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'The new Babylon Bee?' CNN commentator mocked after downplaying riots in Kenosha, Portland as 'protests' with a fiery cover photo

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CNN's Chris Cillizza became the butt of the joke online after saying that calling the unrest in Kenosha and Portland "riots" is a desperate ploy by Trump. The cover photo seems to be at odds with the spin, however.

CNN political commentator Chris Cillizza faced a torrent of mockery from conservatives accusing him of whitewashing the violence festering in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Portland, Oregon, after he opined that referring to the looting, vandalism, and arson in both cities as 'rioting' is unjustified and a "desperate" political ploy by US President Donald Trump.

Comment: More from the cesspool that is CNN:

Russia fuelling Portland & Kenosha violence? CNN turns to Russiagate tsar Schiff with bizarre take on US race tensions
Russia may be responsible for the deadly unrest in American cities, CNN host Dana Bash has implied during an interview with Democrats' top Russiagate figure, Adam Schiff, proving that red-baiting never goes out of vogue.

Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, came to CNN for a round of Trump-bashing over the President's remarks on how Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe "got tired of" classified information being leaked from Congress. The DNI wrote last week to the California representative and his Senate counterpart, Marco Rubio, that his office will be informing lawmakers on election security through written reports rather than in-person briefings.

During the interview Schiff took time to denounce the President for what he described as an attempt to hide "the fact that the Russians are helping Donald Trump again" and declared that US intel "belongs to the American people". With the election-meddling Ruskie bad guys introduced into the conversation, host Dana Bash mused on what other evil deeds they may be up to.


There were shooting deaths in Kenosha, Wisconsin and Portland, Oregon amid continued race protests in those cities, she said. "Do you have any reason to believe that Russia is trying to fuel some of the civil unrest in these cities via social media or other methods?" she wondered.

Schiff, who played a leading role in peddling the theory that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election, obliged to confirm that yes, the Russians "are once again doing their best in social media, in the overt media and other means to grow this division again."

Blaming Russia for racial problems in the US is a time-honored tradition, so the CNN-Schiff duet hardly discovered new territory there. And the fact that the collusion theory crumbled after the Robert Mueller investigation failed to find evidence of it doesn't seem to hurt his credibility with the sympathetic media.


Interestingly however CNN apparently didn't find this last part of Russia scaremongering good enough to post it on its own website, cutting the interview short.

The channel's coverage of the latest disturbances in the US has shown a lot of mental gymnastics. Last week's caption on screen described the situation in Kenosha as "fiery, but mostly peaceful protests", clashing spectacularly with the image of a reporter standing in front of burning cars and explaining how the night riots in the city differed from peaceful demonstrations during the day.

On Sunday, CNN analyst Chris Cillizza posted a piece explaining how Trump was disingenuous in calling the events in Kenosha and Portland riots rather than protests. A photo of riot police officers standing in front of a major blaze was chosen as a cover picture.

If the interview with Schiff is any indicator, people on CNN have found a way to explain away the inconvenient violence: Russia did it with memes.



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Man under investigation in fatal shooting after pro-Trump rally allegedly took loaded gun to earlier Portland protest

Aaron Danielson
© AP Photo/Paula BronsteinAaron Danielson, a supporter of the conservative group Patriot Prayer, was shot in the chest and died on Southwest Third Avenue near Alder Street Saturday night. The shooting occurred soon after most cars in a caravan of supporters of President Donald Trump had left the city’s downtown streets.
A 48-year-old man who was accused of carrying a loaded gun at an earlier downtown Portland protest is under investigation in the fatal shooting Saturday night of a right-wing demonstrator after a pro-Trump rally.

Michael Forest Reinoehl calls himself an anti-fascist and has posted videos and photos of demonstrations he attended since late June, accompanied by the hashtags #blacklivesmatter, #anewnation and #breonnataylor.

Reinoehl was raised in Sandy and has had recent addresses in Northeast Portland, Gresham and Clackamas. He described himself on social media and in a video interview with Bloomberg QuickTake News as a professional snowboarder and contractor who has former military experience but "hated" his time in the army.

Sources familiar with the case but not authorized to speak said police are investigating Reinoehl. A family member also identified him as a man captured in photos and video seen leaving the shooting scene shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday.

Aaron Danielson, a supporter of the conservative group Patriot Prayer, was shot in the chest and died in the street. It was soon after most cars in a caravan of supporters of President Donald Trump had left the city's downtown streets.

Reinoehl's posts indicate he attended many protests in Portland that began three months ago after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis under the knee of a police officer.

On July 5 at one of the demonstrations, Reinoehl was cited at 2:10 a.m. in the 700 block of Southwest Main Street on allegations of possessing a loaded gun in a public place, resisting arrest and interfering with police.

Comment: Oregon Governor Kate Brown is sending in more law enforcement:
Governor Kate Brown announced that she would authorize more police from several local agencies to staff protests in Portland and call for more arrests for destructive or violent crimes. The announcement came less than 24 hours after a fatal shooting during downtown demonstrations.

The six-point plan, laid out in a news release from Brown's office on Sunday evening, also included plans for several local law enforcement agencies to assist Portland Police Bureau in follow-up investigations, and it listed specific types of crimes that the district attorney's office will prosecute related to the protests.
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Fired police officer taken into custody after death of George Floyd seeks to get charges dropped

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© AFP PHOTO / Facebook / Darnella FRAZIERDerek Chauvin
A former Minneapolis police officer who was taken into custody after George Floyd's death on May 25 is seeking to get the judge to drop the murder charges against him.

The lawyer for Derek Chauvin, who knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes, filed court documents claiming that the prosecution's case lacks probable cause to support the charges it's filed, according to KARE11. He has been charged with second-degree and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter In Floyd's death.

The defense also filed a motion to change the venue of the case.

On the same day, however, prosecutors requested that harsher penalties be considered should they be found guilty.

The other three officers who were on the scene when Floyd died (J. Alexander Kueng, Tou Thao, and Thomas Lane) have each been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. All three officers, who have been fired alongside Chauvin, have also sought to get the charges against them dropped.

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Horses slashed and ears cut off in macabre attacks across France


Comment: This has been happening almost non-stop across France since Covid-1984 was launched in March. It is surely coordinated in some way...


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Attackers are targeting horses and ponies in pastures across France armed with knives in what may be ritual mutilations.

Police are baffled by the macabre attacks, which include slashings. Most often, an ear - usually the right one - has been cut off, recalling the matador's trophy in a bullring.

Up to 30 attacks have been reported in France, the agriculture minister said on Friday. One attack was registered in February, according to the news magazine Le Point. With each attack, the mystery only seems to grow.

"We are excluding nothing," the agriculture minister Julien Denormandie said on France-Info.

After the first solid sighting of an attacker, gendarmes in Auxerre, in Burgundy, released a composite sketch based on a description by a man who wrangled with two attackers at his animal refuge in a village in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region.

"I used to have confidence putting my horses out to pasture. Today, I have fear in my gut," Nicolas Demajean, who runs the refuge Ranch of Hope, told regional TV station France 3 on Thursday.

Alerted by his squealing pigs, Demajean faced down two attackers last Monday. He was injured in the arm in a struggle with one intruder wielding a pruning knife as the other slashed the sides of two ponies, now recovering but "traumatised," he said. The men fled in a vehicle.

The following day, a young pony was targeted in the Saone-et-Loire. In another case, some of a horse's organs were removed.

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Police: Shooting at pro-Trump rally becomes standoff in Los Angeles

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Three suspects were surrounded by law enforcement Sunday following an alleged shooting during a pro-Trump caravan rally in Woodland Hills.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) SWAT Team surrounded the suspects who were barricaded inside an apartment complex, according to Patch.com.

"Police responded to a report of gunshots at a caravan rally in support of President Donald Trump in the 20600 block of Ventura Boulevard at about 11:30 a.m. Sunday. No one was wounded in the shooting," the report said.

Officer Drake Madison of the LAPD said Ventura Boulevard was shut down for hours, adding that it was "still a fluid situation."

The building where the suspects were located was locked down and all nearby apartments evacuated, according to NBC Los Angeles.

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Ukrainian neo-Nazis attack LGBT 'pride' event in Odessa, organizers say police were slow to intervene but 16 people later arrested

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Sixteen Ukrainian ultra-nationalists were arrested on Sunday after the far-right Christian organization 'Tradition and Order' attacked marchers at Odessa Pride 2020, the city's biggest celebration of LGBT society and culture.

According to the official Facebook page of the movement, members of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi group arrived at the site of the festivities ten minutes after the event began, attacking the participants with pepper spray and 'zelyonka' - an antiseptic dye most famously used in 2017 against Moscow protest leader Alexey Navalny. Odessa's police department noted that members of the anti-LGBT group also threw eggs.

The organizers said that local police did not react quickly enough, but asked them to "prosecute the perpetrators" and take action against the right-wingers for "hatred and inciting violence." Sixteen people were arrested and charged with petty hooliganism and disobeying the orders of the police.

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CNN and Twitter target President Trump and The Gateway Pundit - Won't allow us to share the actual COVID-19 numbers from the CDC website

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CNN and Twitter are at it again. Today CNN slandered President Trump and the Gateway Pundit and encouraged Twitter to take down a tweet based on CDC data that the President retweeted. CNN and Twitter don't want Americans to know the full truth about COVID-19.

Last night we posted an article about COVID-19 - SHOCK REPORT: This Week CDC Quietly Updated COVID-19 Numbers - Only 9,210 Americans Died From COVID-19 Alone - Rest Had Different Other Serious Illnesses

The gist of the article is that COVID-19 is not nearly as deadly as first projected by the WHO and then by Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx. Based on CDC numbers this past week only 6% of all deaths attributed to COVID-19 were instances where the only factor in the individual's death was due to COVI9-19.

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Kyle Rittenhouse attorneys break silence, give key details in Kenosha shooting: 'Kyle did nothing wrong'

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© Twitter screenshotRittenhouse circled in yellow, the thrown object circled in blue, Rosenbaum circled in red.

'He exercised his God-given, Constitutional, common law and statutory law right to self-defense.'


The attorneys representing Kyle Rittenhouse released a lengthy statement on Saturday defending the 17-year-old from the list of criminal charges against him.

Rittenhouse is accused of killing two protesters and wounding a third. The incident happened on Aug. 25, the third night of the Kenosha riots. Violence erupted in the southern Wisconsin city after police shot Jacob Blake, a black man, last Sunday.

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"The ISIS approach": Statue of Canada's first prime minister toppled by protesters demanding police defunding

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© Twitter /@noreornotStatue of John MacDonald is seen on the ground after it was pulled down during a protest against racial inequality, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada August 29, 2020 in this picture obtained from social media.
A statue of Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John Macdonald was toppled in downtown Montreal by protesters marching in support of defunding police, government officials said.

The incident occurred at the end of a peaceful march on Saturday when a group of people climbed the monument and pulled down the statue, causing the head to fly off, according to video posted on social media.

Calls to defund the police have been growing across the United States and Canada, after a spate of violent incidents involving police. The death of George Floyd, a Black man, while in the custody of Minneapolis police in May sparked global protests about racial inequality and police brutality, and renewed pledges from some to fight racism.

Comment: See also: No country for old monuments


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Gay Trump voter Brandon Straka rips 'total silence' on left after anti-LGBT harassment from BLM supporters

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© Brandon StrakaBrandon Straka is founder of the WalkAway Campaign, which lends a hand to Democrats who are ready to “walk away” from their party. The group is planning an “Unsilent March on Washington” in the fall.
Pro-Trump activist Brandon Straka on Saturday blasted the "total silence from the liberal media" and LGBT groups after he and friends were harassed by protesters yelling anti-gay slurs on the final night of the Republican National Convention.

Mr. Straka, founder of the #WalkAway movement, posted footage in which several Black Lives Matter protesters called him "f**got," threw a drink at him, spit at his friend Mike Harlow, and knocked the phone out of the hand of another friend as they left the White House event.

"Every LGBT person in America should be terrified by the direction we are headed in," Mr. Straka said in a Saturday post on Twitter. "#BLM has attacked numerous LGBT ppl this summer."

Comment: Meanwhile, Joy Ann Reid was busy tweeting hypocritical tweets condemning Straka's event 'because Covid' while encouraging BLM protests despite the same 'danger'.