As if to prove just what a rotted and rancid institution journalism has become, of all the media events to occur last year, the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism has been given[1] to the CNN town hall where a rape victim was booed[2]. You remember this event from last February, the one hosted by the far-left Jake Tapper — the one where CNN’s audience loudly booed a rape victim after learning she purchased a gun to protect herself from a second rape. You all remember Tapper’s indecent silence[3] as this poor woman was booed. And that was only part of it. The whole night was an obscene show trial, a monstrous kangaroo court where during the show those guests invited by CNN to speak on behalf of our Second Amendment civil rights were set up for verbal abuse — and where after the show they reportedly required security[4] to make it safely through CNN’s mob. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was told by one of CNN’s hand-picked anti-gun activists: “it’s hard to look at you and not look down the barrel on an AR-15 and not look at” the monster who murdered who gunned down 17 innocent children at the Parkland, FL, high school. Tapper’s only response was to thank the Parkland student activist for his comment. NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch faced even worse abuse. One student activist trashed her after she left, saying: “I wish I could have asked the NRA lady [Loesch] a question. I would ask her how she can look in the mirror, considering the fact that she has children[.]” Again, Tapper said nothing, and she was attacked a second time when she was not present: “I had a question for Ms. Loesch but she’s not here yet, so, for her and the NRA, which she’s probably watching, and all of you

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