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MAINSTREAM MEDIA DOWNPLAYS LIBERAL VIOLENCE

By Rick Jensen

Violence. Burning cars. Sucker punches. Chanting obscenities and displaying signs with the sort of obscenities that get children punished when they are raised by good parents.

No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump supporters. I’m actually talking about left wingers, who lately are behaving the way they’ve tried so desperately to portray their Tea Party rivals.

They throw bottles and rocks at police and jump innocent Americans, beating them to the point where they are seen in videos leaving with blood pouring down their faces.

Predictably, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, a Hillary Clinton supporter, blames Trump for the violent behavior.

“At some point Donald Trump needs to take responsibility for the irresponsible behavior of his campaign,” Liccardo said.

Think about this for a moment. Supporting Clinton means you can legitimately sucker-punch strangers who wear t-shirts you don’t like..

“Videos taken at the scene showed a number of physical confrontations. In one, a supporter wearing a football jersey emblazoned with Mr. Trump’s name was pelted with eggs,” the New York Times reported.

The “supporter” of whom the Times wrote is actually a woman who was assaulted because she was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the name, “Trump.”

The presumed Hillary supporters celebrated their assault on the woman by waving Mexican flags.

Downplaying the fact that men assaulted a woman because of the clothing she is wearing makes the New York Times complicit in approval of the assault.

Period.

Drop the mic.

“Outside the event, protesters, some brandishing Mexican flags, clashed violently with Mr. Trump’s supporters,” downplays the New York Times.

No, New York Times, the protesters and Hillary supporters did not “clash” “with” Trump supporters. They viciously attached them. They mobbed the entrance to the rally and assaulted at least one woman and sucker-punched men.

You may recall that over the years liberals have called the Tea Party racist and violent with no supporting evidence. The Black Caucus accused Tea Partiers of hurling racial slurs at them during a protest against Obamacare

Check the omnipresent youtube videos. No such behavior exists. Did not happen.

Meanwhile, the violent left is in full view and full swing.

I have been a consistent Trump detractor, and with the exception of his idiotic encouragement of rally attendees to punch agitators, I don’t think Trump deserves blame for the behavior of others.

Dara Lind of Vox.com is one of them. He writes, “There are Americans to whom Trump poses an existential threat. You don’t have to agree with protesters beating up Trump supporters, or even sympathize with them, to understand this. There are people who feel Trump’s rise puts their lives in danger. And many people make decisions about what actions are ‘appropriate’ differently when they feel personally under threat.”

Vox and others excuse this violence as a reaction to a perceived existential threat.

Tea Party Americans have recognized the existential threat to our lives posed by a socialist agenda that would destroy our free market society. We see a tyrannical President who, unhappy with the wishes and controls put upon him by citizens, congress and the Supreme Court, issues an extraordinary number of Executive Actions including Executive Orders plus Presidential Memoranda.

The power of these actions exceeds even their number.

Still, the Tea Party Americans don’t riot in the streets, throw rocks and bottles at police or beat innocent Democrats walking to a Hillary rally.

Reports are that MoveOn.Org, funded in part by Hillary supporter George Soros, are sending mobs to the streets to stoke violence at Trump rallies.

If they continue this, they will be making your vote in November count as cowering fearfully from these mobs threatening violence if Hillary isn’t elected or standing up to them.

1) Miracle Ride for Riley // June 5, 2016. Governor Mike Pence, First Lady Karen Pence and hundreds of Hoosier motorcyclists participate in the Miracle RideSunday to raise money for Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health.

2) Governor, First Lady Dedicate Indiana Statehood Forever Stamp // June 7, 2016. Governor Mike Pence and First Lady Karen Pence, Indiana’s Bicentennial Ambassador, join the U.S. Postal Service to celebrate the issuance of the Indiana Statehood Forever Stamp at a first-day-of-issue stamp dedication ceremony at the Indiana Statehouse Tuesday. There, the Indianapolis Children’s Choir provided renditions of historic Indiana songs.

3) Walmart’s Feed ‘Em for Freedom // June 10, 2016. Governor Mike Pence today offered remarks and helped serve lunch to service members and veterans at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Indiana at Walmart’s 7^th Feed ‘Em for Freedom event. Throughout this program, Walmart has fed more than 10,000 soldiers.

Making Sense by Michael Reagan

It’s time for Bernie Sanders to step down.

His young supporters will be disappointed for the rest of their lives, but it’s time for Bernie to join the cast of “Saturday Night Live.”

He fought hard and if nothing else he showed the America people how to deliver a speech full of stale socialist ideas with a lot of honesty and pizzazz.

Hillary and Trump are vying to get Bernie’s enthusiastic army to enlist on their side.

Trump is hallucinating. Hillary is only dreaming.

When Bernie’s army is disbanded, whether it’s tomorrow or after the convention, they’re not going to change uniforms and join Hillary, Trump or anyone else — unless Jon Stewart decides to run.

They’re going back to their dorms and parents’ basements to play video games or plan their summer vacation in Europe.

Most of them signed up for Bernie’s children’s crusade not because they wanted to put an old socialist in the White House, but because he promised them free stuff.

Stuff like a free college education and free healthcare and free dry-cleaning services.

Now that their dream of free grad school is gone, they’re no longer interested in politics.

Most of Bernie’s college kids look to me like they don’t understand that there’s this concept people used to call “work.”

They’re in that “Gimme, gimme, gimme” mode — the belief that because you breathe you deserve to be given free stuff that your parents or taxpayers have to pay for.

It’s much worse today, but that attitude of entitlement was just getting started back in the 1960s. I admit as a college dropout I even tried to take advantage of it — until my “old-fashioned” parents set me straight.

As I write in my new book, “Lessons My Father Taught Me,” after I quit the University of Arizona after a minute and a half, I knocked on my father’s door in L.A.

No answer.

I knocked on my mother Jane Wyman’s door.

No answer.

When I called them on the phone, they answered.

“I’m home,” I said.

“No you’re not,” they said.

“We paid your bills while you were in college, but you dropped out. Now it’s your turn. You need to find a place to live. Get a job. The gravy train is over.”

I moved in with some friends and got a job on a loading dock, thanks to my sister Maureen.

I worked at Asbury Transportation Co. from 5 at night to 1:30 in the morning loading oil well freight onto trucks that went to the fields in Bakersfield.

That’s exactly where I was the night my father won the election for Governor of California in 1966.

My parents taught me if you want to go anywhere in life, you’re going to need a strong work ethic to get you there.

My father was tough, but my mother Jane made him look like Mister Rogers.

When I started my radio talk-show career in the early 1990s, I was driving 262 miles a day roundtrip from L.A. to San Diego.

I was not getting paid because we were trying to start a national show. I had two kids and a wife and not enough money.

I called my mother and whined, “Can you help me out?”

“I have a suggestion for you,” she said before she hung up on me.

“Shut up and keep driving. Nobody died and said you didn’t have to pay your dues. You have to pay them like everyone else. That way when you’re a success you’ll appreciate it. If it’s given to you for free, you’ll never learn to appreciate it. So shut up and keep driving.”

I shut up and kept driving. I finally got the lesson about hard work and that show lasted from 1992 to 2009, when I walked away from talk radio.

It’s too bad the kids in college today — Bernie’s kids — don’t have parents as tough — and smart — as I did.