Dear Mainstream Media, Don’t You Dare Whitewash Anti-Trump Violence

National Review ^ | 4/29/2016 | David French

[RightGeek]

Last night, anti-Trump protesters rioted in Costa Mesa, California. Yes, rioted. That’s what you call it when “demonstrations” turn into this:

[video of rioters trying to turn over police car]

Or this:

[photo of bloody Trump supporter]

Just imagine for a moment the shrieking outrage if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car outside a Hillary Clinton rally. Imagine the fury at the sight of a bloody man wearing a Hillary shirt. So how did the mainstream media cover the anti-Trump riot? Hot Air’s Larry O’Connor has the details:

Check out the LA Times headline: Protests rage outside Trump rally in Orange County; 17 arrested, police car smashed. Maybe it’s me, but if your headline includes the phrase: “police car smashed,” perhaps you should go ahead and call it a riot and not the benign and righteous sounding “protest.” The Times write-up of the ugly violence begins with more apologetic language: “Hundreds of demonstrators filled the street outside the Orange County amphitheater where Donald Trump held a rally Thursday night…” “Demonstrators”??? This is a very deliberate use of language. When you have a righteous cause, you’re a “demonstrator.” The Times is using language equating these thugs with someone marching in Selma. “Demonstrators” sounds heroic.

The Washington Post used the morally-neutral term “clashed.”

Trump protesters clashed with police officers here after a campaign rally Thursday hosted by the Republican presidential candidate.

It’s just a clash, folks. Who knows how it started? Then there was this tweet from an L.A. Times reporter:

[tweet "It appears the #DonaldTrump storm has passed #CostaMesa"]

I’m sorry, but an anti-Trump riot is not a “Donald Trump storm.”

Let’s state this as plainly as possible: Nothing Trump has done justifies a violent response. Nothing. Yet the more the media whitewashes this violence and applies its typical double standard to left-wing thugs, the more the violence will escalate.

Clearly the media sympathizes with these Mexican flag-waving crowds in much the same way that it sympathized with the rioters at Ferguson and Baltimore. But when you excuse political violence, you tend to get more of it. We know leftist radicals aren’t shy about taking so-called “direct action” to intimidate opponents. We also know that at least some Trump supporters are spoiling for a fight. Trump himself has been spoiling for a fight. We risk the worst political violence in a generation. Am I wrong to believe that some in the media are thrilled at the prospect — so long as the Left is leading the charge?

[RightGeek]

There is blood on the hands of the mainstream media.

[Sicon]

And the blood stains on their hands go back many decades...

[Carl Vehse]

Dear Mainstream Media, Don’t You Dare Whitewash Anti-Trump Violence

The fifth-column media can't help it; it's their nature. They are traitors and oxygen thieves.

[Gargantua]

They’re gonna get wiped out this time. Seeya!

[unixfox]

If the show were on the other foot...

[gaijin]

Corey is lambasted as VIOLENT, yet you can pepper-spray pro-Trump little girls, plunder pro-Tump cars, beat-up pro-Trump guys walking along.

I haven’t had cable for over 10 years.

If you have friends who watch/read the MSM, tell them about FR etc.

Encourage all you know to Cut The Cable.

[be-baw]

First article from NRO worth reading in recent memory.

[17th Miss Regt]

"There is plenty to eat here in the Ukraine. There is no famine at all."

Walter Duranty of Time magazine, 1932.

[cdcdawg]

I’m sure it was painful for National Review to publish that, and there were probably fierce debates over it.

[timestax]

[VitacoreVision]

Did National Review blame Trump?

I refuse to read their articles.

[LongWayHome]

French better watch his back at National Review....they might not let him back in the building.

[W.]

When the leftist scum gets thumped good, they’ll cry foul SO fast even though they’ll throw the first punch...

[catnipman]

“First article from NRO worth reading in recent memory.”

i wonder if they’re starting to throw in the towel, or perhaps started THINKING about throwing in the towel?

[WMarshal]

For once in an entire year I am in agreement with NR. NR is however blind to the fact that this is just another manifestation of the same political violence that has been perpetrated on the middle class since the 50s. The press and NR have CHEERLEDED the impoverishment and alienation of the middle class.

If I tried to post this message on NRO it would be deleted by those two-faced, ink jockeys in 5, 4, 3.....

[Paladin2]

Peaceful Oregon protestors -> terrorists to be prosecuted.

#BLM/anarchist/'Rat supporter violent protests -> Free Speech.....

[uncitizen]

They’re just trying to pretend they’re not part of the LSM. But they are and we all know it. They’re among the worst. It’s too late to try and rehabilitate their reputation. It’s gone-zo!

[Lazamataz]

Please appoint me Media Czar after a Trump victory.

I will round up all the leftists in the News Media for orderly liquidation.

[No_More_Harkin]

BINGO!! Besides Obama and the left, the MSM is directly to blame for the problems in our society. Had they unbiasedly reported the truth for the past 30 years, perhaps this nation would be in a better place. Instead the skew stories, use bombastic language, use sound bytes and out of context quotes to steer a story. Like Target, I would jump for joy if NYT, WaPo, MSN and the other liberal propaganda arms of the left would burn to the ground.

[Jeff Head]

These pictures:

Are going to absolutely drive more American voters to Trump...as well they should.

He has called out the problem and they are simply demonstrating it in spades.

Most Americans will simply not countenance thugs and ruffians waving foreign flags trying to tell Americans how to vote. It's going to make for all the more landslide.