{"id":95110,"date":"2018-02-22T16:19:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95110"},"modified":"2018-02-22T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:20:34","slug":"florida-shooting-survivor-cnn-gave-scripted-question-after-refusing-question-about-armed-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=95110","title":{"rendered":"Why is CNN giving scripted questions to FL shooting survivor and then lying about it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Florida Shooting Survivor: CNN Gave &#8220;Scripted Question&#8221; After Refusing Question About Armed Guards<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<br \/>\n<em>Originally posted at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ibankcoin.com\/zeropointnow\/2018\/02\/22\/jrotc-shooting-survivor-cnn-gave-me-scripted-question-after-refusing-to-air-his\/\">iBankCoin.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student said he was approached by CNN to ask a question at Wednesday night&#8217;s town hall, but declined after the network gave him a &#8220;scripted question&#8221; instead of allowing him to ask his own question.<\/p>\n<p>Colton Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC who shielded students while shots rang out, Local 10 news that he was going to ask a question about hiring veterans as armed security guards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted,&#8221; Haab told WPLG-TV.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s going get anything accomplished. It&#8217;s not gonna ask the true questions that all the parents and teachers and students have.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ROTC student Colton Haab, who shielded students from the school gunman, says CNN scripted the entire townhall event and censored him from asking the questions that he wanted to ask.<\/p>\n<p>CNN is pure propaganda. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/AD1e7uGMV9\">pic.twitter.com\/AD1e7uGMV9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Saavedra ?? (@RealSaavedra) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RealSaavedra\/status\/966577114655805442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>CNN conducted the town hall on the Florida school shooting with Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bill Nelson (D-FL), along with Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and the NRA&#8217;s Dana Loesch. Students and parents took turns asking questions about gun control and ensuring school safety.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I expected to be able to ask my questions and give my opinion on my questions,&#8221; Haab said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Colton Haab, a member of the Junior ROTC who shielded classmates in the midst of terror says he did not get to share his experience,&#8221; WPLG&#8217;s Janine Stanwood explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Colton wrote questions about school safety, suggested using veterans as armed school security guards but claims CNN wanted him to ask a scripted question instead so he decided not to go,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>reported Stanwood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted,&#8221; Haab said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s going get anything accomplished. It&#8217;s not gonna ask the true questions that all the parents and teachers and students have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response CNN released the following statement Thursday morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CNN did not, and does not, script any questions for town hall meetings, ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone is lying.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-22\/florida-shooting-survivor-cnn-gave-scripted-question-after-refusing-question-about#comment-11219345\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-22\/florida-shooting-survivor-cnn-gave-scripted-question-after-refusing-question-about#comment-11219345<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Shooting Survivor: CNN Gave &#8220;Scripted Question&#8221; After Refusing Question About Armed Guards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}