Media Coverage of Portland Melee Raises Bias to New Heights

You are seem to be suggesting that Trump supporters/pro-America supporters start the violence just as many times as Antifa.

Wrong.

Antifa ALWAYS starts it. Have you seen ANY pro-America groups walking alone down city streets breaking windows, destroying property? Antifa does this ALL. THE. TIME.

After the Portland rally, you might have seen the buses carrying pro-America people leaving. It was Antifa smashing the bus windows, yes?

Antifa provokes the violence EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Down here in SoCal, we had our pro-Trump rally back on March 25, 2017. The Antifa idiots blocked the march. The caused what violence broke out. I was there.

"You are seem to be suggesting that Trump supporters/pro-America supporters start the violence just as many times as Antifa."

If I seemed to be suggesting that, I was not properly expressing myself. I was suggesting that groups like the Proud Boys may or may not be mainstream conservatives (it's hard to get past all the media labels to know what they really believe), but when a group of bearded, helmeted young "right-wingers" get in brawls - REGARDLESS OF WHO STARTS IT - the media will blur all distinctions and the right-wingers will somehow be blamed, and many in the public will not have the time or motivation to try to sort it all out.

As for yesterday, I did not see even one example of right-wing violence, but I did the see the bus videos you talked about, and the video of the man who was knocked unconscious by Antifa, and I saw the lack of intervention by the Portland police. The general public will NOT see those videos, but only the biased accounts of the MSM. Hence my belief that these confrontations of fringe groups are not to be encouraged or celebrated.

leftist Democrats (pardon my redundancy)

The journalism cartel systematically defines and redefines political terms for its own convenience. Up to the 1920s, the term “liberal” meant pretty much what you and I mean when we say, “conservative.” According to Safire’s New Political Dictionary, the meaning of the word was changed - essentially inverted - in the 1920s. Safire doesn’t say who changed it - note the passive voice “was changed” - but you and I know who had motive and opportunity.
The point is, that IMHO the proper definition of “liberal” in modern parlance is, “the perspective of the membership of the journalism cartel.” Journalists apply the term to people who go along and get along with journalists. And to no other. Of course, they don’t apply the term to themselves, they want to position themselves differently. And they wouldn’t want to position a judge with that term, either.
Make no mistake, journalists tagged us with a negative label by calling us “conservative” - there essentially are no actual conservatives in America. The Constitution explicitly authorizes the Congress to “promote the progress of science and the useful arts” - and no actual conservative believes in progress.

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