Critics torched the White House and the mainstream media in wake of the violent Atlanta riots, accusing them of downplaying the weekend’s barbarity after 23 suspects were arrested for domestic terrorism in connection with the attack.
Off the Press Senior Editor Rob Smith joined “America’s Newsroom” to discuss how the media, and the far-left, has remained complicit in a radical effort to “sympathize” with the attacks.
“I think that when you look at sort of all of these leftist sympathizers in the media, you have to look at the pipeline,” Smith told Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer.
“So you have to understand that in these newsrooms and in the classrooms that lead to the newsrooms from top to bottom, you have, at best, sort of mainstream liberals and at worst, these sort of far-left Antifa sympathizers.”
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“I’ve seen the pipeline, and you see the leftist ideology that sort of comes out in these classrooms and goes to the newsrooms, and so that’s why they are filled with these people who are not only sympathizing with this stuff, but actively covering for it,” he continued.
Protests in Atlanta turned violent over the weekend after video posted by the Atlanta Police Department showed what led to chaos at the future Public Safety and Training Facility, known to some as “Cop City.”
A horde of protesters, mostly wearing black and black masks, started throwing fireworks and rocks at officers, who were inside a separate fenced-in area, which the rioters could not reach because they, too, were fenced in with the equipment.
The group reportedly left a musical festival nearby and has been accused of throwing commercial-grade fireworks, Molotov cocktails, large rocks and bricks at police officers.
But despite the severity of situation, the media has been accused of downplaying the riots and the perpetrators involved.
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