Remember how the media over-sensationalized the 9/11 attacks and the bombing of Pearl Harbor to make them seem more terrible than they actually were? Me neither. Because they didn’t have to. But with the January 6th media coverage and subsequent show trial, all we get is hysterical pear clutching, over exaggerations, and flat-out lies. According to the Democrats and their media toadies, the January 6th riots are 9/11, Pear Harbor, and the assassination of Lincoln all rolled up into one. Democracy itself almost died that day. Or something.
The reality is zero people were killed by protestors/rioters on January 6th. Not even all that much damage was done to the Capitol Building. Some doors were busted and some windows were broken out. They probably had it cleaned up and good as new before the weekend. The only person who was murdered on January 6th was an unarmed woman named Ashli Babbitt. She was shot without warning by law enforcement while climbing through a door window inside the Capitol. Compare and contrast the coverage her killing received compared to BLM rioters injured by law enforcement (none were actually killed as far as I can recall.)
How many times did the media report that officer Brian Sicknick was murdered by the rioters? Brutally beaten and hit over the head with a fire extinguisher which caused his death? But the story turned out to be complete bullshit. According to the medical examiner, Sicknick suffered no physical trauma whatsoever prior to his death. He wasn’t beaten. He certainly wasn’t hit over the head with a fire extinguisher. That was complete fantasy. An autopsy determined he died of natural causes after suffering a stroke later in the evening of January 6, after his shift ended and he was back at home. But the media can’t let it go. You still hear the constant lie that cops were killed on January 6th defending the Capitol. A lie that is still propagated to this day by so-called journalists and mainstream media outlets. The Sicknick story was a total lie, and yet that was the best example they could come up with to impugn the Capitol rioters. A couple of cops ending up committing suicide days or weeks after the January 6th riot. The media attributes their deaths to the Capitol Riot with a straight face. Another cop was run over in front of a traffic barrier months later by a leftwing lunatic outside the Capitol. His death has been added to the total in some reports, too.
The Democrats desperately want to make January 6th a thing. They still aren’t sure they have trashed Trump enough to make him unelectable. And they need something to distract the public from the absolute dumpster fire President Pants Load has presided over for the last 18 months. They need the mid-terms to be about anything other than a referendum on the Party in power. So they put together this hyped-up show trial. Which is totally understandable. What is not understandable, is why the media plays along with the ridiculous charade if they supposedly have all this “journalistic integrity.”
An NFL coach named Jack Del Rio is under fire for describing the January 6th riot as a “dust up”, and asking why nobody seemed to mind much when BLM was burning down half the country. Del Rio pointed out the obvious hypocrisy. And the left-stream media immediately freaked out. He was denounced for implying a “false equivalence” between the January 6th riot and the BLM riots. The thing is, there were actual murders committed during the BLM riots, including the murder of police. Not the phony “cop driven to suicide weeks later” kind the media likes to spin about January 6th. Not to mention all the cops who suffered broken bones, were pelted with bottles and rocks, or had their eyes damaged by green lasers.
The media constantly excused the lawlessness of the BLM rioters as they injured 1000s and caused billions of dollars in damage. Their violence was justified according to the left and the media (BIRM.) Their crusade to avenge the death of Saint George Floyd was totally righteous, and any collateral damage that occurred along the way was of trivial importance compared to Social Justice. The January 6th protesters (turned rioters), however, were beyond deplorable. The government and the media declared the 2020 election to be the most secure in history. They declared Biden’s win as pristine and legitimate and beyond question. They had spoken. The matter was closed. End of story.
The protest on January 6th occurred because of the multiple fishy activities that took place on and around the 2020 election. And because of the government/media’s total refusal to take any objections seriously and investigate them in a thorough and transparent way. That protest devolved into a riot at the Capitol in large part because Nancy Pelosi wanted it to. She had been offered extra security and turned it down. She knew full well the propaganda value of disorder and violence at the Capitol Building, which is why she did absolutely nothing to stop it.
So the media is right. Comparing the George Floyd rampage to the Capitol Riot is a “false equivalence.” A lot of people were killed in the BLM riots. The only person murdered in the Capitol Riot was shot by law enforcement. The Capitol rioters broke a few windows and doors, and probably got some muddy footprints on Nancy Pelosi’s desk. BLM burned entire neighborhoods to the ground. There is no comparison at all. The only thing that is the same is Democrats allowed both to happen to help their political fortunes.