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Related: About this forumTYT: How Media Covered Oregon Militia Takeover
Fox News hates two BLMs. They call Black Lives Matter a hate group. They also say the Bureau of Land Management is a tyrannical big government overlord. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A law enforcement analyst is under fire for suggesting on CNN that the militia occupying a federal building in rural Oregon are more peaceful than #BlackLivesMatter protesters, because they are not looting anything.
The group of self-declared patriots who currently occupy the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters in Burns, Oregon, says they are defending their God-given entitlement to exploit trees, minerals, and clean water on native and federal lands. They are led by 40-year-old Nevada rancher Ammon Bundy, whose family has been grazing cattle on federal land for 150 years and disputing the payment of land use fees for decades.*
Read more here: https://www.rt.com/usa/327856-oregon-terrorists-downplayed-cnn/
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TYT: How Media Covered Oregon Militia Takeover (Original Post)
WhoIsNumberNone
Jan 2016
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NoMoreRepugs
(9,417 posts)1. The media response is very concerning to me...
because it appears to this old geezer that the majority of the media in this country is 100%
behind what I might call the "conservative agenda" for the country
if I'm incorrect perhaps I need to head to the eye doctor or even worse a psychiatrist
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)3. There's something surreal about RT
calling out CNN and Fox News...