Posted on 09/26/2015 2:09:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Thursday afternoon, 13-year old CJ Pearson warned his 43,900 followers not to believe what they read. The black Georgia teenager, whose activism and online success had made him a youth outreach chairman for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), had been trading messages with a reporter for Glenn Beck's news site, The Blaze. Oliver Darcy, a reporter for the site, was asking Pearson to prove -- as he had claim, to great viral attention -- that President Barack Obama had truly blocked him on Twitter. In lieu of proof, Pearson was calling for help.
"In a few minutes, @oliverdarcy is going to release a hit article on me and I'm going to take it," Pearson wrote. "Because here's what the PR folks are saying: say you lied and apologize to avoid backlash. But, instead, I choose to stand by my word. While the article will be incriminating, all we have in politics is our word and I stand by it. Nevertheless, I'm disappointed in @theblaze."
It was one of the more confusing moments in a story born to confuse. Coreco JaQuan Pearson's profile had been growing well before the Twitter story, thanks to his precocious and silver-tongued video denunciations of the president. The most successful had come just this month, when Pearson locked his eyes on a webcam and asked -- rhetorically -- why a president who so blatantly disrespected police officers had so quickly invited Texas teenager Ahmed Muhammad to the White House, after being disciplined for bringing to school a home-made clock that administrators mistook for a bomb.
"Mr. President, when cops are being gunned down, you don’t invite their family to the White House," Pearson said. "You never did. But when a Muslim kid builds a clock? Well, come on by."(continued)
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Great that he mentioned clock kid.
As each day passes, the clock kid looks more and more ‘fake’. He’s not finished...I think his sister will manipulate him enough and get into more serious trouble within a couple of years, and he’ll eventually get some jail time to sort out his issues and trust problems.
This 13-year old has more balls than the POS POTUS can ever hope to have.
Why? Perhaps to draw attention to the fact that the White House is a joke.
Power can be a terrible thing and can ruin even the best of us.
I hope there is no truth to this.
Does “hoax” in this case mean “falsely accuse someone of refusing to connect on Twitter?”
“Pearson became a fervent Cruz supporter; in September, the Cruz campaign announced his new role as the head of “Teens for Ted,” and Pearson added a TedCruz.org email address to his Twitter profile. Simply by speaking his mind, Pearson had become a conservative star.”
Thank you young man for restoring hope in our country. Ted Cruz is a good man. I hope he and Trump team up. It would make a hell of an administration (or two).
I don’t know: I didn’t read for detail after I saw it was about Twitter.
Let me get this straight: the national media is getting involved in a story about one 13 year old getting all over another kid? And folks on FR are taking sides?
How messed up is this country that adults are even aware of what would have been at any other time in history, a school yard squabble between two geeky little twerps. Not even the other kids in the schools would have paid attention to these kids.
We should all turn off the computers and go outside and enjoy the day.
This is just too crazy.
Boy, are you missing the big picture!
I guess that now we know the answer.
At first, I thought the article was about the clock-bomb kid. I do question the judgement of CJ’s parents. Even if he is not a liar, he is being used by DC creeps. The kid is too young for this bloodsport.
The story bounces around quite a bit without any clarity.
If you have spent any time around 13 year olds recently, you would know the answer to that question.
13 year olds are not mentally formed and their brains are years from being mature.
We are not talking abut two Joan d’Arcs here.
You are being played on both sides and the masses are eating it up. How much is this precocious little kids and his handlers making off from this? And yes...if you get that many hits on You-Tube you get paid.
I think you guys are getting played.
And you are lapping it up like crack.
Oh, no! Capitalism! You and Howard Zinn sound upset.
And, btw, this is NOT battle between two teenagers. One represents American values and the other is the product of human leeches on the American society. Demonstrating the differences is important. This is, literally, a battle for the heart and soul of America. And, you can't see that.
Though I'm no Glenn Beck fan, a reporter for "The Blaze" probably shouldn't be lumped in with the rest of the media without something to back up the claim.
It's always foolish to pay too much attention to child prodigies who engage in politics. Not only is their judgement not fully formed; neither is their philosophy.
Maybe we ought to make CJ Pearson the new Speaker of the House. At least he fights.
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