The media's deeply dishonest response to the violence in Charlottesville

Mark Fitzgibbons:
The violence in Charlottesville on August 12 has been used to promote the left’s box of political chocolates: Republicans are addicted to racism. President Trump’s ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals “on the heels of Charlottesville . . . is [a] signal[] to champions of hate and bigotry that their voices matter most.” It is cause to end President Trump’s voter fraud commission. Defund the Jefferson Memorial. Ban open carry of firearms. Attackfree speech. Redouble Linda Sarsour’s Women’s March activism. Rename New York’s Trump Park.

Charlottesville became a rallying cry for Democrats and social justice warriors. This helps explain the false narrative about Charlottesville promoted by the liberal news media.
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Then came news reported on August 29 by Josh Meyer at Politico that the Department of Homeland Security warned Charlottesville and Virginia officials three days before the tragic events of August 12 that leftwing antifa and white supremacists were preparing for violence at their competing protests, and that it would likely be the worst clash to date between these two groups of maladjusted reprobates.

In other words, Trump was not only right after-the-fact about Charlottesville, but the violence from both sides was predicted, and city and state officials were warned about it. It has been over a week since the news about this DHS warning broke, but The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and the major networks and liberal news media have ignored it.
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There is much more.

If you follow a tick-tock of events it is clear that the violence happened because Antifa attempted to disrupt the permitted rally, and the police did little to stop the disruption. Now we find that the authorities were warned of the Antifa plans and they did nothing effective to prevent them.  I have not heard an explanation as to why they did nothing.  But doing nothing did play into a political narrative the left ran with.

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