Parkland Survivor Says Thanks To Online Conspiracy Theorists
Parkland Survivor Says Thanks To Online Conspiracy Theorists
Florida high school shooting survivor David Hogg wants to say thank you to all the conspiracy theorists and detractors he believes have helped amplify his real message.
Hogg, 17, said the people attacking him online as a "crisis actor" who's been "coached" on anti-gun talking points are really just "great advertisers."
"These people that have been attacking me on social media, they've been great advertisers. Ever since they started attacking me, my Twitter followers are now a quarter of a million people. People have continued to cover us in the media. They've done a great job of that, and for that, I honestly thank them," Hogg told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" on Sunday.
Hogg is one of the outspoken students from Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who has been talking about the need for gun control after a gunman killed 17 students and teachers there and wounded more.
He has become the subject of smear campaigns and demonstrably false conspiracy theories that say either he has been "coached" by his father, a former FBI agent; or he is a "pawn" for anti-gun campaigners; or he is not a victim but a "crisis actor," paid to travel to disaster sites to argue against stricter gun laws.
Hogg said the only thing that these conspiracy theorists have exposed is how "disgusting they are," he said.
"The fact that they're calling out me, as a witness of this horrifying incident, that I'm a crisis actor? ... I feel for those people, honestly," he said.
"They've lost faith in America. But we certainly haven't. And that's ok, because we're going to outlive them," he added.

To those who spread krazy false conspiracy theories defaming Parkland survivors, "Welcome to the Hall of Shame"...
Yep they crawl out to spew their nonsense any time there's some sort of national crisis
It seems they have fill in the blank conspiracies already in the bag ready to roll for any horror in a moment's notice...
It's kind of astonishing how gullible right wingers really are.
No, really. Thank you on-line conspiracy nuts for exposing just how low you can and will go. At long last, have you no decency?
People expose their true character when they hide behind a computer:
That would be nice wouldn't it?
Fox uses falsified email to accuse CNN of "scripting" questions during their Parkland Town Hall
CNN had simply asked Haab to keep things to just one question, one which he himself had submitted not a speech because there were many other people who wanted a chance to speak or ask questions. Haab’s father responded to this request, which was essentially to respect others by not hogging up all the time by claiming “we’re not actors” and then provided a copy of the CNN email that omits the fact that question was one that he had submitted himself.
After this Haab refused to attend the Town Hall, then went on Fox News to accuse all the other persons from Stoneman Douglas of allowing themselves to be “CNN scripted puppets.”
This is a sad and disgusting lie concocted by a kid and his dad who simply wants to grandstand over what happened to his friends at Stoneman Douglas, and deserves to be thrown on the trash pile of sick conspiracy theories such as the claim that some students at Douglas are “crisis actors” , that they are the pawns of George Soros the Left Wing and the FBI , that they “Hate America” , they “Hate Freedom” and gun violence is really the “fault of the main stream media” that Fox, the NRA and other Ammosexuals have vomited up to distract from their being complicit in the ongoing gun deaths of over 33,000 Americans every year.
They tried to promote a conspiracy theory to smear CNN and they got caught.
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Lyin' MF'ers!
Bummer for the wingnuts that Colton's daddy admitted he lied and fabricated the email, eh?
"These people that have been attacking me on social media, they've been great advertisers.
Ever since they started attacking me, my Twitter followers are now a quarter of a million people.
People have continued to cover us in the media. They've done a great job of that, and for that, I honestly thank them," Hogg told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" on Sunday.
There's an old saying amongst movie stars in Hollywood re: negative coverage in the media:
I don't care what they're sayin' about me as long was what they're talking about is me!
And there's a lot of truth to that---the more they're talking about Hogg and other students pro-life activists, the more people will see the coverage. And the more that happens, the more they will be able to get their message across.
It’s okay, Russia is working on a plan to curb the positive exposure.
I wonder if he is going to get a kickback from the gun manufacturers as he is probably their best salesman this year. I have a feeling we are going to see a big spike in gun sales this month.