CNN denies school shooting town hall was scripted after Parkland massacre survivor claimed the network rejected his question about armed guards and urged him to ask one it had written

Via Drudge:

UK Daily Mail  "CNN has denied scripting questions for Wednesday night's town hall meeting on gun control and safety with survivors of the Parkland massacre.

Haab

Colton Haab, 17, a member of the Junior ROTC who shielded students with Kevlar vests while the school was under attack from the shooter, said he decided not to attend the televised meeting after the network rejected a question he wanted to ask and presented him with one of their own.

" 'CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted,' Haab told Miami's WPLG-TV.

"The network released a statement on Thursday morning refuting Haab's allegation.

"It read: 'There is absolutely no truth to this. CNN did not provide or script questions for anyone in last night's town hall, nor have we ever." . . .

Well, did CNN ask students to give their statements, then coach them on the content? The part above that I highlighted with yellow strikes me as a Clintonesque response.

CNN’s long history of allowing Democratic town-hall plants

. . . "Uh-oh. Get out your best pruning shears and trowels. In an age of micromanaged partisan stagecraft and left-wing media enablers, there is no such thing as a spontaneous question.  

"CNN has a long history of allowing political plants to flourish in its public forums." . . .

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