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Rich Lowry Confronts Joy Reid on Charlottesville: “There was violence on both sides”
Legal Insurrection ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 08/13/2017 8:51:11 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Joy Reid doesn’t brook much dissent on her own MSNBC show, regularly shutting down, as here, here and here, conservatives who have the temerity to disagree with her. Fortunately, when Rich Lowry of the National Review took on the Reid this morning, it happened on Meet the Press, where Reid was a fellow panelist rather than host.

The topic was the violence between neo-Nazi/white nationalists and Antifa, in which numerous people were injured and one woman killed. President Trump has come under withering media and political attack for a statement condemning violence “on many sides.”

Lowry made the point that the so-called “anti-fascists” in Charlottesville also engaged in violence, and the violence was not one-sided, as the videos show. Reid refused to admit that there was violence on both sides, claiming “there was certainly not.”

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antifa; charlottesville; cvariots; joyreid; neonazis; richlowry
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1 posted on 08/13/2017 8:51:11 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; ...

Lowry was lucky he wasn’t on Reid’s show when he contradicted her. He probably would have been booted off.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 08/13/2017 8:52:03 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

DB Daily Update ^ | 8.13.2017 | David Blackmon
Posted on 8/13/2017, 5:28:23 AM by EyesOfTX

What happened in Charlottesville, VA on Saturday should surprise no one. This was an inevitable outcome of this country’s lack of anything resembling an independent national news media. If anything, it’s surprising it took this long for such a tragedy to happen.

For two years now, leftist agitators funded by George Soros-supported groups have been violently assaulting supporters of Donald Trump without a single word of objection or condemnation from any leader of the Democratic Party. Not a word.

Worse, none of these “leaders” have been asked by anyone with any major national news outlet why they stand silently by as supporters of their political party engage in increasingly vile and violent protest actions.

Not a single Democrat politician has been questioned by any “journalist” why they not only refuse to condemn such actions, but tacitly endorse them by proclaiming themselves to be participants in the “resistance”.

Not a single “journalist” has asked any Democrat why they refuse to even condemn the rise of a neo-fascist group that calls itself “Antifa”, and which pays masked thugs to burn buildings, attack law enforcement officers and beat up anyone who disagrees with them.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3576752/posts


3 posted on 08/13/2017 8:53:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Soros? Call it for what it is: Democratic Party funded. Time to stop allowing Democrats to play these shell games.


4 posted on 08/13/2017 8:55:04 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Be TOUGH, Rich!


5 posted on 08/13/2017 8:55:15 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

There were two sides? Listening to the news, I thought there was just one side.


6 posted on 08/13/2017 8:55:33 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The side that never gets told. The Patriots that were attacked and left to suffer by the police and then attacked by the governor and the press.

http://mainetv.net/Patriot01VA.mp4


7 posted on 08/13/2017 8:56:52 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (RINO politicians beware your time is coming ... SOON)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Reid will probably also argue that no one shot Rep. Scalise and no one shot those Dallas cops.


8 posted on 08/13/2017 8:58:10 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The Charlottesville police chief and mayor let the Blac Bloc and communists run around assaulting people (how many arrests BEFORE speed racer powered up the Mach 5?), then cry crocodile tears when commies go flying through the air like bowling pins.

The commies are lucky thats all that happened to them.


9 posted on 08/13/2017 8:59:40 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s a hallmark of stupidity to not be able to see when your side screws up.


10 posted on 08/13/2017 8:59:56 AM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
President Trump has come under withering media and political attack for a statement condemning violence “on many sides.”

We all saw the videos. What Trump said is absolutely true, so why the outrage at his statement? Reason: because he said it. Doesn't matter whether it's true or not. The MSM agenda is to damage Trump. Does the MSM really think we can't see through this bias?

11 posted on 08/13/2017 9:00:04 AM PDT by econjack
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No worries. Media has been screaming about Trump being a racist for years. Won’t work. Not now. Not ever.


12 posted on 08/13/2017 9:03:31 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Take heart, Joy...

...the world has a place for ignorant drooling imbeciles, too.

13 posted on 08/13/2017 9:03:32 AM PDT by Gargantua (A posper a day keeps the blattines away! ;^)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Reid will probably also argue that no one shot Rep. Scalise and no one shot those Dallas cops.


And Baton Rouge cops. The cop Bill Ayers killed. The 50 dead in Orlando. Etc., etc.


14 posted on 08/13/2017 9:04:31 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Rome2000

This false flag went HORRIBLY WRONG for them and they haven’t come up with a bulletproof ‘benghazi video’ story yet.


15 posted on 08/13/2017 9:05:21 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

All Americans have the right to peacefully assemble under the Constitution. How, when and where are dependent on local government regulations.

The local Charlottesville Government is totally responsible for the violence, deaths and failure to manage the exercise of civil rights of each group equally under the Constitution.

The local government failed to govern, they failed to lead and they failed to understand their duty under the law. That was their greatest mistake.

The group was protesting the removal of a Confederate General’s statue. The group got their permit to gather & protest legally.

Then the mayor revoked the permit, illegally. Surprisingly, the ACLU had it reinstated.

I wonder if Antifa, BLM had a permits? Who told them about the protest? A city does not have to issue permits all on the same day. What were the City officials thinking? Such incompetence.

Factions from all groups were bussed in. Makes me wonder if this was a staged event.

The situation was solely the failure of the state & local government! I hear the governor told the police to stand down. Democrat political drama gone bad.

Terry McCauliff doesn’t look Presidential - biased global communist Clinton stooge.


16 posted on 08/13/2017 9:06:07 AM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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The proper, and only effective, response to ‘withering attacks’ is to display the middle finger and double down.

Nazis are scum. But so are antifa and blm and they all should be treated equally.


17 posted on 08/13/2017 9:07:17 AM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: econjack
When has Trump said or done anything that didn't elicit an immediate knee-jerk, "Oh my GOD!" from the lunatic left with cookie-cutter predictability? This obvious "boy who cried wolf" truth is not lost on the less-than-impressed general public.

We barely even hear them any more.

18 posted on 08/13/2017 9:07:36 AM PDT by Gargantua (A posper a day keeps the blattines away! ;^)
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To: Gargantua

Agree. Every time the Left Press reports such a one-sided viewpoint, I can’t help but think ‘here come more intelligent people over to our side’.


19 posted on 08/13/2017 9:12:16 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: LydiaLong

“It’s a hallmark of stupidity to not be able to see when your side screws up.”

She sees it, but if she doubles down and doesn’t admit she sees it, it is the same as if it never happened to the MSM.


20 posted on 08/13/2017 9:12:52 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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