{"id":57340,"date":"2020-07-26T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57340"},"modified":"2020-07-26T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:59:10","slug":"57340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57340","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2020\/07\/26\/after-59-days-riots-portland-abc-claims-weeks-protests-were\">After 59 Days of Riots in Portland, ABC Claims \u2018Weeks\u2019 Since Protests Were Violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As NewsBusters has extensively documented, the broadcast newscasts have done everything they could to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2020\/07\/23\/nets-portland-coverage-evaporates-after-antifa-attempted\">downplay<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2020\/07\/15\/nbc-hides-defund-police-mob-beating-nypd-cops-head-abccbs\">cover-up<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the extreme leftist violence at protests happening in cities across the country. But during ABC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Good Morning America<\/em>\u00a0on Sunday, the network, via correspondent Janai Norman, attempted some revisionist history, claiming it had been \u201c<strong>weeks<\/strong>\u201d since protests had turned violent.<\/p>\n<p>Norman\u2019s lie came just as she was wrapping up her report, falsely telling viewers: \u201cAnd no one seriously injured in that shooting at that protest in Colorado.\u00a0<strong>But it&#8217;s been weeks we have seen protests like these turn violent in multiple cities around the country, as we have this weekend<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only has it not been \u201cweeks\u201d since protests turned violent, but it also\u00a0hasn\u2019t been \u201cweeks\u201d since there has been protest-linked violence in multiple cities at the same time.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/552105\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cNow to the violent protests breaking out overnight in some cities across America, one of them turning deadly and in another, authorities firing off tear gas<\/strong>,\u201d announced co-anchor Eva Pilgrim, rhetorically clutching her pearls.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While there has been violence in Portland for 59 days, last week saw riots in Seattle targeting local businesses, which the broadcast\u00a0networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) blacked out and hid from viewers. And two weeks ago,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2020\/07\/15\/nbc-hides-defund-police-mob-beating-nypd-cops-head-abccbs\">ABC actually noted<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(though only briefly) that Black Lives Matter assaulted New York City police officers (including the chief of police) during a peaceful, interfaith march to support law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">Those acts of violence stemmed from the leftist extremists themselves, but Sunday\u2019s\u00a0<em>GMA<\/em>\u00a0focused on incidents directed at the groups. The network even included attempts by\u00a0police to break up unruly crowds as acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Norman began her report by noting: \u201cOvernight, chaos in streets as multiple shots ring out in Austin, Texas. One man shot and killed during a Black Lives Matter protest;\u00a0<strong>an apparently peaceful march turning deadly<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2020\/07\/01\/after-enabling-carnage-streets-nets-discover-chop-shootings\">ABC was one of the networks<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that helped to cover-up the fact that multiple people had been shot, and one killed, at the infamous Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle last month. Only giving them significant airtime after the city shut it down.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/nicholas-fondacaro\/2020\/07\/01\/against-police-nets-skip-death-tulsa-officer-shot-head\">ABC also didn\u2019t care<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0when a Tulsa, Oklahoma officer died after being shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p>As for the other alleged acts of violence against peaceful \u201cprotesters,\u201d Norman recalled (click \u201cexpand\u201d):<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq_collapsible_wrapper\">\n<blockquote id=\"bq_932482\" class=\"collapsible collapse\"><p>Officers later declaring the protest a riot, as around 2,000 people gathered in the downtown area. Law enforcement deploying tear gas. All of it happening just hours after a federal judge temporarily blocked a new law banning cops from using pepper spray and other crowd control tools.<\/p>\n<p>(\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>And in Colorado, a protest for Elijah McClain turning violent in Aurora, a car drove into a group of protesters, one of the marchers firing off a shot. McClain, an unarmed black man died while being subdued by police last summer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><button class=\"btn btn-default tog_bq_932482 collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-toggle=\"collapse\" data-target=\"#bq_932482\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"bq_932482\"><i class=\"fa fa-caret-square-o-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\u00a0<span class=\"tog_text_bq_932482\">Expand<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<p>She also included attempts to quell the riots in Portland as an act of violence against protesters. Although, Norman did admit that Seattle \u201cprotesters\u201d had set fire to a \u201cyouth detention center\u201d there. And she instructed viewers to gawk at images of firefighters try to \u201ctackle the flames.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As this author noted in his\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/24\/fondacaro-the-media-are-complicit-in-the-lefts-extremist-violence\/\">Daily Caller column<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on Friday, this was another case of the media being complicit with their side\u2019s radical elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 59 Days of Riots in Portland, ABC Claims \u2018Weeks\u2019 Since Protests Were Violence. As NewsBusters has extensively documented, the broadcast newscasts have done everything they could to\u00a0downplay\u00a0and\u00a0cover-up\u00a0the extreme leftist violence at protests happening in cities across the country. But during ABC\u2019s\u00a0Good Morning America\u00a0on Sunday, the network, via correspondent Janai Norman, attempted some revisionist history, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=57340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-enemies-foreign-domestic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57341,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57340\/revisions\/57341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}