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(85,996 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 08:14 AM Aug 2017

Vice News Documentary from Charlottesville Is Horrifying

Maggie Haberman? @maggieNYT 8h8 hours ago
Recall the president describing Friday night as a peaceful protest against a statue removal. Now watch this

Hundreds of white supremacists marched with torches in an American city Friday night. They arrived the next day brandishing weapons and armor. One white supremacist allegedly murdered an anti-racist protester in the street with his car and injured several others. This is what really happened when you peel back all the rhetoric flying in the aftermath, and after you tune out the first reprehensible response from the President of the United States, and his subsequent update to it that was two days late and a dollar short.

Vice News, to the outlet's immense credit, was on the ground to document the events in Charlottesville this weekend. Reporter Elle Reeve even embedded, for a time, with white supremacist leader Chris Cantwell. What she found speaks for itself, but keep an eye out for the little things. Like, say, how many guns these white supremacists have.


read: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/videos/a57009/charlottesville-vice-documentary/

watch:


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Vice News Documentary from Charlottesville Is Horrifying (Original Post) bigtree Aug 2017 OP
This can't be shared enough. we can do it Aug 2017 #1
I posted this yesterday Foamfollower Aug 2017 #2
lol, 300+ recs bigtree Aug 2017 #3
And it raced to the top of the Greatest Page. Duppers Aug 2017 #7
God this is so heartbreaking!! anneboleyn Aug 2017 #4
Did you see the good people in the nazi/kkk mob that our fascist president spewed about workinclasszero Aug 2017 #5
No good person ever carried a Nazi flag or wore their symbol. TNNurse Aug 2017 #8
A two year old would sense the evil in nazi storm troopers but somehow workinclasszero Aug 2017 #10
Or secretly worked against them from within like Oskar Schindler IronLionZion Aug 2017 #23
Great point, thanks. TNNurse Aug 2017 #25
She is a very brave young woman. Mr.Bill Aug 2017 #6
Her face in that last scene! nolabear Aug 2017 #18
Very fine people - his father loved them dalton99a Aug 2017 #9
Every American should watch the Vice video and anyone who agrees dae Aug 2017 #11
Elle Reeve is an extremely brave woman to be embedded with these monsters IronLionZion Aug 2017 #12
At one point in the video they talked about "throwing out the journalist" briefly... Moostache Aug 2017 #20
This needs to be on the greatest page. Knr joeybee12 Aug 2017 #13
Force that piece of shit who calls himself "President" to watch this, bullwinkle428 Aug 2017 #14
K&R for later viewing smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #15
The reporting was excellent Politicub Aug 2017 #16
It was a good report but I feel like it was dangerous for her to get in that van. These SweetieD Aug 2017 #17
Snowflake Cantwell SHRED Aug 2017 #19
This is Trump's base nt geek tragedy Aug 2017 #21
Yeah it is. ismnotwasm Aug 2017 #22
His Orangeness attributed these guys madashelltoo Aug 2017 #24
it is a video that should be seen by every person barbtries Aug 2017 #26
Awesome piece! K&R vkkv Aug 2017 #27
kick and rec! nt steve2470 Aug 2017 #28
K&R Scurrilous Aug 2017 #29
K&R Solly Mack Aug 2017 #30
I don't even know what to say. I wanted to vomit, throw things and cry all at the same time. smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #31
Between THIS and the "Snowflake Cantwell" post above (#19), Silver Gaia Aug 2017 #32
 

Foamfollower

(1,097 posts)
2. I posted this yesterday
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 08:20 AM
Aug 2017

I'm proud to rec and kick your posting of it today.

The journalist in this piece deserves a Pulitzer.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
5. Did you see the good people in the nazi/kkk mob that our fascist president spewed about
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 08:43 AM
Aug 2017

last night?

I sure as hell didn't.

TNNurse

(6,926 posts)
8. No good person ever carried a Nazi flag or wore their symbol.
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:45 AM
Aug 2017

Unless is was to tear down the flag and the symbols during the war or at a protest.

Otherwise they are not "good people".

OK, maybe in a movie or a play to show how awful they are.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
10. A two year old would sense the evil in nazi storm troopers but somehow
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:49 AM
Aug 2017

our alt-reich president doesn't see it.

IronLionZion

(45,447 posts)
23. Or secretly worked against them from within like Oskar Schindler
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:00 AM
Aug 2017

Jacques Stosskopf, and several other influential Nazis who deliberately sabotaged the third reich or plotted to overthrow Hitler.

Mr.Bill

(24,296 posts)
6. She is a very brave young woman.
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:32 AM
Aug 2017

Go ahead, Donald, call this fake news. This woman showed more courage on one weekend than you have in your entire life. And she brought us the truth. Journalist at it's finest.

Fire Trump enabler Chris Matthews and give her his time slot.

nolabear

(41,982 posts)
18. Her face in that last scene!
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 10:29 AM
Aug 2017

I was happy to see her interviewed yesterday and that she looked okay, because man, she looked like she had stared into hell.

dae

(3,396 posts)
11. Every American should watch the Vice video and anyone who agrees
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:54 AM
Aug 2017

with Cantwell should receive counseling while in jail.

IronLionZion

(45,447 posts)
12. Elle Reeve is an extremely brave woman to be embedded with these monsters
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:56 AM
Aug 2017

I'm sure more than few of them are mentally unstable violent psychopaths who might heed their president's call to punish journalists

It was a scary and sad thing to watch. Kudos to Vice for bravely bringing us these types of journalism that other outlets won't do

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
20. At one point in the video they talked about "throwing out the journalist" briefly...
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 10:38 AM
Aug 2017

I watched that with my wife on Monday on HBO and we sat stunned at what we were witnessing. I am happy that she made it out of that assignment without being harmed by those misguided and lunatic fringe 'people' like Cantwell...

The chants of "Heil Cantwell" by some of the drones - while he was washing mace from his eyes - was as profoundly upsetting as his unhinged ranting and disarming in that hotel room.

These people must be exposed to the cleansing and antiseptic light of full media attention and they should have hot mic's in their face to record their vile words and thoughts so that no one can later claim they were "misunderstood patriots" or in the words of our very own warped POTUS, "very good people".

Bullshit. There is nothing good on display by them. Nothing.

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
14. Force that piece of shit who calls himself "President" to watch this,
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 10:01 AM
Aug 2017

and then let him talk about "all of the good people" at that rally.

Politicub

(12,165 posts)
16. The reporting was excellent
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 10:12 AM
Aug 2017

And the reporter has more courage than all of the ridiculous right put together.

I second the Pulitzer.

SweetieD

(1,660 posts)
17. It was a good report but I feel like it was dangerous for her to get in that van. These
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 10:14 AM
Aug 2017

people are extremely unhinged and violent. It wasn't safe.

madashelltoo

(1,698 posts)
24. His Orangeness attributed these guys
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:02 AM
Aug 2017

To the alt-right.(Whoever they are). Black shirts, helmets and bats attacking were with the Nazis. Wrong again, or just lying, as usual.

barbtries

(28,797 posts)
26. it is a video that should be seen by every person
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:09 AM
Aug 2017

in America at least. I really admired how she kept her cool when at times she had to have been terrified by these armed extremists.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
31. I don't even know what to say. I wanted to vomit, throw things and cry all at the same time.
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 07:59 PM
Aug 2017

These Nazis, alt-righters, KKK'ers, white-nationalists - whatever the fuck you want to call them make me physically ill. That man at the end literally made me want to stab him. I hate these people with a passion. I am sickened beyond belief.

Silver Gaia

(4,544 posts)
32. Between THIS and the "Snowflake Cantwell" post above (#19),
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 03:13 AM
Aug 2017

a much clearer picture of this dude emerges. He's still scary because he's a gun nut and he just "ain't right," but he's obviously not who/what he is pretending to be in the Vice report.

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