Did conservatives commit widespread destruction during the post-George Floyd riots? No. But, CNN, or at least its media analyst Sara Fischer, thinks the answer could be . . . yes!
Fischer was a panelist on Friday's edition of CNN This Morning. Host Audie Cornish described the anti-ICE activity in L.A. as "one of the kind of ultimate split-screen stories," in which some people see protests, while others see "fires and disorders."
Responded Fischer:
"The misinformation split screen reminds me a lot of January 6th . . . We had a very similar dynamic as well during the George Floyd protests, where it was a question of whether or not this was left-wing Antifa destroying stores, destroying glass fronts, or if it was folks on the right."
Who is misinforming here? "Folks on the right" were destroying stores and glass fronts? Yup! We all remember images like this one, of frat boys in MAGA hats running out of stores, their arms full of merchandise. Oh, wait.
Did CNN [or Axios, where Fischer also serves as a media analyst] ever document actualcases of "folks on the right" engaging in widespread destruction and looting post-George Floyd?
If not, Fischer's comment can only be seen as a slur on conservatives, an attempt to muddy the waters and spread blame around for the George Floyd riots. CNN will launch when anyone suggests Antifa folks were at the Capitol on January 6.
And while Fischer described the George Floyd split-screen as casting "folks on the right" versus Antifa, she excluded from any possible responsibility local residents, who were responsible for much of the destruction and looting.
Note: Last week, we caught Fischer agreeing with George Clooney that under Trump, things are worse than during the Joe McCarthy era. Fischer is clearly in that Brian Stelter tradition of media "analysis" consisting of ravaging the right.
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
6/13/25
6:11 am EDTAUDIE CORNISH: Joining me now in the group chat, Sara Fischer, CNN media analyst, Michael Warren, senior editor at The Dispatch, and Margaret Talev, senior contributor at Axios.
Sara, I want to start with you, because this has been one of the kind of ultimate split-screen stories, where for a lot of people, they may be on their social media seeing, you know, mass ICE, unmarked ICE, you know, detentions. They may be thinking they're seeing something that looks like a protest.
And then for someone else, it's total dissent, its escape from L.A., its fires and disorder. How are you processing how this is coming across?
SARA FISCHER: Sort of the misinformation split screen reminds me a lot of January 6th, when in some cases you had people who said, no, this is Antifa, this is left-wing chaos, and others on the other end were saying, no, no, this is right-wing folks who are seizing the Capitol.
We had a very similar dynamic as well during the George Floyd protests, where it was a question of whether or not this was left-wing Antifa destroying stores, destroying glass fronts, or if it was folks on the right.
