The press’s insistence that the anti-police protests are “mostly peaceful” was, at one point, weirdly amusing.
It is not funny anymore. It is deeply disconcerting.
On CNN, for example, national correspondent Omar Jimenez gave an update early Tuesday morning from Kenosha, Wisconsin, where rioters had spent the previous evening razing businesses to the ground.
Jimenez delivered even his update standing in front of several burning buildings. As he spoke, the on-air headline, also known as a chyron, read, “Fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting.”
The CNN national correspondent himself insisted that the protest had been mostly peaceful until that whole burning-buildings-to-the-ground thing happened.
“What you are seeing now, these images, came and come in stark contrast to what we saw over the course of the daytime hours in Kenosha and into the early evening, which were largely peaceful demonstrations in the face of law enforcement,” he said.
Jimenez added, “It wasn’t until nightfall that things began to get a little bit more contentious. Thing were thrown, back-and-forth; police started using some of those crowd dispersal tactics like tear gas, even playing very loud sounds to push them out. And then, what you’re are seeing, the common theme that ties all of this together, is an expression of anger and frustration over what people feel like has become an all too familiar story playing out in places from across the country, not just here in Kenosha, Wisconsin.”
If a protest becomes “fiery,” it is no longer “peaceful.”
This is Soviet propagandist-levels of deception.
