Dana Loesch FIGHTS BACK against ThinkProgress journo's 'ridiculous smear' of her and the NRA

Earlier today, Dana Loesch shared several tweets about the heroic School Resource Officer who took down the Great Mills High School shooter:

REPORT: ‘Armed School Resource Officer’ Took Down Maryland High School Shooter https://t.co/JVnlu9J6vr

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

“Our school resource officer who was stationed inside the school was alerted…he pursued the shooter, engaged the shooter, during which that engagement he fired a round at the shooter. Simultaneously, the shooter fired a round as well,” official says of Maryland school shooting pic.twitter.com/5nlwZovPkH

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 20, 2018

The gunman at a Maryland high school was shot and killed by a school resource officer, sheriff says https://t.co/RceQvppE00

— New York Post (@nypost) March 20, 2018

BREAKING: Sheriff: Resource officer fired at Maryland high school shooter who was fatally shot.

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 20, 2018

For noting that a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun, Loesch was called “a gross, despicable human being” by sports writer Jeff Pearlman. Not to be outdone, ThinkProgress’ Aaron Rupar took his own turn sliming Loesch and the NRA:

it's not even clear at this point that officer actually stopped the incident, and yet NRA is already exploiting it. Sickening stuff.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2018

You know what’s really sickening? The sound Aaron Rupar made when Loesch squashed him like the bug that he is:

“Exploiting” by reTweeting stories from news outlets? You need to learn word definitions.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

The anti-gun lobby, who calls me a murderer seconds after any mass casualty incident because I choose 2A defense for me and my family, is livid at me for doing nothing more than reTweeting headlines from other news outlets about the Maryland resource officer.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

https://twitter.com/ian_nawa/status/976136543751622656

How.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

Hi Think Progress writer @atrupar ! When will you retract your ridiculous smear and claim that I chose the metadata for a site I don’t write for? Here’s the helpful link: https://t.co/3vOY0WgD9R

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

I never said you write for the site. But it was your choice to share a story that is ahead of the facts and framing a tragic incident as a political "win" for Trump.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2018

Stop redefining what you said. You literally said that I chose the image that came up in the Tweet, thus the “framing” and as of such, implied I control all metadata for the site. You going to retract or continue with your ridiculous smear @atrupar ? https://t.co/6p8W2drBfX

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

The "Win for trump?" text is lifted from the meta-data of the page; it's not part of Dana's authored Tweet.

Besides, (as the story developed?) the meta-data has changed. It may be the case that an actual editor set the present data, and that the earlier data was generated. pic.twitter.com/EMABKw0GKd

— Sampson (@jonathansampson) March 20, 2018

Waiting on that retraction, @atrupar . You accused me of selecting the image for this Tweet in an effort to attack me for sharing a story on the Maryland school resource officer. https://t.co/htlt12NISO

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

you're lying pic.twitter.com/HyKf4xrcmN

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2018

To recap: Think Progress writer @atrupar is accusing me of configuring the Daily Caller website to choose this image of Trump. Can someone at @DailyCaller confirm to this Think Progress writer that I don’t work there and that’s not how metadata works? https://t.co/GYsB1OF53P

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

Keep in mind — @atrupar is smearing me because I dared to share a simple headline about the Maryland school resource officer.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

i said you shared a story prematurely framing a tragic shooting as a "win for Trump," which you did.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2018

How was this story “prematurely framed.” You literally accused ME of doing so. Justify your smear, Think Progress writer. https://t.co/3WAmnEI0z5

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 20, 2018

He can’t justify it. So he’ll just run with it, full steam ahead:

NRA uses misleading talking points to prematurely exploit Great Mills High School shooting https://t.co/qq8AkDNJPc

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 20, 2018

Oh, please.