CNN, Jake Tapper Face Growing Criticism Over "Abusive" Anti-Gun "Show Trial"
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/02/22/cnn-tapper-face-intense-criticism-anti-gun-show-trial/
CNN's anti-gun town hall event and its left-wing moderator, Jake Tapper, are facing widespread criticism over what many saw as a bullying "show trial."
Tapper is being singled out for much of the criticism from those who say he remained silent as abusive personal attacks were hurled at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch. Incredibly, Tapper also remained silent as his audience booed a rape victim.
At the Wednesday night spectacle, those in favor of protecting our Second Amendment civil rights were vastly outnumbered by an audience packed with hostile gun-haters and emotional questioners, including children.
According to various reports, the anti-gun participants were given scripted questions crafted by CNN. The last-place network has denied this by attacking a school shooting victim as a liar. His accusation, however, is credible given CNN's long and disturbing history of using plants.
Throughout the hour, the audience heckled, howled, and poured derision on Loesch and Rubio. Other than admonishing his audience for calling Loesch a "murderer," Tapper stood by in silent approval as abuse and personal attacks rained down on his outnumbered guests. ...
But, Dana Loesch hung in there and appropriately ripped the incompetent Broward County Sheriff, Scott Israel.
Dana Loesch Calls Out Florida Sheriff For Failures, He Attacks Her, Backfires Big Time
http://www.dailywire.com/news/27438/dana-loesch-calls-out-florida-sheriff-failures-he-ryan-saavedra
On Wednesday, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch slammed Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel during an overtly one-sided and allegedly "scripted" CNN town hall event on gun control, citing the numerous failures of law enforcement agencies that had made contact with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman.
Israel argued that police need more power to detain individuals, have their firearms taken away, and to have them committed to mental institutions for evaluation to prevent tragedies, at which point Loesch interjected.
"Thirty-nine visits did not meet that standard? Thirty-nine visits, assaulting students, assaulting parents, taking bullets and knives to school, did that not meet that standard?" Loesch questioned.
Israel immediately got defensive, trying to shift attention off of the question by questioning Loesch's knowledge of the incidents in which they were called to the gunman's home.
"They were threatened with death. They were threatened that they were going to ... bleed. They were threatened that they were going to be killed," Loesch told Israel. "He had already taken bullets and knives to school. He had already assaulted people. He had assaulted his parent. He had assaulted other students. 39 visits. And this was known to the intelligence and law enforcement community."
Israel then got nasty with Loesch, telling her that she was not the "litmus test" for law enforcement and then accusing her of spreading false information about the number of times police were called to the shooter's home.
"You're wrong. There weren't 39 visits, some of them ... were GOAs, some of them calls from other states, to say there were 39 visits, I don't know where you got those facts, but you are completely wrong," Israel said.
Israel was wrong, not Loesch.
Ironically, it was CNN, the very network that was hosting the event, that first reported that the police had been called to the gunman's home 39 times ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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