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CNN's Drumpf Apologist Calls MoveOn.Org "The New Ku Klux Klan"
Not The Onion!
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/03/15/cnns-trump-apologist-calls-moveonorg-the-new-ku/209258
CNN contributor and habitual Trump-apologist Jeffrey Lord equated the progressive group MoveOn.org to the Ku Klux Klan, baselessly blaming the organization for recent violence at Trump campaign rallies.
Conservative pundits have attempted to scapegoat MoveOn.org following a spate of violent clashes at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's campaign rallies with thespurious claim that the progressive organization is responsible for violence at a canceled rally in Chicago. Despite the fact that numerous media figures have called out Trump for "encouraging, even condoning violence," Lord blamed the violence on "the American left." As Ilya Sheyman, executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action explained, the group had supported local activists by "printing signs and recruiting MoveOn members to attend the student-led protest," but the protest "was a direct result of the violence that has occurred at Trump rallies and that has been repeatedly encouraged by Trump himself."
In a March 15 American Spectator article, Lord wrote that MoveOn.org is "the new Ku Klux Klan," arguing that "MoveOn has now become the latest successor to this mantle of racism plus violence." According to Lord, "the only difference" between the days of the KKK and MoveOn.org's organization of protesters rally is "This time around they don't use hoods and burning crosses to rally the terrorists, they use social media instead":...
Lord has a long history of covering for Trump -- absurdly blaming Obama for Trump's comments that Islam hates America, and defending Trump's refusal to disavow former KKK grand wizard David Duke by claiming the KKK is "a function of the left."
Conservative pundits have attempted to scapegoat MoveOn.org following a spate of violent clashes at Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump's campaign rallies with thespurious claim that the progressive organization is responsible for violence at a canceled rally in Chicago. Despite the fact that numerous media figures have called out Trump for "encouraging, even condoning violence," Lord blamed the violence on "the American left." As Ilya Sheyman, executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action explained, the group had supported local activists by "printing signs and recruiting MoveOn members to attend the student-led protest," but the protest "was a direct result of the violence that has occurred at Trump rallies and that has been repeatedly encouraged by Trump himself."
In a March 15 American Spectator article, Lord wrote that MoveOn.org is "the new Ku Klux Klan," arguing that "MoveOn has now become the latest successor to this mantle of racism plus violence." According to Lord, "the only difference" between the days of the KKK and MoveOn.org's organization of protesters rally is "This time around they don't use hoods and burning crosses to rally the terrorists, they use social media instead":...
Lord has a long history of covering for Trump -- absurdly blaming Obama for Trump's comments that Islam hates America, and defending Trump's refusal to disavow former KKK grand wizard David Duke by claiming the KKK is "a function of the left."
By golly, he's right! Why, MoveOn.org burned a cross in my neighborhood just the other day!
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