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2017-02-03 Home Front: Culture Wars

CNN'S Lemon and Robert Reich: Conservatives Masterminded the Berkley Riots

LEMON: "I’ve been wanting to have this conversation because this has been a big issue about free speech on campus and conservative voices being heard. Mr. Reich, my first question to you is, there’s a violence that we saw at Berkeley. We had it live here on CNN last night. It ultimately plays right into the hands of the right-wing white supremacist, someone like Milo Yiannopoulos."

REICH: "It absolutely does, Don. And I want to be very, very clear. I was there for part of last night and I know what I saw. Those people were not Berkeley students. Those people were outsiders, agitators. I’ve never seen them before. There’s rumors that they actually were right-wingers. They were a part of a group that were organized and ready to create the kind of tumult and danger you saw that forced the police to cancel the event. So Donald Trump, when he says Berkeley doesn’t respect free speech rights, that’s a complete distortion of the truth. I mean, Berkeley opened its biggest auditorium to this right-wing Breitbart News character, this hateful odious person. They said, ’Free speech is the most important thing we stand for,’ and it was these outsiders who caused the police to finally come in and have to cancel it."

LEMON: "You think it’s a strategy by Yiannopoulos or right-wingers? They put this on in an effort to show there’s no free speech on a college campus like UC Berkeley?"

REICH: "I wouldn’t bet against it, Don. Again, I saw these people. They all looked almost paramilitary. They were not from the campus. And I’ve heard -- again, I don’t want to say factually, but I’ve heard there was some relationship here between these people and the right wing and the right-wing movement that is affiliated with Breitbart News."

LEMON: "It is interesting because there have been protests but nothing this violent. We haven’t seen anything to this level."

Posted by Beavis 2017-02-03 10:21|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 A fine example of confirmation bias and what Scott Adams refers to as two movies playing on the same screen.

I just find it amusing that lefties are protesting against someone who, in gentler times, would have been described as flaming gay.

Posted by SteveS 2017-02-03 11:30|| 2017-02-03 11:30|| Front Page Top

#2 And this is why CNN is not allowed to ask questions at the White House. They are worse than the national enquirer.

Posted by 49 pan 2017-02-03 11:57|| 2017-02-03 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 They are worse than the national enquirer.

National enquirer, occasionally, does investigative journalism - know anybody else who does?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-03 12:48|| 2017-02-03 12:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I’ve heard -- again, I don’t want to say factually, but I’ve heard there was some relationship here between these people and the right wing and the right-wing movement that is affiliated with Breitbart News.
The "relationship" is that George Soros hires "these people" to riot at events he considers "right wing". FTFY, Mr. Reich.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-02-03 13:28|| 2017-02-03 13:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Wanna-be Wormtongue ends up as court jester. Dude gives us short fellers a bad name.

Posted by JHH 2017-02-03 13:40|| 2017-02-03 13:40|| Front Page Top

#6 They will keep going until everyone on the left believes it. They are working themselves up for a war.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-03 14:25|| 2017-02-03 14:25|| Front Page Top

#7 This doesn't, um stand up to close scrutiny, Bobby...

Posted by Raj 2017-02-03 15:11|| 2017-02-03 15:11|| Front Page Top

#8 This gambit of the leftists has enough fuel to backfire on them.

Lot of people asking who this Milo fellow is, finding out, and impressed.

And this, just so absurd.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-02-03 18:06|| 2017-02-03 18:06|| Front Page Top

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