Little-Acorn
02-03-2017, 03:31 PM
Sure enough: The so-called "spontaneous" demonstrations at airports, town centers, and UC college campuses were actually carefully planned, choreographed and paid for, weeks and even months in advance.
And it was done for the purpose of pretending that large masses of people actually hated Trump and disagreed violently with the things he had promised to do. The goal was to make normal people (i.e. the majority of Americans) feel discouraged and isolated, so that they would show less support themselves for Trump.
It couldn't work without the active support of the mainstream media, who carefully repeated "spontaneous" and "unplanned" when "reporting" on the demonstrations, while carefully refraining from digging to deeply into the real facts.
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http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/now-we-know-those-spontaneous-anti-trump-airport-protests-werent-spontaneous-at-all/
Now We Know: Those 'Spontaneous' Anti-Trump Airport Protests Weren't Spontaneous At All
The mainstream press widely, and falsely, reported that the carefully planned airport protests against President Trump's executive order on refugees were a spontaneous public reaction.
JOHN MERLINE
11:19 AM ET
There was always something fishy about the outbreak of "spontaneous" protests at airports around the country in the immediate wake of President Trump's executive order pausing visas and refugees from terror-prone countries.
Not that you'd suspect anything from the way they were covered. Nearly every story published over that weekend stated without equivocation that the protests were an unplanned and visceral reaction to Trump's executive order. Examples:
"Spontaneous Protests Hit Airports Across America Following Trump's Executive Order"
"Protest Grows 'Out of Nowhere' at Kennedy Airport"
"The senseless cruelty of the executive order has led to spontaneous protests at many of America's major airports."
"Word of the spontaneous demonstration was spread across social media."
But these protests weren't spontaneous at all. They were, in fact, the result of months of careful planning by hard-core left-wing activist groups.
"News reports and TV broadcasts about the week's protests described the events as 'spontaneous protests' mounted in response to the Trump administration's travel and immigration executive order," author Asawin Suebsaeng writes at the liberal leaning Daily Beast. "But to Make the Road New York, and the groups like it across the country, there was nothing 'spontaneous' about it."
Suebsaeng notes that "professional organizers had been waiting and planning for this type of mass, direct action — ready-made to go viral on social media — even since, well Nov. 9." These professional organizers, he says have been "anticipating and mapping out their battle plans for Trump's orders on deportations, bans, and detention."
The executive director of the Arab American Action Network told Suebsaeng that "we had been laying the groundwork for this for a long, long time."
What's amazing isn't the planning or the execution of these protests, but the fact that the media acted as though it was all happening without any planning or coordination at all.
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(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
And it was done for the purpose of pretending that large masses of people actually hated Trump and disagreed violently with the things he had promised to do. The goal was to make normal people (i.e. the majority of Americans) feel discouraged and isolated, so that they would show less support themselves for Trump.
It couldn't work without the active support of the mainstream media, who carefully repeated "spontaneous" and "unplanned" when "reporting" on the demonstrations, while carefully refraining from digging to deeply into the real facts.
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http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/now-we-know-those-spontaneous-anti-trump-airport-protests-werent-spontaneous-at-all/
Now We Know: Those 'Spontaneous' Anti-Trump Airport Protests Weren't Spontaneous At All
The mainstream press widely, and falsely, reported that the carefully planned airport protests against President Trump's executive order on refugees were a spontaneous public reaction.
JOHN MERLINE
11:19 AM ET
There was always something fishy about the outbreak of "spontaneous" protests at airports around the country in the immediate wake of President Trump's executive order pausing visas and refugees from terror-prone countries.
Not that you'd suspect anything from the way they were covered. Nearly every story published over that weekend stated without equivocation that the protests were an unplanned and visceral reaction to Trump's executive order. Examples:
"Spontaneous Protests Hit Airports Across America Following Trump's Executive Order"
"Protest Grows 'Out of Nowhere' at Kennedy Airport"
"The senseless cruelty of the executive order has led to spontaneous protests at many of America's major airports."
"Word of the spontaneous demonstration was spread across social media."
But these protests weren't spontaneous at all. They were, in fact, the result of months of careful planning by hard-core left-wing activist groups.
"News reports and TV broadcasts about the week's protests described the events as 'spontaneous protests' mounted in response to the Trump administration's travel and immigration executive order," author Asawin Suebsaeng writes at the liberal leaning Daily Beast. "But to Make the Road New York, and the groups like it across the country, there was nothing 'spontaneous' about it."
Suebsaeng notes that "professional organizers had been waiting and planning for this type of mass, direct action — ready-made to go viral on social media — even since, well Nov. 9." These professional organizers, he says have been "anticipating and mapping out their battle plans for Trump's orders on deportations, bans, and detention."
The executive director of the Arab American Action Network told Suebsaeng that "we had been laying the groundwork for this for a long, long time."
What's amazing isn't the planning or the execution of these protests, but the fact that the media acted as though it was all happening without any planning or coordination at all.
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(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)