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Maggie Haberman? @maggieNYT 8h8 hours agoRecall 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:
we can do it
(12,186 posts)Foamfollower
(1,097 posts)I'm proud to rec and kick your posting of it today.
The journalist in this piece deserves a Pulitzer.
bigtree
(85,996 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 16, 2017, 09:37 AM - Edit history (1)
...landmark report.
Elle Reeve
Duppers
(28,123 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)last night?
I sure as hell didn't.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)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)our alt-reich president doesn't see it.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)Jacques Stosskopf, and several other influential Nazis who deliberately sabotaged the third reich or plotted to overthrow Hitler.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,296 posts)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)I was happy to see her interviewed yesterday and that she looked okay, because man, she looked like she had stared into hell.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)with Cantwell should receive counseling while in jail.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)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)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.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)and then let him talk about "all of the good people" at that rally.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)And the reporter has more courage than all of the ridiculous right put together.
I second the Pulitzer.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)people are extremely unhinged and violent. It wasn't safe.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,984 posts)Starkly horrifying
madashelltoo
(1,698 posts)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)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.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)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)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.