CNN just gave free advertising to the Proud Boys.

[Initech]

Link to tweet

Fuck these terrorist scumbags.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

1. Wait till Trump starts giving speeches again

Unfortunately I have the feeling they're going to cover them with loads of commentary-I hope I'm wrong

[gldstwmn]

2. People need to see what it looks like.

Some of these groups are very insidious in how they recruit and get their message into the mainstream.

[Hestia]

3. ...and so did you

[Caliman73]

5. Disagree.

Putting something from CNN on DU, regarding the Proud Boys, will not have the same effect as CNN putting an interview with the Proud Boys leader into the mainstream. Most of us at DU know who the Proud Boys are and know not to listen to or care about what they say. If we do listen to the interview, then we do so with a critical eye.

CNN putting this into the mainstream is potentially dangerous because while the interview may be Cooper wanting to expose the Proud Boys, they give a sense of mainstream legitimacy when they present them. They become newsworthy. People who maybe predisposed to some of their ideas, will now see them platformed on a "liberal" news station and give them another look.

The OP isn't giving anyone free advertising. The OP is showing us what CNN is doing. I didn't click and have no plans to click because I do not care what they have to say and I know what they are about.

[Initech]

8. Yes except I'm not on a nationally televised TV program.

[Hoyt]

4. Do you think anyone who is not already an ignorant racist rube, was swayed?

I don’t, therefore it’s not an ad, at least an effective one.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

10. That's a good point

When I see something like this on tv, i will get annoyed because I think it's being promoted, but you're right, it's not going to sway anyone who already doesn't share those feelings

[world wide wally]

6. Translation: When the government fears "his" people.

(Not "the" people)

[Vinca]

7. I wonder if his brain dead followers noticed when he said he was a rat for the FBI.

These characters are really something. They'll turn in their grandma to save their own asses. Too chicken shit to take the consquences for their sick, amoral, illegal, crazy beliefs.

[stillcool]

9. amazing what these talk-shows choose to spotlight..

I guess the Proud Boys are now part of the American electorate? Frank Lutz will have to do a focus group.