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Wed Jul 13, 2016, 02:51 AM Jul 2016

Conservative host Tomi Lahren under fire for calling Black Lives Matter 'the new KKK' as critics say [View all]

Conservative host Tomi Lahren under fire for calling Black Lives Matter 'the new KKK' as critics say her comments are 'reckless'

Just thought some here would find tihs of interest.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3683567/Conservative-host-Tomi-Lahren-fire-calling-Black-Lives-Matter-new-KKK-critics-say-comments-reckless.html



Meet the new KKK, they call themselves 'Black Lives Matter' but make no mistake their goals are far from equality,' she wrote Friday in a tweet that has since been deleted.

Media critic David Zurawik fired back, getting into argument with Lahren when the 23-year-old commentator argued on CNN that people with extremist statements should be allowed to defend themselves on air.

'As I've asked to do on many of the platforms that have said I went to far,' Lahren said on the network's Reliable Sources.

'You did,' Zurawik replied. 'You did go too far, Tomi. You did.'

She shot back: 'That is your opinion.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3683567/Conservative-host-Tomi-Lahren-fire-calling-Black-Lives-Matter-new-KKK-critics-say-comments-reckless.html#ixzz4EGkLS5qN
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