Ya just can’t make it up.
Here is MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross – no stranger to any far left-wing talking point of the moment – saying this as she guest-hosted Joy Reid’s ReidOut This Thursday Said Cross of Republican critics of the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago:
It’s not really rhetoric that we can deal with. It’s not just rhetoric that you can deal with. Every night, millions turn into a propaganda network. And then, as if that were not bad enough, that’s an extremist network itself, you have these fringe popup outlets from OAN to Newsmax.
This train has already left the station.
We need to talk about the possibility of actual violence at this stage. Many people keep claiming that a civil war will soon be fought. A civil war is already here, I’d say. And I don’t mean to be hyperbolic. Let’s take a look at all the events that have occurred in the week since then. We’ve had two people tried to declare war with FBI field offices. I don’t think at this point we’re all gonna go home and pack up our bags and go home and sing ‘Kumbaya.’
I don’t know where to start with all this madness.
First of all, there’s no excuse for attacking FBI field offices, which should be obvious. But what should also be obvious is that over the decades, depending on the “cause” of the moment, various US government agencies have been targeted with violence.
It doesn’t matter if you are of a particular – ahem! – age, one well recalls attacks by the far left domestic terrorist group the “Weather Underground” that over time targeted the U.S. Capitol, the State Department, Pentagon, the California Attorney General’s office, and a New York City police station. These details have been made available by the FBI via its website.
This is the U.S. historical site. This is a reminder of the Oct 1967 riot at Pentagon. The Mobilization Committee for Ending the War in Vietnam organized the riot as a protest against the US’s role in the Vietnam War. After a long protest at Lincoln Memorial, the Marshals History says:
“At 5:40 p.m., a determined crowd of 35,000 headed for the Pentagon. One smaller group at the front stormed ahead, scaled the walls and made their way inside the Pentagon. Deputies and soldiers were taunted, and attacked with bottles, rocks, or vegetables. When the violence escalated the Pentagon troops rushed out. A full-scale riot erupted.
It lasted all night. All arrests were made by the Deputy Marshals who were acting in civil capacity for the federal government. Many of the protestors collapsed as soon as they were taken into custody. Deputies had to drag them onto the prison vans, where the other Deputies push and shoved any remaining demonstrators. They worked tirelessly, with very few breaks. They were physically exhausted and responded with increasing severity to the rioters, but suffered remarkably little injury. Total 682 were detained. Forty-seven people-demonstrators, soldiers, and U.S. The Marshals sustained injuries. By 7:00 o’clock Sunday morning, most of the protesters had left; only 200 remained.”
Tiffany Cross says that we have to “have serious conversations around preparing for actual violence. Many people keep claiming that a civil war will soon be fought. I would say a civil war is here.”
MSNBC’s hosts should look at MSNBC’s history and see if they can find anything objectionable about an attack on an FBI office.
That’s a sad commentary on attackers. Yes. Is it some out of the blue launching of a “civil war”? Hardly.
MSNBC has a real problem with historical ignorance, which is illustrated by the Tiffany Cross comments.
She also assigns responsibility for violence against the FBI field office. The so-called civil warfare was again blamed on her by blaming “these fringe outlets from OAN, Newsmax and Newsmax”.
This is her way of saying that Fox Newsmax, Newsmax, and OAN are to blame for the violence. Perhaps unthinkingly – ya think?- she is implying that, since Fox, Newsmax and OAN didn’t exist during those attacks in the 1960’s and 1970’s – then those attacks listed by the FBI and US Marshals happened because of the anti-war propaganda from, among others, NBC, the parent company of MSNBC. NBC’s coverage of Vietnam War was intensely at stake in those days, as was its coverage by rivals ABC, CBS and CBS.
All of which is to say that the real propaganda these days comes from Tiffany Cross’s very own network, MSNBC.
This is what you can imagine.