Posted on 01/20/2020 8:56:24 PM PST by Morgana
An NBC reporter deleted a tweet Sunday after falsely claiming that a Monday gun rights event in Virginia was a “white supremacist rally.”
In a now-deleted tweet, NBC’s Ben Collins urged reporters ahead of the 2nd Amendment rally to “verify information” before sending it out. Collins deleted and then clarified his tweet following backlash for referring to the event as a “white supremacist rally.”
Monday’s rally was organized by Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), a non-profit pro-2nd Amendment group, not by white supremacists. They have urged for a “peaceful” event, NBC News previously reported. NBC reporter Ben Collins claimed that a Second Amendment rally in Virginia Monday was a "white supremacist rally."
NBC reporter Ben Collins claimed that a 2nd Amendment rally in Virginia Monday was a “white supremacist rally.”
Monday’s rally in Richmond will likely see thousands head to the Virginia State Capitol to rally against gun control proposals. The proposals are supported by state Democrats and Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of the event.
The sweeping gun control proposals come after Democrats flipped both the state House and Senate in November. The Virginia State Senate has already approved three gun control bills, which could be approved by the House soon, the New York Times previously reported.
“Hi everybody! I’m deleting a tweet so I can be super clear about tomorrow’s rally in Virginia,” Collins tweeted after deleting his original tweet following backlash. “The Lobby Day protest is and has traditionally been a gun rights rally, but white nationalists, including militant group The Base, have been planning violent action at the event.” Primis Player Placeholder
Lobby Day is yearly event hosted by VCDL to advocate for gun rights. The event is always hosted on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and many head to Richmond to lobby lawmakers while they’re in session.
Gun groups have been meeting across the state for months leading up to Monday’s event.
Suspected neo-Nazis were arrested by the FBI ahead of the event. They were reportedly talking about Monday’s rally and had obtained weapons, the NYT reported. One of them was an illegal immigrant from Canada. Collins cited a total of seven arrests as a reason for originally calling it a “white supremacist rally.”
Even though, that is exactly what the lefties in the MSM think.
“Suspected neo-Nazis were arrested by the FBI ahead of the event.”
‘Minority Report’ much ?
Good post.
Nick - the Covington kid who sued CNN and won is scaring the press boys... Slandering ONLY conservatives isn’t going to work much longer.
Leftist propaganda pushers like this guy are your enemy, folks. He wants violence perpetrated against you, he just can not pull the trigger himself. So, he votes for and propagandizes for a murderous, totalitarian state to do it for him.
Leftists are using lawfare now to provoke a fight as justification to bring the full force of government down onto the people. And there are all too many police and federal authorities inching to pull the triggers on their weapons who will do the killing for this leftist propagandist. Northam used lawfare in the form of invoking an emergency decree knowing full well he was disarming people and hoping the useful idiots called antifa would attack. Of course that did not happen because the cage where antifa could attack would also cause it so they had no place to do their hit and run attacks.
Buy weapons and ammo, folks. It is what the 2nd amendment guarantees and one never knows if you will need them. We are trust that we will not, but I am not hopeful.
JoMa
Reporter? Nonsense. Journalism is dead. It died with that commie Walter Kronkite.
Probably only because he would have a hard time explaining why so many of them were black.
And also with his erstwhile student, the Dan.
Yeah, definitely him too.
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