{"id":551515,"date":"2021-06-03T17:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=551515"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:51:43","slug":"the-legacy-media-finally-discover-antifas-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-legacy-media-finally-discover-antifas-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legacy Media Finally Discover Antifa\u2019s Violence"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fthe-legacy-media-finally-discover-antifas-violence%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=551515&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\/06\/GettyImages-1230698352.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>More than a year after mass protests ripped through the nation, destroying businesses, homes and churches and doing an inestimable amount of damage on whole neighborhoods, the legacy media have discovered that not all anti-police protests are \u201cmostly peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, The Washington Post ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/anarchists-and-an-increase-in-crime-hijack-portlands-social-justice-movement\/2021\/05\/28\/d49ee1b6-bf1a-11eb-a55f-4871b8ac676f_story.html\">story<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/portland-social-justice-movement-hijacked-by-anarchists-in-disarray-report\">announced<\/a>, \u201cAnarchists and an increase in violent crime hijack Portland\u2019s social justice movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That prescient insight comes a mere <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/portland-police-bureau-protests-hijacked-antifa\">10 months<\/a> after Fox News reported, \u201cLegitimate protests, message \u2018hijacked by anarchists.\u2019\u201d In the story, which ran last August 18, Sgt. Brent Maxey of the Portland Police Bureau revealed nothing more than what network cameras and social media footage had long captured: Antifa rioters regularly pelted police with projectiles and tried to torch a federal courthouse during a spree of looting, vandalism, and violence that stretched on for months.<\/p>\n<p>Again last August, the conservative publication Unherd.com <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2020\/08\/how-white-radicals-hijacked-portlands-protests\/\">reported<\/a> on \u201cHow white radicals hijacked Portland\u2019s protests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WaPo\u2019s rude awakening about the nature of Portland\u2019s \u201cprotests\u201d also lagged significantly behind a press release from the Trump administration, which made the same point and used the same language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolent agitators have hijacked any semblance of First Amendment protected activity, engaging in violent criminal acts and destruction of public safety,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-or\/pr\/74-people-facing-federal-charges-crimes-committed-during-portland-demonstrations\">said<\/a> U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams in a statement released by the Justice Department on August 27, 2020. Williams announced that the DOJ had arrested 74 people on charges ranging from assaulting a federal officer to destruction of federal property, committed \u201cunder the guise of peaceful demonstrations in Portland since at least May 29, 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take the newspaper of record, the New York Times. \u201cI\u2019ve been on the front lines of the protests here, searching for the \u2018radical-left anarchists\u2019 who President Trump says are on Portland streets each evening,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytopinion\/status\/1288905456346435585\">wrote<\/a> Nicholas Kristoff in a snarky op-ed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/29\/opinion\/portland-protests-trump.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&#038;smtyp=cur\">titled<\/a> \u201cHelp Me Find Trump\u2019s \u2018Anarchists\u2019 in Portland.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.8901098901099\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I\u2019ve been on the front lines of the protests here, searching for the &#8216;radical-left anarchists&#8217; who President Trump says are on Portland streets each evening,&#8221; writes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKristof?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NickKristof<\/a> from Portland <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LnfjkjD9PY\">https:\/\/t.co\/LnfjkjD9PY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytopinion\/status\/1288905456346435585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When Trump administration Acting Director of Intelligence Ric Grenell tweeted out a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichardGrenell\/status\/1286286746087378945\">video<\/a> of Antifa setting fire to the federal courthouse, Kristoff blamed the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRick [sic], come to beautiful Portland, and you\u2019ll find that the \u2018city in flames\u2019 narrative is nonsense. There are a couple of blocks in downtown that are in tumult each night, though, partly because the Trump administration dispatched troops to inflame the situation for its benefit,\u201d Kristoff <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKristof\/status\/1286343367966720000\">asserted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But this April, Kristoff shared an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weouthere.net\/2021\/04\/open-letter-a-call-in-to-the-portland-protest-community\/\">open letter<\/a> from \u201c[l]eaders from Portland\u2019s Black community \u2026 calling on white protesters to stop \u2018doing damage to us.\u2019 Protesters who say they seek racial justice have damaged [b]lack-owned businesses and a Boys and Girls Club serving mostly people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN has shown more message discipline on covering for radical protesters, although even CNN let some facts slip through.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, CNN \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/01\/politics\/fact-check-portland-ablaze-trump-fire-department\/index.html\">fact-checked<\/a>\u201d President Donald Trump\u2019s statement that Portland has been so battered by Antifa protests that \u201cthe entire city is ablaze all the time.\u201d The article \u2014 which is titled \u201c\u2019WE ARE NOT ABLAZE,\u2019 Portland fire department says after Trump falsely claims \u2018entire city\u2019 is on fire\u201d \u2014 noted that fires had broken out \u201cjust about every night\u201d for four months, but called Trump a liar since, technically, not every single inch of the city was bathed in flames.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s law enforcement correspondent Josh Campbell insufferably <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryDunleavy\/status\/1399606394249256963\">tweeted<\/a> about the fact that people could easily live well in wealthier, more elite parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood morning from wonderful Portland, where the city is not under siege and buildings are not burning to the ground. I also ate my breakfast burrito outside today and so far haven\u2019t been attacked by shadowy gangs of Antifa commandos,\u201d he wrote in one social media post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.8918918918919\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4bJUfmIc1C\">pic.twitter.com\/4bJUfmIc1C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerryDunleavy\/status\/1399606394249256963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He continued his breakfast-themed investigative journalism by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1399585426516570115\">tweeting<\/a> that, while there is \u201clocalized nightly violence in Portland, the people in line at VooDoo Donuts would never know that the entire city is ablaze. The face masks could be hiding their Antifa identities, or they could be following medical advice to wear face coverings in a pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.6793893129771\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This was CNN&#8217;s reporter dispatched to Portland LAST YEAR. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4nzrqxdvV1\">pic.twitter.com\/4nzrqxdvV1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/redsteeze\/status\/1399585426516570115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCampbell said he went to Starbucks, shopped at a mall, ate at a food truck and watched a bike tour roll down the street past his downtown hotel,\u201d CNN noted in its fact-check piece.<\/p>\n<p>CNN appeared to have a moment of clarity on January 21, when it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/01\/21\/us\/portland-ice-building-demonstration\/index.html\">reported<\/a>, \u201c8 arrests made after vandalism at Democratic Party headquarters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The media walls protecting left-wing looters from media scrutiny finally appear to have been breached.<\/p>\n<p>But the network returned to form last month, as the host of CNN\u2019s \u201cUnited Shades of America,\u201d W. Kamau Bell, conducted a fawning interview with two black-clad members of Portland\u2019s Antifa chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Bell shrugged off the fact that \u201cyes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-host-praises-antifa-violence-yes-people-get-hurt\">people get hurt<\/a> [and] property gets damaged,\u201d because \u201cthis fighting for democracy and against fascism thing has always been a messy business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radio personality Jason Rantz recently told Fox News that many reporters \u201cwanted to justify or downplay\u201d the extent of the violence in Portland, because they \u201cidentified with the Black Lives Matter movement and its ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That, too, echoes coverage from last year. \u201cThe Left\/liberal political and media class is deeply invested in preserving the untouchable sanctity of \u2018BLM,\u2019\u201d wrote Michael Tracy at Unherd last August. \u201cIt makes for a bizarre dynamic, as Democratic Party pundits and politicians routinely describe avowed insurrectionists as nothing more than benign \u2018peaceful protesters.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As with the possible lab origins of the COVID-19 virus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-official-slaps-media-you-were-too-busy-calling-trump-racist-to-report-on-covids-possible-wuhan-lab-origins\">nothing has changed<\/a> since last year except administrations.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/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>More than a year after mass protests ripped through the nation, destroying businesses, homes and churches and doing an inestimable amount of damage on whole neighborhoods, the legacy media have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279142,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1230698352.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The Legacy Media Finally Discover Antifa\u2019s Violence","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1230698352.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"The Legacy Media Finally Discover Antifa\u2019s Violence","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}