It’s right out of the liberal playbook.

One of the Florida teenagers who’s achieved celebrity status by spewing insults at “pathetic” Second Amendment supporters is backing away from a clash over gun rights with a fellow student.

It’s the act of a coward, pure and simple. But the reason he gave has a holier-than-thou hypocrisy that’s impressive – even for high school.

At issue was a proposed debate between Kyle Kashuv, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas student who has emerged as one of the few voices of sanity after last month’s shootings at the Broward County, Florida, school and Cameron Kasky, another Stoneman Douglas “survivor” and an organizer of the weekend’s anti-gun demonstration in Washington.

After at first seeming to agree to the confrontation, Kasky backed out Monday night – claiming that Kashuv is simply too “low” to share a stage with, because of a Twitter post Kashuv wrote in response to another student.

“Kyle, I’ve enjoyed my discussion about gun laws with you so far, but after seeing this, I think I’m out. For personal reasons,” Kasky wrote to Kashuv. “I disagree on certain policies with some family members of some victims, but I never go after them, especially not like this. This is low.”

And what was it that sent this budding Obama-ite to his fainting couch?

Without getting too far into the weeds of a Twitter dispute (Fox News covers it here), it boils down to Kasky claiming Kashuv isn’t being civil enough to those who disagree with him.

Now, even if the toxic teenagers of Parkland had been gentle as lambs in the past few weeks, that would be nonsense. But the reality is that Kasky and his fellow teen idols from Stoneman Douglas have been anything but civil since they leaped onto the public stage in the shooting aftermath.

Intoxicated with fawning media attention, they’ve shown no compunction about branding gun rights supporters – and especially National Rifle Association supporters – as de facto mass killers, every one of them equivalent to the 19-year-old maniac who ended 17 lives at Stoneman Douglas Feb. 14.

David Hogg, the poster boy for the young Florida fascists, called politicians who accept donations from the NRA “pathetic f***ers that want to keep killing our children” in one interview. He called the NRA “child murders” in another.

Kasky himself, in an interview with NPR last week, was just as bad. Asked how he would respond to students who favored gun rights, he basically called every gun owner a murderer.

“Well, I say we’re marching to protect you from other people like you who have guns,” he said. “And I say that target shooting, while it is a sport, we’ve become the targets.”

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And these are the people who claim that Americans who believe in the United States Constitution are not civil enough to debate in a public forum?

No one believes that. And no one will mistake Kasky’s sudden unwillingness to debate as an act of courage, when it’s really cowardice.

The facts of the matter are that gun grabbers lack the legal, constitutional or moral high ground in any conversation – which is why they resort to emotional appeals over logical ones. Having one of their teen spokesman getting his clock cleaned in a nationally televised debate is the last thing the gun grabbers want right now. (Their idea of a “debate” is more like CNN’s ludicrous “town hall meeting” where Kasky likened Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to the Parkland gunman, to Rubio’s face.)

Again, it can’t be stressed enough that these Parkland loudmouths are not the real problem. They’re pawns in a liberal attack on the Constitution that goes back long before any American living today was born – much less one who’s still in high school.

But they’re carrying out liberal tactics to a “t,” and part of that is attacking opponents by claiming they’re not being civil enough. (Saul Alinsky Rule No. 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”)

The reality of past decades of political history in the United States is exactly the opposite – that it’s liberals who engage in violence and personal attacks on a mass scale.

If anything, conservatives have been too restrained. One of the main reasons Donald Trump won the Republican primaries, then the presidency, is that he fights back against the left with the weapons it chooses.

The mainstream media is likely to play Kasky’s about-face on a gun-rights debate as an example of the high-mindedness of the gun control cause, not the coward’s turn that it is.

But it’s baffling that the left could think normal Americans could believe Kasky’s excuse, because those plays aren’t working anymore.

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First, Tucker Carlson revealed why Parkland activist David Hogg shouldn’t be used as a puppet by the media and shouldn’t be influencing public policy. Now, Jesse Watters has become the latest Fox News personality to criticize the shooting survivor turned anti-gun activist.

On Monday’s edition of “The Five,” Watters said that attention had turned Hogg from a rational participant in the national debate over firearms to the point where he had “become a real bomb thrower.”

“He started off — and I’ve seen him on Fox News — he started off as this balanced, nice kid who was reporting the facts about what were happening at the school,” Watters said.

“And he’s just now become a real bomb thrower. And someone like this I think isn’t helping the conversation.”

In fact, Watters says that activists like Hogg have poisoned the well by balkanizing the gun control debate.

“This guy makes people think, ‘You’re coming for my guns,’” Watters said.

“You’re gonna say that Rubio has blood on his hands because he takes money from the NRA? Maybe he takes money from the NRA because he supports the Second Amendment.”

“It would be more scandalous if the NRA was buying off Democrats and they were voting for legislation even though they didn’t believe in it,” he continued. “So, that doesn’t make any sense to me.”

Watters also noted that “all these people are being protected by heavily armed security guards, and that’s fine.” He noted that these guards, like most gun owners, possess their firearms legally — something the Parkland shooter shouldn’t have been able to do in an ideal situation.

“In this particular situation the guy had a rifle because the Bill of Rights said an 18 year old with no criminal record can have a rifle,” Watters said. “And it was the police, and the school, and the FBI — those were the people that failed. Let’s just take a broader look, and not just target the NRA.”

Watters remarks came days after Carlson attacked Hogg in the run-up to the “March for Our Lives.”

“Sell more guns, murder more children, get re-elected. That is David Hogg’s view of the other side of the debate,” Carlson said Friday.

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“Let’s take this seriously. If you honestly don’t care what the people who disagree with you think, if you believe they want to ‘murder more children,’ who are you?” he continued.

“Well, you’re angry. You’re definitely not fit to be making policy for the rest of us. You are by definition an extremist. You should not have power if you really believe anyone who disagrees with you is evil and wants to kill the innocent.”

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Veteran rock singer-songwriter Alice Cooper was born into the church but nearly died living outside of it.

The moment of truth for Cooper came forty years ago, after the rock star drank so much he began throwing up blood.

“Everything that could go wrong was shutting down inside of me,” Cooper, told the New York Daily News’ Confidential.

“I was drinking with Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix and trying to keep up with Keith Moon and they all died at 27,” Cooper explained.

That awakening made Cooper realize that he needed to change his ways. Specifically, it led him back to the church.

“My wife and I are both Christian,” Cooper, who is portraying King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar, told Confidential. “My father was a pastor, my grandfather was an evangelist. I grew up in the church, went as far away as I could from it — almost died — and then came back to the church.”

Having lived as both a rock star and a Christian, Cooper has an appreciation for why some people might see a contradiction in claiming to be both.

“There’s nothing in Christianity that says I can’t be a rock star,” he explained. “People have a very warped view of Christianity. They think it’s all very precise and we never do wrong and we’re praying all day and we’re right wing. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with a one-on-one relationship with Jesus Christ.”

Cooper, who played the role of King Herod once before in 1996, says that he drew his inspiration for the part from Alan Rickman’s portrayal of Professor Snape in Harry Potter.

“When I first heard about it, I thought Alan Rickman — that condescending sort of arrogant character —  and I kind of fashioned what I would do after what I thought Alan Rickman would do if he were alive,” Cooper said.

Copper and his wife Sheryl Goddard have been married for 41 years, a union in which neither has ever cheated on the other. Cooper shared his secret for marital bliss with Fox News in 2017.

Cooper said, “First of all, marry the girl you are in love with. That’s the important thing. Don’t just marry the girl that you love.”

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A Democrat candidate for sheriff in Buncombe County, North Carolina, says that he has no problem killing legal gun owners to confiscate their weapons if the situation arises, according to video posted to social media.

If similar video on R. Daryl Fisher’s Facebook page is labeled accurately, the candidate’s remarks came at a monthly meeting of gun control group and Everytown for Gun Safety subsidiary Moms Demand Action on March 7.

The video, which was posted by The Red Elephants on Twitter, shows Fisher going through a veritable checklist of things he supports, which are the typical gun-grabber items.

You may not be surprised that, for instance, he wants to raise the minimum age to purchase a firearm to 21. Or that he thinks that high-capacity magazines are also a bad thing and need to go. Bump stocks? Going, too.

None of this was a surprise. What was, however, was his proposal on how to deal with legal firearm owners who didn’t want to surrender their weapons.

“You’ve heard people say, ‘You’ll have to pry my gun from my cold, dead hands,’” Fisher said, and then gave a shrug. “OK,” he said to laughter.

Suggests killing people to take their guns… Daryl Fisher candidate for sheriff in Buncombe County… pic.twitter.com/pKyPATLx1h

— The Red Elephants ? (@RealRedElephant) March 24, 2018

In most of North Carolina, Fisher would generally seem to be a poor candidate with that kind of attitude.

However, Buncombe County includes the ultra-liberal enclave of Asheville, a sort of San Francisco for the Tar Heel State.

In fact, Fisher has served as a captain with the Asheville Police Department and is currently the county’s law enforcement training director. (And doesn’t that just make you feel safe?)

There’s not a whole lot of polling out there, but those factors could mean he’s got a legitimate shot.

That probably ought to frighten you, considering there hasn’t been a worse candidate for sheriff that I can remember since Hunter S. Thompson, and at least Thompson believed in the Second Amendment, if just because he liked shooting at things in his backyard while he was outrageously intoxicated.

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Thompson’s candidacy was also kind of a joke. This guy appears to be dead serious and stone sober. While the video is edited, I can’t think of any way in which this comment was taken out of context.

The fact that this guy was able to talk about being willing to kill people over the Second Amendment is a horrible omen. The fact that Moms Demand Action members thought it was funny was worse.

This guy cannot become a sheriff. Buncombe County residents need to mobilize, and they need to mobilize now.

The alternative is simply too grim to imagine.

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Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday that the students who marched for gun control across the country over the weekend “insult the memory of those who were killed.”

“The best thing to do to combat chronic abusers and disregarders of the law(like the law against Murder) is to……..pass another Law!…..Genius!!!…..,” Hughes wrote. “But before we pass this law we’re going to denigrate the memory and curse ourselves by exploiting the death of 16 of our fellow students for a few Facebook likes and some media attention….and look how well civil rights abuses as it concerns firearms helped to protect me and my friends in Paris!!!!!”

Jesse Hughes and his bandmates were on stage in Paris on November 13, 2015, when armed terrorists attacked, killing 130 innocents. Following that incident he said, “I don’t go anywhere in America without a gun anymore. That sucks. And I’m not paranoid. I’m not a cowboy … but I wanna be prepared.”

The 45-year-old rocker referenced his Paris experience in responding to the student march for gun control.

“The Whitney Houston song about letting the children lead the way wasn’t actually had operating paradigm for life…..,” Hughes wrote. “And when the truth don’t line up with your bullshit narrative just hold your breath and stamp your feet and refused to except it…. then take multiple days off of school playing hooky at the expense of 16 of your classmates blood….!…. it might be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic and disgusting.”

The Eagles of Death Metal have been barred from music festivals over their support of the Second Amendment.

Jesse Hughes concluded by stressing once more that he survived a mass shooting, and segued from that point to express his disgust with the protesters pushing for gun control.

“As the survivor of a mass shooting I can tell you from first-hand experience that all of you protesting and taking days off from school insult the memory of those who were killed and abuse and insult me and every other lover of liberty by your every action,” he wrote.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

A Thursday night interview with former Playboy playmate Karen McDougal alleging an affair with President Trump could not lift CNN out of last place in the ratings.

Imagine you are CNN chief Jeff Zucker, and you have spent weeks and weeks turning your basement-rated, anti-Trump network into a sensationalist soft porn channel — and when the payoff finally arrives in the form of the McDougal interview, your network still lands in … last place.

Just like he did with his “poop cruise” and missing Malaysian airline flight 370 obsessions, Zucker put all of his chips in the middle of the table with the porn stuff, went all-in with a salacious narrative in the hopes that when the payoff arrived, with it would come a ratings bonanza.

Unfortunately for Zucker and his on-air minions, CNN’s credibility is in such a sinkhole, the payoff did not lift CNN out of the basement, nor did it make much news.

While the McDougal interview did nearly double CNN’s average nightly rating, which barely squeaks over a million viewers, to 1.95 million average primetime viewers, CNN still got walloped by its competition at Fox News and MSNBC, who grabbed 2.6 and 2.4 million viewers, respectively.

Even the CNN show that aired the interview, Anderson Cooper’s 360, lost to the competition. While Cooper’s 8 p.m. hour grabbed 2.2 million viewers, Tucker Carlson’s 8 p.m. hour at Fox News earned 2.7 million.

Cooper’s 9 p.m. hour grabbed 2.3 million viewers, but he still lost to Rachel Maddow at MSNBC and Sean Hannity at Fox, who both earned 2.9 million viewers.

The only good news for CNN is that Cooper won the night’s most viewers in the 25-54 age demo, but that is all inside baseball stuff related to advertising rates.

The bragging rights in cable news are all about total viewers.

The most dispiriting news for the far-left CNN must be Trump’s job approval ratings, which have steadily climbed throughout CNN’s onslaught of porn. The latest Fox News poll, has Trump sitting at a healthy 45 percent approval rating, and the Real Clear Politics poll of polls shows an upward trend from 39.8 percent approval to 42.1 percent. Trump’s disapproval numbers have also fallen two points. That is a +4, overall.

CNN  has spent 25 years protecting the Clintons from everything from perjury involving sexual liaisons with an intern in the Oval Office to allegations of rape. Watching this same network pretend to freak out over allegations of a 12-year-old consensual affair has only turned this fake news factory into a bigger laughingstock than it already was.

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