Here is what we were greeted with this morning on AOL “News” , still the purveyor of reporting in the spirit of HuffPo*:
Chilling NRA ad paints protesters as violent, calls on police to ‘stop the madness
You can experience the AOL video commentary which we have embed below. We do so to allow ease of comparison to our inclusion of the actual NRA ad by spokesperson Dana Loesch, as can be found on YouTube.
We apologize for referring in the past to liberal reporting as spin when of late it is more akin to actual malpractice, well assuming there are standards in journalism that they adhere to. AOL is too often not engaged in reporting, but commentary and selective purveying of other (liberal) comment masquerading as reporting.
Liberal ideology is not considered controversial for the most part. Conservatism, in their mindset, is. If a conservative says something they consider to be controversial it is “reported” endlessly, often corrupted, and with the inclusion of liberal critiques they have sought out, which are purveyed, often without rebuttal.
We have also included a portion of Loesch’s lambasting of the clenched fist liberals condemning the ad. Full video available here. Would that AOL had the integrity to include any response from Loesch or the NRA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOfLjGg5gP0
Sean Davis, editor at The Federalist wrote up the matter: (excerpts, bold our emphasis)
Progressive Journalists Are Outraged At The NRA For Pointing Out Leftist Violence
Two days before an assassination attempt on Republicans, the NRA posted a video on Facebook warning of leftist violence. Progressive journalists are now pretending political violence is the NRA’s fault.
Barely two weeks after a progressive Democrat activist attempted a mass assassination of Republican officials, progressives are outraged at the NRA for noting that the Second Amendment gives people the right to defend themselves, with arms if necessary, from people who might try to assassinate them or their families.
You might not remember it because the news media pivoted away from the story as quickly as possible, but just two weeks ago an anti-Trump Bernie Bro tried to assassinate a bunch of elected Republican officials while they practiced for the annual bipartisan Congressional baseball game. Just days after the New York Times revealed that Republicans regularly practiced at a public park in Alexandria with minimal protective detail, the shooter showed up at the park and started surveilling it. According to the FBI, he even took pictures of the location. Before opening fire on the lawmakers, the shooter also confirmed that the assembled officials were Republicans.
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Progressives, however, are outraged at Second Amendment defenders for having the audacity to claim a right to self-defense in the wake of a mass assassination attempt. On Thursday, failed Baltimore mayoral candidate and Black Lives Matter gadfly Deray McKesson raged at Dana Loesch and accused her and the National Rifle Association (NRA) of “white supremacy” for noting in a prophetic promotional video filmed in April that progressive activists were becoming increasingly violent.
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On June 12, just two days before the progressive Democrat activist opened fire on GOP members of Congress and other innocent civilians just minding their own business, the NRA reposted the video on Facebook. That aroused the ire of Michael Goldfarb, a liberal journalist who writes for the Guardian, who took to his Facebook page to condemn the NRA.
“This new NRA propaganda piece is the most disturbing video I’ve seen,” Goldfarb wrote in response to the June 12 NRA post on Facebook featuring the Loesch video. “Not surprising but disturbing. Reinforces my despair that America is not going to get out of its mess without bloodshed.”
Two days after that Facebook post by the NRA, a Democrat political activist tried to murder a park full of Republican politicians.
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Rather than attempting to exploit what happened in Alexandria earlier this month, Dana Loesch and the NRA predicted it. And rather than acknowledging the reality of what happened, McKesson and Goldfarb and Applebaum chose instead to close their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears and scream at the NRA and its allies for pointing out the need to protect the right of self-defense in the wake of a politically motivated assassination attempt on Republicans. Projection — in this case, progressives accusing people on the Right of plotting violence while completely ignoring excusing constant violence being perpetrated by the Left — is one thing. But what we see in these examples isn’t just projection. It’s outright denial of reality. It’s the Big Lie on steroids: don’t just refuse to acknowledge one of the most heinous acts of political violence in recent memory, convict the other side for acts that haven’t even been committed.
R Mall
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