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Parkland Survivor Says Thanks To Online Conspiracy Theorists

  

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Via:  jbb  •  8 years ago  •  13 comments

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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/parkland-survivor-says-thanks-to-online-conspiracy-theorists/ar-BBJzv6T?li=BBnb7Kz


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JBB
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1  seeder  JBB    8 years ago

To those who spread krazy false conspiracy theories defaming Parkland survivors, "Welcome to the Hall of Shame"...

 
 
 
Freefaller
Professor Quiet
1.1  Freefaller  replied to  JBB @1    8 years ago

Yep they crawl out to spew their nonsense any time there's some sort of national crisis

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
1.1.1  seeder  JBB  replied to  Freefaller @1.1    8 years ago

It seems they have fill in the blank conspiracies already in the bag ready to roll for any horror in a moment's notice...

 
 
 
Skrekk
Sophomore Quiet
1.1.2  Skrekk  replied to  JBB @1.1.1    8 years ago

It's kind of astonishing how gullible right wingers really are.

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
2  seeder  JBB    8 years ago

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?

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
Professor Expert
3  Buzz of the Orient    8 years ago

People expose their true character when they hide behind a computer:

See the source image

 
 
 
Freefaller
Professor Quiet
3.1  Freefaller  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @3    8 years ago

That would be nice wouldn't it?

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
Professor Guide
4  A. Macarthur    8 years ago

Fox uses falsified email to accuse CNN of "scripting" questions during their Parkland Town Hall

Comparatively, the emails provided to   Huffington Post   and Fox News show one very big difference. In the email purportedly from Stevenson provided by the Haab family, the second paragraph is changed from the original email provided to Mediaite. The email provided to the   Huffington Post   reads: “ This is what Colton and I discussed on the phone. He needs to stick to this.”

An additional email exchange provided by Fox News to CNN and inquiring for comment shows the same language.

The change leaves out the important context from the original email, which included “that he submitted,” making clear that the question came from Colton.

According to a CNN source, after Colton sent over his list of questions he wanted to ask at the town hall, Stevenson spoke on the phone with the student to decide on which question he’d use.   The framing language for the question that was emailed over later came verbatim from a   Fox & Friends   interview Colton had done that helped draw CNN’s attention to him.

Prior to Stevenson sending Colton’s father the email asking that Colton “stick” to the question that he submitted, the source noted that Glenn had been in touch with Stevenson telling her that Colton would like to be given an opportunity to say more. At one point, Glenn emailed over a multi-page speech that was laced with questions and comments that Colton would prefer to read instead, thus prompting Stevenson’s email requesting Colton stay with the one question.

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!

 
 
 
Skrekk
Sophomore Quiet
4.1  Skrekk  replied to  A. Macarthur @4    8 years ago

Bummer for the wingnuts that Colton's daddy admitted he lied and fabricated the email, eh?

 
 
 
Krishna
Professor Guide
5  Krishna    8 years ago

"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.

 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
Professor Participates
6  Hal A. Lujah    8 years ago

It’s okay, Russia is working on a plan to curb the positive exposure.

 
 
 
Dean Moriarty
Professor Silent
8  Dean Moriarty    8 years ago

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. 

 
 

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