memeorandum: The Problem With David Hogg and the Parkland Students (Tucker Carlson/RealClearPolitics)

7:20 PM ET, March 24, 2018

Top Items:

Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:

NRA host taunts Parkland teens: ‘No one would know your names’ if classmates were still alive … As they've stepped out of the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and into the national spotlight, the Parkland, Fla., teenagers have become Twitter influencers …

Discussion: FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV, Law & Crime and CNN

NBC News:

At March For Our Lives, survivors lead hundreds of thousands in call for change — WASHINGTON — Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior Emma Gonzalez stood silent, with tears streaming down her face, on a stage in front of thousands at Saturday's March For Our Lives.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Religion News Service, Mediaite, NBC News and Joe.My.God.

German Lopez / Vox:

Watch: Emma Gonzalez's incredible moment of silence at March for Our Lives — Gonzalez abruptly went silent for minutes to honor the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. — Emma Gonzalez got the March for Our Lives audience riled up.

Discussion: Politico and Curbed NY

Tucker Carlson / RealClearPolitics:

The Problem With David Hogg and the Parkland Students — Tucker Carlson on the why David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez and other their friends should stay out of the gun control debate. Carlson called Hogg an “extremist” for his positions and that he wants to make policy but is not interested in what people who disagree with him think.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Justin Carissimo Cbs / CBS News:
March for Our Lives 2018 — live blog

Discussion: ThinkProgress, HuffPost, Refinery29, CBS Philly, The Root, KIRO, NPR, The Guardian, Teen Vogue, Balloon Juice, fox8.com, CBS Los Angeles, Joe.My.God., Mother Jones, NBC News, AOL, The Hill, WSAV-TV, CBS San Francisco, CBS Miami, CBS Chicago, ABC News and Dispatches

New York Times:
March for Our Lives: Students Protesting Guns Say ‘We Just Have Our Lives to Lose’

Discussion: Gizmodo, Common Dreams, Hullabaloo, NPR, CNBC, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Caller, Political Wire, TIME, Mediaite, CBS Los Angeles and VICE News

David Boddiger / Splinter:
Hundreds of Thousands Join March for Our Lives to Show that ‘We Are the Change’ [UPDATING]

Discussion: CNN, twitchy.com, WSVN-TV, WOFL, IndieWire, AOL and Deadline

Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
Parkland, Fla., students and families flew to Washington, D.C., on the Patriots' plane

Discussion: Boston Globe, USA Today, fox8.com, AOL, WSVN-TV, TMZ.com and Washington Post

Steve Israel / New York Times:
First, March. Then, Follow This Gun Reform Battle Plan.

Discussion: Daily Kos

Ray Sanchez / CNN:
Students rally in March for Our Lives events in Washington and across US

Discussion: The Atlantic, ThinkProgress, WNEP-TV, Mediaite, FOX31 Denver, KFOR-TV, Daily Kos, KTLA, CBS Miami, babe and The Hechinger Report

USA Today:
March for our Lives rallies happening in every U.S. state: 'We're here and coming to make a change'

Discussion: The Trace and The Week

New York Times:

Stormy Daniels, Trump's Unlikely Foe, Is ‘Not Someone to Be Underestimated’ — One by one, the honorees came forward to be recognized: the wounded veteran, the tech executive and the noted porn star. — It was the 10-year reunion for Scotlandville Magnet High School's Class of 1997 in Baton Rouge …

G Salisbury / City & State PA:

Sources: US Rep. Costello to drop out of PA-6 race before May primary — Sources have told City&State PA that Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello has decided not to seek reelection in Pennsylvania's hotly contested Sixth Congressional District. — Despite filing petitions on Tuesday to run …

Discussion: Roll Call

Harry Enten / CNN:

Activists are marching, but the public hasn't punished GOP in polls for inaction on guns — Students prepare to ‘march for their lives’ — (CNN)In the aftermath of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, the public's support for stricter gun laws shot up to levels not seen in 25 years.

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Alana Abramson / TIME:

Republican Donor Launches Gun Control Advocacy Group During the March For Our Lives — A major Republican donor fed up with congressional inaction has launched a gun control advocacy group with support from both Republican congressmen and other donors and fundraisers to persuade Congress to pass comprehensive gun control reform.

Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller

Associated Press:
AP-NORC Poll: Support soars for stricter gun control laws

Discussion: Political Wire, France 24, Axios and Daily Kos

George F. Will / Washington Post:

The second-most dangerous American — Because John Bolton is five things President Trump is not — intelligent, educated, principled, articulate and experienced — and because of Bolton's West Wing proximity to a president responsive to the most recent thought he has heard emanating …

Discussion: CNN, Vox, New York Magazine, The Nation and The Daily Caller

Wall Street Journal:

Trump Relishes Off-Script Approach — President showcases a more unilateral style, relying on his sense of what the moment requires — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill early Friday afternoon, but not before leaving both his staff and lawmakers on edge …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Hill, RedState, thecut, Political Wire, AOL and Mediaite

Jason Linkins / ThinkProgress:

March for Our Lives crowd tops Trump inauguration, according to organizer estimates — Ahead of Saturday's March For Our Lives, officials associated with the event were bullish on their crowd expectations, anticipating that as many as a half a million demonstrators were poised to descend …

Discussion: The Hill and Mashable

Olivia Solon / The Guardian:

‘A grand illusion’: seven days that shattered Facebook's facade — Revelations about the depths of Facebook's failure to protect our data has finally pulled back the curtain, observers say … “Dumb fucks.” That's how Mark Zuckerberg described users of Facebook for trusting him with their personal data back in 2004.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and New York Times

Bloomberg:
Apple's Tim Cook Calls for More Regulations on Data Privacy

Discussion: Engadget, The Verge and Mashable, more at Mediagazer »

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

‘All Men Are Guilty,’ Says Mega-Mogul Barry Diller — The chairman of IAC and husband of Diane von Furstenberg reflects on pornography, philanthropy and the end of Hollywood as we knew it. — BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Barry Diller knows your weaknesses. — He knows how to intimidate you …

Discussion: Deadline

The Daily Beast:

How Close Is Donald Trump to a Psychiatric Breakdown? … NOTE: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this piece misidentified the professional organization that imposed the gag rule on psychiatric professionals. It is the American Psychiatric Association, not the American Psychological Association.

Discussion: Hullabaloo

CNN:

March for Our Lives: Live updates — Survivors of the Florida school shooting are marching in Washington for stricter gun laws and sibling marches are organized around the country in solidarity. Follow here for the latest.

Discussion: Refinery29 and KFOR-TV

The Guardian:

The Brexit whistleblower: ‘Did Vote Leave use me? Was I naive’ — Shahmir Sanni, a volunteer for the Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit EU referendum campaign, explains how a company linked to Cambridge Analytica played a crucial role in the result, and voices his concerns …

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

HOGG WILD! David Hogg Rallies Democrats in DC: “If You Listen Real Close You Can Hear the People in Power Shaking” (VIDEO) — DAVID HOGG GOES HOGG WILD! — The anti-gun lobby held protests across the nation today against gun rights. — Democrat protest leader David Hogg spoke …

Mike Allen / Axios:

Trump infuriates his base with tweeted veto bluff — A former White House official tells me that online conservative ire (Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin, etc.). about the spending bill President Trump signed yesterday — after a puzzling tweeted veto feint — “is the hardest I've seen ever seen …