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January 8, 2021 (American Thinker) — How’s this for a press double-standard?
Lourdes Navarro of NPR has announced on Twitter that company guidance states that Trump-supporters are to be called “pro-Trump extremists,” tweeting:
NPR guidance: we won’t be calling the people who stormed the Capitol ‘protestors’ — they are ‘pro-Trump extremists’ and what they are doing is ‘insurrection’.
This is funny stuff, given that thousands showed up; some didn’t know they were storming anything; and huge numbers were the usual peaceful, clean-up-the-trash Republican protesters. NPR, in any case, hasn’t actually interviewed them.
And what exactly is “extremist” about opposing election fraud? Locals do it all the time in other countries where third-world hellhole standards prevail. Does anyone call Venezuela’s anti–election fraud protesters “extremists”? The word used there is “avalancha.” Oh, and don’t think the Chavista thugs running Caracas didn’t notice this “extremist” label and use it to attempt to make political hay. And speaking of Latin America, here, Jake Tapper got schooled.
More to the hypocritical point, we don’t recall the press using the term “Black Lives Matter extremist” or even an Antifa
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