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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 11:23 AM Jun 2017

Sandy Hook Families Beg NBC to Nix Megyn Kelly's Interview With Alex Jones

The families of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting are begging NBC to pull Megyn Kelly’s interview with Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, currently slated to air on Father’s Day—and hinting that legal action could follow if the station pushes ahead with the program. Lawyers representing 12 parents and family members sent a letter to NBC bigwigs on Thursday afternoon, asking them not to run the interview with Jones, who has claimed that the mass shooting was a hoax perpetrated by “crisis actors.” The letter claims that NBC is providing Jones with “legitimacy” and inflicting “serious emotional distress” on the families. Twenty young children and six staff members died in the massacre. Kelly has promised that her interview will be hard-hitting and will “press” Jones on Sandy Hook, but critics have blasted the trailer promoting it. Late Thursday, Jones revealed he secretly recorded Kelly and published audio that appears to indicate the new NBC hire promised to go easy on him in the interview.

Read the full letter here.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/sandy-hook-families-beg-nbc-to-nix-megyn-kellys-interview-with-alex-jones?via=desktop&source=copyurl

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Sandy Hook Families Beg NBC to Nix Megyn Kelly's Interview With Alex Jones (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2017 OP
They should nix both dalton99a Jun 2017 #1
I would be banned for life lapislzi Jun 2017 #3
Please allow me to express as articulately as I can lapislzi Jun 2017 #2

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
3. I would be banned for life
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 11:40 AM
Jun 2017

if I said what I was thinking about these two.

Unto eternity. Their children, their children's children, unto the seventh generation.

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
2. Please allow me to express as articulately as I can
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 11:38 AM
Jun 2017

the anguish felt by these families, their extended families, their friends, and their colleagues. I count myself among them.

My friend was offered an opportunity by Kelly to present (their) side. THERE. IS. NO. SIDE. Facts are facts whether you accept them or not. Not accepting them makes you an idiot. Not accepting this particular set of facts makes you a cruel idiot.

There are dozens of people in my workplace, sick at heart, circling the wagons around my friend to keep them safe and supported. This is no trivial matter. It is an outrage.

My friend's family will spend Father's Day trying to stay away from anyone who looks like a media type...because the last thing they want is for Sandy Hook to be in the news again.

Please spare a thought on Sunday for the fathers who have no children to make them handmade cards or lopsided pots.

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