Associated Press Brags: See, No ‘Leftist Radicals’ Committed Protest Violence!
Clay Waters
October 23rd, 2020 8:56 PM
The Associated Press, desperate to distract from the left-wing violence that accompanied this summer’s protests against police brutality, performed a labeling two-step to dodge the issue in its analysis of court records: “AP finds most arrested in protests aren’t leftist radicals.â€
AP’s Alanna Durkin Richer, Colleen Long, and Michael Balsamo’s document dive was particularly galling in its dishonest framing: First, the mainstream media insists, ad nauseam, that Antifa is merely a loose collection of anarchists, more of an idea than an organization (unless they’re the inheritors of the spirit of the brave soldiers that stormed the beach at Normandy to save the world from Nazism).
Next, the press then turn around and point to the fact that few people arrested had proof of membership in Antifa so as to deny left-wing radical violence is a problem in the first place! Here they went:
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2020/10/23/associated-press-brags-see-no-leftist-radicals-committed-protest