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Rich Lowry Confronts Joy Reid on Charlottesville: “There was violence on both sides”
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/13/2017 8:51:11 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Joy Reid doesn’t brook much dissent on her own MSNBC show, regularly shutting down, as here, here and here, conservatives who have the temerity to disagree with her. Fortunately, when Rich Lowry of the National Review took on the Reid this morning, it happened on Meet the Press, where Reid was a fellow panelist rather than host.

The topic was the violence between neo-Nazi/white nationalists and Antifa, in which numerous people were injured and one woman killed. President Trump has come under withering media and political attack for a statement condemning violence “on many sides.”

Lowry made the point that the so-called “anti-fascists” in Charlottesville also engaged in violence, and the violence was not one-sided, as the videos show. Reid refused to admit that there was violence on both sides, claiming “there was certainly not.”

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antifa; charlottesville; cvariots; joyreid; neonazis; richlowry
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To: WatchungEagle

Then maybe there’s hope yet.


41 posted on 08/13/2017 10:32:51 AM PDT by x1stcav (White. Male. Unreconstructed. Never owned a slave.)
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To: LydiaLong

Maybe she sees it. Remember it is win at all costs.


42 posted on 08/13/2017 10:43:59 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Violence on both sides? The video depicts that. But who started it? That’s what I’d want to know. Special condemnation should be reserved for the group that started it.


43 posted on 08/13/2017 10:57:59 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: morphing libertarian
But letting people face off in the street and yell and throw things at each other is a formula for tragedy.

It is almost like it was intentional but hey no government agency in America would do that right?

44 posted on 08/13/2017 11:18:51 AM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: Lopeover

McAuliffe is definitely NOT presidential material.


45 posted on 08/13/2017 11:28:19 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: econjack

The Left Stream media was outraged that President Trump said ___________________!


46 posted on 08/13/2017 12:37:47 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Be the Indian, not the buffalo.


47 posted on 08/13/2017 1:32:13 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: unixfox

As an individual only, I would agree. However if you are organizing for a group, you need permits and to manage the event for the safe of people’s safety.


48 posted on 08/13/2017 4:49:36 PM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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PFL


49 posted on 08/14/2017 2:29:12 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: WatchungEagle

Young white men aren’t concerned about confederate memorials. That’s the least of their worries.

They’re tired of being personally crapped on, passed over, and humiliated.


50 posted on 08/14/2017 3:14:52 AM PDT by piasa
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To: Grampa Dave

Second it.


51 posted on 08/14/2017 3:44:53 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: unixfox

You don’t. You can protest in your yard or pasture any time you want.

The “permit” is supposed to be for insuring that there’s an agreement between your group and the town for the use of public facilities... parks, courthouse steps, etc., and to arrange police protection, traffic direction, adequate waste disposal, cleanup crews, etc... so your protest doesn’t interfere with citizens’ business and doesn’t go on indefinitely. Other citizens have rights too, not just protestors.

Obviously liberal mayors failed to grasp the concept and in this case abused their power by denying a permit because they disagreed with the opinions to be expressed, and worse, neglected to provide traffic direction and security for those they did permit.


52 posted on 08/14/2017 3:52:44 AM PDT by piasa
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To: piasa

Thanks for posting this reality!

“You don’t. You can protest in your yard or pasture any time you want.

The “permit” is supposed to be for insuring that there’s an agreement between your group and the town for the use of public facilities... parks, courthouse steps, etc., and to arrange police protection, traffic direction, adequate waste disposal, cleanup crews, etc... so your protest doesn’t interfere with citizens’ business and doesn’t go on indefinitely. Other citizens have rights too, not just protestors.

Obviously liberal mayors failed to grasp the concept and in this case abused their power by denying a permit because they disagreed with the opinions to be expressed, and worse, neglected to provide traffic direction and security for those they did permit.”


53 posted on 08/14/2017 6:06:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!!!)
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To: piasa

No, you don’t get it. They understand that attacks on Confederate memorial are attacks on symbols of white people.

Your attitude is exactly why these crazy nazi idiots are getting followers. You are looking for excuses to disengage from the fight, saying “oh, this doesn’t matter, let’s not fight about it.” It was 50 years of that that has lead us to the current crisis. At every step of the advance of political correctness, people like you were saying “don’t fight about this, this is not the hill to die on, we will fight next time.”


54 posted on 08/14/2017 8:10:20 AM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: WatchungEagle; piasa

What if it’s not even a real fight?

https://imgur.com/a/d3sFx#734YblC


55 posted on 08/14/2017 8:12:29 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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