Wednesday, August 1, 2018

It's Who They Are

Media talking heads have frequently expressed concern (see here for example) that President Trump's characterizations of the news media will somehow lead to violence against journalists.

Yet, although there've been no reported acts of violence against journalists by Trump supporters, there have been plenty of despicable acts of physical and verbal violence by leftists, both in and out of the media, against Trump and those who support him.

Breitbart documents 538 acts of vandalism, threats, physical and verbal assaults, "jokes" about killing either Trump or his supporters, and other forms of dehumanization of either the president or his supporters since September of 2015.

Here are just a few of the more recent examples of behavior which, had the victims been associated with Clinton or Obama and the perpetrators been conservatives or "right-wingers", would have set off a media firestorm that would've raged for months, as it did in the case of the tragic death of the woman struck by a car driven by an alt-right demonstrator in Charlottesville.

Where, though, has the outrage, condemnation or even criticism in the liberal media been when any of the following occurred?:
  1. July 25, 2018: Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star destroyed … again.
  2. July 24, 2018: Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) Says Brett Kavanaugh supporters are “complicit in evil”.
  3. July 23, 2018: Denver Post Runs Letter to Editor Suggesting Trump Should Be Executed.
  4. July 23, 2018: Elizabeth Warren Supporter Shoves Challenger.
  5. July 20, 2018: Green-Haired “Gender Fluid” Guy Spits All Over Teen’s MAGA Hat.
  6. July 20, 2018: ‘Hang Trump’ Shirt Peddled on Facebook.
  7. July 19, 2018: ‘New Yorker’ Kills Trump.
  8. July 19, 2018: CA Anti-Trump Protesters Target Legal Immigrant’s Cafe Over Trump Support, Hurl Feces.
  9. July 17, 2018: Uber Driver Refuses to Serve Black Conservatives Over MAGA Hat.
  10. July 17, 2018: Gory Trump Throat-Cutting Art Decorates Portland Gallery.
  11. July 16, 2018: House Democrat Calls For ‘Military Folks’ To ‘Stop Trump’.
  12. July 16, 2018: Mob chases pro-Trump group out of Los Angeles bar.
  13. July 15, 2018: Anti-Trump Paraglider Who Buzzed Trump Visit Arrested in Britain.
  14. July 15, 2018: Former Clinton WH Staffer: It’s ‘Tempting’ to Beat up Rand Paul.
  15. July 13, 2018: Anti-Israel protesters harass Jared and Ivanka with loud speakers outside their home.
  16. July 13, 2018: 76-year-old man assaulted by anti-Trump thugs in San Diego.
  17. July 11, 2018: ABC’s Terry Moran shames Fox News’s Shannon Bream for feeling threatened at SCOTUS protest.
  18. July 10, 2018: Protesters arrested, accused of assaulting officer at Portland ICE office.
  19. July 10, 2018: Man threatens to ‘curb stomp’ Trump supporter at Disneyland.
  20. July 10, 2018: Fox News Reporter Harassed, Threatened And Forced To Leave Supreme Court By Leftist Mob.
The list at the link extends back to 2015 and includes over 500 such incidents with links to the original reports. The record is as shameful as it is long, but this is who the modern left is. They're people consumed by hate and easily provoked to violence, either rhetorical or actual.

One wonders why otherwise fine people who identify as liberals aren't more vocal in condemning this gross incivility, and even barbarism, among their political allies.