‘Mostly Peaceful’ Destruction
CNN, your Comedy News Network, finds an entertaining way to describe violent riots that incinerated a massive amount of private property.
CNN, your Comedy News Network, finds an entertaining way to describe violent riots that incinerated a massive amount of private property:
You cannot make this up... A CNN reporter is standing in front of a building engulfed in flames and CNN's chyron reads:
— Kelb Hull (@CalebJHull) August 27, 2020
"FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING" pic.twitter.com/4OHvKnh63u
By the same standard, New York City was mostly peaceful on September 11, 2001. The network’s reversion to “peaceful protests” follows a belated attempt by CNN host Don Lemon to reclassify BLM uprisings as riots. Becket Adams reports:
CNN’s Don Lemon is now anti-riot, but not because looting and violence are wrong.
The cable news host who bills himself as a serious, objective journalist opposes the anti-police riots now because he is worried that the destruction and mayhem will hurt the Democratic Party’s electoral chances in the fall.
Lemon’s about-face on the righteousness of rioting came Tuesday evening as his CNN colleague Chris Cuomo warned that the anti-police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where two rioters have been shot and killed, is “a Rorschach test for where this country is.”
Cuomo, who appears also to have experienced a change of heart on the issue of anti-police rioting due to bad polling numbers, added, “I think it probably represents the biggest threat to the Democratic cause ...”
This is such a farcical change of attitude for these two partisan operatives. Lemon himself defended anti-police riots in May, soft-pedaling them as the “mechanism for a restructure of our country or for some sort of change.”
Lemon’s idiot co-worker, Cuomo, also attacked critics of the riots in June, claiming that “too many see the protests as the problem.”
Those two might be election factors as well. Meanwhile, the roly-poly fellow who predicted Trump’s 2016 victory is now making the same call in 2020:
Sorry to have to provide the reality check again, but when they poll registered voters in the swing states, Biden & Trump are in a virtual tie. In Minn. it’s 47-47. In Michigan, where Biden had a big lead, Trump has closed the gap to 4pts. Are u ready for a Trump victory? ACT NOW pic.twitter.com/IA9vSFCZvl
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) August 28, 2020
Even Reagan didn’t carry Minnesota.
UPDATE. Peace rage in Washington DC:
Amid Peaceful Protest, Crowd Surrounds Rand Paul After Trump Speech https://t.co/jgVgbL8xoi
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) August 28, 2020
UPDATE II. They’re such lovely people:
Army combat veteran @BrianMastFL lost his legs serving his country. This is the abuse he faced tonight in DC from Leftist agitators. pic.twitter.com/HD79P635pV
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) August 28, 2020
UPDATE III. Utterly charming:
Good of BLM mob to provide campaign material for Trump immediately after convention. pic.twitter.com/Zh3sFgCFZX
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) August 28, 2020
UPDATE IV. Yes, it would be nice:
At some point it would be nice if we talked about the fact that there appears to be a semi-professional class of people whose energies are spent creating riots across the country. https://t.co/Z1GznXIEOY
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) August 28, 2020
They've mostly white, of course.
UPDATE V. Reagan’s message:
President Reagan’s message to a media who protected and defended rioters in 1969.
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) August 26, 2020
His message is more pertinent today than ever, as the state of our national media has only grown more rotten, biased, and disconnected over the years.
The kicker comes at the end. pic.twitter.com/T4Ej6BBMSe