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Media Coverage of Portland Melee Raises Bias to New Heights
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 08/18/2019 5:56:07 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)

Here’s an actual quote from Bernie Sanders yesterday: “We have a president who is a racist, who is a bigot, who is a sexist, who is a homophobe, and Islamophobe…and what we will not allow him to do is to divide us based on our skin color and our gender.”

Oh. Okay. *sigh*

Here is how The Oregonian fake newspaper led its coverage of yesterday’s stupid clash between the Proud Boys and the violent terrorist group Antifa: “Right-wing activists and those protesting their presence converged Saturday on Portland’s downtown waterfront in a much-anticipated confrontation that captivated a nation inflamed by rising division and resentment, with even President Donald Trump entering the Fray.”

Let’s break that disgustingly amateurish and biased paragraph down. First, the Proud Boys are accurately identified as right-wing activists. That’s what they are. Good start.

Second, the ultra-violent fascism-promoting hate group Antifa is not even identified by name, but as “those protesting their presence”. Gosh, biased much? Did an Antifa leader write this damn article? Or maybe Portland’s Mayor, who might as well be an Antifa leader?

Third, we have this: “…a much-anticipated confrontation that captivated a nation inflamed by rising division and resentment…”. Really? Captivated a nation? Funny, we were out and about most of the day Saturday and didn’t encounter a single person who wanted to ask our opinion of the “confrontation” of these two groups of slugs. Didn’t see a single TV tuned to any channel covering the mindlessly stupid event. Nor did we encounter a single person who seemed at all “inflamed” by “division” or “resentment.” Seems like the Antifa-hugging author of this absurd paragraph is engaging in a little projection.

Finally, let’s analyze this: “…with even President Donald Trump entering the Fray.” Really? The President of the United States was in Portland, Oregon on Saturday? That’s odd, given that multiple reports in our fake news media pegged him being somewhere else. Like at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

And let’s look at that final word: Why is “Fray” capitalized? Is the park where the competing groups of doofuses confronted each other named “the Fray”? Or maybe there was a rock band called “the Fray” playing in the park and President Trump showed up to play bass guitar for them?

Or maybe, just maybe, the Oregonian employs proofreaders who are as utterly dim and incompetent as the author of the piece and the editors who approved it? Yeah, that seems right.

Look, the Oregonian and its unbelievably biased coverage are part of the problem in Portland, as big a part as radical leftist Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s behavior is. This “coverage” reads like a promotional piece for a hate group that is on the verge of receiving a formal “terror group” designation by the federal government. Absurd media promotional pieces like this only serve to encourage their activities in the same way Wheeler’s refusal to allow Portland’s police department to enforce the law during Antifa’s frequent riots held within Portland’s friendly confines.

This is what happens when cities are run exclusively by leftist Democrats (pardon my redundancy) for decades, as Baltimore and Chicago and Detroit and Philadelphia and San Francisco and Los Angeles and so many other beaten-down large U.S. cities can attest. But hey, Wheeler and his fellow Marxists are the leadership the voters elected, and will no doubt re-elect again and again and again in the coming years.

Within a decade, Portland, Oregon will become the same kind of hollowed-out shell that Baltimore is today. Because that’s what Democrats are good at creating.

That is all.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; oregon; trump; trumpwinsagain
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1 posted on 08/18/2019 5:56:07 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX

The Oregonian has always been the Democrat Gazette. No surprise they would support Anarchifa.


2 posted on 08/18/2019 6:05:26 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: EyesOfTX

Yup, one Portland paper talked about rightwing activists vs anti-fascists.

No bias there whatsoever.

Journalism.

When you are so stupid you cannot even think about an eddikashun major.


3 posted on 08/18/2019 6:06:31 AM PDT by Da Coyote (eh)
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To: EyesOfTX

Captivated a nation?


This is the first I heard of it. I must have been captivated in my sleep. :)


4 posted on 08/18/2019 6:15:30 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: cuban leaf

Yea. I was captivated for about 15 minutes watching boring video of the event. I think I heard one brief report from an on the ground reporter reporting...nothing. Captivated. Not.


5 posted on 08/18/2019 6:21:19 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: EyesOfTX
Here’s an actual quote from Bernie Sanders yesterday: “We have a president who is a racist, who is a bigot, who is a sexist, who is a homophobe, and Islamophobe…and what we will not allow him to do is to divide us based on our skin color and our gender.”

race card + bigot card + sexist card + homophobe card + islamophobe card + white privilege card + white supremacy card + victim card + oppressed card + outraged/appalled card + self-pity card + pity me card + President Trump “nuts,” “completely crazy,” “narcissist.,” “mentally declining.” + blame game = excuse for anti-effort leftard parasites (looters/moochers) who choose not to think and want to be able to gain the unearned, the undeserved, and something for nothing

6 posted on 08/18/2019 6:24:00 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: EyesOfTX

I have AOL for email but their page that comes up is AOL “News”. It is biased trash, every day. Today they headlined problems between Antifa and an “extreme right wing group”. No characterization of Antifa as a left-wing terror group composed of angry, pampered adolescents who hunt only in packs.


7 posted on 08/18/2019 6:24:52 AM PDT by laconic
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To: EyesOfTX

Whoever heard of the Proud Boys before yesterday. They’re probably a front group funded by George Soros. A bunch of Rolcons. Those are role-playing Conservatives who get their marching orders from David Brock’s propaganda outfit, BlueShare.


8 posted on 08/18/2019 6:31:19 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Tethingxas Eagle)
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To: EyesOfTX

Yeah, Trump supporters are the racists when it’s FredocRATS in Kentucky who are telling black Republican candidates to stop eating the Coon Flakes.


9 posted on 08/18/2019 6:35:26 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Tethingxas Eagle)
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To: EyesOfTX

Great breakdown of the subtleties of propagandists. Thanks. BUMP!


10 posted on 08/18/2019 6:39:38 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: EyesOfTX
This is what I said yesterday. Several others caught it too.
11 posted on 08/18/2019 6:45:26 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Fightin' in a basement)
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To: EyesOfTX
Antifa are not fascists. They are communists.

More exactly, they are the Red Fighting Front that controlled the streets in 1920s Berlin, right up until 1933. They have the same ideology, they even have the same iconography.

And, just like the Weimar Republic, a liberal democratic state cannot or will not deal with them.

12 posted on 08/18/2019 6:51:05 AM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: EyesOfTX

My local echo chamber and so-called news channel described far right-wing activists and “counter protesters”. No pictures of the black shrouded, masked psychopaths either. Good job.


13 posted on 08/18/2019 6:55:55 AM PDT by Spok ( W)
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To: Texas Eagle
Yeah, Trump supporters are the racists when it’s FredocRATS in Kentucky who are telling black Republican candidates to stop eating the Coon Flakes.

Uncle Tom is one of the most misunderstood books ever written. For somebody to call a black man or woman an "Uncle Tom" is a compliment, if you actually read the novel. Tom was a Christian who did his best to help slaves escape, and when tortured to death by Quimbo and Sambo (the REAL sellouts), he forgives them as he enters heaven.

So, if you hear of some African-American being called an "Uncle Tom", just let them know they're simply either a Quimbo, Sambo, or Simon Legree.

14 posted on 08/18/2019 7:13:46 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: Texas Eagle

You keep posting that (Soros supports Proud Boys) ...obviously you don’t know anything


15 posted on 08/18/2019 7:42:46 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: EyesOfTX

Trump is still procrastinating on declaring Antifa a terrorists bunch of killer thugs. And even if he does what will happen? Nothing. Still riot and will eventually kill because communists cities are on stand down so the police can watch mid evil crap. What a America has become.


16 posted on 08/18/2019 8:08:01 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: goodnesswins
You keep posting that (Soros supports Proud Boys) ...obviously you don’t know anything

Beat me to it.

17 posted on 08/18/2019 8:26:47 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Texas Eagle
"Whoever heard of the Proud Boys before yesterday."

You haven't been paying attention. Although a very small group - never more than a few dozen of them ever assemble at the same place (and it could be some of the same people going from city to city) - they have often been in the news because of clashes with Antifa.

I don't know what their beliefs actually are (I do NOT trust news reports which rarely if ever quote them directly, but with little or no evidence ascribe certain adjectives to them (e.g., "racist"/"white-supremacist"/"incel").

Regardless of what they really believe, they do not represent mainstream conservativism, but are a tiny group who seems to exist in order to engage in confrontations with Antifa. These brawls - regardless of who starts them - are not in our interest, and blur the distinction between conservative moderation and leftist thuggery.

A typical Trump rally attracts far more people - overwhelmingly, normal decent people - where rallies of the Proud Boys, neo-Nazis, and white-supremacists typically attract just a few dozen. A Trump rally in ONE CITY probably has twenty times more attendees than a COMBINED national convention of these other groups would attract.

But, despite their tiny numbers, the Proud Boys and related groups loom large in the fevered imaginations of the left and the media.
18 posted on 08/18/2019 9:21:36 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Spok
"No pictures of the black shrouded, masked psychopaths either."

I noticed the same thing. The story in The Seattle Times featured a picture of bearded, sometimes helmet-clad Proud Boys, marching on a bridge, but no photo of the masked, brass-knuckled Antifa thugs screaming obscenities at police.
19 posted on 08/18/2019 9:24:44 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

I don’t trust any group that appears out of the clear blue sky that the fake news media immediately lumps us in with. Large or small.


20 posted on 08/18/2019 9:25:14 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Tethingxas Eagle)
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