‘Attempting to Commit Murder’: Nets Refuse Condemnation of Antifa

Nicholas Fondacaro | August 10, 2020
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NewsBusters was among the first to call Antifa’s terroristic siege of the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon what it was: an attempt to commit murder by trapping federal agents inside and burning it to the ground. But last Thursday, Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler, who had joined the rioters on the front lines, backpedaled hard and echoed the obvious, saying, “You are attempting to commit murder.” To that condemnation, the broadcast networks were silent; when only weeks earlier they were boosting the rioters as standing up to Trump.

Back on July 23, this author documented how coverage of the Portland riots largely evaporated on evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC. They didn’t want viewers to know that rioters they had been touting for days had barricaded federal officers inside the courthouse and tried to set it on fire.

While the broadcast networks refused to share Wheeler’s new condemnation for the violence, Fox News Channel’s Special Report didn’t shy away on Friday. Chief correspondent Jonathan Hunt shared this soundbite of the Mayor:

When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people that you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating. You are attempting to commit murder.

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