Media malfeasance is out of control. President Trump moves to man bumpstocks, and we examine the other

gun proposals on the table. We'll talk about all of it. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

All righty, so we have a lot to get to today. The media had just been utterly irresponsible in their coverage of the entire Parkland situation.

They are obviously pushing for gun control. They don't have any specific proposals, but they're pushing as hard as humanly possible for gun control nonetheless. I want to talk about all of that, including a smear by the Huffington Post against me personally, a bunch of other smears against people who are pro-gun rights across the board. And I want to talk a little bit about some people on the right who have made fools of themselves over the last couple of days. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Legacy Box. So if you are interested in preserving your family's memories, which everyone should be, Legacy Box is the way to do it. I mean, as you get older, especially when you have kids, one of the things that you spend a lot of time thinking about is I wish I could remember when that happened. And that's why you take all those pictures, right? But then those pictures go into storage. Maybe you printed them out and you stuck them in the garage somewhere. All the stuff from when you were a kid certainly is like that. All the stuff from when your parents were kids absolutely is like that. They're on 8mm or on old film. Well, that's what Legacy Box is for. So Legacy Box sends a box to your house.

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going to start today by discussing all of the various gun proposals that are on the table. But instead,

the media have forced me to discuss their absolute malfeasance throughout this entire debacle.

After the tragedy and the and the evil horror of what happened at Parkland, the media's first move was to jump to the suggestion that everyone who disagreed with them on gun control was, of course, nasty and me. Now, this is nothing new. I sort of got famous off of saying exactly this to Pierce Morgan, because Pierce Morgan was famous for doing this. I said to him that he was standing on the graves of the kids of Sandy Hook to push his agenda, and the media continued to do this tonight. Of course, CNN is supposed to have a big town hall event where they have a bunch of the students from Parkland. We'll see if they have any of the students from Parkland who are not in favor of gun control. The answer is probably not. But the media have been using these students in order to push their gun control agenda. Now, I have never attempted to smear

the students themselves. I have never said that the students don't have a right to speak. I have

never insulted the student's pain. I've never insulted what the students went through. But because I

say that you ought to have expertise on a topic if we're going to take you seriously, this is

enough to get you labeled a smearer of the student. So Huffington Post led the way last night. They put up a headline

that looked like this. And it's just egregious. It says, survivor smears with a picture of me

personally and says, some conservatives are trying to discredit outspoken Florida shooting survivors.

I have not tried to discredit any shooting survivor. I have not smeared any shooting survivor. That's absurd. It's insulting and it's disgusting. The only thing that I have said about the shooting survivors is the same thing that I said about Jimmy Kimmel when it came to him bringing his son on the show after his son went through an open heart surgery, which is just because you went through suffering does not make you an expert on a particular topic. This has been my consistent stance on virtually every event of major consequence in the United States for my entire career, is that just because you went through something doesn't mean that you have been conferred with certain expertise. And that's what I wrote over at National Review. I had a long piece on it. I've discussed it on the show. But the idea that that is disrespect to the students to suggest that perhaps they don't know all the details of what they're talking about, or at the very least, they have to show expertise in the topic for me to take their opinions more seriously. I'm happy to take their opinions on what pain and suffering of people who have gone through a difficult situation looks like. They are experts in having gone through a traumatic situation. So I'm happy

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