“Fanaticism and
ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding” is a line from the film “Inherit the Wind”, a 1960 film
adaptation of the 1955 play by the same name written thirty years after the
famous Scopes Monkey Trial.
Journalists were
looking for a showdown in 1925 when a high school teacher had been charged with
violating a state law which forbade the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of
evolution which denied the divine creation of man.
Conflicts arise when
people do not value or respect differing beliefs. “Inherit the Wind” attempted to
convey the need to fight for the freedom to think for one’s self and the need
to respect opinions which differ from their own.
Last night, CNN was
looking for a showdown by hosting a propaganda event in Sunrise, FL featuring
the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Rep. Ted Deutch, Sen.
Bill Nelson, Sen. Marco Rubio, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch and Broward County
Sheriff Scott Israel. Ben Shapiro described it as a “stacked show
trial.”
That’s precisely what
it was which brings me back to the line “fanaticism and ignorance is forever
busy and needs feeding.” People cheered
for a massive gun ban and unabashedly accused their political opponents of
being murderers.
These traumatized children were carefully organized by liberals.
These traumatized children were carefully organized by liberals.
Cameron
Kasky, one of the students, lashed out at Sen. Rubio saying, “I'm sorry, I know I'm
not supposed to do this, but I'm not going to listen to that. Senator Rubio,
it's hard to look at you and not look down the barrel of an AR-15 and not look
at Nikolas Cruz, but the point is: You're here and there are some people who
are not.”
He asked Rubio if he’d
stop accepting money from the NRA. Rubio
waffled. Kasky asked the question again and again and again, until eventually Rubio
provided a tepid answer.
The so-called town hall
quickly devolved into a grotesque version of the appalling Jerry Springer Show. On full display last night was tribalism
masquerading as urgent social policy.
They booed a rape victim’s story.
The questions asked by
the students were scripted
by CNN’s producers.
Colton Haab, a Junior
ROTC student and survivor of the school shooting said he was going to
participate in the town hall but decided not to when the network provided him
with a list of scripted questions according to ABC affiliate WPLG-TV.
Haab said he was
planning to ask about school safety and the possibility of using veterans as
armed security guards in schools. After being told he had to ask a scripted
question, Haab decided not to attend.
CNN refuted
Haab's claim Thursday morning on its communications page on Twitter saying, “There
is absolutely no truth to this. CNN did
not provide or script questions for anyone in last night’s town hall, nor have
we ever.”
Haab saved lives that
day by using Kevlar sheets to protect his classmates. I don’t think calling this young hero a liar
is a good look for the most busted name in news.
CNN would
never sell its soul but will cheerfully rent it out for desperately needed ratings.
In another spectacle, Broward
County Sheriff Scott Israel confronted NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, telling her
she was not standing up for the victims of a school shooting in Florida.
“I understand you’re
standing up for the NRA and I understand that’s what you’re supposed to do, but
you just told this group of people that you are standing up for them. You are
not standing up for them until you say, ‘I want less weapons.’”
The sanctimonious sheriff,
along with the FBI failed the victims of the Florida shooter. Despite repeated
calls to authorities, Cruz was never arrested and was basically cleared as
being “no threat to anyone or himself,” as one therapist said in a police
report from Sept. 28, 2016.
Attorney General Jeff
Session declared, "It is now clear that the warning signs were there and tips
to the FBI were missed. We see the tragic consequences of those failures."
Have you noticed how the Broward Sheriff’s Office has been spewing Democrat gun control talking points?— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) February 18, 2018
Well, turns out the Sheriff has some interesting friends.
How convenient for them that he’s getting so much media attention... #FloridaSchoolShooting #Parkland pic.twitter.com/uSHFgujho9
If you in any way
believe last night’s show trial wasn’t about Democrats attacking the Second
Amendment and disarming law-abiding citizens get a load of what one
Democrat said this morning.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)
said he is not interested in compromising with the National Rifle Association
on gun control. “I am normally interested in compromise. Not this time. I
cannot imagine a bill that would make a difference that the NRA supports. We
don’t need to cut a deal with them, we need to beat them.”
