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MSNBC Wouldn’t Be This Calm If Tea Party Protesters Threw Rocks at Their Hosts
The Washington Free Beacon's Editor's Blog ^ | August 20, 2014 | Larry O'Connor

Posted on 08/20/2014 3:32:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

After witnessing the spectacle of MSNBC host Chris Hayes getting pelted with rocks by an angry mob in Ferguson, Mo., Monday night, I was struck by a feeling of anger and frustration. Not at the rioters. Rioters throw rocks. That’s what they do. My anger was at the despicable display of “tolerance” and “understanding” displayed by Hayes, as he lowered his expectations for civil behavior to accommodate his liberal need to be accepted by the mob.

Chris Hayes and his MSNBC colleagues Rachel Maddow, Laurence O’Donnell, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, and Al Sharpton, have spent hundreds of hours of air time explaining to the world how the grassroots conservative movement known as the “tea party” is the greatest threat to our democratic republic. Indeed, if Hayes or any of his colleagues were covering a tea party protest against Obamacare or big government spending and a stray rock was thrown his way, he would be suing everyone from Sarah Palin to Sean Hannity to Ted Cruz, and we’d be hearing all about the “violent extremists” on the right.

But, when multiple rocks are thrown at Hayes while reporting on a week-long riot, we are treated to this mind-numbingly stupid exchange:

HAYES: “People are throwing rocks at us”

RIOTER: “Y’all tell the true story!”

CRAIG MELVIN: “We ARE telling the true story!”

RIOTER: “Tell the true story!”

HAYES: “People are angry, man… they’re really angry.”

RIOTER: “Tell them what’s really goin’ on!”

HAYES: “We’re trying to… (To audience) A few rocks chucked at us. We’re fine, we’re fine!”

MELVIN: “This is something else we’ve seen a lot of tonight, Chris. People wearing masks.”

HAYES: ”Yeah.”

So, imagine if you will: The scene is a small town in Missouri and the tea party is holding a protest against high taxes, illegal immigration and Obamacare. Chris Hayes is reporting on the scene and conservatives wearing masks start throwing rocks at him and screaming at him to “tell the real story.”

Would Hayes’ response be “People are angry, man”?

Of course not. Why? Because Chris Hayes agrees with the rioter in Ferguson but not the tea party protester? I think there’s more to it than that. I think maybe it’s also because in Chris Hayes’ own arrogant, intellectually self-satisfied superiority, he actually expects less from the rock-throwers Monday night than he does other members of society. And that’s the real problem with progressivism.

But we don’t need a hypothetical like this to tell us how MSNBC would react to this scenario. In 2012, an MSNBC producer physically assaulted a person at the RNC convention merely for heckling Chris Matthews over his famous “thrill up his leg” comment. No rocks involved in that incident, just good, old-fashioned free speech.

Beyond that obvious hypocrisy and double-standard for one set of Americans involved in protest during a live broadcast versus another, there’s one other reason why we know Chris Hayes would never have reacted this way to a tea party protester throwing rocks at him: Because we know that a tea partier would never do such a disgusting thing.

Remember, these are the people who leave a place cleaner than it was before they arrived for a protest.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)


TOPICS: Politics; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blacks; demagogicparty; ferguson; media; memebuilding; msm; msnbc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; raceriots; riots; teaparty
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If it ever gets to the point where the Tea Party gets violent, rocks will be the least of their worries. I wonder if they truly understand that?
1 posted on 08/20/2014 3:32:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Uh, given that they think Tea Partyers are a mob of gun-toting Nazis, the answer is yes.


2 posted on 08/20/2014 3:39:45 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They don’t “understand” jack sh##.


3 posted on 08/20/2014 3:40:03 PM PDT by albie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Soft bigotry of low expectations?


4 posted on 08/20/2014 3:41:47 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Oh, these poor, mistreated, trodden-upon African Americans! They deserve to be angry, and I, as a loathsome White and the cause of all their problems, can at least stand here and bear the abuse I so richly deserve! *sob* “

/S


5 posted on 08/20/2014 3:42:37 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: 1rudeboy

They don’t really believe their own agitprop. If they really thought the Tea Party was this large group of bloodthirsty reactionaries, they’d be afraid of us and fearful of criticizing us, as they are of Muslims and blacks.


6 posted on 08/20/2014 3:43:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nope. Don’t see it.


7 posted on 08/20/2014 3:45:37 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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If it ever gets to the point where the Tea Party gets violent, rocks will be the least of their worries. I wonder if they truly understand that?

No; since most Tea Party members are conservatives, they know we would never dream of throwing anything, much less a rock, no matter how much fertilizer they throw at us. They count on us being the rocks that they can use to hurl at others.

But you're right, eventually, there will come a point where we're tired of being dumped on.

8 posted on 08/20/2014 3:47:48 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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You think the media really believes that we're neo-Nazi/KKK/fascists who only oppose their messiah because he's black, want to put women back in the kitchen (w/no rights) and are out to get minorities and homosexuals?
9 posted on 08/20/2014 3:48:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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Can you imagine the reaction if white people were rioting?


10 posted on 08/20/2014 3:48:07 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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If they really thought the Tea Party was this large group of bloodthirsty reactionaries...

But that would require random violence against media celebrities, widespread vituperation and mockery, torching media vans, destroying cameras, and making the lives of anyone associated with them living hell. That would be a bad thing.

Why? I'm working on it. Give me some time...

11 posted on 08/20/2014 3:48:08 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Me? I got nuthin’.


12 posted on 08/20/2014 3:49:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC’s staff is the true human excrement of the world of media.


13 posted on 08/20/2014 3:49:15 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: GeronL

White people riot when sports teams win or when they win. Anyways sports is a seemingly valid reason for white punish to break stuff.


14 posted on 08/20/2014 3:52:44 PM PDT by csvset
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC the Fake News Channel


15 posted on 08/20/2014 3:53:03 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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Damn, I missed it. Anyone have a link to the video?

Chrissy enrolled in the program at Bethesda upon his return.

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16 posted on 08/20/2014 3:55:01 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Exactly. It’s just a subtle form of racism by the real racists in this country.


17 posted on 08/20/2014 4:05:24 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
That's a good point. They'd be freaking out over rocks, pulling out their hair over Molotov cocktails, and carted off to the funny farm mumbling “It was the NRA, NRA, NRA!” over shots fired at police.
18 posted on 08/20/2014 4:09:00 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Dick Bachert

Here’s a challenging game....

There is a man in that picture. You get two guesses as to which one is “it”. One rule tho! It has to have a penis.


19 posted on 08/20/2014 4:12:47 PM PDT by saleman (?)
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The one on the viewer’s left?


20 posted on 08/20/2014 4:14:59 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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