NYT columnist Charles Blow explains exactly how fake attack on Parkland's Emma Gonzalez is a 'big backfire'

The ongoing false attacks on the Parkland shooting massacre victims is backfiring, New York Times columnist Charles Blow explained to Jim Sciutto on CNN Newsroom on Monday.

"Do you believe at least on the issues that the students by putting themselves out there, right, that they can reasonably expect to get at least some pushback?" Sciutto asked.

"Yeah, but I don't think you can put aside the false attacks," Blow answered. "I think that's part of what is fueling this and I actually believe that it is a -- it back fires in a big way."

The Times columnist suggested that young activists are able to easily see through dirty tricks like doctored images.

"What you're doing when you're doing false images of people who literally spend all day doctoring images and putting Facebook filters on things, they can spot a fake image a mile away -- much better than we old people can," Blow noted. "So it just makes your argument feel much more hollow, that you don't have anything real to say, so you're going to the fake stuff."

"That's bad for you and it actually energizes them rather than dampens their spirits," he continued. "I think that is a big backfire move."

"The fact that Republicans are coming after these kids personally and even though they are speaking out of their pain -- problem, problem, problem," he concluded.

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