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'Police Terrorism' for Riots in Baltimore WatchdogThe t h e m r c ’ s m o n t h l y m e m b e r s ’ r e p o r t CREATING A MEDIA CULTURE IN AMERICA WHERE TRUTH AND LIBERTY FLOURISH Vol. 22 • Issue 6 • June 2015 Liberal Media Blame Society, ‘Institutional Bias,’ and ‘Police Terrorism’ For Riots in Baltimore The City of Baltimore is still “infrastructure.” A trillion here, a MRC Headquarters • Reston, VA smoldering from the horrific violence trillion there, and soon we’ll have perpetrated by rioters following the peace on earth. death in late April, while in police The liberal media’s narrative on the INSIDE custody, of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Baltimore riots was exposed through black man with a long criminal history. the MRC’s various divisions, including The riots caused the NewsBusters blog, PAGE 3 113 police officers to MRCTV, on Facebook Left-Wing Media be injured; 2 people and Twitter, and Malign Conservative Presidential Candidates shot; 1 person critically through interviews burned; 250 people of our experts on arrested; and at talk radio and cable PAGES 4-5 least 285 businesses television. Let’s BITS & PIECES: destroyed. look at some of that MSNB’PC’ Thug, But while Americans liberal media bias. Christian Jihadists? Climate War, watched the perpetra- CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill declares There were CBS Buries Own Poll, tors riot and attack the Baltimore riots were actually relatively peaceful Flexible Conservatives police on live television “uprisings” in reaction to “state protests in Baltimore day after day, the liberal violence” against black people who until Freddie Gray have been “dying in the streets for PAGE 6 media focused not on months, years, decades, centuries.” died on April 19, the actual criminals following which the Nationally Syndicated Column by Brent Bozell committing the violence and breaking protests turned very violent. In short and Tim Graham: the law. order, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews chimed ‘Hate Group’ Blamed for Instead, they spun the story as one in, blaming the riots in part on “right- ISIS Attack in Texas of “systemic failure,” “state violence,” to-work states.” As he told former and “economic injustice” — “people in Maryland Rep. Kweisi Mfume, “I wish PAGE 7 pain” who were “striking out” against the jobs hadn’t first gone south, congressman, because that’s where MRC in the News “oppression,” as the MRC documented and exposed. they went first. And they went to The whole notion of individual the right-to-work states … where the responsibility was thrown out the unions didn’t have any power.” window by the liberal media. In their Matthews also pinned the blame mind, society is always to blame, on long commutes: “You get into especially when the lawbreakers Baltimore, you can’t find a job with a involved are largely minority, as is the short commute. And that’s, to me, the case in Baltimore. problem that’s behind all this.” Further, because it’s society’s fault, CNN contributor Marc Lamont Hill according to the liberal media, the blamed racism and the police, the MRCCRUISE.COM solution is — you guessed it — more latter which he called an “occupying 1-800-707-1634 spending, more social programs, more Continued on page 2 The 2 Watchdog JUNE 2015 Continued from page 1 Hats off to Milwaukee force in the hood.” On CNN To- County Sheriff David night, Hill declared, “Black people Clarke who slammed are dying in the streets. They’ve the “liberal mainstream been dying in the streets for media” for “propagating months, years, decades, centuries. this false narrative about I’m not calling these people ‘riot- how law enforcement ers.’ I’m calling these ‘uprisings.’” treats black males and He prattled on that these people in the black “uprisings” were in reaction to community” in places like “the state violence that’s been Baltimore and Ferguson. waged against black female and male bodies forever,” and cheerfully added, “I think we CBS’s Gayle King parroted the “police violence against [the] should be strategic in how we the party line, declaring that black community” was “far more riot.” (That actually happened: A “a lot of people look at these shameful.” CNN contributor advised people on people [rioters], saying ‘these are But the liberal message that how they should break the law.) people in pain, they’re striking police en masse are deliberately In another segment, Comrade out because they don’t have any targeting the “black community” Hill railed it was necessary to options in their city.’” is a myth. Milwaukee County assert “righteous rage, righteous CNN’s Brooke Baldwin crafted a Sheriff David Clarke, a Democrat, indignation in the face of state uniquely stupid angle: She blamed told Fox News that police violence and extrajudicial killing.” military veterans who had joined attacking black males and the Making the liberal point the Baltimore police force. “I love black community in general was a unquestionably clear, Hill our nation’s veterans, but some of “false narrative.” thundered on CNN Tonight, them are coming back from war, But “one of the reasons that “Freddie Gray is dead. That’s why they don’t know the communities, this thing thrives is because of the city is burning. It’s not burning and they’re ready to do battle,” the liberal mainstream media,” because of these protestors. The she declared on CNN Newsroom. he said. “They have abandoned city is burning because the police Baldwin later half-backtracked their responsibility under the 1st killed Freddie Gray and that’s a on her remarks, claiming in a Amendment to be neutral and to distinction we have to make.” tweet that she had only been get to the facts, and they have The case is under investigation, repeating someone else’s opinion become the mouthpiece, they no court has proven that “the about veterans in the police force. have become the propaganda police killed Freddie Gray,” but MSNBC contributor Michael wing of leftist policy and leftist basic facts don’t matter to the Eric Dyson ran through a list of ideology.” left-wing media. And for Hill, the urban illnesses, “the slow terror Indeed they have, which is why buildings apparently immolated of expulsions from schools, rising the work of the MRC is so vital. The themselves. rates of lead poisoning, the export liberal media have an agenda and of jobs,” and then blamed the they fuel racial and civil discord Baltimore Ravens and Orioles. and they censor the truth. The No joke. Dyson cited Rev. Jesse MRC, America’s media watchdog, is Jackson’s analysis that the tax- the only organization battling the exempt status of the two teams leftist media every day. and the “tremendous goodies” You can help us in this good they were given to “stay in the fight by making a donation to the city” resulted in “urban blight” MRC. Contact us today. We look on one hand “contrasted to the forward to hearing from you. extraordinary accumulation of Sincerely, On CNN Newsroom, Brooke Baldwin blamed military veterans who had joined the capital for some people” on the Baltimore police force. “I love our nation’s other hand. veterans, but some of them are coming back On top of that nonsense, CNN’s from war, they don’t know the communities, L. Brent Bozell III and they’re ready to do battle.” She later Sally Kohn opined that while Founder and President back-tracked that statement on social media. “looting” was “a real shame,” The JUNE 2015 Watchdog 3 Tell The Truth! 2016 Left-Wing Media Malign Conservative Presidential Candidates Huckabee, Carson and Rubio The liberal media always attack “Now the wacks are still — you got conservatives, with a light hand or a heavy Huckabee still running. If Huckabee runs, hand depending on the circumstances, he’s a lunatic.” because the goal is to advance a left-wing — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, 2/23/11 agenda: to keep America marching down “The interesting thing about Dr. the road to socialism. As last month’s MRC Carson’s nearly 30-minute speech was Watchdog documented, Ted Cruz and Rand that he barely mentioned religion. Except Paul have been maligned by the liberal for the opening texts and a confused media since they were elected to the reference to Jesus at the end, his speech Senate back in 2010 and dramatically more was completely political at an event that so now that they are running for the 2016 has always been strictly bipartisan. The presidential nomination. idea is to bring people together, not to Dr. Ben Carson, Gov. Mike Huckabee, push them apart.” and Sen. Marco Rubio are also under the — Washington Post’s Sally Quinn on Carson’s National gun. In three separate reports, the MRC Prayer Breakfast speech, 2/7/13 chose some of the worst examples of liberal media bias targeting these three “Dr. Ben Carson is the director of pedia- men, showing how low the leftist press will tric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins and the go to smear leaders on the right. first doctor to separate conjoined twins What follows are a few selections from those at the head. And he believes the earth reports, which can be viewed in full at www.mrc.org. is 6,000 years old, and that homosexuality is akin to bestiality, and that the Bible calls for a flat tax. He’s “Just when you thought the Republican half-brilliant brain surgeon, half-Tea Party dumbass. He Party’s open antagonism toward women and their doesn’t just operate on conjoined twins, he is one.
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