Fox News smears survivors of Parkland shooting
Fox News smears survivors of Parkland shooting
A more polite version of the right-wing smear campaign comes to America's most-watched news network.
JUDD LEGUM FEB 21, 2018, 10:34 AM
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.
“[M]any of these other students are being used as marionettes by the far left and deep state because they were able to run out of a building. There is no credibility there and it’s disgusting to watch,” Lucian Wintrich, who authored the pieces for Gateway Pundit, told The Wrap.
A more polite version of the same smear quietly made its way to Fox News.
https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-parkland-smear-5331b78ee3e4/
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