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Out of curiosity I checked CNN to see how they’re covering Seattle

Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:48 pm
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
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Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:48 pm
You’d think a communist uprising that takes over a chunk of a major American city would be a big story. Well, turns out it is and it’s even too big for CNN. So how do they cover it?

Right-wing media says Antifa militants have seized part of Seattle. Local authorities say otherwise

Here what CNN claims is really happening there...

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It is true that demonstrators have occupied a small, six-square block section of Seattle and designated it an "autonomous zone." And it is true that, after clashes with police, a precinct was boarded up and evacuated in an attempt to deescalate the situation.

But claims that bands of militant Antifa members are roving the Seattle streets appear to be grossly exaggerated in right-wing media. In fact, according to the Seattle mayor's office, city officials haven't seen any evidence to indicate armed members of Antifa are even on the ground.


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Local news channel KOMO-TV, a CNN affiliate, reported that demonstrations remained peaceful on Wednesday, and featured music, dancing, and a movie screening.

The New York Times, which had a reporter on the ground, described the occupied area as "part street festival, part commune."

"Hundreds have gathered to hear speeches, poetry and music," Mike Baker, a Pacific Northwest correspondent for The Times, reported. "On Tuesday night, dozens of people sat in the middle of an intersection to watch '13th,' the Ava DuVernay film about the criminal justice system's impact on African-Americans. On Wednesday, children made chalk drawings in the middle of the street."


Posted by TigerCruise
Virginia Beach, VA
Member since Oct 2013
11898 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:50 pm to
They weren't around for the Warlord Raz AGul? There's a shocker
Posted by LoneStar23
USA
Member since Aug 2019
5178 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:51 pm to
Stop giving them clicks good lord that is not journalism.
Posted by JawjaTigah
Bizarro World
Member since Sep 2003
22501 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:51 pm to
Bizarro World.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
95744 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:51 pm to
This is like that cartoon of the man making the woman invisible by having her accuse Biden.
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:52 pm to
I mean - is there any evidence that Antifa members are "roving Seattle streets"? It's a tiny area that's not even downtown. Downtown is essentially normal (or as normal as mid-covid can be.)
Posted by LSUconvert
Hattiesburg, MS
Member since Aug 2007
6229 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:52 pm to
quote:

You’d think a communist uprising that takes over a chunk of a major American city would be a big story.


You live in Seattle?
Posted by TideFaninFl
On the space coast
Member since Oct 2017
6638 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:57 pm to
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It's a tiny area that's not even downtown.



it is part of the city, a 6 square block of the city. Businesses are hurting because of this, people's lives are hurting because of this, I do not care if it was in a meadow in the middle of area 52, these "people" do not have the right to extort, coerce, or threaten honest people and their lives.

Once this is said and done, who do you thing these "people" are going to whine to to hep them?

Posted by CAD703X
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Member since Jul 2008
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Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:58 pm to
:willyWonkaWorldOfPureImaginationGIf:
Posted by MFn GIMP
Member since Feb 2011
19348 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:59 pm to
quote:

mean - is there any evidence that Antifa members are "roving Seattle streets"? It's a tiny area that's not even downtown. Downtown is essentially normal (or as normal as mid-covid can be.)

You're right. There is nothing to worry about that a group of armed individuals have forcibly taken over a section of the 18th largest city in the country, have reports of armed thugs running around and committing violence on people they disagree with and talking about how to take over more territory. Totally kosher because it's not "downtown" Seattle. Oh, haven't they also taken over city hall?
Posted by DreauxB2015
Member since Nov 2015
7725 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 4:59 pm to
Out of curiosity , how is Antifa allowed to take over anything ? I though Trump classified them soy latte baby back bitches terrorists
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
33428 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:00 pm to
quote:

it is part of the city, a 6 square block of the city. Businesses are hurting because of this, people's lives are hurting because of this, I do not care if it was in a meadow in the middle of area 52, these "people" do not have the right to extort, coerce, or threaten honest people and their lives.
It's an area of the city that is left of left in the most normal of times. They get what they get.
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
33428 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:01 pm to
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have reports of armed thugs running around and committing violence on people they disagree with
Link?

quote:

Oh, haven't they also taken over city hall?
no
Posted by PEPE
Member since Jun 2018
8198 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:02 pm to
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small, six-square block section


the lulz
Posted by wmr
North of Dickson, South of Herman's
Member since Mar 2009
32518 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:03 pm to
Leftists don't think. They only parrot what they're told to say.
Posted by PEPE
Member since Jun 2018
8198 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:04 pm to
quote:

Out of curiosity , how is Antifa allowed to take over anything ?


If the local officials are going to support them they are going to be allowed to do whatever they want.

They run wild in places like Seattle and Minneapolis because the weak willed left wing local politicians don't have the balls to do anything to them.
Posted by MFn GIMP
Member since Feb 2011
19348 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:07 pm to
quote:

have reports of armed thugs running around and committing violence on people they disagree with

Link


The warlord denies it but here you go.
LINK[/link, LINK, and video. LINK

quote:

Oh, haven't they also taken over city hall?

no

I was wrong about that, thanks. I was thinking of this where it was just protestors doing a normal protest LINK
Posted by DreauxB2015
Member since Nov 2015
7725 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:10 pm to
Let me guess , Seattle and Minneapolis are DEM run cities ?
Posted by VADawg
Wherever
Member since Nov 2011
44866 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:12 pm to
CNN using New York Times as a source is like Brian Williams using Wikipedia as a source.
Posted by SSpaniel
Germantown
Member since Feb 2013
29658 posts
Posted on 6/11/20 at 5:15 pm to
CNN: America says it's the Communists. It's not the Communists, it's just the Nazis. Why must they lie?
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