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Related: About this forumGood Protesters—and the Bad Kind
Apr 01 2014
Good Protestersand the Bad Kind
When Molotov cocktails are just a boys adventure
~snip~
In Venezuela, meanwhile, demonstrators are similarly labeled. Heres Mariana Atencio on ABC World News (2/23/14):
Its been 12 straight days of violent clashes here in Venezuela. On one side, students and the middle class. On the other, police and pro-government groups, followers of the party of anti-American President Hugo Chávez.
So its students versus people who support the anti-American governmentnot difficult to figure out whose side youre supposed to take. Nor did Newsweek (2/21/14) leave much doubt when it described protest leader Leopoldo López this way:
With twinkling chocolate-colored eyes and high cheekbones, López seems to have it all: an attractive and supportive wife, two children who get along with each other and impossibly adorable Labrador puppies. He is charismatic, athletic and good-looking.
Even government opponents who embraced violent tactics received positive media spin. The New York Times (2/24/14) explained that one group in the opposition stronghold of San Cristóbal, one of whom was described as casually guarding a beer crate full of firebombs, were not your ordinary urban guerrillas.
The next day (2/25/14), the same correspondent, William Neumann, reported that oppositionists have a variety of homemade weaponsmortars to lob small, noisy explosives, miniature firebombs, slingshots, clubs and nasty-looking things called Miguelitos made from hoses festooned with nails.
When one such armed group prepared for an assault on a National Guard post, the Times reporter remarked that at times the whole business has the naïve feel of a boys adventure talethough its hard to remember the Hardy Boys ever throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers.
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/good-protesters-and-the-bad-kind/
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Good Protesters—and the Bad Kind (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jun 2014
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delrem
(9,688 posts)1. The "liberal press" can be very lovely, can't it? nt
Judi Lynn
(160,526 posts)2. It's always so comical when they screech about the "liberal press," isn't it?
Is it possible they are too stupid to know how crazy that is?
delrem
(9,688 posts)3. I doubt that they think about what they say, to that extent.
There's certainly no indication.