Erick Erickson wrote a very fair assessment of Florida shooting survivor David Hogg and his increasingly vituperative rhetorical assaults on defenders of the Second Amendment.
SO of course, the media is now twisting what he said in order to make him look bad:
Conservative writer labels Florida shooting survivor a “bully” for pushing gun reform https://t.co/RryxpEaiiB pic.twitter.com/Zqvi7bMLXy
— The Hill (@thehill) February 27, 2018
But that’s not what it said:
Here’s an excerpt:
He is using his status as victim to inappropriately and ridiculously attack people while going unchallenged.
David Hogg is a bully.
He may be a survivor of the high school shooting in Parkland, FL, but he is using that position to avoid being challenged on his increasingly inane and hostile statements. He is using his position to bully others.
First, he slandered Dana Loesch on television without challenge. He accused her of a litany of terribles and a failure to support victims. He turns the NRA into murderers.
And now he’s on television blaming the Governor of Florida for not stopping the shooter at the high school. Hogg will not blame the elected Sheriff. He will not blame the deputies who refused to go into the building. No, the real culprit is Rick Scott, the Governor, whose office is hundreds of miles away in Tallahassee. David Hogg wants Scott held accountable as the boss of the Sheriff and ignores that Sheriff Israel is elected.
But you won’t hear an honest assessment of what he said because the media is definitely not on our side.