These Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students are amazing! They’re the most talented group of kids to ever grace the hall of a high school! Why, after the shooting these kids just met and organized the March for Our Lives! It’s like they’re . . . miraculous!

And to think it all started by them sitting around in a parent’s living room!

After all, look how poised these mere teens are as they announced the upcoming March for Our Lives that they’ve organized all by themselves:

Yeah, wrong!

Don’t let the media fool you—this is an astroturf operation. These students are backed by progressive interest groups disguising the march as a grassroots operation.

Oh, but the Miami Herald attributed their rapid rise in the media to mad debate skills. Then the Wall Street Journal chimed in too, crediting teenagers’ ease with social media.

However, BuzzFeed-–yes, liberal BuzzFeed-–let the truth slip. BuzzFeed revealed that major progressive groups smelled conservative blood in the water and were quick to organize, using these students as their front men. Or women, too, if you’re feminist.

Now BuzzFeed, being on the Left, thinks this is all a good thing. But let’s take a look at a list of the groups providing publicity and moolah to these student shills, shall we?

• • Everytown for Gun Safety
  • MoveOn.org
  • Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense
  • Women’s March, Los Angeles
  • Planned Parenthood (Because this is not an effort to save the lives of the unborn.)
  • Women’s March, Los Angeles
  • American Federation of Teachers (wait, aren’t teachers supposed to want kids in the classroom, like, learning, maybe?)
  • Giffords, a gun control group founded by . . . you guessed it, Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly.

And, of course, there are the usual political suspects aiding and abetting, like Rep. Debbie Wassermann Schultz and Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Just two Jews talking about substantial change.#NeverAgain pic.twitter.com/JT8Zt64GAx

— Matt Deitsch (@MattxRed) February 27, 2018

But wait! There’s more! Because the Democratic National Committee is happy to have one of the Stoneman Douglas survivors write up a DNC fundraising letter, too.

On top of that, there are all those celebrities lending their voices (and considerable cash) to the March for Our Lives — people like George Clooney and his wife Amal, John Legend and Chrissy Teigen,  Jimmy Fallon, and Oprah Winfrey. In fact, Clooney’s publicist set up pro bono interviews with major media for the teens.

On top of that, heartthrob Harry Styles signed a petition supporting the march—because he’s a 24-year-old Brit and he knows so much about our Constitution, or something.

So why hasn’t this operation been called out before now?

Obviously, the legacy media would like the astroturfing to fly under the radar, since this is a dream come true for them. But where’s the conservative media?

One short answer is the age of these students. Would you want to be the heartless anchor who dares to challenge these kids? What are you — an NRA gun nut who wants children to die?

And then there are the conspiracy theorists who concocted the narrative that one of them is a “crisis actor.” He’s not, and pushing that nonsense doesn’t help, either.

Yet another answer is this: conservatives don’t know how to organize. Organizing is second nature for progressives, but it’s not for activists on the Right. As David Hines wrote in The Federalist:

That’s a little more work than posting an announcement on Facebook. And that’s organizing. It’s not magical kids, and it’s not George Soros sprinkling money around. It’s hard work by people who’ve trained to do it. . . .
For two weeks, journalists treated power as if it were magical. It’s not. It’s mechanical. The people organizing the response to Parkland, and a host of other causes, know that. So should you.

So while the Right media flails around helplessly, frightened at the prospect of being meanies or having to deal with wacky conspiracies, the Left is hoping to ride this all the way to the midterms. And the biggest shame is that the public at large may be fooled yet again.