Parkland survivor David Hogg gets the royal treatment from CNN. Social media stocks take a tumble,

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Ask all your questions and then invest with my friends over at Birchgold when you're ready to do some precious metals investing. Okay, so the fallout over the Parkland shooting continues, and the fallout from the media continues. So we've been told this story, which is that all the Parkland survivors have innate moral authority and can speak on any issue without any criticism. Now, I have said over and over and over on this program, listen to every episode since Parkland, I've said these kids have a right to speak out. Of course they have a right to speak out. This is America. When I was 17 years old, I had a syndicated columnist. But this comes with a caveat. The caveat is you will get criticized. People will criticize you.

People will pick apart what you are saying publicly, especially when you're the type of person

who goes on national television and suggests that all those who disagree with you are actually

akin to child murderers. If you do that, it turns out people get pissed off. Okay, but the media

have decided that any criticism of these kids whatsoever, not their right to speak, not their

expertise, right? If you criticize the stuff they are saying, if you say what they are saying

is wrong, or if you say, I don't think that they are conducting themselves properly publicly,

right, if you say that sort of stuff, then you are a hater, then you are brutal, then you are

doing something terrible. I don't understand why this should be the case. Really, in public life, everyone gets criticized. It's part of the way this works. And when you're speaking on issues of deep public importance, fundamental issues to American liberty and, frankly, human liberty, like should you have the right to keep and bear arms, then passions are going to run high. And not only are passion is going to run high, people have not only every right, but every responsibility to speak out against perspectives that they think are bad. And I think a lot of what these kids have been saying is wrong, non-factual. I think some of what they've been saying is immoral when they suggest that Marco Rubio is akin to the shooter in Parkland. And when they say that Dana Lash is a murderer with blood on her hands, and stuff is disgusting. And not only do I have every right, I have every moral obligation to speak up against it because it's gross. But that's not how the media have treated this. So CNN tweeted this out about David Hogg. David Hogg is, of course, the guy who's probably become the most famous of these Parkland survivors. Emma Gonzalez is the other one who's

really gained a lot of credibility. She's very good at media. Emma Gonzalez, I think, really knows how to handle herself. David Hogg, not so much. He thinks that the sort of Che Guevera attitude, the fist in the air thing that you're seeing here, is what's going to win the day, that anger wins the day. Emma Gonzalez understands that anger doesn't win the day. She's much better at this than David Hogg, just from a purely political point of view.

If you're going to pick one of those two people to run for office, there's no doubt in my mind you run Emma Gonzalez, not David Hogg. In any case, the media have decided that David Hogg's voice is deeply important and that he should be booked on every show. So he's been on CNN a thousand times at this point. And this is what CNN tweeted out yesterday, quote,

a brief history of how Parkland survivor David Hogg keeps schooling lawmakers on social media. Yeah, that sounds like objective journalism to me. Okay, we here at the Daily Wire, we're not objective. So when we say that somebody is schooling somebody else, you can assume that we're conservative. And we're saying that a conservative is schooling a leftist. Why? Because And we are a conservative website, and we make that obvious and known. But CNN is supposed to be objectives. Does that sound like an objective headline to you? A brief history of how Parkland survivor David Hogg keeps schooling lawmakers on social media. Of course not. Well, the big controversy that's broken out over David Hogg in the last 24 hours concerns Laura Ingram. So Laura retweeted a piece that was on our website. The piece that was on our website about David Hogg being rejected by certain colleges originally appeared at TMZ. So the story did not originate with us. And it really only originated with David Hogg because he was interviewed by TMZ somewhere and he started discussing which colleges he had gotten into. So we begin with what David Hogg actually said about not getting into colleges. And there are a couple ways of reading this, and I want to be fair to him. So here's what the, here's what the clip said. It's not been too great for me and some of the other members of the movement like Ryan Deich. We got rejected from Cal State. Sorry. We got rejected from UCLA, and I got rejected from UCLA and UCSD.

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