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Review: Andy Ngo’s new book still pretends antifa’s the real enemy
latimes.com ^ | February 8, 2021 | ALEXANDER NAZARYAN

Posted on 02/08/2021 1:48:44 PM PST by lowbridge

There is an alternate universe out there in which we never have to ponder, let alone read, “Unmasked,” provocateur Andy Ngo’s supremely dishonest new book on the left-wing anti-fascist movement known as antifa. In that other world far, far away, Marjorie Taylor Greene remains a nutty CrossFit enthusiast from Georgia, not a member of Congress, and we know nothing of her musings on Jewish space lasers, the execution of Democrats or “false flag” school shootings.

If you find that universe, please send directions.

Coming as it does in this weary universe of ours, a month after pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in search of elected officials to kidnap or kill, “Unmasked” has to be taken seriously.

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“Unmasked” is a culmination of Ngo’s single-minded quest to depict an assortment of leftists as a unified vanguard whose mission is to “destroy the nation-state, America in particular.” Only in its final pages does he explain the roots of that fixation, his parents’ immigration from war torn Vietnam. He calls this book “a letter of gratitude to the nation that welcomed” them. As an immigrant from a communist country, I understand the sentiment. As a journalist, however, I must point out that he is churning out the very kind propaganda that keeps authoritarians in power.

Distortions and untruths hover like flies around every shred of confirmable fact. The same section of “Unmasked” that ends with Ngo’s paean to the United States portrays a mid-November “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington as a “peaceful and celebratory” affair, with no mention of the Proud Boys amassed there. The counter-protesters, meanwhile, are a “marauding gang.”

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KEYWORDS: alexandernazaryan; andyngo; antifa
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To: lowbridge

This is a contemptible so-called “book review”. It’s propaganda masquerading as a book review, but what can one expect from a slime-sheet like the LATimes. I won’t give those MFs the satisfaction of a GD click.


21 posted on 02/08/2021 2:17:37 PM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: madprof98

Did you ever get the Schroeder one?


22 posted on 02/08/2021 2:21:42 PM PST by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
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To: lowbridge
Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in search of elected officials to kidnap or kill,

Yet AFAIK, somehow all those enraged Trump supporters did not kidnap or murder anyone. The cop who was supposedly killed by a thrown fire extinguisher showed no signs of external injury, so the story was leftist fake news. Unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbit was shot to death (perhaps murdered) by a Capitol Police cop. One woman was crushed by the crowd, and another person had a stroke. If members of Trump's crowd actually killed anyone, elected figures or otherwise, please let me know the details.

The LA Times has not changed a bit in decades. Their motto, stolen from the New York Times, is "Any lie that serves the left's agenda."

23 posted on 02/08/2021 2:23:33 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: lowbridge

Wow...

just

wow...


24 posted on 02/08/2021 2:26:30 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: lowbridge

The LA Times reporting can claim many things. Credibility is not one of them. These people live on the other side of the mirror.


25 posted on 02/08/2021 2:30:11 PM PST by Richard Axtell (President Asterisk is an ass to risk the economy and rights of all Americans.)
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To: lowbridge

I bought Andy Ngo’s book, and I’ll be reading it this week - he’s one of the few journalists around worthy of the name these days. This review by the LA Times means nothing to me, except to increase my contempt for the MSM by some small fraction.


26 posted on 02/08/2021 2:32:30 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: lowbridge
..."I have as much fondness for antifa as I do for orthodontic surgery. I watched them destroy a Starbucks in Berkeley"

Well, I can see why you'd be upset at those bastards...

27 posted on 02/08/2021 2:37:11 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: Lod881019

Alexander (the author)

28 posted on 02/08/2021 2:37:48 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: lowbridge

What a dork! people are much smarter than he thinks
I guess he thinks. Water carrier for sure.


29 posted on 02/08/2021 2:40:26 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

He clearly looks in the mirror everyday to tell the world how important he is


30 posted on 02/08/2021 3:05:24 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: frank ballenger

That photo of him with LeeAnn Tweeden man that is just opposition gold it’s going to take a very very deep blue district for him to make a comeback


31 posted on 02/08/2021 3:07:16 PM PST by Lod881019
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To: lowbridge
Why are Armenians not all rabid rightwing conservatives? They vote for that idiot Schiff and love to parade around in leftist protests when not protesting Azerbaijan and the genocide.

You'ld think they would have wised up after what the Soviets did to them, but obviously not.

32 posted on 02/08/2021 3:15:31 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

See my tag line.


33 posted on 02/08/2021 3:27:38 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix/1984.)
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To: Lod881019

Mr. Nazaryan sounds willfully clueless.


34 posted on 02/08/2021 3:33:41 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: lowbridge

This isn’t a booking review. It’s a deranged rant seething with lies, hatred and outlandish accusations.


35 posted on 02/08/2021 3:34:16 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Lod881019

The PB were a ‘marauding band’ of counter-protestors. They had already attacked the Capitol before Trump began to speak. And, according to one, were there to inflict punishment on ‘police’ for a percieved lack of action over a stabbed PB member at a prior rally. Meaning their actions had zip to do with Trump or the rally itself. It was an opportunitist attack and makes their name MUD.


36 posted on 02/08/2021 3:36:21 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Why are Armenians not all rabid rightwing conservatives...

Either he's duped by non-stop propaganda and indoctrination or he sold out to become a contemptible boot licker. Perhaps he's both.

37 posted on 02/08/2021 3:38:54 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: escapefromboston

Oh, haven’t you heard? The rioting, arson, and looting this summer was carried out by White supremacists, KKK, and vigilantes according to my niece’s friend on facebook.

I quit FB in November, so I can only imagine who he thinks caused the disturbance at the capitol.


38 posted on 02/08/2021 3:54:13 PM PST by chronicles
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To: lowbridge

Let’s put this L.A. Slimes a-hole in a Antifa/BLM “zone” in any number of DNC sh*tholes and he can get woke.


39 posted on 02/08/2021 3:55:41 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: lowbridge

PRETENDS??????? ANTIFA IS THE ENEMY!!


40 posted on 02/08/2021 4:03:43 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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