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Dear Mainstream Media, Don't You Dare Whitewash Anti-Trump Violence
National Review ^ | April 29,2016 | by DAVID FRENCH

Posted on 04/30/2016 9:56:20 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Just imagine for a moment the shrieking outrage if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car outside a Hillary Clinton rally. Imagine the fury at the sight of a bloody man wearing a Hillary shirt.

So how did the mainstream media cover the anti-Trump riot? Hot Air’s Larry O’Connor has the details:

Check out the LA Times headline: Protests rage outside Trump rally in Orange County; 17 arrested, police car smashed. Maybe it’s me, but if your headline includes the phrase: “police car smashed,” perhaps you should go ahead and call it a riot and not the benign and righteous sounding “protest.”

The Times write-up of the ugly violence begins with more apologetic language: “Hundreds of demonstrators filled the street outside the Orange County amphitheater where Donald Trump held a rally Thursday night…” “Demonstrators”??? This is a very deliberate use of language. When you have a righteous cause, you’re a “demonstrator.” The Times is using language equating these thugs with someone marching in Selma. “Demonstrators” sounds heroic.

The Washington Post used the morally-neutral term “clashed.” Trump protesters clashed with police officers here after a campaign rally Thursday hosted by the Republican presidential candidate. It’s just a clash, folks. Who knows how it started? Then there was this tweet from an L.A. Times reporter:

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/434769/dear-mainstream-media-dont-you-dare-whitewash-anti-trump-violence

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1 posted on 04/30/2016 9:56:20 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

The article is of course correct, but just yesterday a NR editor took a quite different view, more in keeping with their clear and unambiguous “NeverTrump” stance:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/outrageous-national-review-spox-blames-trump-supporters-mob-violence-california-gop-rallies/


2 posted on 04/30/2016 10:02:05 AM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: Hojczyk

I’d rather not click on a National Review link.


3 posted on 04/30/2016 10:04:17 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: Hojczyk

French should address the hate-filled screeds being churned out by his fellow National Review staff writers. How many of them have likened Trump to Hitler, which may incite violence now and in the future?


4 posted on 04/30/2016 10:05:46 AM PDT by euram
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To: Hojczyk

Dear National Review: concern trolling from a gaggle of Trump-haters? It would take a heart of stone to not laugh out loud.


5 posted on 04/30/2016 10:14:50 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Hojczyk

I won’t give NR a click to read the whole thing after their Anti-Trump tirades.
This guy is at least trying to be honest, something we seldom see from that group.


6 posted on 04/30/2016 10:18:42 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Hojczyk

Absolutely!


7 posted on 04/30/2016 10:21:47 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Hojczyk

When the Trump supporters start responding to this violence with more violence, the media will say “Trump supporters turn to violence to counter protesters.”

You know they will and so do I.


8 posted on 04/30/2016 10:42:13 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: sauropod

Mark


9 posted on 04/30/2016 10:44:05 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man.)
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To: sauropod

What will all these anti-Trump protestors do when he becomes POTUS? Hopefully they will be in the ranks of the deported.


10 posted on 04/30/2016 11:06:41 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: The Continental Op

This is an editor?

And she doesn’t know the difference between absolve and dissolve?


11 posted on 04/30/2016 11:53:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

She’s a fool. NR has apparently gone so far away from its old self that it now hires “twitter chicks” and makes them “editors”. Her “tweets” sound like those of a high school girl.


12 posted on 04/30/2016 11:56:53 AM PDT by The Continental Op
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To: Hojczyk
Just imagine for a moment the shrieking outrage if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car outside a Hillary Clinton rally.

Imagine the fury at the sight of a bloody man wearing a Hillary shirt.

Someone - thank David French... even if he does write for the National Review.

13 posted on 04/30/2016 12:26:46 PM PDT by GOPJ (Imagine the shrieking MSM outrage if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car... David French)
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To: Hojczyk

The LA Times is total Anti-America lying news source, directed at those drooling in cups and suffering dementia. No joke.

Calling these people protesters is the the height of hypocrisy written by extreme hating leftist racist. They absolutely hate white people at the LAT.


14 posted on 04/30/2016 2:11:16 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: The Continental Op

National Review is a stopped watch.

If there’s another fair to Trump article, by a different author, it might even be an olive branch.

How are they going to peddle conservatism while effectively working to elect Hillary? I suppose they could do it as a subsidized GOPe Pravda, but as a subscription based business they are going to be toast if Trump even has even moderate success in his first term.

Yes, I know that’s jumping past Hillary, but I have the feeling that Trump is going to have Hillary so completely branded as a sickly, lying traitor who is clinging on to political office as a life raft that she can only paddle with her woman card, the media are going to have to work hard to keep a straight face as they tell us “This race is still up for grabs.”

I think he’ll have her beat shortly after the first debate.


15 posted on 04/30/2016 3:46:43 PM PDT by M1911A1 (It would have been Hillary vs. Jeb! with no Trump in the race.)
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To: Hojczyk
This is a very deliberate use of language.

It always is.

It goes back to Genesis 3...

...did GOD really say...

16 posted on 04/30/2016 4:03:09 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Hojczyk

the correct word is disruptors

until the press is brought to heel, there can be no peace


17 posted on 04/30/2016 4:08:39 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (leading from behind is following)
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To: Hojczyk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tNQ9upvMTk&feature=youtu.be

Animals!!

...But then there’s this:

Trump Supporter Does Donuts Around Anti-Trump Protesters In Orange County

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXpJXKCUiHc

Awesome.

The left is showing their brutal thuggery (more to come before Calif June 7th and the Repub Convention, for sure).

But, hopefully Trump will be true-to-form and face it head on with a convincing/controversial dialogue against them in such a way that he shapes the public image against these urban terrorists.

I truly fear for his life, though. Irrational, uncivilized, mean people hate him.


18 posted on 04/30/2016 11:17:42 PM PDT by AlanGreenSpam (Obama: The First 'American IDOL' President - sponsored by Chicago NeoCom Thugs)
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To: AlanGreenSpam
Irrational, uncivilized, mean people hate him.

I think this applies to ALL candidates; no matter WHO they are.


Of course; the numbers of them probably vary...

19 posted on 05/01/2016 3:17:48 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: AlanGreenSpam
Irrational, uncivilized, mean people hate him.

I'm sure there are a few BIMBOS out there that would just LOVE for Hillary to take a walk in a park...

20 posted on 05/01/2016 3:18:44 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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