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slash Ben. All right. So remember that time when the media kept telling us over and over and over that the protests were mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful protesting? Remember that? That was good times, wasn't it? That was fun.

There's that ABC News headline, one of the best headlines ever over the past 48 hours.

Quote, protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station, and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified.

Not kidding, that was the actual headline from ABC.

The peace intensified.

See, normally when peacefulness intensifies, then people get more peaceful. But apparently when peacefulness intensifies, according to ABC News, that's when you set fire to a courthouse, damage, a police station, and assault, police officers. But it's mostly peaceful, guys. We keep hearing mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful, mostly peaceful. And there's a stark divide between the protesters and the rioters and the

looters. Now, I'm willing to hear that stark divide. Obviously, if you're rioting and you're looting,

you're doing something criminal. If you're protesting, then you're not. That is the stark divide for me.

There is, however, a problem, and that is that the media sympathize with the rioters and the looters.

And as it turns out, so do many members of the protest movement, according to the New York Times today. And remember, we were told the protesters were super peaceful. They had no intent on doing violence. They didn't even have sympathy for violence, right? They were against the violence. They recognized that violence was a bad idea. Well, not so much. Now, some of you knew this. My friend Tommy Horowitz, he's reported from on the ground at these riots and at the protests,

and he said he couldn't find anybody who actually condemned the rioting and the looting from the protests.

So the sort of stark divide, at least ideologically, not in terms of behavior,

but ideologically between the protesters and the rioters and looters basically has not existed since the early days of the BLM protests,

in which have now morphed into Antifa protests. Well, according to the New York Times, they're now confirming what AMI reported

on my radio show. They say peaceful protesters with, quote, room for rage, sympathize with

aggressive tactics. Minutes before midnight on Sunday, the first firework of the evening

screeched low over the heads of protesters gathered in Portland, Oregon, sprinkling them with white flex of light and ricocheting into the courthouse that has become a symbol of an unwelcome federal incursion into a local outcry over police brutality. Now, I love, first of all, how the New York Times immediately posits that the only reason they're attacking the courthouse is because of the federal incursion. Now, that completely reverses the timeline. Remember, the feds did not arrive until they attacked the courthouse. But the way the New York Times reports this, if you were an alien from outer space and you arrived and you read just that paragraph, you would assume that the feds arrived and then the attacks began. The New York Times has some ducked under makeshift shields to protect themselves from the falling sparks,

while others cheered at the sight of the blazing projectile hurtling toward the courthouse and the federal

law enforcement agents inside.

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