Thuggery Comes to Portland
By Jim Geraghty
July 1, 2019 9:56 AM
Making the click-through worthwhile: The Antifa thugs take over the streets of Portland again, a disturbing report that the Trump administration is considering accepting the North Korean nuclear program, and the lesser-known Democratic candidates start feeling the pressure.
Thuggery Comes to Portland in the Form of Antifa
How frightened are Portland institutions of Antifa, the most fascist bunch of self-proclaimed anti-fascists you’ll ever see? This morning, the Oregonian, the biggest and most important newspaper in the state, describes an assault on Andy Ngo at one of their rallies: “Oregonian/OregonLive reporter caught the attack on video, though the video doesn’t show what precipitated the attack.†The implication, of course, is that somehow Andy Ngo provoked the crowd of angry masked men into punching him, kicking him, throwing objects at him, and dousing him with some sort of liquid. This is a parody of journalistic objectivity: “We don’t want to take sides between the person who’s being punched and kicked and the group of people doing the punching and kicking.â€
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