July 30, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
03:59
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| So what took you to Portland? | |
| Oh, you know, I did a normal vacation. | |
| Nothing newsworthy, nothing really important to report. | |
| Just wanted to kind of hang out and see what's going on. | |
| So amazing that you picked that place. | |
| Is there a lot of violence there? | |
| You know, I've got to tell you what's so amazing about this. | |
| The media's willful distortion. | |
| Of the agenda and the behavior of the crowd has crossed into journalistic malpractice. | |
| I think there's no other way to describe it. | |
| They are describing these people as peaceful, as fun-loving, as having a great old time. | |
| It is, you know, look, when you get to Portland, it looks really normal in the daytime, other than the fact that it's always, you know, crime-ridden and full of homeless people. | |
| But other than that, it looks like a normal Portland day. | |
| And when you hit 9 o'clock... | |
| This one five-square street area just erupts in insanity and violence. | |
| And what you have there are... | |
| By the way, it's a massive protest. | |
| You're talking about 3,000, 4,000 people a night who will be going there. | |
| And within that 3,000, 4,000 people, you have several... | |
| not a few dozen, several hundred actual rioters who are attacking a federal court building with incendiary devices, lighting on fire, attacking it with truncheons and with pipes and with Molotov cocktails. | |
| And you then have the other three and a half thousand people who are cheering them on. | |
| And this is the point I keep trying to make when I go to these protests and I mean, people say... | |
| Hey, look, it's mostly peaceful. | |
| By the way, a term I hate more than anything else. | |
| It gets me going more than anything else. | |
| It's got most of the people that are peaceful. | |
| You turn the line from being a peaceful protester to being an enabler of violence if you are cheering the rioters on. | |
| I didn't see a single person trying to pull one of these guys back or yell, hey, guys, don't do this. | |
| And even worse, I don't know if it's worse, but certainly it's bad, is there's tons of press there. | |
| And most of the cameras are down when the rioters are doing their thing. | |
| And then when the police come out, that's when the cameras go up. | |
| And it's also this bizarre notion that these federal officers are roaming the streets of Portland, disappearing people, is nonsense. | |
| They're not even on the street. | |
| Frankly, I would argue they're not taking enough of a proactive position on this thing. | |
| They only come out when the actual building is in danger of burning down. | |
| And then they use what I use as humane methods, and I can say that because I was the victim. | |
| I'm not using the victim of quotes. | |
| But I was tear gassed with pepper spray because, look, deservingly, I was there. | |
| I was there in the area with the rioters, so obviously they're firing their tear gas canisters at anybody they think might be a danger, and it pushes people back. | |
| So this whole thing, the perception and the way the media is portraying this, Dennis, is driving me crazy. | |
| I don't know what to do about it. | |
| It is the lying media. | |
| What you just reported is very distressing. | |
| So why do they, I'm curious, why do they not do this during the day? | |
| Who knows what is in the mind of one of these animals? | |
| Also, did you get to speak to any of them? | |
| I did. | |
| So, yeah, I did a whole video on it. | |
| And I spoke to a lot of them. | |
| I spoke to a bunch of them until I got recognized. | |
| Hold it there. | |
| Now I'm very curious. | |
| I mean, I'm curious the whole time. |
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