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DEADLY RACISM, TWO PRESIDENTS, AND THE LYING “NEWS” MEDIA
Remember how the media praised Obama for not condemning Black Lives Matter after 5 cops were murdered?
August 28, 2017
John Perazzo
What would we find, specifically, if we examined how America's most influential media outlets used their news pages ⸺ as distinguished from their opinion pages ⸺ to report on how Presidents Trump and Obama, respectively, responded to homicides that occurred in racially charged circumstances?
The Coverage of Trump
Earlier this month, on August 12, a group of white nationalists held a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, ostensibly to protest the proposed removal of a statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a local park. Those demonstrators clashed with a leftist group of counter-demonstrators, many of whom represented the Marxist/anarchist movement known as Antifa, and one woman was killed when a young white nationalist rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. Shortly after the mayhem, President Trump condemned “the egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides” in Charlottesville. In response, the left rose up like a chorus condemning the president for failing to specifically call out the instigators as “white supremacists,” and for choosing to assign blame not only to the supremacists but also to the Marxists and anarchists. Two days after that, on August 14, Trump specifically named “the KKK,” “neo-Nazis,” and “white supremacists” as objects of ridicule. But by then, it was far too late to mollify the left. He hadn't said exactly the right words, with precisely the right inflection, at just the right moment.
CNN reported that as a result of Trump's initial statement criticizing violence from “many sides,” various “Nazi, alt-right and white supremacist groups … were emboldened by the condemnation, which they saw as a defense, or even as a tacit approval.” “By refusing to name the white nationalist groups at the center of the conflict,” CNN elaborated, “the President left the definition of both 'hatred' and 'violence' up to interpretation and handed the groups a rhetorical victory.” Trump's subsequent statement of August 14, added CNN, “divided his white nationalist supporters,” some of whom “heard the diluted words of a man forced to bow to media pressure,” while “others found winking encouragement in between the lines.” Citing, in particular, former KKK leader David Duke's dissatisfaction with Trump's second statement, CNN noted that “not all of his [Trump's] supporters are pleased.”
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The Coverage of Obama
Now, let's look at how CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post dealt — on their news pages — with President Obama's highly politicized, utterly reprehensible rhetoric in the wake of a horrific multiple murder by a black racist in Dallas just one year earlier.
First, the backdrop: On July 6, 2016, Obama issued a statement saying that “all Americans should be deeply troubled” by the then-recent police shooting deaths of two black men, Alton Sterling (in Baton Rouge) and Philando Castile (in Minnesota). The president emphasized that “these fatal shootings [were] not isolated incidents,” but were “symptomatic” of the very “serious problem” of “racial bias in law enforcement” and throughout the entire “criminal justice system.” The following day, July 7, a black gunman in Dallas murdered five police officersand wounded six others during a Black Lives Matter protest against the Sterling and Castile shootings. During a subsequent standoff with police, the gunman made it clear that he wanted to kill white people, especially police officers, and he emphatically declared his solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
Founded by Marxist revolutionaries, Black Lives Matter is a black supremacist movement that depicts white police officers as trigger-happy bigots who are ever-prepared to gun down innocent black men, and it reveres Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther who murdered a white police officer in 1973 and has spent the past several decades as a fugitive in Communist Cuba.
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Deadly Racism, Two Presidents, and the Lying “News” Media
DEADLY RACISM, TWO PRESIDENTS, AND THE LYING “NEWS” MEDIA
Remember how the media praised Obama for not condemning Black Lives Matter after 5 cops were murdered?
August 28, 2017
John Perazzo
What would we find, specifically, if we examined how America's most influential media outlets used their news pages ⸺ as distinguished from their opinion pages ⸺ to report on how Presidents Trump and Obama, respectively, responded to homicides that occurred in racially charged circumstances?
The Coverage of Trump
Earlier this month, on August 12, a group of white nationalists held a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, ostensibly to protest the proposed removal of a statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a local park. Those demonstrators clashed with a leftist group of counter-demonstrators, many of whom represented the Marxist/anarchist movement known as Antifa, and one woman was killed when a young white nationalist rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. Shortly after the mayhem, President Trump condemned “the egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides” in Charlottesville. In response, the left rose up like a chorus condemning the president for failing to specifically call out the instigators as “white supremacists,” and for choosing to assign blame not only to the supremacists but also to the Marxists and anarchists. Two days after that, on August 14, Trump specifically named “the KKK,” “neo-Nazis,” and “white supremacists” as objects of ridicule. But by then, it was far too late to mollify the left. He hadn't said exactly the right words, with precisely the right inflection, at just the right moment.
CNN reported that as a result of Trump's initial statement criticizing violence from “many sides,” various “Nazi, alt-right and white supremacist groups … were emboldened by the condemnation, which they saw as a defense, or even as a tacit approval.” “By refusing to name the white nationalist groups at the center of the conflict,” CNN elaborated, “the President left the definition of both 'hatred' and 'violence' up to interpretation and handed the groups a rhetorical victory.” Trump's subsequent statement of August 14, added CNN, “divided his white nationalist supporters,” some of whom “heard the diluted words of a man forced to bow to media pressure,” while “others found winking encouragement in between the lines.” Citing, in particular, former KKK leader David Duke's dissatisfaction with Trump's second statement, CNN noted that “not all of his [Trump's] supporters are pleased.”
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The Coverage of Obama
Now, let's look at how CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post dealt — on their news pages — with President Obama's highly politicized, utterly reprehensible rhetoric in the wake of a horrific multiple murder by a black racist in Dallas just one year earlier.
First, the backdrop: On July 6, 2016, Obama issued a statement saying that “all Americans should be deeply troubled” by the then-recent police shooting deaths of two black men, Alton Sterling (in Baton Rouge) and Philando Castile (in Minnesota). The president emphasized that “these fatal shootings [were] not isolated incidents,” but were “symptomatic” of the very “serious problem” of “racial bias in law enforcement” and throughout the entire “criminal justice system.” The following day, July 7, a black gunman in Dallas murdered five police officersand wounded six others during a Black Lives Matter protest against the Sterling and Castile shootings. During a subsequent standoff with police, the gunman made it clear that he wanted to kill white people, especially police officers, and he emphatically declared his solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
Founded by Marxist revolutionaries, Black Lives Matter is a black supremacist movement that depicts white police officers as trigger-happy bigots who are ever-prepared to gun down innocent black men, and it reveres Assata Shakur, the former Black Panther who murdered a white police officer in 1973 and has spent the past several decades as a fugitive in Communist Cuba.
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Deadly Racism, Two Presidents, and the Lying “News” Media
