In the aftermath of the Florida school shootings, CNSNews.com knew who had to be denounced: survivors of the shooting who demanded solutions to gun violence in America. CNS also knew who needed to be protected and promoted: the National Rifle Association.
CNS reporter Susan Jones — best known for her pro-Trump stenography — applied those same skills onbehalf of the NRA. She devoted two articles to NRA official Wayne LaPierre’s speech at CPAC, both of which highlighted his rants about socialism for some reason:
- NRA’s LaPierre Warns of ‘New Socialist Wave in America’
- Wayne LaPierre: ‘European-Style Socialists’ Want to ‘Make…All of You Less Free’
Jones also penned an article highlighting how “President Trump reached out to the National Rifle Association on Thursday, amid the unrelenting demonization of the organization in America’s latest gun control debate.” Jones dismissed Trump’s divergence from NRA-approved position by claim that he was “apparently responding to things he watched on morning television.”
CNS, this time in the person of managing editor Michael W. Chapman, also fawned over NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch’s aggressive defense of her employer in her CPAC speech:
- Dana Loesch: CNN Doesn’t Do Town Halls on Gun Violence With ‘Grieving Black Mothers in Chicago’
- NRA’s Dana Loesch: Liberals ‘Call Trump a Tyrant’ But Want Him to Confiscate Our Firearms – ‘Figure That One Out!’
A couple days before CPAC, Jones penned an article about an “liberal Democrat” and “anti-NRA” candidate for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court who failed to advance in the primary, and she touted how one of the candidates who did advance (the Republican, natch) was effectively endorsed by the NRA. But Jones glossed over the fact that the two Democratic judicial candidates got more votes combined than the lone Republican candidate, and she also ignored the fact that one possible factor in the “anti-NRA” candidate losing was not his NRA stance but that he was not a judge like the other two candidates and had tried few cases in Wisconsin courtrooms.