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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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To: Thibodeaux

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

Subversive revolutionary communists will continue to subvert the press for as long as the people continue to swallow the communist line.

IMHO


21 posted on 05/01/2016 5:09:29 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Thibodeaux

years ago, there was a Free Republic Media Chapter. The purpose was to bring attention to the press and the terrible activities following the election of President Bush.

There were at least 500 dedicated freepers working to wound the MSM. We made no dent in the armor. We failed.

The task is very difficult


22 posted on 05/01/2016 5:15:20 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....)
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To: Elsie
...did GOD really say...

Thank you for that, the first lie ever told to the woman by Lucifer. And what was that lie? That when you die you don't really die, you go to heaven and sit up there watching all your loved ones, see you will be alive in heaven, not dead awaiting the return, as God has promised all us sinners.

John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

23 posted on 05/01/2016 8:33:54 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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