Dennis Prager Show - Ami Horowitz Reporting From Portland Aired: 2020-07-30 Duration: 03:59 === Media Distortion In Portland (03:48) === [00:00:01] So what took you to Portland? [00:00:04] Oh, you know, I did a normal vacation. [00:00:06] Nothing newsworthy, nothing really important to report. [00:00:09] Just wanted to kind of hang out and see what's going on. [00:00:12] So amazing that you picked that place. [00:00:14] Is there a lot of violence there? [00:00:17] You know, I've got to tell you what's so amazing about this. [00:00:21] The media's willful distortion. [00:00:25] Of the agenda and the behavior of the crowd has crossed into journalistic malpractice. [00:00:31] I think there's no other way to describe it. [00:00:32] They are describing these people as peaceful, as fun-loving, as having a great old time. [00:00:39] 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. [00:00:49] But other than that, it looks like a normal Portland day. [00:00:51] And when you hit 9 o'clock... [00:00:53] This one five-square street area just erupts in insanity and violence. [00:01:02] And what you have there are... [00:01:04] By the way, it's a massive protest. [00:01:07] You're talking about 3,000, 4,000 people a night who will be going there. [00:01:12] And within that 3,000, 4,000 people, you have several... [00:01:15] 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. [00:01:33] And you then have the other three and a half thousand people who are cheering them on. [00:01:42] And this is the point I keep trying to make when I go to these protests and I mean, people say... [00:01:47] Hey, look, it's mostly peaceful. [00:01:50] By the way, a term I hate more than anything else. [00:01:51] It gets me going more than anything else. [00:01:53] It's got most of the people that are peaceful. [00:01:56] You turn the line from being a peaceful protester to being an enabler of violence if you are cheering the rioters on. [00:02:05] I didn't see a single person trying to pull one of these guys back or yell, hey, guys, don't do this. [00:02:11] And even worse, I don't know if it's worse, but certainly it's bad, is there's tons of press there. [00:02:16] And most of the cameras are down when the rioters are doing their thing. [00:02:22] And then when the police come out, that's when the cameras go up. [00:02:26] And it's also this bizarre notion that these federal officers are roaming the streets of Portland, disappearing people, is nonsense. [00:02:35] They're not even on the street. [00:02:36] Frankly, I would argue they're not taking enough of a proactive position on this thing. [00:02:42] They only come out when the actual building is in danger of burning down. [00:02:48] And then they use what I use as humane methods, and I can say that because I was the victim. [00:02:54] I'm not using the victim of quotes. [00:02:55] But I was tear gassed with pepper spray because, look, deservingly, I was there. [00:02:59] 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. [00:03:09] So this whole thing, the perception and the way the media is portraying this, Dennis, is driving me crazy. [00:03:15] I don't know what to do about it. [00:03:17] It is the lying media. [00:03:22] What you just reported is very distressing. [00:03:26] So why do they, I'm curious, why do they not do this during the day? [00:03:33] Who knows what is in the mind of one of these animals? === Curious Conversations (00:25) === [00:03:40] Also, did you get to speak to any of them? [00:03:44] I did. [00:03:45] So, yeah, I did a whole video on it. [00:03:47] And I spoke to a lot of them. [00:03:49] I spoke to a bunch of them until I got recognized. [00:03:55] Hold it there. [00:03:56] Now I'm very curious. [00:03:57] I mean, I'm curious the whole time.