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Why Won’t Media Demand Dems Condemn Antifa?
Mediaite ^ | 29 Aug, 2017 | Larry O'Connor

Posted on 08/29/2017 11:30:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Over the weekend, Antifa anarchists draped in black masks and carrying home-made weapons disrupted a peaceful demonstration and counter-demonstration in Berkeley, CA. The violence from the alt-Left group was so obvious and one-sided that even the Washington Post framed their article with no uncertain condemnation of the thugs in their headline: Black-clad antifa members attack peaceful right-wing demonstrators in Berkeley.

So why is this group, whose political ties clearly lean in synchronicity with the Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren wing of the Democratic Party, not being condemned by Democrats for their thuggery and violence? And, more importantly, why isn’t the media demanding Democrats do so in the same way they demanded Republicans condemn neo-Nazis and White Nationalists?

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To: gubamyster
"No Trump! No Wall! No USA At All!"

Specifically -- by individual name -- which Democrats or media types (redundant) have denounced and condemned this? Which ones?

Why isn't the corrupt media running to every nearby Democrat and sticking a mic in their face and breathlessly asking them what they think of Antifa and their now espoused position? When will Democrats be asked to condemn this divisive hate? Every Democrat!

21 posted on 08/29/2017 11:54:45 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: MtnClimber

The media!? Try rich lowry. Just sitting there while a former clintin aide says four loud times that violence from the right is much worse than Antigua

Disgusting


22 posted on 08/29/2017 11:59:19 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Obadiah
Every Democrat!

And half of the Republicans starting with Cohn, Ryan, McCain, Romney.....

23 posted on 08/29/2017 12:02:40 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: MtnClimber
"Why Won’t Media Demand Dems Condemn Antifa?"

Because journalism students are screened while in school by feminists in English departments, communication departments and others. Conservatives--especially men with prior combat specialty service--are pushed out. The remaining few men try to compete against each other by trying to act more effeminate than each other.

It's an extremely disgusting experience from the inside.


24 posted on 08/29/2017 12:03:54 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: MtnClimber
I'm pretty sure that anyone who doesn't know the answer to the title is also unable to read a 547 word article with the answer.
It would be better to spend the words on history (which liberals want to destroy)

For instance in wikipedia article on Sinn Fein:
A republican document of the early 1980s stated: "Both Sinn Féin and the IRA play different but converging roles in the war of national liberation. The Irish Republican Army wages an armed campaign... Sinn Féin maintains the propaganda war and is the public and political voice of the movement".

Similar partnerships have happened throughout history. "Nice" and "terrorist" groups in Palestine today claim to not be affiliated but anyone with a brain cell knows they are in agreement if not coordinated as they aim for the same goals and will not criticize each other harshly in public.

Jewish terrorist groups in 1940s Palentine kept a distance from Jewish political groups (and vice-versa) as they were trying to get a homeland - both were needed and the political groups didn't disavow the terrorists too harshly. (in Menachem Begin's The Revolt he calls his organization terrorists - I'm not stating my opinion in this)

Arrangements/partnerships like this existed in the American revolution and probably the civil war (though I haven't read specifics of the civil war).
25 posted on 08/29/2017 12:04:38 PM PDT by LostPassword
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To: MtnClimber

Related departments are psychology, sociology, nursing and others.


26 posted on 08/29/2017 12:04:42 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: MtnClimber

I’ve been saying since C-ville, when AntiFa fought with the KKK, that what we were seeing was the new paramilitary arm of the Democrat party fighting the old one.


27 posted on 08/29/2017 12:06:31 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: gubamyster

Precisely!


28 posted on 08/29/2017 12:14:48 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: MtnClimber

Why? Because they simply re-organized the KKK into AntiFa. Same song, new lyrics.


29 posted on 08/29/2017 12:18:02 PM PDT by wtd
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To: MtnClimber

I was rather impressed with article. I always thought that mediate was a far left site.


30 posted on 08/29/2017 12:30:30 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: Maverick68

Yep, that’s true. The theory here is that the violence is backfiring on the Alt-Left, so they’re trying to shut it down. Amazing how fast they pivot.


31 posted on 08/29/2017 12:32:00 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: BobL
The theory here is that the violence is backfiring on the Alt-Left, so they’re trying to shut it down.

I would be willing to wager that they're not going to be able to do so, without a replay of the Night of the Long Knives, where the SturmAbteilung was destroyed after it became a problem ...

32 posted on 08/29/2017 12:37:20 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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To: familyop

I wasn’t on the inside, but I did go to a conservative school (ESU). The student newspaper’s editorials and columns were generally conservative, or at least neutral. But several times a week, there would be a HORRIFIC, HATE-FILLED, piece by a guest author.

And every time, without exception, that author was described as a student majoring in ‘journalism’ or ‘communications’.

I don’t know about ‘communications’ as a major, but I still have NO CLUE why a 4 year degree is needed for ‘journalism’. Seems to me that the job is finding news (and that’s usually spoon-fed) and writing stories. Any decent 2 year grad can handle that just fine.


33 posted on 08/29/2017 12:37:30 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Trump20162020

But the media painted the tea partiers as the violent ones. I went to many TP gatherings. Any and all violence was caused by antifa types who infiltrated, causing trouble that was then tagged to the 80 year old women in the red white and blue hats with tea bags hanging off of them. Those bitches were brutal! /sarc.

Stupid fricking media. No bigger enemy of the USA. Ever.


34 posted on 08/29/2017 12:39:04 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: MtnClimber

These are the Democrats new Brown Shirts, just wearing a different color now. They destroy, fight, disrupt, all things democrats in power and with money can sit in their salons and smile and appreciate their efforts. If there is conservative blood on the streets, spit in their hair and on their faces and any other mayhem, too bad. These thugs need to be declared a terrorist group, infiltrated and destroyed. Where is Donald Trump? Why hasnt this happened?


35 posted on 08/29/2017 12:40:09 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: MtnClimber

Why should the Dems denounce Antifa? Paul
Ryan won’t!


36 posted on 08/29/2017 12:40:12 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: BlueLancer

“Night of the Long Knives”

Interesting...don’t put it past them.


37 posted on 08/29/2017 12:43:43 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: MtnClimber

Because they are media darlings.


38 posted on 08/29/2017 12:45:07 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: MtnClimber; All
They won't and they cant.

Dr William Bennett said that the DNC sold their soul for a mess of pottage by never asking Bill Clinton to resign because of what he did too and with the intern with the hat. It was unseemly and beneath the Office, remember POTUS is as much the Office as a person. He was spot on, they have never apologized for anything or asked anyone to resign including Mel Roberts (remember that with the 15 yr old) since then.

Face it, they have no standard of value, unless is it is PC and SJW-ism.

The DNC sold their soul for Clinton, they will never get it back.

They can't kick Antifa out, my guess is a number of Bernie's kids secretly think it is cool and want to stick it to Conservatives. With that said do they loose these loons if they say no mas and do they fracture and form another party before we do ( because we are sick of the RNC ) ? I don't think the DNC is one happy family especially after what they did to Bernie and the Bernsters...

39 posted on 08/29/2017 12:52:42 PM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry of Men!....)
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To: MtnClimber

Just Who Is Antifa?
http://freedomoutpost.com/antifa-just-who-are-they/

Antifa protests Soros for money....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IovWPu2w44

90% of BLM & ANTIFA Rioters are Paid by Crowds on Demand via Craig’s List and Google Ads
http://freedomoutpost.com/90-blm-antifa-rioters-paid-crowds-demand-via-craigs-list-google-ads/

The Chaos to Come- November 4th 2017
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/the-chaos-to-come-november-4th-2017/


40 posted on 08/29/2017 1:04:38 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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