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. Thats 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 ODonnell, 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 wed 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: Yall tell the true story!
CRAIG MELVIN: We ARE telling the true story!
RIOTER: Tell the true story!
HAYES: People are angry, man theyre really angry.
RIOTER: Tell them whats really goin on!
HAYES: Were trying to (To audience) A few rocks chucked at us. Were fine, were fine!
MELVIN: This is something else weve 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 theres more to it than that. I think maybe its 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 thats the real problem with progressivism.
But we dont 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, theres 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.
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I think i see the reflection of a man in the woman’s glasses. The woman in the middle, that is.
Does the penis have to have been attached to the “man” since birth?
Did Rachel Maddow try and hug any of the female rioters? Invite them up to her apartment for a one-on-one interview? Show those gal rioters her etchings.
Chris Hayes believes that black people are inferior and cannot be held to normal standards of behavior, which makes him a racist, but don’t you DARE call him a racist.
Chris Hayes was thinking, “Man, I am SO GLAD that the network didn’t send me to cover ISIS in Iraq!”
“Sticks & stones may break my bones, but I don’t think this mob will decapitate me.....yet?”
Ooops, journalist James Foley was beheaded in Syria, not Iraq. Not that it mattered to him. My condolences to his family & friends.
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