right-wingers do in order to advance their agenda They were even called un-American. What is more American than protesting and exercising one’s right to free speech?

This is a thinly vailed attempt to silence them. This is evidence that the right is running scared. Scared of these children who are livid and rising up. The NRA, Trump, and their lackeys may have well met their match.

The initial attack was even more despicable and vicious:

https://thinkprogress.org/the-new-smear-campaign-against-students-who-survived-the-parkland-massacre-b71c1e1d722c/

(selected excerpts)

Students who survived the gun massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have emerged as powerful advocates of gun control and fierce critics of the NRA. Now they are being targeted by a right-wing smear campaign.

David Hogg, a senior at the school, was one of the first to appear on national television and demand action. “We’re children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together. Come over your politics and get something done,” Hogg said, looking directly into the camera.

Hogg is now being targeted by Gateway Pundit, a far-right blog that has press credentials from the Trump White House. A post published on Monday by the site’s White House correspondent, Lucian Wintrich, features Hogg’s photo with the word “EXPOSED” stamped in red.

The Gateway Pundit story is spreading quickly on Facebook and has already been picked up by One American News Network, another right-wing outlet with White House media credentials.

In yet another account of what is happening…

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html

(selected excerpts)

The teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who a week ago lost 17 of their classmates and school staff members in a mass shooting, have emerged as passionate advocates for reform, speaking openly of their anger in the hope of forcing a reckoning on guns.

But in certain right-wing corners of the web — and, increasingly, from more mainstream voices like Rush Limbaugh and a commentator on CNN — the students are being portrayed not as grief-ridden survivors but as pawns and conspiracists intent on exploiting a tragedy to undermine the nation’s laws.

The theories are far-fetched. But they are finding a broad and prominent audience online. On Tuesday, the president’s son Donald J. Trump Jr. liked a pair of tweets that accused David Hogg, a 17-year-old who is among the most outspoken of the Parkland students, of criticizing the Trump administration in an effort to protect his father, whom Mr. Hogg has described as a retired F.B.I. agent.

And your gripe is exactly why the left decided to go with children in making the argument, so that the adults who were tired of getting their behinds handed to them in these debates could have a rebuttal free charge leveled at their opponents, now they do not even have to take responsibility for their irresponsibility, just point at the kids they requite making the same arguments they have been so wrong about previously and say look how they pick on kids...I am sure you see the truth here so you may want to find a child if you want to dispute my point

That's EXACTLY why they use children. The shame factor. "How DARE you speak ill of the pooooor suffering chilllllldren". Spare me.

It's the right who has a history of using children in debates such as abortion, and same sex marriage .

 

[Penelope]

Garbage Blogger Jim Hoft Gets Booted from CPAC Panel, Blames Chelsea Clinton

I guess even CPAC has some decency.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

Im not sure that they hate these children. Its just that their guns mean more to them than the lives of children.

Exhibit A...how can you NOT think of the poor suffering dead children? How DARE you be so selfless and heartless as to only consider you measly rights! Now sit silent as I bash you over the head with my guilt molded into the form of a once happy teenage girl! Evil! Evil!

Fap fap fap.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Translation: " You can add my name to the list of feckless stupid asses who either believe that the kids were put up to this, are lying out of fear that this is real"

why don't you just do what those kids did and go on TV with that message?

 

[koshergrl]

The left loves hiding behind children.

They think their idiotology won't be challenged if they put the kids out there.

They like to hide behind the children they raise to protect them...

after facilitating the murder of children in order to promote a false narrative.

It's what they do.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

Question: Who would dare, who has the temerity, who has the viciousness in them to target distraught, children who survived a school shooting and are desperate for adults to stop the killing, with a smear campaign? Who is willing to join in the chorus of voices advancing the absurd claim that they, the student survivors of the Parkland massacre are puppets of larger, nefarious forces” and participants in a conspiracy.

Answer: (A partial list)

1) Fox News

2) Donald Trump Jr.

3) The Gateway Pundit

4) One America News Network

5) Rush Limbaugh

6) Alex Jones

My guess is that I will soon be adding USMB participants to this list



https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-parkland-smear-5331b78ee3e4/

(selected excerpts)

The unifying principle of the right-wing smear campaign against the student survivors of the Parkland massacre is that they are puppets of larger, nefarious forces. The attacks first gained prominence on Monday on the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit which claimed, without any evidence, that student David Hogg was a pawn of the FBI and was “merely reciting a script” in media interviews. By Tuesday, as the initial attacks gained support from Donald Trump Jr. and a former congressman, Gateway Pundit escalated the attacks, suggesting. Hogg and other students were crisis actors recruited from the school’s theater department by far-left groups controlled by George Soros. Similar outlandish claims went viral on Facebook.

Even if these kids are being coached or encouraged in some way, even if they are networking as part of a larger movement- and I hope that they are-it’s no excuse for people who are supposed to be adults to vilify them. That is no different than what right-wingers do in order to advance their agenda They were even called un-American. What is more American than protesting and exercising one’s right to free speech?

This is a thinly vailed attempt to silence them. This is evidence that the right is running scared. Scared of these children who are livid and rising up. The NRA, Trump, and their lackeys may have well met their match.

The initial attack was even more despicable and vicious:

https://thinkprogress.org/the-new-smear-campaign-against-students-who-survived-the-parkland-massacre-b71c1e1d722c/

(selected excerpts)

Students who survived the gun massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have emerged as powerful advocates of gun control and fierce critics of the NRA. Now they are being targeted by a right-wing smear campaign.

David Hogg, a senior at the school, was one of the first to appear on national television and demand action. “We’re children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together. Come over your politics and get something done,” Hogg said, looking directly into the camera.

Hogg is now being targeted by Gateway Pundit, a far-right blog that has press credentials from the Trump White House. A post published on Monday by the site’s White House correspondent, Lucian Wintrich, features Hogg’s photo with the word “EXPOSED” stamped in red.

The Gateway Pundit story is spreading quickly on Facebook and has already been picked up by One American News Network, another right-wing outlet with White House media credentials.

In yet another account of what is happening…

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html

(selected excerpts)

The teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who a week ago lost 17 of their classmates and school staff members in a mass shooting, have emerged as passionate advocates for reform, speaking openly of their anger in the hope of forcing a reckoning on guns.

But in certain right-wing corners of the web — and, increasingly, from more mainstream voices like Rush Limbaugh and a commentator on CNN — the students are being portrayed not as grief-ridden survivors but as pawns and conspiracists intent on exploiting a tragedy to undermine the nation’s laws.

The theories are far-fetched. But they are finding a broad and prominent audience online. On Tuesday, the president’s son Donald J. Trump Jr. liked a pair of tweets that accused David Hogg, a 17-year-old who is among the most outspoken of the Parkland students, of criticizing the Trump administration in an effort to protect his father, whom Mr. Hogg has described as a retired F.B.I. agent.

And your gripe is exactly why the left decided to go with children in making the argument, so that the adults who were tired of getting their behinds handed to them in these debates could have a rebuttal free charge leveled at their opponents, now they do not even have to take responsibility for their irresponsibility, just point at the kids they requite making the same arguments they have been so wrong about previously and say look how they pick on kids...I am sure you see the truth here so you may want to find a child if you want to dispute my point

That's EXACTLY why they use children. The shame factor. "How DARE you speak ill of the pooooor suffering chilllllldren". Spare me.

It's the right who has a history of using children in debates such as abortion, and same sex marriage .

It was THEM first mom!

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

I think you have collected all of them on this thread apart from koshergirl.
Im not sure that they hate these children. Its just that their guns mean more to them than the lives of children.

Fucked up priorities, but who's surprised?

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

The left loves hiding behind children.

They think their idiotology won't be challenged if they put the kids out there.

They like to hide behind the children they raise to protect them...

after facilitating the murder of children in order to promote a false narrative.

It's what they do.

That is fucking sick and insane!

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Question: Who would dare, who has the temerity, who has the viciousness in them to target distraught, children who survived a school shooting and are desperate for adults to stop the killing, with a smear campaign? Who is willing to join in the chorus of voices advancing the absurd claim that they, the student survivors of the Parkland massacre are puppets of larger, nefarious forces” and participants in a conspiracy.

Answer: (A partial list)

1) Fox News

2) Donald Trump Jr.

3) The Gateway Pundit

4) One America News Network

5) Rush Limbaugh

6) Alex Jones

My guess is that I will soon be adding USMB participants to this list



https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-parkland-smear-5331b78ee3e4/

(selected excerpts)

The unifying principle of the right-wing smear campaign against the student survivors of the Parkland massacre is that they are puppets of larger, nefarious forces. The attacks first gained prominence on Monday on the pro-Trump blog Gateway Pundit which claimed, without any evidence, that student David Hogg was a pawn of the FBI and was “merely reciting a script” in media interviews. By Tuesday, as the initial attacks gained support from Donald Trump Jr. and a former congressman, Gateway Pundit escalated the attacks, suggesting. Hogg and other students were crisis actors recruited from the school’s theater department by far-left groups controlled by George Soros. Similar outlandish claims went viral on Facebook.

Even if these kids are being coached or encouraged in some way, even if they are networking as part of a larger movement- and I hope that they are-it’s no excuse for people who are supposed to be adults to vilify them. That is no different than what right-wingers do in order to advance their agenda They were even called un-American. What is more American than protesting and exercising one’s right to free speech?

This is a thinly vailed attempt to silence them. This is evidence that the right is running scared. Scared of these children who are livid and rising up. The NRA, Trump, and their lackeys may have well met their match.

The initial attack was even more despicable and vicious:

https://thinkprogress.org/the-new-smear-campaign-against-students-who-survived-the-parkland-massacre-b71c1e1d722c/

(selected excerpts)

Students who survived the gun massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have emerged as powerful advocates of gun control and fierce critics of the NRA. Now they are being targeted by a right-wing smear campaign.

David Hogg, a senior at the school, was one of the first to appear on national television and demand action. “We’re children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together. Come over your politics and get something done,” Hogg said, looking directly into the camera.

Hogg is now being targeted by Gateway Pundit, a far-right blog that has press credentials from the Trump White House. A post published on Monday by the site’s White House correspondent, Lucian Wintrich, features Hogg’s photo with the word “EXPOSED” stamped in red.

The Gateway Pundit story is spreading quickly on Facebook and has already been picked up by One American News Network, another right-wing outlet with White House media credentials.

In yet another account of what is happening…

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html

(selected excerpts)

The teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who a week ago lost 17 of their classmates and school staff members in a mass shooting, have emerged as passionate advocates for reform, speaking openly of their anger in the hope of forcing a reckoning on guns.

But in certain right-wing corners of the web — and, increasingly, from more mainstream voices like Rush Limbaugh and a commentator on CNN — the students are being portrayed not as grief-ridden survivors but as pawns and conspiracists intent on exploiting a tragedy to undermine the nation’s laws.

The theories are far-fetched. But they are finding a broad and prominent audience online. On Tuesday, the president’s son Donald J. Trump Jr. liked a pair of tweets that accused David Hogg, a 17-year-old who is among the most outspoken of the Parkland students, of criticizing the Trump administration in an effort to protect his father, whom Mr. Hogg has described as a retired F.B.I. agent.

And your gripe is exactly why the left decided to go with children in making the argument, so that the adults who were tired of getting their behinds handed to them in these debates could have a rebuttal free charge leveled at their opponents, now they do not even have to take responsibility for their irresponsibility, just point at the kids they requite making the same arguments they have been so wrong about previously and say look how they pick on kids...I am sure you see the truth here so you may want to find a child if you want to dispute my point

That's EXACTLY why they use children. The shame factor. "How DARE you speak ill of the pooooor suffering chilllllldren". Spare me.

It's the right who has a history of using children in debates such as abortion, and same sex marriage .

It was THEM first mom!

Thank you for that eloquent, sensitive and well thought out response to a horrific tragedy. And thank you for raising the level of intellectual discourse on USMB....keep up the good work!

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

How come the left wingers are protesting against Trump and not their school for failing to provide security?

 

[busybee01]

A lot of those kids interviewed were crisis actors. They deserve every bit of ridicule.

You are nothing but trash. What yo deserve is something that is not said in public. Are you one of those who are sending death threats?

 

[Frankeneinstein]

It's the right who has a history of using children in debates such as abortion, and same sex marriage .

and do you believe those kids are right? cuz ya don't want to be all that feckless stuff do ya...the right isn't above doing that either, and it would not fool me any more or less than the stunt you are claiming, for instance, do YOU want to deny the right of same sex marriage to people because kids make the argument instead of adults?

 

[busybee01]

Garbage Blogger Jim Hoft Gets Booted from CPAC Panel, Blames Chelsea Clinton

I guess even CPAC has some decency.

Not much. Their agenda is why I am a independent rather than a Republican now. Crazy conspiracies abound.

 

[Tijn Von Ingersleben]

Question: Who would dare, who has the temerity, who has the viciousness in them to target distraught, children who survived a school shooting and are desperate for adults to stop the killing, with a smear campaign? Who is willing to join in the chorus of voices advancing the absurd claim that they, the student survivors of the Parkland massacre are puppets of larger, nefarious forces” and participants in a conspiracy.

Answer: (A partial list)

1) Fox News

2) Donald Trump Jr.

3) The Gateway Pundit

4) One America News Network

5) Rush Limbaugh

6) Alex Jones

My guess is that I will soon be adding USMB participants to this list



https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-parkland-smear-5331b78ee3e4/

(selected excerpts)

Even if these kids are being coached or encouraged in some way, even if they are networking as part of a larger movement- and I hope that they are-it’s no excuse for people who are supposed to be adults to vilify them. That is no different than what right-wingers do in order to advance their agenda They were even called un-American. What is more American than protesting and exercising one’s right to free speech?

This is a thinly vailed attempt to silence them. This is evidence that the right is running scared. Scared of these children who are livid and rising up. The NRA, Trump, and their lackeys may have well met their match.

The initial attack was even more despicable and vicious:

https://thinkprogress.org/the-new-smear-campaign-against-students-who-survived-the-parkland-massacre-b71c1e1d722c/

(selected excerpts)

In yet another account of what is happening…

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/business/media/parkland-shooting-media-conspiracy.html

(selected excerpts)

The teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., who a week ago lost 17 of their classmates and school staff members in a mass shooting, have emerged as passionate advocates for reform, speaking openly of their anger in the hope of forcing a reckoning on guns.

And your gripe is exactly why the left decided to go with children in making the argument, so that the adults who were tired of getting their behinds handed to them in these debates could have a rebuttal free charge leveled at their opponents, now they do not even have to take responsibility for their irresponsibility, just point at the kids they requite making the same arguments they have been so wrong about previously and say look how they pick on kids...I am sure you see the truth here so you may want to find a child if you want to dispute my point

That's EXACTLY why they use children. The shame factor. "How DARE you speak ill of the pooooor suffering chilllllldren". Spare me.

It's the right who has a history of using children in debates such as abortion, and same sex marriage .

It was THEM first mom!

Thank you for that eloquent, sensitive and well thought out response to a horrific tragedy. And thank you for raising the level of intellectual discourse on USMB....keep up the good work!

Hello, yes waiter...umm can I get an extra serving of guilt to go with my guilt? This stuff is truly great! Thanks.
Spare me.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Thank you for that eloquent, sensitive and well thought out response to a horrific tragedy. And thank you for raising the level of intellectual discourse on USMB....keep up the good work!

lol..."feckless stupid ass" is the "eloquent, senesitive well thought out response thus far eh?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

I think you have collected all of them on this thread apart from koshergirl.
Im not sure that they hate these children. Its just that their guns mean more to them than the lives of children.

Fucked up priorities, but who's surprised?

No one.
You think that you have seen it all but the power of stupidity mixed with self interest will always be a step ahead.
Are these types typical or do decent Americans shun them like the trash that they are ?