VIDEO: TV Journalists Defend, Applaud Five Nights of Riots and Looting

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VIDEO: TV Journalists Defend, Excuse Five Nights of Riots

By MRCNews, June 2, 2020

From the start, TV news media have done their darnedest to paint the riots happening across the country in a positive light. While many journalists have glossed over the widespread violence by relying on misleading characterizations like “mostly peaceful,” others have outright defended and justified the rioting.

Some of the these attempts to sanitize the rioting have bordered on parody. For a sampling of the media’s most desperate damage control, watch the video below:

Last Friday MSNBC’s Ali Velshi stood in front of a burning building and absurdly refused to describe the scene as “unruly.” That’s a descriptor more appropriately reserved for a hyper kindergarten class than for felonious arson — but evidently even that soft language was a bridge too far for Velshi:  “I want to be clear in how I characterize this. This was, uh, mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly. But fires have been started.”

The following evening, CNN’s Don Lemon deemed the riots a “mechanism” for “some sort of change.” The CNN Tonight host fumblingly argued that the kind of rioting unfolding on-screen was “how this country was started,” likening the destruction and looting to the Boston Tea Party:

Our country was started because — this is how — the Boston Tea Party. Rioting. So don’t — do not get it twisted and think that, oh, this is something that has not — has never happened before, and this is so terrible, and where are we, and these savages, and all of that. This is how this country was started.

TV journalists have a lengthy track record of excusing mob behavior ostensibly motivated by racial grievances. Back during the Los Angeles riots in response to the police shooting of Rodney King, USA Today contributor Julianne Malveaux described the rioters as “freedom fighters,” in a May 10, 1992 San Francisco Examiner column. She went on: “I not only accept the rebellions in Los Angeles, I identify with them.”

Just five years ago, then-CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill justified the crimes committed by rioters in Baltimore:

During CNN’s live coverage on Monday night of the Baltimore riots, CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill urged viewers to view what was taking place as “not a riot” but “uprisings” in response to African-Americans “dying in the streets for months, years, decades, centuries” due to “police terrorism.”

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

President Trump it is time to use this….. how many days and nights must this go on?
Are you listening to Javanka again?

Time for the the Insurrection Act? This act allows the president to call on the U.S. armed forces to assist in law enforcement in certain circumstances. It’s an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act forbidding military use against citizens.

Those situations include “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy” that “hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State,” specifically where “any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law,” and the state’s own authorities “are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection.”

The president can also use armed forces in the event of violence or an insurrection that “opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws,” or if a state calls on the president to help quell an insurrection against the state’s government.

During his remarks Monday evening, Trump specifically said that use of the military would either be at the request of states to have the National Guard deployed, or in the event that cities or states refuse to take measures to protect their residents.

“If a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them,” Trump said.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-powers-does-president-have-to-use-military-to-quell-domestic-unrest

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Then do it now if ever there was a need now is the time to much has been lost already should have been done days ago time is / has been of the essence . .

BanLiberals
BanLiberals
3 years ago

Except when they wrecked CNN’s building, WHICH I CHEERED!

There ARE no more “journalists!” They are now domestic terrorists, traitors, and vile elitist pigs.

Journalism is dead. Wish they were, too.

Except for a handful, like Tucker Carlson, etc.

The others? I care more about dust on my grass.

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  BanLiberals

I hope they blow up CNN.

Dennis
Dennis
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I have the deepest respect for your acumen and usually to your commentary. Though I am not a pacifist by nature, I, admittedly, abhor any conduct or commentary that involves the promotion of violence, except in personal and property protection self defense, and feel the need to say so to your comment above. I believe that the problems that are most likely the cause of some of this criminal conduct being committed by what appears to be young blacks, who are being promoted by anarchists from anti-fa movements that intend to turn this country into a dust bowl, is related to a chip that they carry on their shoulders, that has not been properly dealt with by their parents who should have taught them from birth that criminal conduct will not be tolerated, and should never be tolerated even though it may have been contributed to as a result of some of the implicit prejudice that exists here and elsewhere by Whites against Blacks; though I cannot condone violent and criminal conduct as an excuse or attempted justification of the looting and thievery that is happening today. It is frightful to see the Democratic party and their media colleagues consistently accusing the POTUS of racism and being a dictator, when his action is lawfully justified . The animosity that exists now in this nation is overwhelming those of us who can think rationally and recognize the right to non-violent civil protest, but who reject violence of any kind, especially if claimed to be justified by past events. We need this country to accept tolerance and respect for diversity, lest we fall into an abyss of a failing society. The divisiveness that exists today must be met head on by those who are in place to protect the people, and I hope that this country accepts that as the only resolution of matters that are growing out of control.

famouswolf
famouswolf
3 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

You may ‘reject’ violence, but these Antifa, blm, and other similar groups DON’T. Blood is going to be spilled, and lots of it before this is over. Mark my words, and man up and MAKE YOUR CHOICE.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  famouswolf

famous: good point. Moses said “Love one another”, but he also said “Don’t be stupid.”
In fact, Moses made a list of all the peoples who had to be obliterated upon entering Israel. The Israelites skipped most of them, to their regret later. [See, ‘Jezebel’]. Hate is horrible and dangerous, but we called them Japs because we had to kill them. And they were stunned after Nagasaki and the surrender, how kind and respectful the American troops were. Now we wish them well, and call them friends. And humans can’t do much better.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  famouswolf

famous: good point. Moses said “Love one another”, but he also said “Don’t be stupid.”
In fact, Moses made a list of all the peoples who had to be obliterated upon entering Israel. The Israelites skipped most of them, to their regret later. [See, ‘Jezebel’]. Hate is horrible and dangerous, but we called them Japs because we had to kill them. And they were stunned after Nagasaki and the surrender, how kind and respectful the American troops were. Now we wish them well, and call them friends. And humans can’t do much better.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

I just post the obvious. I’m also a curious, politically incorrect person and question things. I don’t care who it offends.

I don’t know if you are familiar with Desmond Doss. Hacksaw Ridge is a movie about him. He earned the Medal of Honor from President Truman, as well as other awards. There is an honorable role for everyone out there.

Desmond Doss receiving the Medal of Honor from President Truman

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Everyone has a a gift and it’s up to the individual to discover it. Blacks are no exception. Identity politics poisons people and is dangerous. If you need a brain surgeon, do you want a competent person or one that fills the slot for a “diversity” quota?
As best I can see, merit destroys the liberal view of soft bigotry of low expectations for minorities. Why not have the same high standard for all and skip the participation trophies? Ididn’t have them growing up. They are ridiculous. Why is the true definition of EQUALITY so offensive today?. Why is MERIT shunned, veiwed as “racist” and ridiculed?

Do blacks in general feel inferior? Why aren’t they angry at liberals lower standards for them? Just questions that are politically incorrect. As you know, political correctness is to censor you and avoid awkward questions too! How many blacks have been held down by low standards? The sword cuts both ways for any race.

I also wonder if blacks HATE being black. Black is Beautiful. Black Pride. This suggests there is a problem. Surveys have shown the lighter the skin color of a black, the more sucessful or more money they make. Within the black community they don’t like extremely black people from Africa. They discriminate against them! You can easily see the difference between an American black and one direcly from Africa. These are American blacks discriminating against fellow African blacks!

Also check out an average world wide IQ map by country. See where our immigration is coming from legal and illegal.

Look at breakdown by race on academic standing at a public school website and see who is competing for the bottom.. There are always exceptions but when it comes to generalities there is a pattern.

How come Dr. Ben Carson is shunned by blacks instead of having them beam with pride? The movie, Gfted Hands shows he had a tough upbringing, a wonderful mother, support of her family and church. His father was a bigamist leading a double life so she rightully divorced him. His mother has honor and integrity. Dr. Carson had wonderful male role models from church that helped him grow up. We had the honor of dining with him at a Pro Life fund raiser at our kids school. He is an incredible person and just what you see in an interview on TV.. Why don’t blacks embrace him?

Why does the U.N. forbide a study on race and intelligence? Why was the author of The Bell Shaped Curve by Richard Herrnstein, an American psychologist and Charles Murray shamed and not their research faulted, if it was faulty?

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The single D.C. Mayor, Murial Bowser adopted a very white looking baby…. There are lots of black babies available for adoption. Why should anyone be uncomfortable asking that question? Are blacks prejudiced against black babies available for adoption? There are more black babies available than white babies. comment image

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Philip
Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

No sweet release for them. They need to suffer for what they’ve done.

TD
TD
3 years ago
Reply to  BanLiberals

Spotify too is supporting BLM.

I opened the app this afternoon to listen to music; and the first playlist they promoted was Black Lives Matter music.

I just wanted to listen to music!
without their political BS supporting a violent anti-semite movement.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
3 years ago
Reply to  TD

I listen to music choice every day this morning there is this statement B.L.M. on the screen written out I have cox cable as there is no other choice where I live San Diego county . .

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago

It took financial power (FED), political power (D), propaganda (MSM- press to entertainment), indoctrination (control of education), every conceivable influence/corruption of those individually and combined, a century, and a plan, to bring us from where we were at the start of the 20th century to where we were when the bottle hit the big screen. Everything since 2016, including this insurrection, is because the bottle hit the big screen.

Something really ugly was supposed to happen with Hillary in the WH.

Democrats and their foreign comrades dread the day everyone learns what was supposed to happen.

famouswolf
famouswolf
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

What are you talking about, ‘the bottle hit the big screen’? That’s very cryptic and means nothing at all to me.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago
Reply to  famouswolf

When Hillary lost the 2016 election she went absolutely wild with rage. Among other things, she threw a bottle of champagne worth almost a million dollars at a custom made 150″ big screen TV (gift from Saudis) and broke them both.

famouswolf
famouswolf
3 years ago
Reply to  spfoam1

Ah. I didn’t hear about that.
I do remember she had Podesta address the troops and heard tell she was, um, very upset.
Thanks. May the dems have many reasons to break televisions next election.

spfoam1
spfoam1
3 years ago
Reply to  famouswolf

She ruined custom made cake too….LOL. I guess she wasn’t in the mood for cake.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  famouswolf

She was totally out of control and incoherent. That is why she didn’t show up at the convention to talk to her base and conceded over the phone.. It’s no secret she’d literally throw things at Bill when he was President.

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
3 years ago

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DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Anthony Silvio

Trump is not ‘morbidly obese.’ But he wears body armor and he always carries.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

He has to wear a bullet proof vest and other protection against the LEFT.
I have been told it is bulky, heavy and hot to wear it.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yes, well he has the best stuff available. But it will inevitably add girth. And it gives him the freedom to do those big rallies and stuff.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

I have a Level IV vest. I have the steel, but not the trauma pads to be worn behind the steel.

I cannot imagine wearing it under a suit.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago

Well he has something, he said so.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

“something,” doesn’t mean body armor or firearms. 😉 Mostly it means LOTS of Secret Service. The “something” he had was The White House Bible he was carrying 🙂 And he held it up on front of the church. That isn’t just “something,” it’s EVERYTHING! ♥♥♥

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Yes, he has rallies planned before the election.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Where in the world did you hear that he carries??? I have heard just the opposite! He doesn’t own guns and doesn’t LIKE guns.

You seem to enjoy dominating every one of Pamela Geller’s comment threads and much of what you have to say is false, but you never admit to mistakes. I find that troubling.

Lagertha
Lagertha
3 years ago

The modern news media is like Carver Industries in 007 Tomorrow Never Dies

Art~Spectrum
Art~Spectrum
3 years ago

If roving arsonist bands have a pyromaniac urge to burn something down, may I suggest Zucker’s CNN, headquarters of the lying voice of the seditious Radical Left, and evil Democratic Party.

When “Tea-Party” like crowds were “peacefully” besieging CNN, where was Mr. Lemon the twisted? Welcoming them with open arms, or hiding under his desk?

1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
3 years ago

Useful idiot leftist journalists are getting attacked by ANTIFA and the MSM doesnt know what to do.

Jane_Dowe1366
Jane_Dowe1366
3 years ago

If they loot –shoot!

Jane_Dowe1366
Jane_Dowe1366
3 years ago

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Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  Jane_Dowe1366

LOL!! I love olives!! Grew up in an ancient olive grove about 80 miles south of L.A. Now it’s a “suburb” of LA…

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

The spirit of Nazi Minister for Propaganda Josef Goebbels and of the Soviet AGITPROP machine remains alive in the USA’s LeftStream EneMedia.

Martina Vaslovik
Martina Vaslovik
3 years ago

Another reason I’ve not owned a TV in the last 19 years.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago

I live completely alone out in the woods. If I didn’t have a TV to kind of keep me company now and then, I’d get depressed. I know myself well enough to KEEP myself well. There are occasionally some good, older movies, on TV. I catch the news and weather, but then I sit back and quilt or read in the evening. I’m thankful for my little TV 🙂

Martina Vaslovik
Martina Vaslovik
3 years ago
Reply to  Dorrie_

I get that Dorrie, and it’s your call. BTW, I have all those good old movies and TV shows on disk, 56 terabytes of them, but what the Hollywood Left puts out now is just disgusting garbage and Leftist social engineering propaganda, even the commercials. I’ve tried downloading some of them and I just could not watch them for even one episode. The show Shameless is a good example. Nothing good comes out anymore, and I’m not paying $100 a month cable bill for that. I have all 20 seasons of Gunsmoke among many of the other great old shows, that have good stories with an actual plot, well acted, without the perversions and vulgarity Hollywood puts out today. That said, I’m going to watch Have Gun Will Travel. Have a fine evening 🙂

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago

I agree, but I don’t have a DVD player and can’t afford one. (I HAD one, but the sound went haywire on it.)
So if I watch a DVD, it would have to be on my computer and the screen is too small to enjoy a movie and my computer chair is too hard on my back to sit long enough to watch a full-length movie. So i look for older movies on TV and there are actually quite a few. Some back to the 40’s and 50’s.

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
3 years ago

RIGHTISTS NEED NOT BOTHER WITH THE WEBSITE, “RENEWED RIGHT” WHICH IS A GLOBALIST FRONT WEBSITE ON THIS ISSUE! THE democ-RATS ARE NOW TRYING TO STOP PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM COMMITTING MILITARY ACTION TO FORCE THEIR democ-RAT STATE GOVERNMENTS TO DO THEIR JOB BY BRINGING UP The Posse Comitatus Act OF RUTHERFORD HAYES, RINO LOSER! HAYES’ ACT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE POST U.S. CIVIL WAR RISE OF THE democ-RAT PARTY AS IT ALLOWED THE DEM-RATS WHO HAD REVOLTED IN THE SOUTH TO GAIN STATE AND LOCAL CONTROL & DENY THE FREED SLAVES WHO SUPPORTED THE PARTY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN THAT FREED THEM OF NOW PRES. DONALD TRUMP EQUAL PROTECTION AND VOTING RIGHTS THEY WERE ENTITLED TO! PRES. DONALD TRUMP ACTUALLY IS THE MOST OUTSPOKEN SUPPORTER OF MARTYRED PRES. ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S ORIGINAL VISION FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT HE CALLED THE “NATIONAL UNION” SINCE PRES. THEODORE ROOSEVELT WHOM THE GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE OF HIS DAY DENIED THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION TO IN 1912 TO HELP THEIR PAWN, DEM-RAT, SOUTHERN RACIST, THOMAS WOODROW WILSON WHO CREATED THE WORLD POST WWI AND HELPED ENSURE THE CREATION OF THE COMMUNIST SOVIET UNION!
ANTIFA AND THEIR LEFTIST LOOTERS ARE AUXILIARY FORCES OF THE democ-RAT PARTY SUPPORTED BY THE MUSLIMS (BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER) WHICH IS THE PRIVATE LOBBYING GROUP OF THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE! SINCE THEY COULDN’T IMPEACH PRES. TRUMP THEY TURNED TO THEIR ROLE MODEL COUNTRY OF CHINA AND HELPED UNLEASH COVID 19 WHICH IS AN ALL OUT EFFORT TO BRING PRES. TRUMP DOWN TO USHER IN THEIR NEW WORLD ORDER THAT RINO BUSH PROMOTED IN 1991! TODAY’S SPOKESMAN FOR THE RINOS IS FAKE FLAKE SEN WILLARD MITT ROMNEY WHOSE MEMBERSHIP IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SHOULD BE INDEFINITELY SUSPENDED AND NEVER ALLOWED TO CAUCUS WITH THE SENATE REPUBLICANS AGAIN AS HE CAN’T BE TRUSTED JUST LIKE THE democ-RATS AND THEIR FAKE, GLOBALIST FRONT SITES LIKE “RENEWED RIGHT”!

notme123
notme123
3 years ago

They aren’t journalists, they are accessories.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
3 years ago

The so-called TV journalists, a term I use loosely, are an integral part of the endless rioting, mayhem, and subversion occurring in America’s cities.

They, as always, get a tingly feeling, a near orgasmic delight watching brutality toward the police and other first responders. It is the America this Fifth Column gaggle endeavors, the downfall of Trump and the Constitutional Republic. The Leftist mainstream media aligned with the Fascist faux-Republicans are hell-bent on turning the Republic into a mirror-image of the Peoples Republic of China or any totalitarian state.

These faux-journalists are no more than instigators, seditionists stoking the flames shouting ‘Burn Baby Burn’ in unison with Soros’ and the Democrats’ hired guns ANTIFA, BLM, and a legion of others. They are part of the godless movement, a movement that takes on the mantle of evil to expand terror and hatred beyond civil-unrest. The MSM and the faux-Democrats are the real Enemies of the State. Indeed, there are others, Islam, China, and copious others sponsoring this faithless, terrorist crusade.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
3 years ago

Leftists like MN Attorney General exploit Blacks. Always have. There are 1.5 BILLION people in Communist China. Less than 50,000 are Black.
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Fidei defensor
Fidei defensor
3 years ago

I wonder how Ali Velshi and Don Leymon would feel if it was their houses that were burning and their crap that was stolen.

These two media slugs are part of the fifth column.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  Fidei defensor

Don’s last name is LEMON and appropriately so.

Fidei defensor
Fidei defensor
3 years ago
Reply to  Dorrie_

I like Laymon, or Leymon, because he is a leftist faq.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  Fidei defensor

His last name describes him perfectly. He’s a left wing LEMON. I have no idea what a “faq” is…

Fidei defensor
Fidei defensor
3 years ago
Reply to  Dorrie_

Well, it doesn’t mean frequently asked questions.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago
Reply to  Fidei defensor

Sorry, I’ll just walk away then … I’m not into guessing games. You seem to be more into childish games than posting facts. “Laymon” and “Leymon” are not Don Lemon’s name, the Don Lemon who works for CNN. Have a nice day…

Fidei defensor
Fidei defensor
3 years ago
Reply to  Dorrie_

If you are too stupid to figure it out, there really isn’t much I can say.

If you are so serious that you have to make an issue of this little ponce’s spelling of his last name then you have many other issues going on.

Enjoy your riots and your virtue signaling, Dorrie……………………….if that’s your real name.

Dorrie_
Dorrie_
3 years ago

For the VERY unkind person who just told me to “enjoy your riots,” then blocked me: They aren’t MY riots. I’m not a Democrat, I’m a registered Republic and EXTREMELY conservative! I served in the Army to protect people like that nasty manored man, but sometimes I wonder why I did!

What a NASTY, uncivil man he was! I have put him on my prayer chain, because God wants NO ONE to perish, but he is most assuredly perishing! It’s so tragic 🙁

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