As we and others reported Tuesday, the Parkland, Florida home of anti-gun activist David Hogg was targeted with a potentially deadly “swatting” incident, which resulted in police being dispatched after a false claim that someone was barricaded in the home. It’s not known who placed the false call, but the sleuths over at the George Soros-funded Media Matters have already pointed a finger of blame.
After months of right-wing media attacks, family of Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is targeted in dangerous harassment incident https://t.co/7e49OzAWrm pic.twitter.com/mVRrT58mgJ
— Media Matters (@mmfa) June 5, 2018
According to Media Matters:
Trending: Teen tyrant David Hogg falsely claims NRA is ‘funded and controlled’ by Russians
The dangerous swatting episode follows months of right-wing media harassment faced by Hogg and other Parkland shooting survivors, who became prime targets of ludicrous conspiracy theories and ad-hominem attacks after speaking out against America’s endemic gun violence problem. Fox personalities used airtime to attack Hogg and other survivors for targeting gun manufacturers with activism, and Fox host Laura Ingraham taunted and mocked Hogg online, leading to an advertiser boycott that Fox News has yet to recover from. Hogg even drew the ire of Mike Adams, a far-right conspiracy theorist, who launched the absurdly-named HoggWatch.com, which is dedicated to following Parkland survivors’ every move and pushing fake stories about them.
Let’s list out the suspects according to the radical leftists over at Media Matters, shall we?
- Conservative bloggers, especially those who support the Second Amendment
- Fox News and Fox News personalities
- The NRA
- Anyone critical of David Hogg
Fortunately, Hogg and his mother were out of town and no one was harmed. Hogg dismissed the swatting as a “distraction” from his anti-gun bus tour.
As Twitchy noted, “conservative outlet after conservative outlet rightly decried the SWAT-ting incident,” but that obviously didn’t matter to the leftists at Media Matters who apparently aren’t interested in the truth — only fomenting hate and possible violence against those with whom they disagree.
Twitchy quite correctly added:
We hate to break this to Media Matters, but there’s a huge difference between mocking David Hogg or calling him out on his B.S. and attempted murder. Moreover, there are still a lot of unanswered questions about what happened. Who the hell is Media Matters to accuse the “right-wing media” of being responsible for this? Was the “left-wing media” to blame when conservatives like Erick Erickson were victims of SWAT-ting?
Others weighed in:
Right wing? Do you know who did it?
— allen heck (@AllenHeck) June 5, 2018
No they don’t, but getting the truth isn’t the goal. Demonizing conservatives is the real objective.
This is really irresponsible. We have no idea who the perpetrator was as of yet, and we're already blaming people for inciting him or her? https://t.co/emUbubEmnz
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) June 5, 2018
It would actually have to improve 100 percent to rise to the level of irresponsible.
You have NO evidence of who did this. This has happened to folks on the right who have faced attacks from left-wing media (including you)… I guess that means you’re to blame for those instances, right?
You scumbags. https://t.co/4M9HHe5qaK
— Meech (@michi83) June 5, 2018
Scumbags… Ouch.
It’ll be a heck of a deal if it turns out to be a left-wing victimologist who called it in.
— Joe Spellman🏌️ (@golfmax13) June 6, 2018
MM is basically saying some right-winger did this. This is crap reporting. Come back when you have nothing but the facts. pic.twitter.com/r2hx69uQWr
— Michael Hands (@MichaelHands1) June 6, 2018
When it turns out that a left-wing lunatic did this, how long before you denounce them?
— Samuel Ditz (@BippityDooDah) June 5, 2018
Our guess is never.
One person nailed it:
Irresponsible tweet. But you are an irresponsible “organization”.
— Raider Kramer (@raiderkramer88) June 5, 2018
Related:
- Eyebrows raised: David Hogg calls ‘swatting’ incident at Florida home ‘a silly prank’
- Anti-gun Florida students launch gun control bus tour
- Soros-funded Media Matters falsely claims criticism of Obama portrait artist a manufactured, coordinated smear campaign
- Soros-funded Media Matters falsely claims social media companies not censoring conservatives
- Media Matters using Roy Moore allegations to smear Sean Hannity with false claims of defending child sex abuse
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