Posted on 09/11/2020 3:01:28 PM PDT by Magnatron
Wrapping up a three-day tour in Chicago, Phoenix and Cleveland Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr took on the media during an exclusive interview with Townhall.
"They're basically a collection of liars. Most of the mainstream media. They're a collection of liars and they know exactly what they're doing. A perfect example of that were the riots. Right on the street it was clear as day what was going on, anyone observing it, reporters observing it, it could not have escaped their attention that this was orchestrated violence by a hardened group of street fighting radicals and they kept on excluding from their coverage all the video of this and reporting otherwise and they were doing that for partisan reasons, and they were lying to the American people. It wasn't until they were caught red-handed after essentially weeks of this lie that they even started feeling less timid," Barr said on the flight back to Washington Friday afternoon.
"The press has dropped, in my view - and I'm talking about the national mainstream media - has dropped any pretense of professional objectivity and are political actors, highly partisan who try to shape what they're reporting to achieve a political purpose and support a political narrative that has nothing to do with the truth. They're very mendacious about it," he continued. "It's very destructive to our Republic; it's very destructive to the Democratic system to have that, especially being so monolithic. It's contributing to a lot of the intensity and partisanship."
For months major news networks have portrayed riots across the country as "peaceful protests." CNN ran a chyron of a reporter standing in front of a burning Kenosha business that read, "Fiery but mostly peaceful protest."
"It's funny that you had record numbers of police being injured during 'peaceful' protests," he said. "You know usually in protests, you have large numbers of injured rioters and a modest number of injured law enforcement. I'm talking about back in the 90s and 60s, 60s to the 90s, nowadays very few rioters get injured, very few and hundreds, even thousands of officers have been injured."
But while most of what Barr classifies as "national media" has failed to report the facts on the ground about recent unrest, he credits a small number of journalists who have worked to find and publish the real story.
"I think there are a handful of reporters in the mainstream media that still have journalistic integrity, and there are some, but the overwhelming majority don't have it anymore," Barr said. "The people who do cover the Department do understand some of the issues. But, on the other hand, some of them have essentially adopted the same methods and ploys as what I refer to more generally as the national media and that is they're not because, probably somewhat because, of their own orientation and but also what their editors say, they're not really interested so much in what really happened but in pursuing a preformed narrative that suits some kind of ideological agenda. That's what it's all become."
One of those people is Associated Press reporter Mike Balsamo, who embedded with the U.S. Marshals protecting the federal courthouse in Portland during endless nights of rioting and unrest. Townhall's Julio Rosas has been on the scene of riots in Seattle, Portland and Kenosha.
According to Barr, the organizing behind the rioting in cities across the country is under investigation and federal law enforcement agencies are working to identify the individuals behind the chaos.
"People are pouring through all of the video trying to identify people to hold people accountable," Barr said, adding that the funding of the riots is also under investigation. "I think Antifa and Antifa like groups are at the center of it."
I’ve got his Master’s in Obvious right here...
Wow, look who finally sprouted a pair! Wonder how long before they dry up and fall off again.
great meme of non-rioter....
All I can say is...
Peace, brother.
He must have borrowed a pair.
He’ll return them later today.
Try to imagine Obama's or Boosh's Attorney General saying this. As all those, "Conservatives" who supported globalist Boosh, head for the tall grass.
Maybe one of these days he will act instead of just talk.
AG Barr is all bark and no bite. The dumb cuck either suffers from cognitive dissonance or is as sneaky as a snake that verbally says one thing while believing and doing the opposite.
I highly doubt it. AG Barr is a wet fart in a paper bag - useless.
Barr is quiet but he’s been working on this. Trump decided to stop trying to get the governors to do what they should have, which was activate the Guard if the local jurisdictions were impeding the police, and abandoned the plan to do it himself after opposition from leftist military sources.
So Trump worked, no doubt with Barr, on getting the US Marshals out there to nail people on Federal charges. I read that there are something like 500+ Antifa BLM radicals in custody on Federal charges, which of course are being reviewed. Some may simply have been useful idiots, and they’ll be released. But I think others were known ringleaders. And that’s why things have quieted down.
A great deal of the people in the media so called “journalists” can be confronted by social media which is the only reason I have kept my Facebook page. Most of them never answer me though because they are 100% cowards, but you can absolutely hound the sh*t out of them and fight back, let them know they are not anonymous and hold them accountable.
Mr. Barr,
The media is NOT your concern.. DO YOUR FREAKING JOB and lock up the many many insurrectionists, traitors and seditionists in the DC system!
What a useless blowhard.
problem for Bagpipes Bill Barr is that the DOJ would have to be bigger than the entire Fed.gov DC bureaucracy to get its arms around the mess in DC..
Far easier just to get a Pubbie House and Senate for PDJT
and defund and shut down the worst of it
No attack on you livius. My feeling is that Barr is doing nothing - and he will do nothing.
Barr’s job is to do anything to keep it all from becoming something.
There are a lot of people here who still believe Barr is actually doing "something."
So much better than saying nothing. Sure could use more.
Then outlaw telecoms’ ownership of news properties.
There. Fixed it. I see no evidence that anyone on the Left ever tells the truth. Ever.
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