{"id":522941,"date":"2021-05-18T18:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=522941"},"modified":"2021-05-18T18:36:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:36:06","slug":"cnn-host-praises-antifa-violence-yes-people-get-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-host-praises-antifa-violence-yes-people-get-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Host Praises Antifa Violence: \u2018Yes, People Get Hurt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-host-praises-antifa-violence-yes-people-get-hurt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=522941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-839964832.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On CNN\u2019s \u201cUnited Shades of America,\u201d host W. Kamau Bell compared the violent left-wing extremist group Antifa to a beloved children\u2019s music star, sanitized their violence, and admitted that innocent \u201cpeople get hurt\u201d \u2014 but implied it\u2019s worth it.<\/p>\n<p>The show ended by claiming that white supremacists killed former Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X.<\/p>\n<p>Bell devoted a segment of his most recent show to the radical leftist group Antifa, whose violent nature has been a matter of record for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2020, many white Americans dealt with complicated feelings about the police for the first time,\u201d Bell asserted. \u201cThe right-wing saw that, and they [sic] did what they do: They pulled a bait-and-switch, and returned to an old boogeyman: Antifa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To short-circuit that racial reckoning, Bell claimed, conservatives preyed on their audience\u2019s ignorance and support for traditional occupations like the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImages of people clad in black fighting in the streets was an easy idea to sell to people who say things like, \u2018Blue Lives Matter,\u201d said Bell. \u201cAin\u2019t nobody blue,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bell then sanitized the aims and intentions of the frequently riotous, international movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Antifa\u2019 is short for anti-fascist,\u201d he said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/cnns-don-lemon-defends-antifa-despite-violence-no-organization-is-perfect\/\">echoing<\/a>\u00a0fellow CNN personality Don Lemon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re unsure how you feel about that, picture a table: On one side of the table is Hitler and Mussolini, and on the other side is the popular [children\u2019s] performer Raffi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich side of the table you sitting on?\u201d he asked. \u201cI\u2019m with Raffi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell then met with two members of Portland\u2019s Antifa movement, saying snarkily, \u201cOh, Tucker\u2019s gonna be so mad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Fox News host Tucker Carlson played footage of Bell egging on an Antifa crowd and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/tucker-carlson-rips-cnns-w-kamau-bell-you-are-peddling-hate-video\/\">accused<\/a> him of \u201cpeddling hate\u201d and \u201cstoking violent extremism as a side gig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/herschel-walker-knocks-biden-antifa-is-not-an-idea\">Joe Biden<\/a>, Bell told the two Antifa members that \u201ca lot of people on the Left have done a lot of work to say, \u2018Antifa is not a group; it\u2019s an ideology\u2019 \u2014 and then, you guys actually are a group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After presenting the two disguised members of the group \u2014 one male, one female \u2014 as charming and sensitive, Bell conceded that Antifa has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/timeline-antifa-violence-january-%E2%80%93-august-2017-frank-camp\">long history<\/a> of unleashing violence and injury in its wake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, this fighting for democracy and against fascism thing has always been a messy business. And, yes, people get hurt, property gets damaged, and things get confusing,\u201d Bell said.<\/p>\n<p>Portland protesters like the two featured on Bell\u2019s show have caused $2.3 million in damage to the city\u2019s buildings alone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/portland-protesters-damage-cost-federal-buildings-1566821\">according<\/a> to Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>But, Bell said, Martin Luther King Jr. died violently.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to hand-to-hand combat, Bell\u2019s guests said that Antifa doxxes people saying what they consider to be \u201cviolent, racist, disgusting things\u201d while \u201choping they get fired, or have to find a new job,\u201d or get shunned by their in-laws.<\/p>\n<p>Bell capped off the segment by claiming that Malcolm X was one of America\u2019s \u201cblack icons assassinated by white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell was apparently referring to a supposed deathbed \u201cconfession\u201d by former NYPD cop Raymond Wood. A letter allegedly written by Wood and revealed posthumously this February by his cousin, Reggie Wood, claimed that the NYPD worked with the FBI to entrap and arrest two of Malcolm X\u2019s security guards, to set him up for assassination. But one of the two guards no longer guarded Malcolm X at the time of the arrest, and the other guarded only the leader\u2019s empty house. The letter has Wood refer to himself by the wrong job title; Wood\u2019s daughter says the signature is a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/26\/letter-implicating-nypd-in-malcolm-xs-death-is-fake-cops-daughter\/\">forgery<\/a>; and \u201chistorians don\u2019t believe it,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/:%20https:\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2021\/04\/18\/malcolm-x-assassination-letter-attacked\">according<\/a> to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, three members of the Nation of Islam \u2014 Thomas Hagan (Mujahid Abdul Halim), Norman 3X Butler (Muhammad Abdul Aziz), and Thomas Johnson (Khalil Islam) \u2014 gunned down Malcolm X on February 21, 1965, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1964\/10\/04\/archives\/malcolm-rejects-racist-doctrine-also-denounces-elijah-as-a.html\">rejecting<\/a> the sect\u2019s more hardcore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Nation-of-Islam\">racist teachings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But then, blame-shifting and gaslighting about left-wing violence seemed to be the point of Bell\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On CNN\u2019s \u201cUnited Shades of America,\u201d host W. 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