Denying the truth that both sides were violent goes beyond criticism

The media and political frenzy we’ve witnessed since the Charlottesville riots and death of Heather Heyer last Saturday has been as intense as anything in recent memory.

I’ve often used as a measure of frenzy the media reaction when Mitt Romney made a statement during the 2012 campaign criticizing the Obama administration’s response to Benghazi. By that measure, the current situation is off the charts.

For anyone who remembers, the death of four Americans, including our Ambassador, were cast aside for 2-3 days as the media foamed at the mouth in anger that Romney dared criticize the President and politicize such a moment. Reporters even were caught on tape colluding as to which questions to ask at Romney’s press conference. Romney’s act of stating the truth about Benghazi was an act that could not be tolerated, and so his statements were twisted.

The political sphere went hand in hand with the media frenzy, as Democrats fed and fed off of the media frenzy.

That media and political frenzy was, of course, a reversal of reality. It wasn’t Romney who politicized Benghazi by asking serious questions about lack of protection of our Ambassador and consulate. It was the Obama administration that put out false explanations in order to shield Obama’s campaign. The media frenzy was not to get to the truth, but to protect the lies of the Obama administration.

That 2-3 day frenzy was nothing compared to what we are seeing now, because Trump told a simple truth about the riots. Both sides came ready to fight, and both sides were violent. That’s an undeniable fact for anyone who cares about facts.

Unfortunately, many people seem uninterested in facts. So Trump’s words have been twisted into a supposed endorsement of neo-Nazis and White Supremacists, even though there was no such endorsement stated or implied. In each of his three statements, Trump went out of his way to condemn racism and hatred, and in two of the three statements he condemned neo-Nazis and White Supremacists.

What makes this more intense than the media attacks we have seen on Trump before is that Republicans are running scared. The fear of being falsely called a Nazi supporter by the media and political opponents is so intense that Republicans are falling all over themselves to denounce Trump for stating the simple truth that both sides came ready to fight.

Antifa (fka Black Bloc) anarchists are being portrayed as merely opposed to bigotry, when in fact that are violent thugs opposed to civil society.

You have no idea what Antifa is about, used to be Black Bloc, violent anarchists seeking to smash society, nothing 2 do with defying bigotry https://t.co/J6gJJO5uIV — Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) August 16, 2017

There's no moral equivalency between racists & Americans standing up to defy hate& bigotry. The President of the United States should say so — John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) August 16, 2017

Wasn't that long ago Dems and Liberals rejected Black Bloc anarchists, now that rebranded as Antifa, all in https://t.co/iVej2CZpU7 — Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) August 16, 2017

In an obscenity, Antifa is being compared to U.S. soldiers who landed on D-Day.

This is Hillary's fmr spokesman, defaming US soldiers by comparing them to Antifa anarchists https://t.co/5SK5rBtCGB — Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) August 16, 2017

Also confronted the Nazis without a permit: pic.twitter.com/3c2f3X9slC — Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 16, 2017

You insult the brave men on those boats by calling them alt-left https://t.co/ODvl2KijvN — Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) August 16, 2017

Alt-left, violently coming at the alt-right, circa 1944. pic.twitter.com/K9J9MoXvX0 — Scott Gilmore (@Scott_Gilmore) August 15, 2017

If you equate the group on the left with the group on the right, you are a liar and a disgrace. pic.twitter.com/5Cx2jakNNb — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 16, 2017

We are now somehow in the position where if you don't support these people you are a Nazi. What a time to be alive. pic.twitter.com/NHZR8lqC0k — Gareth (@GarethSoye) August 16, 2017

That truth that both sides were violent doesn’t mean both sides were equal.

But the denial of the truth that both sides were violent seems to go beyond mere criticism, into a reversal of reality.



