The media have determined that there are good violent riots and bad violent riots

Published January 7, 2021 8:57pm ET



You don’t have to excuse the aggressive storming of the Capitol building that took place by Trump supporters on Wednesday in order to point out the brazen hypocrisy of the news media and Democrats who have nothing but good things to say about the months of rioting we went through in 2020.

A normal person can be repulsed by both things, but, of course, the media would be defensive. Journalists actually believe the violent rioting, looting, arson, and vandalism by Black Lives Matter activists and anti-police thugs was justified and moral. That’s why they downplayed it, ever sure to remind their audiences that the protests were otherwise “mostly peaceful.”

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