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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn January, Fox News Posted a Video of Cars Mowing Down Protesters That Urged Viewers to Study the
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/15/january_daily_caller_video_demonstrates_how_to_plow_through_protesters_with.html
Conservatives are rightfully aghast at the terror attack on Saturday that left one woman dead and more than a dozen injured in Charlottesville, Virginia.
But as I wrote Monday, the idea of using a vehicle to speed through a crowd of protesters has been a right-wing fantasy since the dawn of the Black Lives Matter movement. Run them over is a rote, right-wing response to street protests from Black Lives Matter to Standing Rock, and the sentiment has been publicly expressed by, among others, USA Today columnist and law professor Glenn Reynolds and a handful of police officers, including the head of the Santa Fe police union.
What follows is one of the more disgusting and prominent examples of the trend: a 90-second video published by the Daily Caller, the conservative site founded by Tucker Carlson. The video, which the Daily Callers Mike Raust published on Jan. 28the day that Donald Trumps travel ban brought thousands of demonstrators to international airportsis set to a folksy cover of the 2001 Ludacris hit Move Bitch."
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The post earned 20,000 Facebook likes and was subsequently reposted by Fox Nation, the aggregator section of Fox News. Its another reminder that running through crowds of protesters has been a popular jokeand then someeven on mainstream provinces of the American right since long before Charlottesville.
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video at the link.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)in response to Black Lives Matter...
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)SalviaBlue
(2,917 posts)rec.
Danascot
(4,690 posts)has also been promoted by ISIS.