Left-wing terrorism is getting a polished shine by the liberal broadcast networks. During their Tuesday updates on the Antifa terrorist attack at the construction site of a police and firefighter training center in Atlanta, Georgia, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings took different approaches to spinning the incident. ABC simply called it “foolishness,” while CBS called them “demonstrators,” touted a supposed “broad coalition” that opposed the project, and dismissed a cop getting shot.
“Now, we’re going to go to Atlanta where 23 people are now facing domestic terrorism charges after an attack against police where rioters through explosives and Molotov cocktails at officers,” ABC co-host Michael Strahan announced before handing it off to correspondent Steve Osunsami.
As if it was some kind of defense, Osunsami argued that of the 23 charged with domestic terrorism, “only two are from Georgia. They're from Utah, Arizona, far away from here. One person is from Canada. Another person is from France.”
What does their state or country of origin have to do with the terrorism charges, Steve? The 9/11 hijackers were still terrorists despite not being from New York, Washington, D.C., or even the United States.
“They're fighting to save the woods that the police training center would replace but also saying that they're trying to keep police from militarizing,” Osunsami hyped their motives. He then lamented that the terrorist attack “put local civil rights groups in a strange position where they agree with the idea not trying to militarize the police but are also trying not to support any foolishness.”
Osunsami also wanted to “underline” that the training center was “approved by lawmakers at the state and local levels, Democrats and Republicans of all colors.”
Yet, he refused to give any ideological label to the left-wing domestic terrorists in Antifa who attacked the construction site.
Over on CBS, correspondent Skyler Henry opened his report by describing how “demonstrators” – not left-wing terrorists – were “wearing masks and holding shields” while “swarming the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, hurling fireworks at police officers and lighting construction equipment on fire.”
His report also seemed to blame the construction project for the terrorist attack. He played a soundbite from “community organizers,” one of which proclaimed: “The current plan will heighten tensions and harm communities for decades.”
Henry would tout how “a broad coalition opposes the project.” The supposed broad coalition ranged from “environmentalists concerned about the potential destruction of Atlanta’s South River Forest to local civil rights leaders who say the project will further militarize police.”
