After aiding their fellow leftists in their false attacks on Georgia’s new voting bill, the progressive activists at CNN are now lashing out at Republican state bills which are aimed at cracking down on rioting and suggesting that the billions of dollars in damage last summer didn't actually happen.
On Sunday evening’s CNN Newsroom, host Pamela Brown ranted against such legislation, falsely declaring the bills to be “anti-protest bills” and calling the Black Lives Matter violence that Republicans are attempting to prevent with the bills a “false narrative.”
Brown began her tirade by continuing CNN’s lies about Republican-sponsored voter integrity laws, declaring BLM violence to be a “false narrative,” and alleging that the anti-riot bills are aimed at undermining the First Amendment right to protest (click “expand”):
In the first weeks of the Biden administration, state Republicans across the country united around an effort to place hurdles in front of the right to vote, a right enshrined in the Constitution and that was all based on lies about voter fraud. Now, they’re coalescing around another project. GOP legislators are pushing new laws aimed at protesting, another right enshrined in the Constitution. And it's all based on the false narrative that Black Lives Matter protests last year left cities in ruins, that the protestors did that. But first, let’s look at the facts. Let's analyze this. This is according to The Washington Post. This is data that showed from last summer's BLM protest, 96% of the protests involved zero property damage and zero police injuries. Police used tear-gas or chemicals in just 2.5% of protests and the majority of the violence that did take place was directed against BLM protesters. Again, this is according to The Washington Post and data that it had analyzed. But under the guise of anti-rioting and anti-looting, GOP lawmakers in 34 states have introduced 81 anti-protest bills this year according to The New York Times. The harshest example is in Florida
Just as CNN has lied about the Georgia bill, Brown lied about the anti-riot bills and the BLM violence. In the case of Florida, at the signing ceremony for its anti-riot bill, Florida Sheriff Grady Judd encouraged peaceful protests and stated that such protests are “the foundation of our country.”
Of course, CNN chose to leave that part out since they had a poisonous narrative to push, painting the right as a large part of what ails this country.
As for the BLM protests, those which were not peaceful were extremely destructive. The riots caused billions of dollars in property damage and at least 25 deaths. And who could forget what Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) threatened last week before the Derek Chauvin verdict.
Brown did her part to further the liberal media’s ongoing attempts to blunt Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis's rising stardom by playing a small clip of him praising the bill so she could launch a tirade against it:
So here's what the Florida law actually does. It elevates existing public disorder crimes from misdemeanors to felonies. It makes destroying monuments a felony with a 15-year prison sentence and it adds liability protections that would apply to motorists who drive into protestors. Let me repeat that. It reduces the punishment for people who run over people, but increases the punishment for people who damage statues.
Following a soundbite of House Majority Whip James Clyburn comparing BLM protests to the Boston Tea Party and colonists who stood up to the British, Brown ended her monologue with a smug parting shot in which claimed that Republicans do not care about the Constitution or “limited government”:
So for a party that touts strict constitutionalism and philosophy of limited government, in these instances it does appear that these Republicans involved in this legislation have a loose interpretation of which parts of the Constitution are the important ones and which ones should be stifled by the state.
What a fitting commentary for the daughter of a journalist and former Democratic governor.
As Johnny Dollar tweeted, there's no such thing as a news hour on CNN as "every hour is an opinion hour."
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Read the full April 25th transcript here:
CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown
04/25/21
6:39:43 PMPAMELA BROWN: Well, in the first weeks of the Biden administration, state Republicans across the country united around an effort to place hurdles in front of the right to vote, a right enshrined in the Constitution and that was all based on lies about voter fraud. Now, they’re coalescing around another project. GOP legislators are pushing new laws aimed at protesting, another right enshrined in the Constitution. And it's all based on the false narrative that Black Lives Matter protests last year left cities in ruins, that the protestors did that. But first, let’s look at the facts. Let's analyze this. This is according to The Washington Post. This is data that showed from last summer's BLM protest, 96% of the protests involved zero property damage and zero police injuries. Police used tear-gas or chemicals in just 2.5% of protests and the majority of the violence that did take place was directed against BLM protesters. Again, this is according to The Washington Post and data that it had analyzed. But under the guise of anti-looting -- rioting and anti-looting, GOP lawmakers in 34 states have introduced 81 anti-protest bills this year, according to The New York Times. The harshest example is in Florida. Here's how governor Ron DeSantis describes it.
GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS (R-FL): I think it’s really remarkable. If you look at the breadth of this particular piece of legislation, it is the strongest anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement piece of legislation in the country and there's just nothing even close.
BROWN: So here's what the Florida law actually does. It elevates existing public disorder crimes from misdemeanors to felonies. It makes destroying monuments a felony with a 15-year prison sentence and it adds liability protections that would apply to motorists who drive into protestors. Let me repeat that. It reduces the punishment for people who run over people, but increases the punishment for people who damage statues. Similar measures granting immunity to drivers who hit protestors are gaining steam in Iowa and in Oklahoma. And in Minnesota, a GOP proposal would bar anyone convicted of a crime at a protest from getting state benefits. And in Indiana, an unlawful assembly conviction would prohibit a person from holding elected office in the state. So imagine if that law had been around in Georgia, someone like the late Congressman John Lewis, who was arrested several times for protesting before he ran for office, never even would have been able to start his political career. Yesterday on CNN, Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn reacted to these measures.
CONGRESSMAN JIM CLYBURN (D-SC): This is about whether or not you are in favor of maintaining this democracy. A democracy that started off as a protest that was called the Boston Tea Party. That was a protest and that's what led to what this country is today. So when people protest, and you are going to criminalize the First Amendment -- that's what you are doing, to petition for redress of grievances, a First Amendment guarantee, and you got a state that’s going to criminalize pursuit of the First Amendment? This is crazy stuff.
BROWN: So for a party that touts strict constitutionalism and philosophy of limited government, in these instances it does appear that these Republicans involved in this legislation have a loose interpretation of which parts of the Constitution are the important ones and which ones should be stifled by the state.
