LA Times - In an age of 'alternative facts,' a massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax

[TomCADem]

The President is the most famous fan of Alex Jones's Infowars.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/in-an-age-of-alternative-facts-a-massacre-of-schoolchildren-is-called-a-hoax/ar-AAmGQ2U

NEWTOWN, Conn. — If there is anything worse than losing a child, it is losing a child and having people taunt you over the loss. That is what happened to the family of Noah Pozner, a 6-year-old with tousled brown hair and lollipop-red lips, the youngest of the 26 children and staff members gunned down in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

In the years since the massacre that shook the country and opened new anxiety over gun violence, the family has received hate-filled calls and violent emails from people who say they know the shooting was a hoax. Photos of their son — some with pornographic and anti-Semitic content — have been distributed on websites.

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But they have gained fresh momentum in the last several months, residents here say, at a time when conspiracy theorists across the country have attained the status of celebrities, and the nation as a whole is engaged in a contentious debate over the nature of truth.

President Donald Trump and his national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, have been open enthusiasts of Alex Jones' Infowars, a Web-based radio and video network that has relentlessly pushed the theory that Sandy Hook was staged by Democrats to advance a gun control agenda.

[applegrove]

1. They can't win elections unless they have a mighty gun culture, increasing

gun ownership and gun rights voters. So they attack the truth and it's victims. All so that rich people don't have to pay taxes.

[Cha]

2. Stupid Ugly beings have taken over our country..

let's get it the fuck back.

[Docreed2003]

3. They way families from Sandy Hook have been treated is disgusting...

My wife has a friend through PTO at my son's school. They became fast friends through PTO events and mom's nights. It was weeks after they met that this friend confided in my wife that they had moved to this area after they had lost a child at Sandy Hook. My wife just hugged her, what else could she do? I can't begin to imagine going through something like that and then to have a bunch of extremists claim it was all a hoax? To have the current President of the US embrace these loons??? So disgusting.

[world wide wally]

6. And everyone that voted for the orange pos is equally disgusting

[3catwoman3]

4. Of all the vile acts people have committed, to ...

...accuse bereaved parents of faking it disgusts me beyond words

[NBachers]

5. *sigh*