NRATV runs defense for Brett Kavanaugh and falsely smears his protesters as "violent thugs"

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Source: media matters



6 hours 13 min ago ››› CYDNEY HARGIS


As protests mounted following the sexual assault reports against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, NRATV went to bat for President Donald Trump’s pick by mischaracterizing these peaceful demonstrations as “violent” actions by “radical thugs.”

Protests initially began the first day of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, and they continued to gain momentum after two women came forward to report Kavanaugh for sexual misconduct when they were in high school and college. On September 24, NRATV released a video featuring the organization’s president and disgraced Iran-Contra figure, Oliver North, who accused Democrats of coordinating “violent protests to smear a father and run his children out of the room.” While Kavanaugh’s family did leave the hearings, sources told CNN, “That was always the plan.” And the footage of “violent protests” shown in the NRATV video actually featured peaceful protesters being escorted out by police.

During one of NRATV’s hourly 10-minute updates, Stinchfield, which aired at 9 a.m. on September 25, host Grant Stinchfield aired a video of a crowd of protesters confronting Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in a restaurant chanting, “We believe survivors” and said, “The violent left is at it again.” Stinchfield also claimed he had “gotten word” that there are “busloads of people headed for D.C., leftists willing to enact in actions just like that one” and to “disrupt the next round of hearings for Brett Kavanaugh.”

Two hours later, Stinchfield called the protesters “a bunch of radical thugs who see nothing wrong with mob rule” and demanded their behavior be “stamped out”:..............................................

Read more: https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/01/nratv-runs-defense-brett-kavanaugh-and-falsely-smears-his-protesters-violent-thugs/221522

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Well Olie--your plan is a #FAIL!


.........Oliver North, who accused Democrats of coordinating “violent protests to smear a father and run his children out of the room.” While Kavanaugh’s family did leave the hearings, sources told CNN, “That was always the plan.” And the footage of “violent protests” shown in the NRATV video actually featured peaceful protesters being escorted out by police....................

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[Judi Lynn]

1. People who oppose sexual assaults are themselves violent thugs? How does that work? n/t

[Beartracks]

4. I know, right? The conservative myth of the violent peace-lover.

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[ffr]

2. Quick, someone hurl a pint glass at their heads.

That's acceptable conduct.

[Beartracks]

3. "We swear! The protestors were violent riiiight before this clip started!"

"And you can be sure they started fighting security tooth and nail just as soon as the cameras were turned off, too!"



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[sakabatou]

5. Should be read as "Russian affiliated/owned media runs defense..."

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. Because the NRA is exactly where we want to go

to talk about violence against women.

The fuckshits over there need to be told to stay out of this dialogue. Go back to polishing your bullets, NRA, you have nothing to offer of relevance in this conversation. How many women have been shot by their menfolk for not being the obedient doormats the NRA thinks all women should be ?? Even with TROs in place.

Please, seriously, NRA, nobody wants your two cents' worth.

And please, go fuck yourselves. Now.

[truthisfreedom]

7. National Russian Organization does it again

Putin’s lil’ helpers

[King_Klonopin]

8. Yup -- we're all violent thugs....... and we're all wilting snowflakes, too. FFS