ABC, NBC Glorify Gun Control Rally, Wonder Where it Could Go

Nicholas Fondacaro | March 25, 2018
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The Sunday morning after the so-called March for Our Lives rally where hundreds of thousands of anti-gun kids parroted liberal chants and slogans, the liberal network news outlets of ABC and NBC were eager to throw heaps of praise on them. It was the first story that they got to that morning and each one of them was focused on where the “movement” was going and what change they could possibly bring on the issue.

But we are going to start here with the March for Our Lives. And here's the big question on this morning after: what next,” asked Dan Harris, co-anchor for ABC’s Good Morning America. “After all the dramatic speeches by the young survivors of gun violence, after all the celebrity appearances, and all the marches across the country and the world, can this movement produce any real change?

Fill-in co-anchor Adrienne Bankert declared that “there's no question, the images were searing” as she read from some the signs: “This little boy in New York City holding a sign that reads, ‘I can't even bring peanut butter to school.’” Which, was a ridiculous thing for his parents to put in his hands since guns are not allowed in schools either, and, of course, Bankert didn’t mention that.

During the ABC report, journalist David Wright gushed over the “powerful moment” when “Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez silently demonstrating the amount of time it took the gunman to turn her world upside down.” The silence at the rally lasted for six minutes and 20 seconds, but Wright failed to mention that the only reason it took that long was that a Broward County school resource officer was reportedly hiding outside the school like a coward.

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