Klamath Falls, OR— The family of Colton Haab, a student at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week, provided a doctored email between Haab's father, Glenn Haab, and a CNN producer to media outlets. Colton told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Thursday that a CNN producer rewrote a question for Haab to ask at the network's town hall-style event on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump tweeted about the interview on Thursday night, calling CNN "fake news."
CNN denies Haab's claims and said, "It is unfortunate that an effort to discredit CNN and the town hall with doctored emails has taken any attention away from the purpose of the event."
The family of Colton Haab, a student at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week, provided a doctored email to media outlets in order to defend Haab's claims that CNN rewrote a question for him to ask at the network's Wednesday town-hall-style event on school shootings.
Haab told the Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday night that CNN executive producer Carrie Stevenson gave him a question to deliver to lawmakers and told him to "stick to the script."
But CNN says there is "absolutely no truth" to Colton's claims, which he first made on a Miami TV-news station.
The Haabs' version of the email:
According to the metadata of the Word document containing the email that was provided to Fox, it appears that Glenn last edited it.
I guess that means Fox News does not count as mass media? Fox News never covers stories on mass shootings? Fox News only reports the truth about everything they do.
Really, I guess the above segment with Tucker Carlson and Parkland shooting survivor Colton Haab is fair and balanced and only the truth and nothing but the truth.
By James Garland of Tulelake News
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