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riversedge

(70,239 posts)
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 09:01 PM Aug 2017

Fox News, Daily Caller delete posts encouraging people to drive through protests

Source: CNN




by Tom Kludt @tomkludt August 15, 2017: 7:57 PM ET



Months before a man allegedly turned his vehicle into a weapon and plowed through a group of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, an article that made the rounds in conservative media encouraged readers to do something similar.

Originally published by The Daily Caller and later syndicated or aggregated by several other websites, including Fox Nation, an offshoot of Fox News' website, it carried an unsubtle headline: "Here's A Reel Of Cars Plowing Through Protesters Trying To Block The Road." Embedded in the article was a minute-and-a-half long video showing one vehicle after another driving through demonstrations. The footage was set to a cover of Ludacris' "Move Bitch."

The article was published in January, but it drew renewed attention on Tuesday following this weekend's deadly incident in Charlottesville. As the outrage grew on Twitter, Fox News took action, deleting the version Fox Nation had published.

"The item was inappropriate and we've taken it down. We regret posting it in January," Noah Kotch, the editor-in-chief of Fox News Digital, said in a statement provided to CNNMoney.
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Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/15/media/daily-caller-fox-news-video-car-crashing-liberal-protesters/index.html



This is an example of the advice given



"Here's a compilation of liberal protesters getting pushed out of the way by cars and trucks. Study the technique; it may prove useful in the next four years," Raust wrote. "None of these clips are new, but that doesn't mean they're not still fresh." ...




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LovesPNW

(65 posts)
1. What about all those Red States
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 09:04 PM
Aug 2017

Placing new laws in the pipe allowing drivers to run over protesters?

That shit is looking pretty dark and ugly about now ...

I'm guessing they will shelve this stuff, for now ...

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
2. OMG. Come to think of it, didn't someone recently drive through a protest?
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 09:05 PM
Aug 2017

I'll do some searching on that. I think it was someone going somewhere, when confronted with a protest, so he just plowed ahead. Didn't kill anyone. It was an angry man.

I found one, but it wasn't the same thing. It was in Ferguson. He slowly tried to drive thru protestors and slightly injured one woman, but it seems he was on his way home from work & didn't know what was going on, was just trying to get thru the crowd.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
9. I meant here. No, in France was a Muslim terrorist, wasn't it? Here...it was not like this rally.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 10:06 PM
Aug 2017

It was a guy on his way home from work trying to push his way slowly thru the crowd.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
11. I seem to remember a terrorist driving his car into a crowd in France killing several people at a
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 10:20 PM
Aug 2017

Protest in the south of France (Cannes?)?

bucolic_frolic

(43,173 posts)
7. Incitement and its legal liabilities will get the attention of the Legal Department
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 09:28 PM
Aug 2017

Legal teams will be digging deep to see if the perp read one of those posts, and where

Make them PAY!

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
8. It's all fun and games until someone acts on your stochastic terrorism
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 09:43 PM
Aug 2017

You just know that video is going to be Exhibit A at the Heather Heyer wrongful death suits against Fox and The Daily Caller.

dawn frenzy adams

(429 posts)
10. Just so you know.
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 10:19 PM
Aug 2017

Jason Kessler one of the white supremacist that organized the United the Right rally in Charlottesville-- writes for the Daily Caller. What does Tucker Carlson have to say about this?

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A lot of these guys have connections to the Republican Party. We all know this. Here is Kessler, second from the left, meeting with Congressman Tom Garrett, R Va.

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