CNN Boosts Guest's Racial 'Double Standard' Claim About Anti-Federal Protest

Matthew Balan | January 5, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

The 5 January 2015 edition of CNN Newsroom gave a platform to left-wing commentator David Love, who asserted in a Monday column for theGrio.com that "if Black Lives Matter protesters were to take over a federal building armed to the teeth with firepower — and they certainly would not do this — they would wind up dead or in prison for life on terrorism charges." Love criticized the handling of an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon: "It seems that this country has a double standard. I would say it's a color-coded system when it comes to defining terrorism."