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To: bentway who wrote (179241)	8/31/2020 6:16:42 PM
From: Eric L	3 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Terry Maloney Wharf Rat Respond to of 358093

The 'Very Fine People' at the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville ... << Yeah, but Trump lies, all the time. What were the 'fine people's' names? Who were they? Why didn't he have them at his convention? >> Well according to the former¹ conservative CNN political commentator and Fox News contributor Steve Cortes, the co-founder with Dennis Prager of Prager U (short for Prager University which is a nonprofit and conservative pulpit but Not a University or an academic institution) who in 2016 served as a primary TV surrogate for the Trump presidential campaign, Michelle Piercy would be one of them. In a 6 minute early August 2019 video titled 'The Charlottesville Lie' Steve introduced Michelle Piercy ... “’Good people can go to Charlottesville,’ said Michelle Piercy, a night shift worker at a Wichita, Kansas retirement home, who drove all night with a conservative group that opposed the planned removal of a statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. After listening to Mr. Trump on Tuesday, she said it was as if he had channeled her and her friends… who had no interest in standing with Nazis or white supremacists…” The Cortes video¹ (below) which has it's own meticulously crafted Study Guide (or propaganda) is the type of red-meat that our fellow board contributors i-node and Tommie the Commie thrive on and consistently regurgitate for us ad nauseum ... ¹ Note: According to Cortes CNN forced him off the network because of the video where he defended the president's comments following the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fortunately a generally conservative Washington publication did a deep dive on the video and we find out more about Michelle Piercy ... and it also debunks some of the other nonsense i-node and Tom hand out. washingtonexaminer.com The second anniversary of the Charlottesville riots passed on Monday, but President Trump couldn’t leave bad enough alone. On Tuesday he retweeted, with a “thank you” message, a misleading video that attempts to defend his much-maligned reactions to that racially charged tragedy. The reality, despite the misdirection offered by Trump’s defenders, is that Trump, for whatever reason, went out of his way to recast the tragedy in ways that were fundamentally dishonest. According to the new video [shown above] and a growing meme among the pro-Trump commentariat, Trump is actually a victim of bad reporting about his comments in 2017. In those comments, Trump said he “condemned totally” the “Neo-Nazis and white nationalists,” but then infamously insisted there were “very fine people on both sides” during the two days of protests and counter-protests. He did so while clearly showing a defensiveness about one side in particular, namely the “side” that supposedly was “protesting very quietly the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee.” Those there to “innocently protest” in favor of the statue were, according to Trump, “not all” white supremacists “by any stretch,” but instead among the “many people in that group other than Neo-Nazis and white nationalists.” Again and again in the press conference, Trump insisted on the supposed existence of these peaceful protesters, and took great pains to say “there’s blame on both sides.” He also insisted that while he “saw the same pictures as you did,” he “watched those very closely — much more closely than you people watched it.” This bears repeating: He didn’t have a special Oval Office feed of the rallies and counter protests. He saw the same coverage we all saw. Trump’s defenders, especially in the video by Steve Cortes of the conservative Prager U, go to great lengths to insist that Trump was making a legitimate point in defense of real people that were “very fine.” The problem is, there’s no evidence they really existed in Charlottesville that weekend, and certainly not that there were “many” of them. Cortes (see the 1:56 mark, and following) and other conservatives have emphasized “another group” of “peaceful protesters,” and said “lest you have any doubts that there were good people in Charlottesville …, the New York Times confirmed it in a story they published the next day.” What was the evidence? A quote from one woman, and only one, named Michelle Piercy, who said she and a conservative group had traveled from Wichita, Kansas to protest the statue’s removal. So, who was that group? Well, Piercy herself identified it as an outfit called “American Warrior Revolution.” They were there supposedly as “neutral protesters” who traveled all that way to, get this, “talk to antifa and Black Lives Matter and let them know that the way they were protesting is the wrong way to go about it.” If that sounds suspicious — if you doubt that a group with the martial name American Warrior Revolution is a peace-loving dampener of tensions — your doubts are justified. A little Internet research shows that they consider themselves a militia. Lest their outlook be misunderstood, they provide a helpful video as self-advertisement. Please watch it, here. {whoops. Private video. sign-in required] Watch it, and gasp. And then read this “official” statement by the group, effectively blaming liberal counter protester Heather Heyer for her own death. The kicker is that Trump insisted that the very fine people specifically were at the rally the night before Heyer was killed by a Neo-Nazi. He said it twice. That is howlingly false. The night before was the rally in which white nationalists by the hundreds marched in paramilitary order, bearing weapons, holding aloft tiki torches, yelling racist and anti-Semitic epithets. The media should defy Trump to produce one single video, just one, of “very fine people” and “innocent” protesters in that group. Even if Michelle Piercy is a very fine person, it beggars belief that she or anyone else could join that crowd, that night, for innocent purposes. And if Trump watched the same scenes we all watched, there is no way he saw any separate group of innocents. Zero. One need not speculate on what synapses in Trump’s brain led him repeatedly to insist on the presence of many very fine people where none existed. It is an insult to our intelligence, though, and to decency, for him two years later to still insist on it, and to try to make any excuses whatsoever for the white nationalists who were the only ones who openly and deliberately organized their hateful rally. << # # # - Eric L -