AP redefined ‘insurrection’ to include J6 protests, then redefined it again to exclude TN and MT protests that disrupted legislatures

American Thinker ^ | 05/01/2023 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Apparently Humpty Dumpty has taken a senior editing position with the Associated Press. Lewis Carroll’s character from Alice in Wonderland famously intoned, “When I use a word… it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less,” and the giant propaganda agency feels the same way.

Writing in Human Events, Libby Emmons calls out the AP for redefining the word “insurrection” to apply to the January 6, 2021 demonstrators, and then, when that definition was applied by others to the left wing demonstrations that disrupted the Tennessee and Montana state legislatures, re-redefining the term so as to solely apply to its enemies, the pro-Trump demonstrators. I’s an absolutely clear instance of AP acting as a propaganda organ for the left, not as a news agency.

In an interesting turn of events, the Associated Press no longer appears to believe that staging a riot at a capitol building with the intention of disrupting and diverting legislative proceedings is an insurrection.

January 14, 2021 saw the AP publicly hashing out what to call the Capitol riot of January 6. In an article entitled "Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege," the AP ran through a list of potential words to describe the events in Washington, DC on that day. (snip)

The definition of the word insurrection? The AP writes: "an act or instance of revolting against civil authorities or an established government."

[SeekAndFind]

From Human Events :

https://humanevents.com/2023/04/29/associated-press-who-used-capitol-protest-to-redefine-insurrection-now-outraged-by-gop

But now that riot is coming from the other side of the aisle, the AP wants to make sure that everyone knows when Democrats engage in “an act or instance of revolting against civil authorities or an established government,” it is absolutely not an insurrection. (snip)

the AP trots out and entirely new definition of the word insurrection to back their idea that storming the capitol and distrupting legislative sessions is absolutely not an insurrection.

“Legal experts say the term insurrection has a specific meaning — a violent uprising that targets government authority,” they say. And then the reach back into the 18th and 19th centuries for a definition, though in 2021 a perfectly contemporary definition would do.

“That’s how dictionaries described it in the 18th and 19th centuries,” the AP writes deserately, “when the term was added to the Constitution and the 14th Amendment, said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University.”

The AP states that despite the arrests, those little protests in Montana and Tennessee “didn’t involve violence or any real attempts to dismantle or replace a government,” and quote the Harvard professor again to say that “it’s wrong to call them insurrections.”

[realcleanguy]

Maybe its time to have a real insurrection. Not saying I’m part of one, but so far we have only had riots. What’s going on in France now is an insurrection.

[Bubba_Leroy]

When Democrats fought the civil war to protect their right to own slaves, Democrat controlled media in the South described the war differently than the Republican controlled media in the North.

After the Civil War, when Democrats formed the KKK to prevent freed slaves from voting for Republicans, Democrat controlled media described KKK lynchings differently than Republican condroled media.

And so it continues.

[MortMan]

Apparently Humpty Dumpty has taken a senior editing position with the Associated Press. Lewis Carroll’s character from Alice in Wonderland famously intoned, “When I use a word… it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less,” and the giant propaganda agency feels the same way.

Wasn't that the marhuka smoking catepillar?

[Tench_Coxe]

Wouldn't it be simpler for the AP to define it as:

"Any act performed by those we agree with ideologically is not insurrection or violence, while the same act engaged in by those we disagree with is insurrection or violence. In the case of the latter, verbal disagreement is also considered insurrection or violence."

[Menehune56]

AP = Deep State Media Feed.

[Pearfect]

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ALL PROPAGANDA

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[libertylover]

Not surprised. See Tagline.

[G Larry]

Ask AP "how many of the J6 protesters on video actually breaking windows have been arrested?"

The answer is ONE!

WHY?

Is the FBI too incompetent to have identified the others?

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

It’s called Propaganda.

[RideForever]

They called ‘presstitutes’ for a reason ...

[Vaduz]

AP = Asylum People