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With the streets of the nation’s capital being turned into “fortresses of plywood,” as coined by CBS Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Pegues on Monday, the broadcast networks refused to say just who they were protecting their businesses from. CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News spoke in vague terms of “violence” and “unrest.” While ABC’s World News Tonight ignored the boarded-up businesses to scoffed that the White House’s installment of a new protective barrier.
Any honest observer understood just who those businesses feared. “Across the country, major cities are preparing for potential violence after the election, from New York to Philadelphia to Los Angeles,” reported NBC correspondent Gabe Gutierrez. Now, those cities were definitely not known for their enclaves of rioting Trump supporters (those don’t exist).
The businesses knew there was a chance that the radicals of Antifa and Black Lives Matter would take to the streets and raze their livelihoods to the ground following the election.
“Even the White House plans to install a non-scalable fence. In Kenosha, downtown businesses have been boarded up for months,” Gutierrez added, failing to note why Kenosha had been stuck like that for so long.
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