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Panic! Nets Use Melania’s Speech to Trash RNC; Holt Upset She Condemned Looting
Newsbusters.org ^ | 8/26/2020 | Curtis Houck

Posted on 08/26/2020 9:58:51 AM PDT by rktman

Late Tuesday night, the “big three” broadcast networks were trapped between a rock and a hard place. ABC, CBS, and NBC found themselves begrudgingly praising First Lady Melania Trump’s 2020 RNC speech. And while they did plenty of that, they found an escape hatch by using her speech to broadly attack all the speakers before her on Monday and Tuesday.

That said, there was one outlandish attack. Seconds after she concluded, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt complained that she condemned “the violence and looting being done in the name of justice” because, in his eyes, that’ll offend protesters.

Here’s what Holt said in full:

She also talked about race, that we're not proud of parts of our history. She may have raised eyebrows when she talked about the need to stop looting in the name of justice. There will be those who will take offense to that who are in the streets protesting, not necessarily looting.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: peaceful
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Mythical violence right les. Making Melania a liar and instigator right. Hey les, phu cough! "Not necessarily looting"? Looks like some of the mostly peaceful folks are thinkin' it's necessary.
1 posted on 08/26/2020 9:58:51 AM PDT by rktman
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So the negro Holt doesn’t like rioters being called rioters. Hmmmmm


2 posted on 08/26/2020 10:01:00 AM PDT by Okeydoker
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Looting?........why, they are merely undocumented shoppers!......... 🤑
3 posted on 08/26/2020 10:02:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................)
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4 posted on 08/26/2020 10:03:30 AM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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I’m glad Holt said that. It reinforces that ‘rats and the media support the violence that most Americans abhor, and that “protesting” is now a euphemism for rioting and looting.


5 posted on 08/26/2020 10:03:40 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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So nice that the media is giving employment opportunities to the mentally challenged.


6 posted on 08/26/2020 10:05:54 AM PDT by Vitesse
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No offense intended to the actual mentally challenged, just those like Holt who choose to act that way.


7 posted on 08/26/2020 10:07:28 AM PDT by Vitesse
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it’s so nice having a First Lady again who is an actual lady.


8 posted on 08/26/2020 10:07:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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...the violence and looting being done in the name of justice...

Oh, grow up, Lester. The looting is being done by a bunch of thugs with a BLM slogan to make it look like something else.

9 posted on 08/26/2020 10:07:42 AM PDT by econjack
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NBC and Holt are partially RESPONSIBLE for lootings,
shootings, deaths, blindings, rapes and murders.

Of course, they were “not violent, but peaceful”
as NBC and Holt used their FCC license to propagate
hate and murder.

Pull their FCC license.


10 posted on 08/26/2020 10:07:52 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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The only way these riots will stop is when the instigators come face to face with Mr. 12 gauge and Mr. 00 buck.


11 posted on 08/26/2020 10:08:09 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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Lester Dolt, ‘nuff said...


12 posted on 08/26/2020 10:09:14 AM PDT by W. (What, me worry?)
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To: BenLurkin
That, and she doesn't give advice where it doesn't belong:


13 posted on 08/26/2020 10:09:57 AM PDT by econjack
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Yup! Holt, Lemon etc. promoted these “peaceful” riots! MSM, the DNC, Big Tech, Fortune 500 corps, Blue cities and states have blood on their hands! Two people died in Holt’s “peaceful” riots. Well done seditious bastards!


14 posted on 08/26/2020 10:12:35 AM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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To: Diogenesis

Second that!


15 posted on 08/26/2020 10:13:42 AM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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Protesting, ie redressing grievances is perfectly legal and right. There is no justification for rioting and looting. Justice, my butt. Shoot looters dead in the street. Leave them there. Playtime is over.


16 posted on 08/26/2020 10:17:07 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Lester Holt, now there’s a token for ya!


17 posted on 08/26/2020 10:17:36 AM PDT by spincaster (T)
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Melania is actually Trump’s secret weapon which he so far has sparingly used. Trump is called racist and anti-immigration yet his wife’s ancestry and accent speaks volumes of truth in contrast to the lies and propaganda.

I particularly liked her statements about how you always know where Trump stands because he tells it right out. He is real and authentic and not a phony politician.


18 posted on 08/26/2020 10:37:42 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: econjack

I would like to see Melania photoshopped into that view. (Then again, the final photo could be much narrow, but more attractive.


19 posted on 08/26/2020 10:38:19 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE ( I can only donate monthly, but the radical ABCNNBCBS does it every hour on their news.)
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In a failed attempt to sound intelligent, Holt demonstrates clearly how rationality and argument have failed to take root in his mind.


20 posted on 08/26/2020 10:39:31 AM PDT by glennaro (Democrat/Left Party core principle: You can control anyone if you frighten them enough.)
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