Posted on 03/19/2019 8:03:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak dismantled the lie that President Donald Trump described white supremacists and neo-Nazis as “very fine people” following 2017’s demonstrations and riots in Charlottesville, VA. He offered his analysis during an introductory monologue on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-host Rebecca Mansour.
Pollak began, “First we have to acknowledge that the terror attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, were absolutely horrific independent of whatever political or philosophical arguments we might be getting into about them, now, especially with the media coverage. I thought it would be appropriate to quote George Orwell who wrote in Looking Back on the Spanish War, an essay of 1942: ‘Unfortunately, the truth about atrocities is far worse than that they are lied about and made into propaganda. The truth is that they happen.’ And that’s the thing above all that we are still very upset about, that this would happen at all.”
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CHRISTchurch shooting was a dumpsterfire mind on leftist collectivism attempting to bait traditional people to collectivism. Charlottesville was also a democrat mayor dumpster fire of collectivist leftists killing each other. Trump had nothing to do. The white supremacists in question oppose Trump
Conservative protest usually consist of 8 people and two American flags. Tea party protest were 10,000 people who left any part they were in cleaner than when they started.
Protest styles reflect the political parties.
Charlottesville had every look, feel and style of a liberal protest - props, buses, highly organized. It wasn’t a conservative protest... and I’ll bet money it funded by and staged by liberal community organizers...
Conservative protest usually consist of 8 people and two American flags. Tea party protest were 10,000 people who left any PARK they were in cleaner than when they came.
Protest styles reflect political parties.
Charlottesville had every look, feel and style of a liberal protest - props, buses, highly organized. It wasn’t a conservative protest... and I’ll bet money it was funded by and staged by liberal community organizers...
Charlottesville was an elaborately staged play to further the narrative of “violence on the right”, when in fact, all the violence has come from the left.
Classic Alinsky.
And it’s especially that very last part where President Trump identified Antifa in all but name that sent the left into hysteria over Charlottesville. He called them out and they didn’t like it one bit.
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Mayor Koch did that too, back in the 1980s.
He criticized commie protestors in NYC, but he called them "people who don't believe in private property." It was an effective way of marginalizing them instead of himself, and they couldn't deny the accusation.
Why do collectivist seem to control all “right wing” news sources?
I have been to a lot of conservative protests, and I agree. People are well behaved, avoid profanity (even on their signs) usually there are American flags, and they try to police their areas. The last one I went to in DC, all the trash bins were full, but the signs and posters people had carried were all stacked neatly next to the bins.
The Arlington Memorial Bridge (We had a permit for Arlington Circle, the big rotary/roundabout at the entrance to Arlingon National Cemetery) where we waited for the Leftists to march over was covered with trash afterwards, everything from soda bottles to used diapers, discarded signs, empty box lunches and trash. It was shameful.
I took the time to document it a couple of years ago as shown below. I took two pictures, one showing a large gathering of liberals, and one showing a large gathering of conservatives.
Here is an example of what the liberal protesters carry when they want to make a point. This analysis was from the Antiwar protesters at The Gathering of Eagles on March 17, 2007. What you see in this picture is absolutely, 100% TYPICAL.
Here is an example of what the conservative protesters carry when THEY want to make a point. This analysis was from the Taxpayer March on Washington on 9/12/2009. What you see in this picture is absolutely, 100% TYPICAL.
Conservatives not only show wit and originality in the content of the materials they use to express themselves, but also spend time making them both readable and legible. They take pride in their handiwork, and they can do this because they have a deeper understanding of the issue at hand.
Liberals often have mass printed signs that lack originality and wit in an attempt to ensure everyone has a sign (created by someone else) that says something that the "someone else" want them to express. When you see liberals carrying their own handmade signs, they often look like this, poorly lettered and shallow in content:
I have seen this contrast over and over again. What I have concluded from this is that while liberals may have some form of conviction about a subject, it is because they want to believe something they have been told without thinking it through. Most of them have an "understanding" of an issue that is a foot wide and a fraction of an inch deep. They will doggedly stay within that framework regardless of facts and logic, and their expression of that viewpoint in their signs and banners illustrates a lack of depth, understanding and originality.
Thanks for giving us visual evidence of something I have seen at many March for Life events and The Great Tea Party demonstrations.
Yeah...it is a remarkable contrast, and it tells you something important about each side.
I was proud of our side when I saw things like this...
The extreme wings of the political spectrum descended on Charlottesville to usurp that protest for their own violent purposes, and the locals were caught in the crossfire.
-PJ
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You have no idea how hard it is to coordinate a large rally like Charlottesville... no one 'descended' there as if out of a cloud.
Slogans come first - then someone buys the poster board and another group draws slogans onto poster board. Another group adds the sticks and another group delivers finished goods to a central protected point (so signs don't get damp or ruined). That stuff is done weeks ahead of time. Signs have to be made ahead of time - in the right number... other props have to be secured.
You can't walk into an ACE hardware in a small community and buy two hundred tiki torches. Even home depot won't have that many in stock. Those have to be ordered and paid for and delivered to a person who will secure them until needed. That takes coordination.
And that's the easy stuff. The hard stuff is people coordination. "When" they should show up, what they should wear, where they'll meet, how they get home, 'walking around money' if that's part of it, gas money for drivers or buses chartered. People to make phone calls to make sure those committed to coming will show up... someone who counts the numbers - someone to explain to the novices only designated spokespeople talk to the press... etc etc etc...etc etc... Everything done has to make the event look 'natural' - look 'grassroots'...
I can assure you - having known community organizers - that this gathering took work, expert knowledge, money, and none of it was 'spontaneous'...
The folks behind Charlottesville knew what they were doing, had done large protests before and were NOT conservative activists.
The biggest flaw was the tiki torches... they didn't look threatening - they looked silly. I suspect some of the rounded up KKK type extremists were allowed to offer suggestions. The organizers should have said 'no' to that one and gone with real looking torches - and fewer of them. Four or five would have done the trick. Also, getting the press to show up is an art... and getting the 'good' video shots too - - but that's another story.
To go from the more usual conservative protest (8 citizens and and two American flags) to a "Charlottesville" is like believing some weekend campers (who know how to put up an eight person tent) - would have the skills to build a 30 story skyscraper.
I decided to respond to the easier comment... and then got carried away writing to “Political Junkie”.
Anyhow, just wanted to say you’ve done some excellent work and some interesting analysis... It’s been so many years - decades actually - since I was involved on the edges of this type of thing that I’m not up-to-date’ on how it’s done anymore. I’m just guessing. Glad to see that people like you are looking into it.
Scott Adams has been doing great periscopes on the Fine People Hoax.
The locals didn't suddenly out of thin air decide to protest; the statue removal movement had finally turned their attention to this one. The activist groups were aware, and Confederate statue removal posters were already in manufacture.
I never applied for a permit for something so I'm speculating, but I assume that a permitted event is scheduled several weeks in advance to give the city enough notice to plan. As such, it is a public record. It's likely that Antifa and white supremacist extremists had time to organize, especially since the locals weren't shy about why they wanted to protest.
-PJ
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