How long can the media fool the public about “mostly peaceful protests”?
The MSM tried to frame the riots in the summer of 2020 as mostly peaceful protests. Sure, many of the people involved that summer were indeed peaceful protesters, but many were not. That means a lot of destruction was caused; after all, it’s not necessary that every single participant be violent in order to have a very dangerous situation.
In 2020 the coverage seemed to fool a lot of people, though. I know intelligent people who follow the news (although only CNN and the like) who were unaware of the damage done by protesters/rioters in 2020. So the MSM is trying the same approach now, hoping for the same result with the same group of viewers.
But can you fool many of the people much of the time, over and over and over? I don’t know the answer. But to us on the right, who get a fuller picture because we watch news sources that show the mayhem, it seems ludicrous that anyone could still believe that there was no need for more crowd control in LA than initially provided, or that the call for the Guard was not needed.
Then there are the facts about what it was that the protesters/rioters were actually protesting. Who are the people ICE was apprehending? As Trump would say, “not their best”:
These arrests occurred June 9 and 10 despite prolonged violent riots and assaults on ICE and other federal law enforcement officers.
“Murderers, pedophiles, and drug traffickers. These are the types of criminal illegal aliens that rioters are fighting to protect. How much longer will Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass continue to prioritize these criminal illegal aliens over their own citizens?” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Secretary Noem has a message to the LA rioters: you will not stop us or slow us down. ICE will continue to enforce the law and arrest criminal illegal aliens.” …
Gerardo Antonio-Palacios, an illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested by ICE Los Angeles. He has criminal convictions for homicide and burglary. He was previously deported.
Mab Khleb
ICE Los Angeles arrested Mab Khleb, a 53-year-old illegal alien from Cambodia. Khleb’s criminal history includes a conviction for transport of a controlled substance, possession of controlled substance, lewd action with a child, and battery.
Sang Louangprasert
ICE Los Angeles arrested Sang Louangprasert, a 66-year-old illegal alien from Laos. Louangprasert’s criminal history includes a conviction for lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 in Fresno, CA and inflicting corporal injury, spouse or cohabitant in Santa Barbara, CA.
Antonio Benitez-Ugarte
Antonio Benitez-Ugarte, an illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested by ICE Los Angeles and has been convicted of drug trafficking.
Alberto Morales-Mejia
Alberto Morales-Mejia, an illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested by ICE Los Angeles and has criminal convictions for manufacturing amphetamine. He also has previous arrests for document fraud and possession of a weapon.
And more. It’s not a list to engender a great deal of sympathy among the public. But the Democrats and the press hope the public never get these sorts of details.
And here’s a poster boy for the mostly peaceful demonstrators:
“Emiliano Garduno-Galvez is a criminal illegal alien from Mexico who threatened the lives of federal law enforcement officers by attacking them with a Molotov cocktail during the violent riots in Los Angeles. ICE arrested Garduno-Galvez, and he is now being charged with attempted murder. These are the types of criminal illegal aliens that rioters are fighting to protect,” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a Wednesday statement.
Attempted murder sounds about right.
ADDENDUM:
And Jimmy Kimmel says there are no riots. Well, I bet they don’t center around his neighborhood, so out of sight, out of mind:
Los Angeles-based comedian Jimmy Kimmel told his audience on Tuesday that “there’s no riots outside” and slammed “mentally ill” President Donald Trump for deploying troops to quell what he claims is exaggerated unrest in the city.
Trump sent over 700 Marines to Los Angeles in an effort to quash anti-ICE protests that have ravaged parts of the city on Tuesday. Images from L.A. showcase masked protesters blocking roads, destroying vehicles and engaging with police, while Mayor Karen Bass issued a curfew for a portion of the city’s downtown area.
Kimmel mocked the media for portraying the anti-ICE protests as “some kind of totalitarian hellscape” and condemned the Trump administration for deporting “people who have lived here their whole lives.”
It’s irrelevant how long they’ve lived here, if they are criminal illegal aliens – although I also think many of the deportees have not lived here their whole lives. I’m also fairly sure that Kimmel is unlikely to have met any of the above rogue’s gallery, although they’ve certainly done damage to other people. Kimmel couldn’t care less.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me 27 times, I figure it out.
The Democrats’ “Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes” card has expired.
My solution is to invite the mostly peaceful protesters to Kimmel’s neighborhood, also Gruesum’s, and the State House in Sacramento. And no National Guard or Marines for you.
From Gutfeld last night. PJ Media covered it:
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Greg Gutfeld hit the nail on the head in a recent segment, pointing out what the media conveniently leaves out of its coverage: the voices of the protesters. “What I find interesting is: How come these networks aren’t interviewing the protesters?” he asked. “There’s a selective shielding going on.”
He’s exactly right. The media is deliberately avoiding the raw, unscripted chaos on the ground. Why? Because they know full well the protesters are, as Gutfeld pointed out, “the worst spokesmen for the protests.” Rather than risk exposing viewers to what these radicals actually believe and say, the press jumps in as their public relations department. “We’ll take care of that for you,” Gutfeld said mockingly, mimicking the media’s attitude. “We will be, uh, I guess, your spokesmen.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/11/heres-whats-curiously-missing-from-riot-coverage-n4940690
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I did see a clip of one protester, concealed up like the Invisible Man, babbling about the need to destroy capitalism and install “real socialism.”
When asked for an example of “real socialism” he said the “first four years of the Soviet Union.” Ah yes, the golden years.
Jimmy Kimmel is an insufferable boob who maintains a TV presence on the strength of his early years with Adam Carolla, when he built a reputation for edgy comedy. He hasn’t been amusing for years, but he learned all the right songs out of the approved hymnbook, so he keeps a job. His audience of trained seals is what puzzles me. Who are those people, anyway?
How long can the media fool the public about “mostly peaceful protests”?
None. None more long.
I tend to watch financial news TV in the morning, and today I was very surprised to see Charles Payne on Fox Business describing the origins of the anarchist movement in the US.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6374144325112
Also interesting was the spot on the shifting voting behavior of immigrants towards the GOP. A 40-point shift toward the right among immigrant voters.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cnn-s-harry-enten-blown-away-by-surge-in-immigrant-support-for-trump/ar-AA1GxeXV?ocid=BingNewsSerp
The people who watch only CNN and the other regime media will continue to believe the narrative as fed to them, because they don’t get any other information.
Those are increasingly the elderly — I know a lot of them, including some close family and friends, but we are all getting old and are not actively engaged in politics or social activities.
(Throwing my thoughts out on Neo’s blog is as active as I get these day; a lot of time is spent doing health care for the said elderly relatives and friends.)
Does anyone with actual political influence pay any attention to the media, since they know how many lies are being fed to & regurgitated by the “news” organs?
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I saw several commenters here recently speculating that the protesters hoped to have a “Kent State moment” to assist their victory over the Right. There are a couple of problems with that.
Covering such an incident would not involve sympathetic, young, mostly peaceful (at that particular time) college students*, but would require having to cover-up the real bios of the “ICE-protest victims” who would almost certainly be less attractive.
They can do it (see the gaslighting of George Floyd), but it won’t be a natural win for the left.
The cause of the anti-ICE protesters is not at all popular with the general public, unlike that of the Kent State students, which was Nixon’s expansion of the Cambodian campaign; and even that was not completely unsupported by the voters.
BUT, even despite the sympathetic treatment of the students in the media, the public did not follow their lead, and certainly did not condone the serious violence that preceded the day of the fatal confrontation.**
A salutary consequence of the unfortunate event was a change in procedures for riot control in order to reduce or eliminate the risk of lethal shootings occurring when not clearly necessary to protect law enforcement personnel or other people.***
IMO, the most critical change is that younger people, including some large blocks of the once-permanent Democrat coalition, are NOT getting their news from CNN et al; they don’t like illegal immigration in general and violent gangs in particular; they are the ones who suffered, materially and physically, from the former riots and they don’t want more of them.
Note also that the Kent State Massacre occurred on May 4, 1970; yet in the 1972 presidential election, Nixon won re-election in a landslide. It was Watergate, not his response to rioting, that brought him down with his party and voters.
Trump has already had his Watergating (several of them), and isn’t eligible to run again, but Vance is a credible surrogate to win the next election.
Is that really what the Democrats want to have happen?
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*Wikipedia: “(Two of the victims) were in the crowd of several hundred others who had been observing the proceedings more than 300 feet (91 m) from the firing line; like most observers, they watched the protest during a break between their classes.”
**”A Gallup poll taken the day after the shootings reportedly showed that 58 percent of respondents blamed the students, 11 percent blamed the National Guard, and 31 percent expressed no opinion.”
***”In the years that followed, U.S. military and National Guard personnel began using less lethal means to disperse demonstrators (such as rubber bullets) and changed its crowd control and riot tactics to attempt to avoid casualties. Many of these tactics have been used by police and military forces in the United States when facing similar situations over the decades, such as the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the civil disorder incited by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.”
@AesopFan:“Kent State moment”
It’s easy to forget how much of the past has been retconned. Kent State is one of those things that became much more significant later as the Left took over the narrative, than it actually was at the time.
Ann Coulter sounds some of the same notes as my tune, although not about Kent State specifically.
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2025/06/11/columnistsanncoulter20250611if-you-thought-service-at-home-depot-was-bad-before-n2658649
“Great news! We finally know how to get liberals to oppose riots. Just say, This is helping Trump!”
Don’t mess with Texas.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/abbott-deploys-national-guard-san-antonio-ahead-anti-immigration-enforcement-protests
The Insurrection Act has not yet been invoked, although Bondi says that it is an option.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/bondi-rejects-comparison-between-j6-and-los-angeles-riot-over-potential
“Bondi also rejected accusations of a double standard in the way the Trump administration has responded to January 6 and the riots in Los Angeles. No one in the January 6 riot was charged with insurrection.”
Somehow the regime media keeps forgetting to mention that.
I understand the compassion for someone who escaped an ugly home country and has been living here a long time. But isn’t it like arguing it’s unfair to confiscate the loot from a bank robber who’s escaped prosecution for 20 years? Is there supposed to be a statute of limitations on illegal entry into the country? I might even tolerate that, as long as the illegal alien managed to avoid any particularly disgusting crimes during his long stay. I’d love to see all the criminals deported before we turn to the law-abiding taxpayers raising families.
Niketas; AesopFan:
I don’t know how old either of you are, but I was a student at the time of Kent State, and I can unequivocally say it was EXTREMELY formative for the student population, college and grad student.
I knew a physics major from Kent state and he said the rioter buned down the ROTC building. But of course, it was a mostly peaceful burning.
The rest of the story
https://datarepublican.com/nokings/
Yes kent state was a provocafion by sds if memory served
Which were derivative of the venceremos brigade
https://x.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1933026464066155004
Almost everyone I know believes there are no protests and that the mentally ill president is using pictures from the Rodney king riots to justify killing and imprisoning innocent Latinos walking down the street. Why would the news lie about there not being protests after all?
Well those people are crazy
Most rioters know that nothing at all will happen to them if they are arrested.
If arrested, they will be booked – maybe – told to come back at a later date for a court hearing – maybe – and when they show up in court several weeks (months?) later, all charges will be dismissed.
Rinse, repeat for the next riot.
Unless the organizers and financiers of these riots are indicted and sent to jail, these riots will simply not stop.
And yes, they are hoping some rioters get killed by the cops or national guard because they know this will supply the media and democrats with ammunition in their claims that Trump is a Nazi and a murderer.
The media will run with such a story and make the “victims” out to be heroes and this story will run non-stop for weeks, if not months.
Such is the power of propaganda – it does work effectively in molding opinions.
The riot organizers and financiers are provocateurs and their real goal is to get the Democrats back in power and to once again have open borders , relaunch their green agenda, support Iran, etc.,…..
Recall that open borders means greater census counts of illegals and more seats in the US House of Representatives for the demonkrats.
The moment surveys of illegals show them voting for republicans (yea, I know, a pipe dream) the faster the demonkrats will seal shut the border.
A BIG part of the later support of the Nixon haters was the excellent song by Neil Young with the words:
4 dead in Ohio…
I was 14 in jr. HS, but at the time, the 64 race riots in Watts, and the unsettled issues of MLK & RFK assassinations were bigger. As noted, Nixon won huge, 2 years later in 72.
Among the Nixon Derangement Syndrome folk, the deaths are proof of how bad Nixon was. The Democratic Demonization Strategy was already working. They knew, without evidence, that Nixon was evil. The 4 student deaths get amplified as proving this.
We who are critical of the rioting protesters should honestly call them Democratic riots, because Dem authorities are not enforcing laws to stop them. Dem allowance of violence is Dem support of violence.
Lots of Trump critical semi-supporters changed into being anti Trump after the J6 protest riot about the mail-in election irregularities. TDS folk use J6 as evidence to support their Trump hate, and success envy.
Those foolish enough to believe legacy media will be able to rationalize their superstitions, but normal folk should make fun of them, and their stupid beliefs.
I’m lousy at them but know we need to
Tell Funnier Jokes.
except Nixon had a bigger margin in ’72, admittedly his coat tails were not that large, if not for the oil shock of 73, nixon would have probably been able to weather this, and this was a result of the Soviet giving the Arabs the red light, because of Watergate,* the oil shock also led to the beginning of the dhimmization of Western Europe, as Baat Yeor has pointed out,
the oil shock created the petro dollar, it destabilized the shah’s iran, and had a lower order effect in Saudi Arabia, re
Juhayman revolt
*james gradys original draft, of his novel, concerned the drug trade out of South East Asia, not an attempt to seize the oil fields, the one proferred by young Edward Luttwak back when Harper’s was worth the paper it was printed on, it exacerhated the inflation that was already underway, which would lead to the interest rate spike, that unraveled banks from here down to the Southern Cone, it was the fuse that would blow up the S&L’s a generation later
the marines aren’t equipped for lethal forces, which limits their effectiveness, in stopping this insurgency, but maybe showing the flag is enough,
see the mike waller link, who knows about these matters,
Matt Finn:
https://x.com/MattFinnFNC/status/1933155696234881385
Photos at link.
Re: “Kent State Moment”
Leading up to Kent State, there had been some VERY violent protests at Ohio State. Protesters pried up bricks and threw them at cops, severally injuring them. It was an extremely tense period. The National Guard was called in to Kent State because it was expected to become like the previous ones: violent and bloody.
@neo:EXTREMELY formative for the student population, college and grad student.
Don’t doubt it, but think about what’s “formative” for the student population today, vs the general public, and what their future narrative about today will be vs what the general public thinks now. College students and college graduates are a less rare bird today than 60 years ago….
Though hopefully there won’t be an educational and media monoculture they can use to impose that narrative retroactively on everyone, as happened after the 60s.
cue the outrage wurlitzer,
https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1933234004590825857?
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/12/breaking-fbi-arrests-riot-supplier-charges-conspiracy-n3803719
Miguel, the Marines likely won’t be carrying actual ammo–although some will be as a contingency. But they’ll all be carrying bayonets. Ever stood in front of a line of advancing Marines with fixed bayonets?
Not recommended for bad guys.