CNN is lying when they say Ferguson protests were ‘peaceful’

[Karee 4,190]

Here’s a quiz for you folks in the media: What happens if you’re out doing “man on the street” interviews but none of the men on the street fit your “narrative”?

If you’re CNN, you stop interviewing them.

It has been remarkable to watch the last few days as America’s self-styled “most trusted news network” has sent out teams of reporters to various areas of Ferguson, Mo., ostensibly to cover the protests there. While their cameramen are watching cars on fire and stores being looted, the reporters ramble on about how “most people here” are “peaceful protesters.”

Protesters burn down a clothing boutique on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson Tuesday, November 25th.Photo: AP

Where are these peaceful protesters? The reporters can’t seem to find any. Instead, they turn to outside experts and some carefully vetted religious leaders to talk about “the real message” of the protests.

A fire bomb is thrown on top of a police car

On Tuesday night, CNN correspondent Jason Carroll was reporting, “Most of the protesting we saw in front of the Ferguson Police Department tonight was peaceful.” Then as he started trying to explain the fires burning behind him, he was approached by three of the protesters, who proceeded to get in his face and yell at him because he was promoting a “certain narrative” — the police narrative. “You don’t understand!” one screamed.

Anchor Don Lemon quickly went elsewhere, saying he was worried about Carroll’s safety. When Lemon returned to Carroll later in the broadcast and asked him what the men were saying to him, Carroll refused to say. The reporter was stonewalling because, he explained, these men didn’t “represent” the peaceful protesters who were really the story.

CNN’s “narrative” was laid out early on Monday evening as correspondent Van Jones (formerly of the Obama administration) warned the audience not to pay attention to “a few knuckleheads” who later became a “bunch of knuckleheads” who “started a bunch of nonsense.”

CNN’s Don Lemon and Van Jones covering the Ferguson protests.

Knuckleheads? Nonsense? When did knucklehead become a synonym for arsonist? When did taking a baseball bat to store windows become “a bunch of nonsense?” Talk about defining deviancy down.

On Tuesday night, Lemon even asked Jones about the difficulty they were having in finding peaceful protesters to interview, and Jones replied that “a lot of these young people are on the knife’s edge between violence and nonviolence.” What does that even mean?

Louis Head, Michael Brown’s stepfather, yells out to a crowd after learning of the grand jury’s decision to not indict Darren Wilson.Photo: Zumapress.com

Lemon did not ask. Instead, he returned to Marc Lamont Hill, who explained that the problem is not the protesters but the police who have been “disingenuous” by closing off a road to protesters after they heard shots being fired.

Again, he notes that the protesters were very peaceful — and would have remained so if it weren’t for those police officers making people so angry by stifling their voices.

This is a news organization that has lost all sense of its role.

There was even a debate among these knuckleheads — sorry, correspondents — over whether they should have aired video of Michael Brown’s stepfather standing on top of a car yelling, “Burn this down,” right after the verdict was released.

Vehicles burn at a car dealership during riots in Ferguson.Photo: EPA

When the Brown family called for peaceful protest, that was reported, but this outburst may not have been newsworthy, according to some of the CNN experts.

Come on. Enough is enough. These were not peaceful protests from the beginning.

Demonstrators block traffic during protests outside the Ferguson Police Department November 24th.Photo: Getty Images

Civil disobedience does not happen at night. No matter when the grand jury decision was announced, people who are engaged in peaceful protest take out their signs and march down the street in broad daylight.

A local business the morning after the grand jury delivered their decision.Photo: AP

Peaceful protesters don’t wear creepy anarchist masks or even bandannas to cover their faces. They are protesting with a clear conscience and are happy to have anyone know their identity.

Peaceful protesters do not dress like they are about to knock over a convenience store because they are not about to knock over a convenience store.

From day one, CNN has twisted the Ferguson story. The network decided early on that an injustice had been done, contrary facts aside. When the grand jury decided not to indict, CNN was primed for outrage, because there was no way officer Darren Wilson could have acted appropriately.

The network helped stir up a nation to the point of violence. Yet, since the protesters must always be on the side of angels, CNN lies about the destruction that follows.

It’s rare you see the liberal media’s dishonesty in such stark terms, but CNN can’t control the pictures. If you wanted to know what was really happening this week, all you had to do was press the mute button.

A car burns on the street in Ferguson.

Source:

http://nypost.com/2014/11/29/why-cnn-wants-you-to-believe-the-ferguson-protests-were-peaceful/

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Good post Karee. They speak of protest, but what are they protesting? Law and order? The right to assault a police officer without repercussion? People who actually have lives are getting tired of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTILevXichs

[bowens44 214]

It does cause anger when in 2014 a white man can still murder black men with impunity. This is not an isolated incident it happens nearly every day. Oh BTW CNN DID report on the violence frequently and in depth.

[Karee 4,190]

Good post Karee. They speak of protest, but what are they protesting? Law and order? The right to assault a police officer without repercussion? People who actually have lives are getting tired of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTILevXichs

I don't think they even know why their protesting. They keep running around with their hands up, but it's been proven the criminal never put his hands up. These people are celebrating a common street thug, while villifying a police officer doing his job.

[Karee 4,190]

It does cause anger when in 2014 a white man can still murder black men with impunity. This is not an isolated incident it happens nearly every day. Oh BTW CNN DID report on the violence frequently and in depth.

Who was murdered with impunity? And please point out these daily events.

While CNN may have reported on the violence daily, they chalked it up to "protesting" See Van Jones and his excuses.

Edited November 30, 2014 by Karee

[LibCampFireClub 635]

It does cause anger when in 2014 a white man can still murder black men with impunity. This is not an isolated incident it happens nearly every day. Oh BTW CNN DID report on the violence frequently and in depth.

Enjoy your delusion and feel free to post any documented case where a white man murdered a black man, but somehow got away with it?

[Karee 4,190]

Enjoy your delusion and feel free to post any documented case where a white man murdered a black man, but somehow got away with it?

Get ready for some news clip from the 1960s.

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Get ready for some news clip from the 1960s.

I hope he fully cleans them after pulling from his posterior.

[lostinblue 1,989]

The attempted assassination of a police officer sure can get turned around in a liberals mind.

[lostinblue 1,989]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKDrRNyUQU

Man said burn it down and they burned it down... But that is not what he said . according to the liberal press... Should be arrested for causing a riot.

[Ban Hammer 13,408]

It does cause anger when in 2014 a white man can still murder black men with impunity. This is not an isolated incident it happens nearly every day. Oh BTW CNN DID report on the violence frequently and in depth.

but of course!

[LibCampFireClub 635]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKDrRNyUQU

Man said burn it down and they burned it down... But that is not what he said . according to the liberal press... Should be arrested for causing a riot.

ABSOLUTELY he should be arrested for inciting a riot! But, instead, he gets a pass. Just imagine what CNN would do if non-blacks protested about him getting a pass.

Under federal law, a riot is a public disturbance involving an act of violence by one or more persons assembled in a group of at least three people. Inciting a riot applies to a person who organizes, encourages, or participates in a riot. It can apply to one who urges or instigates others to riot. According to 18 USCS § 2102 "to incite a riot", or "to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot", includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written (1) advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.”

http://definitions.uslegal.com/i/incite-a-riot/

[MyLittlePony 340]

I think the town doesnt deserve a rebuilt leave it the way it is to teack that towna lesson they done it to themselves.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

but of course!

Maybe people thought it was a gnarly lion and not a person?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

It does cause anger when in 2014 a white man can still murder black men with impunity. This is not an isolated incident it happens nearly every day. Oh BTW CNN DID report on the violence frequently and in depth.

Young black men are being killed every day with "impunity". (Media Buzz word)

But it is other young black men doing the killing. No one wants to talk about the fact the greatest threat to young black men in America is other young black men