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FL School Shooting Survivor: CNN Scripted questions

SP33Demon

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...he_script_they_scripted_entire_town_hall.html

Haab, a JROTC member who helped shepherd students to safety, was approached by the network to ask a question at the town hall. Haab showed CNN what he wanted to say but said Carrie Stevenson, an executive producer at CNN, ultimately rejected it and instead after several conversations "scripted" a question for him.

"CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted," Haab said to a local news outlet Wednesday night.

CNN once again trying hard to live up to the C in their name - "Counterfeit" for those out of the loop. Are any of you surprised these tools continue to script town halls? What is so hard about letting people act organically and of their own free will? Worried that people won't say what you like, CNN? Losers. And you guys wonder why Trump got voted in, start with our own "honest" and "genuine" MSM.
 

soundforbjt

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You mean it was like Drumpf’s staged listening?
Does he have it on tape? Or is it just his word?
 
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Pens1566

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Eh, that story doesn't fit at all with the way the town hall played out. Aside from the one mother who lost a child, they all asked short personal questions. The mother did as well, she just took longer to get there. He wanted to deliver a speech, that wasn't the format.

Try harder to find fault with the overall issue using another, different, misdirection.
 

umbrella39

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Did the children have to sign an oath of loyalty before speaking? So those kids weren't killed then. Phew...
 

HomerJS

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To properly judge this we would need to see what kid says he wrote, followed by what he said CNN wrote for him. Absent that I can't judge.
 

soundforbjt

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To properly judge this we would need to see what kid says he wrote, followed by what he said CNN wrote for him. Absent that I can't judge.
He supposedly got an email at one point, that could prove his case, didn’t see it anywhere.
 
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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...he_script_they_scripted_entire_town_hall.html



CNN once again trying hard to live up to the C in their name - "Counterfeit" for those out of the loop. Are any of you surprised these tools continue to script town halls? What is so hard about letting people act organically and of their own free will? Worried that people won't say what you like, CNN? Losers. And you guys wonder why Trump got voted in, start with our own "honest" and "genuine" MSM.

Ooh, sweet propaganda. Vladi sent you a message to wake you up?
 

OWR88

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Good questions though.
Foxnews wouldn't be able to ask such good questions.
 

nickqt

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Repeat well what your handlers have trained you well to repeat, scumbucket.
 
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This claim just defies all reasoning for anyone who watched the event itself. No one gave a speech. He says he was asked to. What he say he wanted to talk about was talked about repeatedly so they weren’t suppressing the question and none of the other dozens of students have come forward supporting his claim.

This doesn’t pass the smell test.
 
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Here's what the young man from the school said: I believe his words, feel free to take the CNN spokesperson's word.


“I just want to make sure I have this straight,” Carlson said. “So you sent them a long, in effect, essay on what you thought, but they put their own words in the question and they weren’t the same as the words you had sent in? They were the producer’s words?”

“Absolutely,” Haab said. “They had taken what I had wrote and what I had briefed on and talked about and they actually wrote the question for me.”


“But not with your words, I mean they put their own words into your question, even after they asked to you send questions in. But that seems dishonest,” the Daily Caller co-founder said.

“It definitely did. That’s kind of why I didn’t go last night. Originally I had thought that it was going to be more of my own question and my own say and then it turned out to be more of just a script. And she had actually said that over the phone I needed to stick to the script.”"

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/22/tucker-colton-haab-cnn/
 

Jhhnn

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Here's what the young man from the school said: I believe his words, feel free to take the CNN spokesperson's word.


“I just want to make sure I have this straight,” Carlson said. “So you sent them a long, in effect, essay on what you thought, but they put their own words in the question and they weren’t the same as the words you had sent in? They were the producer’s words?”

“Absolutely,” Haab said. “They had taken what I had wrote and what I had briefed on and talked about and they actually wrote the question for me.”


“But not with your words, I mean they put their own words into your question, even after they asked to you send questions in. But that seems dishonest,” the Daily Caller co-founder said.

“It definitely did. That’s kind of why I didn’t go last night. Originally I had thought that it was going to be more of my own question and my own say and then it turned out to be more of just a script. And she had actually said that over the phone I needed to stick to the script.”"

http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/22/tucker-colton-haab-cnn/

I wonder what the other kids have to say. I somehow doubt it's the same.

They have your butt screwed down to the pew. That's for sure.
 

Meghan54

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Thought this was an appropriate response to this thread from the other thread.....


For their part CNN responded to this claim:

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And this:

http://www.newsweek.com/cnn-town-hall-scripted-question-florida-815989

Haab wanted to specifically speak about former military veterans serving as armed security for schools, but it became clear to the network that he intended to give more of a speech than stay in the town hall, question-and-answer format, a source familiar with the production told Newsweek.

“We asked him to expand on his original question but the town hall wasn’t the place for a speech at which point his father declined for him to participate,” the source said.

"CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted," Haab told WPLG-TV. "I expected to be able to ask my questions and give my opinion on my questions."
 

IronWing

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This thread is like deja vu, sort of, I don't know, but it begins with…

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