Attorney General Willim Barr condemned mainstream media for their coverage of riots in major cities like Portland and Kenosha calling them “a collection of liars and they know exactly what they’re doing”
In an interview with Townhall.com Barr said the media was intentionally lying to the American people for partisan reasons.
“Right on the street it was clear as day what was going on,” Barr said referring to the violence and destruction happening everyday in those cities, “anyone observing it, reporters observing it, it could not have escaped their attention that this was orchestrated violence by a hardened group of street fighting radicals and they kept on excluding from their coverage all the video of this and reporting otherwise and they were doing that for partisan reasons, and they were lying to the American people. It wasn’t until they were caught red-handed after essentially weeks of this lie that they even started feeling less timid.”
Since George Floyd’s death in May protests have turned into full blown riots and major television networks have gone out of their way to ignore the violence. The most notable of these denials came from CNN when a reporter stood in front of a burning building in Kenosha during a live broadcast and called the protest “Fiery but mostly peaceful.”
CNN tells us this is "A Firey buy Mostly Peaceful Protest…" while showing images of Kenosha, WI engulfed in flames, rioting mobs and exploding fireworks. Why do you think CNN is trying to normalize these arsonist? https://t.co/g46XLAICat
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“The press has dropped, in my view – and I’m talking about the national mainstream media – has dropped any pretense of professional objectivity and are political actors, highly partisan who try to shape what they’re reporting to achieve a political purpose and support a political narrative that has nothing to do with the truth. They’re very mendacious about it,” AG Barr continued. “It’s very destructive to our Republic; it’s very destructive to the Democratic system to have that, especially being so monolithic. It’s contributing to a lot of the intensity and partisanship.”
Barr told Townhall he believes mainstream media is not really concerned what is actually happening when reporting a story but instead they’re interested “in pursuing a preformed narrative that suits some kind of ideological agenda.”
