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NBC Ignores Own Reporter and Crew Assaulted By Antifa in Charlottesville
2018-08-13
On the one-year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville protests, white supremacists and radical leftists known as Antifa descended on the Virginia town once more to commit more violence. Late Saturday night, NBC News reporter Cal Perry and his crew were in the thick of it as Antifa members ganged up on them and attacked. The next morning, NBC’s Sunday Today ignored the attack and suggested the media was simply "heckled" by their assaulters.
Of course we can expect this same standard to be used in all future instances of "heckling", too. Such as when CNN Jim "Crybaby" Acosta was put in the hospital by the words of some folks at a Trump rally recently.
On Twitter, Perry was documenting the protesters as they marched through the streets of college town when they started to get "very aggressive with the media" and trying to block their camera shots. "Yeah. We’re getting a lot of this. Protesters trying to grab our camera," he responded to one Twitter commenter telling him to "f**k off national media vulture."
Afraid someone will recognize you and your tactics?
Things got super-heated when one Antifa protestor shouted "F**k you, snitch a** news b**ch. F**k you" and tried to either pull the camera away from the person using it or knock it to the ground. It was unclear in the video.
Maybe someone should check your W-2s and see who pays you to do this?
Despite the video evidence on the ground from their own reporter, NBC went to Garrett Haake, who was at the White House in anticipation of violence there as another white supremacist rally was set to be held. "Overnight, tense moments in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, far left protesters heckling the media and chanting anti-police slogans," he suggested at the top of his report. They actually used footage Perry and his crew shot but didn't show anything from their attack.
I'm actually surprised anyone from the MSM would recognize Antifa as the far left. Let's see if they recognize the Brownshirts as such.
The assault on NBC’s reporter came almost a year since their political director, Chuck Todd used his MSNBC program, MTP Daily to elevate Antifa’s violence as a legitimate tactic against the right. He even doubled down and allowed them to use the formerly prestigious Meet the Press as a platform to push their hate and violent methods. Todd has never condemned them.
Because if he does, no more platform.
Todd appeared on Sunday Today and had nothing to say about the attack or Antifa, which had been declared a domestic terrorism group by the State of New Jersey before he had them on last year. Instead of condemning Antifa, he lambasted the President for criticizing anthem protesters and targeted his supporters as racists.
Todd, your Antifa boys are not to be equated in any way with misguided anthem protestors who are willing to show their faces and don't use violence and intimidation.
"So I don't think, if the President is, quote, ’learned anything’ I think in his mind, he has seen this is an effective political strategy to keep his base, his base," he declared about what the President had learned since last year’s violence. "That it is the president's continuation of using to be generous, dog whistles, others say they're not silent. You can hear the whistles pretty loudly."
And I think the relevant parties can hear NBC's lack of a whistle just as loudly.
It’s sad and disturbing that NBC would choose to ignore violent leftists assaulting their own employees in exchange for railing against President Trump’s voters, but this appears to be the world we live in now. The assault also came after the entire liberal media had been trying to convince the public that Trump supporters where violent ones reporters had to watch out for.
That's because Antifa is still a useful fool/tool to our socialist press. That will change one day, especially if the socialists get what they think they want.
The transcript is below:

NBC's Sunday Today
August 12, 2018
8:02 a.m. Eastern

WILLIE GEIST: Let's begin this morning with the one-year anniversary of the deadly white supremacist protest in Charlottesville and the death of Heather Haier. Demonstrations in Charlottesville during the day on Saturday were peaceful but got out offhand last night as leftist Antifa protestors lashed out at the media and police. Today a large rally is planned in Washington, D.C., with a big police presence to meet them. NBC’s Garrett Haake is there for us. Garrett good morning.

GARRETT HAAKE: Hey, good morning Willie. D.C. Police will be flooding this area later today trying to keep separate groups of white nationalists and counter-protesters, even as they converge on this small park later tonight.

[Cuts to video]

Overnight, tense moments in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, far left protesters heckling the media and chanting anti-police slogans. As the city rolled out a heavy police presence on the eve of its darkest day.

(...)

HAAKE: On a working vacation in New Jersey, President Trump will watch the rally on television, not from a White House window. On Saturday, Mr. Trump tweeting to preemptively "condemn all racism in violence". A stark contrast to his response to last year’s chaos in Charlottesville.

(...)

8:04:34 a.m. Eastern

GEIST: Chuck Todd is NBC's political director and moderator of Meet the Press. Chuck Good morning.

CHUCK TODD: Good Morning.

GEIST: Another extraordinary day in the presidency of Donald Trump right across the street from where he works. He’s not there today but will be this demonstration from white nationalists and probably counter-protesters as well. It comes one year after Charlottesville when the President said, of course, there were very fine people on both sides, seeming to put equivalency between the left and the racist right. Where are we a year later? I know you’re going to tackle some of this on the show. What has the President learned 12 months on?

TODD: Look, I think we are in a pretty divided place today. I think we are probably more racially polarized today than we were a year ago. And as for the President, since Charlottesville, think about the biggest fight he's picked since Charlottesville. The anthem protesters with the NFL and African-American players kneeling there.

So I don't think, if the President is, quote, "learned anything" I think in his mind, he has seen this is an effective political strategy to keep his base, his base. But I could tell you pretty much every other Republican who has to be on a ballot in 2018 believes that this is at the core of the Republican party suburban voter problem, right? That it is the president's continuation of using to be generous, dog whistles, others say they're not silent. You can hear the whistles pretty loudly. But that is sort of why the Republican Party is in this bind in 2018, where you have a slice of the party, the suburban voters, who are just uncomfortable with the Trump brand of Republicanism.

(...)
Posted by:gorb

#5  Well, gorb, that means the Sturm Antifa will be singing the "Chuck Todd" instead of the "Horst Wessel".
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2018-08-13 16:39  

#4  To the media, it's not violence when it's done by the left, even when it's done to them.

I can see it now:

"Chuck Todd dead. Accidentally hit in head by U-lock by masked overexcited Antifa demonstration attendee. Several times. As he was innocently trying to find his bicycle so he could lock it up before a Trump voter could steal it."
Posted by: gorb   2018-08-13 14:40  

#3  Blood For Narrative.
Posted by: charger   2018-08-13 12:35  

#2  To the media, it's not violence when it's done by the left, even when it's done to them.
Posted by: Raj   2018-08-13 12:02  

#1  Antifa is now getting cover by the Democrat Media Complex, thus making them tbeir official Stuhrm Abteilung. The midterms and more so 2020 will see much violence
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2018-08-13 11:23  

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