Riots and the media's response
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2021 5:42 pm
I started putting together some links to clips of what the media has been saying for the last yr or so and found that someone has already done it:
[url=https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/03/media-justified-explained-away-rioting-looting/][color=blue]Media Justified Rioting and Looting[/color][/url]
[b]What happened yesterday was wrong.
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What has happened for the last yr+ has also been wrong and has worked to set it up. Trump didn't cause that scene. Sure, his statements may inspire or provoke, and did nothing to prevent it, but there needs to be fertile ground for his ranting to result in what we saw yesterday.
Not only the media downplayed the events of the past yr, but the leaders of the Democrat party have failed to condemn it or to take aggressive action to prevent or respond when it happened in areas that they controlled.
[url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/01/fact-check-kamala-harris-said-protests-arent-going-stop/5678687002/][color=blue]Kamala Harri[/color]s[/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z8yhQMTIiI][color=blue]People do what they do - Nancy Pelosi[/color][/url]
There are lots of other examples from the talking heads if you take the time to look.
The responsibility for what happened yesterday rests squarely at the feet of those who committed the acts of violence, but the blame for the climate for that to occur rests with those who have tacitly condoned similar acts over the past yr when they were conducted by people whose ideology supported their narrative, and then seem outraged and indignant when the "other side" does the same crap. Look back at all the articles in the last yr and they call those in the street "protesters" and the events "protests" yet every article in the last 24 hours calls it a "violent riot" and the participants "rioters". Folks, if the "protest" breaks stuff it's a riot, and the participants are a rioters.
Here is the part that is important. A huge percentage of the population believes that the election we just held was compromised. Not necessarily that the results would have been changed, but that the election was not held in a fair manner and that because of that it is just possible that voting doesn't make a difference. If people don't think voting will make a difference then they start storming the Bastille and hanging El Duce from a bridge.
What is more, the mob strikes out at those they perceive as the face of those opposed to them. The ones with a .gov email will get protection, but if the media continues to be perceived as a partisan enemy they will be the soft target, and while the 7 figure salaries will be able to afford protection those who support them will not. If the press doesn't quit treating this like a game pitting one side against another then I believe they are going to find themselves in the fray not on the sidelines and that this is just a preview.
Unfortunately I think this is going to get worse before it gets better.
[url=https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/03/media-justified-explained-away-rioting-looting/][color=blue]Media Justified Rioting and Looting[/color][/url]
[b]What happened yesterday was wrong.
[/b]
What has happened for the last yr+ has also been wrong and has worked to set it up. Trump didn't cause that scene. Sure, his statements may inspire or provoke, and did nothing to prevent it, but there needs to be fertile ground for his ranting to result in what we saw yesterday.
Not only the media downplayed the events of the past yr, but the leaders of the Democrat party have failed to condemn it or to take aggressive action to prevent or respond when it happened in areas that they controlled.
[url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/01/fact-check-kamala-harris-said-protests-arent-going-stop/5678687002/][color=blue]Kamala Harri[/color]s[/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z8yhQMTIiI][color=blue]People do what they do - Nancy Pelosi[/color][/url]
There are lots of other examples from the talking heads if you take the time to look.
The responsibility for what happened yesterday rests squarely at the feet of those who committed the acts of violence, but the blame for the climate for that to occur rests with those who have tacitly condoned similar acts over the past yr when they were conducted by people whose ideology supported their narrative, and then seem outraged and indignant when the "other side" does the same crap. Look back at all the articles in the last yr and they call those in the street "protesters" and the events "protests" yet every article in the last 24 hours calls it a "violent riot" and the participants "rioters". Folks, if the "protest" breaks stuff it's a riot, and the participants are a rioters.
Here is the part that is important. A huge percentage of the population believes that the election we just held was compromised. Not necessarily that the results would have been changed, but that the election was not held in a fair manner and that because of that it is just possible that voting doesn't make a difference. If people don't think voting will make a difference then they start storming the Bastille and hanging El Duce from a bridge.
What is more, the mob strikes out at those they perceive as the face of those opposed to them. The ones with a .gov email will get protection, but if the media continues to be perceived as a partisan enemy they will be the soft target, and while the 7 figure salaries will be able to afford protection those who support them will not. If the press doesn't quit treating this like a game pitting one side against another then I believe they are going to find themselves in the fray not on the sidelines and that this is just a preview.
Unfortunately I think this is going to get worse before it gets better.