Breaking down a Reuters article and the leftist media bias

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Exclusive: Proud Boys leader was ‘prolific’ informer for law enforcement

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, has a past as an informer for federal and local law enforcement, repeatedly working undercover for investigators after he was arrested in 2012, according to a former prosecutor and a transcript of a 2014 federal court proceeding obtained by Reuters.

• The headline reads as if he was an informant against the Proud Boys. This first paragraph immediately blows that assertion out of the water. Calling the Proud Boys an extremist group is just more bias hackary. If this is true why haven’t the FBI shut them down? They operate totally out in the open where are all the investigations?

In the Miami hearing, a federal prosecutor, a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and Tarrio’s own lawyer described his undercover work and said he had helped authorities prosecute more than a dozen people in various cases involving drugs, gambling and human smuggling.

Tarrio, in an interview with Reuters Tuesday, denied working undercover or cooperating in cases against others. “I don’t know any of this,” he said, when asked about the transcript. “I don’t recall any of this.”

• This is pretty simple if he did in fact inform on anyone but especially human trafficking (almost exclusively Mexican cartel) he might not want that getting out. Then again it wouldn’t be a shock to find out this is exactly why this information was leaked.

Law-enforcement officials and the court transcript contradict Tarrio’s denial. In a statement to Reuters, the former federal prosecutor in Tarrio’s case, Vanessa Singh Johannes, confirmed that “he cooperated with local and federal law enforcement, to aid in the prosecution of those running other, separate criminal enterprises, ranging from running marijuana grow houses in Miami to operating pharmaceutical fraud schemes.”

• Like I said above someone being named in this sort of situation is wildly inappropriate. Seems to become clear this was a politically motivated and gross move by Johannes. Also notice the mention court transcripts but never mention that they were leaked. Which they must have been as they wouldn’t make an informant especially a “prolific” ones name public. This is just a general beef with “journalism” these days anyway where is the proof. That is a pretty serious claim to only back up with a pull quote from a clearly bias party.

Tarrio, 36, is a high-profile figure who organizes and leads the right-wing Proud Boys in their confrontations with those they believe to be Antifa, short for “anti-fascism,” an amorphous and often violent leftist movement. The Proud Boys were involved in the deadly insurrection at the Capitol January 6.

• This entire paragraph is just a lie. The Proud Boys have never showed up to any AntiFa event. (I will admit they may have had small groups of their people counter protest but never anything organized) I only add that caveat because I don’t know for sure that’s never happened. AntiFa has shown up to many events the Proud Boys were attending. Many times they were asked to show up to provide security in places the police and known to stand down when AntiFa is attacking a conservative event. AntiFa is not an amorphous group there are many investigative journalist who have infiltrated the group and shown it is extremely organized and well-funded.

The records uncovered by Reuters are startling because they show that a leader of a far-right group now under intense scrutiny by law enforcement was previously an active collaborator with criminal investigators.

• This statement is just hyperbolic why is that “startaling”?

Washington police arrested Tarrio in early January when he arrived in the city two days before the Capitol Hill riot. He was charged with possessing two high-capacity rifle magazines, and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a December demonstration by supporters of former President Donald Trump. The D.C. Superior Court ordered him to leave the city pending a court date in June.

• The magazines were unloaded and he didn’t have a gun. There was no explanation further so I won’t weigh in. Arrested for burning a BLM flag that’s funny because BLM burned many American flags in DC and elsewhere and no one was arrested for it.

Though Tarrio did not take part in the Capitol insurrection, at least five Proud Boys members have been charged in the riot. The FBI previously said Tarrio’s earlier arrest was an effort to preempt the events of January 6.

• Don’t have much to add here members of Proud Boys being at the capitol that day isn’t shocking. There are plenty of videos showing the police opening doors and letting people into a public building. No denying there were people acting like idiots and destroying things but I haven’t seen anything where any of these guys were charged with any such crimes. This is playing on emotion plain and simple.

The transcript from 2014 shines a new light on Tarrio’s past connections to law enforcement. During the hearing, the prosecutor and Tarrio’s defense attorney asked a judge to reduce the prison sentence of Tarrio and two co-defendants. They had pleaded guilty in a fraud case related to the relabeling and sale of stolen diabetes test kits.

• Here we are again will them pulling things from transcripts they do not provide. Also there is a concerning lack of “” in this statement. They have the transcipt why not at least provide a quote from it?

The prosecutor said Tarrio’s information had led to the prosecution of 13 people on federal charges in two separate cases, and had helped local authorities investigate a gambling ring.

Tarrio’s then-lawyer Jeffrey Feiler said in court that his client had worked undercover in numerous investigations, one involving the sale of anabolic steroids, another regarding “wholesale prescription narcotics” and a third targeting human smuggling. He said Tarrio helped police uncover three marijuana grow houses, and was a “prolific” cooperator.

• Again this must be from leaked material or they are getting the info hear say. Also if he did in fact do any of this isn’t that a good thing? Something that stands out “prolific” cooperator…..why is only prolific in quotes? Did they pull it out of context?

There is no evidence Tarrio has cooperated with authorities since then. In interviews with Reuters, however, he said that before rallies in various cities, he would let police departments know of the Proud Boys’ plans. It is unclear if this was actually the case. He said he stopped this coordination after December 12 because the D.C. police had cracked down on the group.

• It is pretty well know the Proud Boys are big blue lives matters supporters so what he is saying is most likely true. No matter how much this “journalist” tries to make it sound like he’s lying. The DC police were doing exactly what the NY police did to a few of the Proud Boys that landed a couple of them in jail for long stretches. They were going to show up and only arrest the Proud Boys. (There is security video of the fight in NY two Proud Boys got jumped by a group of AntiFa and ended up winning the fight.)

Tarrio on Tuesday acknowledged that his fraud sentence was reduced, from 30 months to 16 months, but insisted that leniency was provided only because he and his co-defendants helped investigators “clear up” questions about his own case. He said he never helped investigate others.

• Again why would you out yourself as an informant?

That comment contrasts with statements made in court by the prosecutor, his lawyer and the FBI. The judge in the case, Joan A. Lenard, said Tarrio “provided substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of other persons involved in criminal conduct.”

As Trump supporters challenged the Republican’s election loss in often violent demonstrations, Tarrio stood out for his swagger as he led crowds of mostly white Proud Boys in a series of confrontations and street brawls in Washington, D.C., Portland, Oregon, and elsewhere.

• In often violent demonstrations? Again just a flat out lie. Mostly white Proud Boys, two things are funny about this. One Tarrio isn’t white and Two AntiFa is almost exclusively white yet I have never heard of them described this way.

The Proud Boys, founded in 2016, began as a group protesting political correctness and perceived constraints on masculinity. It grew into a group with distinctive colors of yellow and black that embraced street fighting. In September their profile soared when Trump called on them to “Stand back and stand by.” Tarrio, based in Miami, became the national chairman of the group in 2018.

• Embraced street fighting? They were the first and only group to finally hit back and protect (mostly women) conservatives who were constantly being attacked by AntiFa.

In November and December, Tarrio led the Proud Boys through the streets of D.C. after Trump’s loss. Video shows him on December 11 with a bullhorn in front of a large crowd. “To the parasites both in Congress, and in that stolen White House,” he said. “You want a war, you got one!” The crowd roared. The next day Tarrio burned the BLM banner.

• We can pearl clutch and act offended by this rhetoric all we want but I won’t say anything until both sides are held to the same standard. That type of rhetoric is mundane compared to your typical AntiFa or BLM rally. “Pigs in a blanket fry em up like bacon” is one that stands out. Will it lead to bad things happening maybe. But until both sides are held accountable its disarming to be out raged from one side.

Former prosecutor Johannes said she was surprised that the defendant she prosecuted for fraud is now a key player in the violent movement that sought to halt the certification of President Joe Biden.

“I knew that he was a fraudster – but had no reason to know that he was also a domestic terrorist,” she said.

• This appears to be the person who provided all of the information for this article. Does that sound like some who is neutral?

This is Reuters an outlet that the average person would think is pretty unbiased this is the “state” of our media today. Pun intended

What do they do when the story is actually damaging?

Tucker Carlson covered a story on Friday, about freelance reporter Yashar Ali talking about the head of NBC Political programing bullying him on behalf of the DNC.

This was all over a scoop Ali got about the dates of the DNC debates. He even admits in his thread it’s not exactly a huge story or even a damaging one, just a small bit of information he got before anyone else. This is obviously completely inappropriate for a “News” person of any capacity, especially someone who is overseeing all political coverage for two major networks to act. This is pointed out by Ali who is not exactly a conservative by any stretch of the imagination. After seeing this the real question everyone and especially viewers of these networks should be, what do they do when they get a really damaging story against anyone associated with the DNC?

This has been going on for years but was exacerbated by the Obama administration. Most people during that time seemed to think the love affair with the media and Obama was mostly due to his historical significance.  While the major media outlets have almost always run cover for democrats. They normally occasionally would run negative stories, too give the air of some sort of impartiality. Then Obama came along, all the sudden after months of zero negative coverage no one asked any questions. All media followed suite, no late-night comedy skits making fun of Obama, Family Guy wouldn’t even touch him. Does the average democrat ever ask themselves this simple question….”Is it really possible that President Obama never did anything wrong, and is everything that President Trump does really wrong?” If this is even slightly incorrect than almost everything they have seen in mainstream media for the last ten years is at the very least inaccurate.

Now for the real question, if someone as high up in NBC is doing the bidding of the DNC on something as inconsequential as a leak of the primary debate dates…….what do they do when there is something really damaging to the party? You would have to think if they get the story it just gets buried but what happens when one of these freelancers gets one? What sort of threats are thrown at them so they won’t hurt the party? Are they threaten with blacklisting never to be given work again by these major networks? The only conclusion you can honestly come to after this story is, they are probably willing to go to extreme lengths to protect the party. If they are willing to do something this unethical just to save the party from some slight inconvenience.

Unprecedented

This word is used a lot the last few months with regards to our new POTUS. Major news networks, late night comics and social media, have all described many of President Trumps actions as unprecedented. But when you actually look into those claims you will find, there actually is something unprecedented going on, but it is not anything being done by the President. Most of the actions and orders being issued by President Trump to this point are pretty benign. Many of these actions including the “travel ban”, which is being portrayed as some grossly racist action were also implemented by his predecessor without a peep from the media. What is unprecedented is the complete and seemingly blind defiance against the new administration from both the media and sitting politicians.

Anytime a new administration takes office and we see a transition to a new party there is inevitably some push back from the other side. Many times the sitting politicians in the house and senate will use this chance to appear to be “standing up” for their constituents against the new administration. Usually this is done fairly quietly with little to no media coverage. Now in the past if you were a political junky you could defiantly follow these events but you normally had to seek them out. The average American used to go out vote, and then leave the politics up to the politicians. Now there was some hype post-election in ’09 but that didn’t last very long and things went back to normal after a few weeks.

We are a full month into the Trump presidency and other than never hearing about Hillary you would never know the election ended. The attacks have never stopped whether it is the MSM or some actor at an awards ceremony there is just constant bashing of the new POTUS and the people who voted him into office. Maybe the worst part of the whole situation is most of these attacks are based on flat out lies.

The “travel ban”, this is one of the biggest lies that has been told even by politicians. The statement “Muslim ban” was used by more than one politician when talking about the executive action to restrict travel from 7 countries. There is a link below to the executive order you can follow yourself, I did a search on the page and the word Muslim does not show up even once in the order. If you are a politician and you make a statement as inflammatory as accusing the POTUS of excluding entry into the country based on religion, you better know what the hell you are talking about. These leftist want to talk about inflammatory rhetoric they better look in the mirror. When idiots like late night comics or celebrities on social media do this, while it is still stupid and irresponsible. But for politicians this should be career ending. It shows they either didn’t read the order before making a statement or they purposely lied and either one is unacceptable, the MSM should be held to a similar standard.

If you want to see unprecedented look at this…..

There is this blind push back by the media, celebrities and people in the general public that is just flat out scary. Why are these, many of who are very powerful people so against President Trump. Most of them don’t make clear arguments as to what they hate so much, most of which is based in hypothetical scenarios. These scenarios often created off of lies about the Presidents views than anything he has actually said he wants to get done.

Then you have the push back by the public which seems to be mostly from a loud and violent minority. One exception to that which got a lot of participation was the women’s march. Although I believe that was more from the name than it actually being anti President Trump, who doesn’t want women to have equal rights and opportunities? I doubt it would have gotten as much participation had they named it as a counter to The March for life (which it was) that happened the next week. I don’t think the “March for death” would have been attended as well. The signs and interviews at the march were very confusing. Most of the signs didn’t really have anything about policy or rights that women wanted but did not have. Most were just vulgar and seemed to be an excuse to write pussy on a sign in big letters and carry it around in public. Many of the interviews at these rallies were met with people who didn’t seem to know why they were there, well not with any specifics anyway. The most articulate argument that was being made was about the wage gap, which has been debunked on more than one occasion. (Links below)

This lack of understanding seems to be a theme at many of these protest. When someone tries to get a reason from one of the participants it is almost always met with talking points or just “NAZI RACIST FACIST” and no substance. It just seems like if you are going to take time out of your day and risk going to jail you might want to at least have some depth of understanding as to why you are there.

So while there are many unprecedented things going on in the country today, it has a very different source than CNN or MSNBC would have you believe.

Executive order 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/27/executive-order-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states

Wage gap 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-gap_b_2073804.html

http://time.com/3222543/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism/ #5

Blitzkrieg by the left

Starting early on in the Trump campaign this became the apparent strategy by the left. While they have been doing this for years it seems to have been turned up as of late. They will just fire off as many attacks, true or not to try and overwhelm anyone who has a different viewpoint. This usually becomes much more apparent when having a one on one conversation with someone. Many people on the left now a days will just throw out as many talking points as they can without the ability to back any of them up. You want to discuss one topic the second they can’t defend their point they will start talking about 10 other things so the conversation never goes into any depth.  This is also why many of these conversations devolve into just being called racist or something that ends in phobic.

One good public example of this is Tucker Carlson, he has become a champion of the right and it’s for one simple reason. He forces his guests to stay on topic, he never allows them to pull the conversation to some unrelated subject. This many times results in a meltdown or some sort of fit thrown by the guest because they can’t defend their position.

Many of these people can’t handle when someone questions their point of view, for 8 years and probably longer they just fired off their opions with no worry that anyone would question them. This has manifested into lazy and inept journalist who seem to be more interested in writing about their own thoughts and feelings rather than reporting facts. Facts actually seem to be the enemy of many of these people, just today there was a meltdown that President Trump will be releasing a monthly report with crimes committed by illegal immigrants. Why would that upset you unless you know there is an illegal immigrant crime problem? If you know that is the case why are you, not only saying otherwise but also calling anyone who believes so a racist?

Why the left and the media are in panic mode

The left and the media have been in panic mode for a while now. They started to get more wild and bent out of shape the closer we got to the election. Making completely baseless claims about Trump and his past, stirring up race issues then accusing Trump of being the cause. Even going as far as sending people to Trump rallies and having them act violent. Then the media claim it was Trump and his supporters who were at fault. The question is why? Why are the media the left and even some Republican politicians so hell bent on destroying Trump? They say it’s because he’s divisive and racist and just going to be horrible for the country. But is that really the case?

It seems more likely that they are afraid he might actually do some good.  If you think about it most of Trumps campaign was based on telling people he was going to correct a lot of issues. Issues that have been created by both parties. He didn’t run a campaign as a Republican or a Democrat he ran as a fixer. There was no promise to prop up a party the promise was to lift up America. It was almost more like he was in an interview and he was telling Americans how he could fix their company. He wasn’t just trying to appeal to his parties base, he was talking to everyone.

This reminds me of when I have discussed politics with my friends, we don’t agree on most things but the one thing we do agree on is we want what’s best for everyone. When it comes down too it most people don’t just want what’s best for themselves or certain groups, they would like to see everyone succeed. It is only when politicians and the media get involved that people devolve into these specific interest groups. And this division is only increased when the media paints the other side as evil. This is how you get people in cities like Baltimore, Chicago and Detroit to constantly elect people from the same party making the same or similar promises.

Trump wasn’t saying the same tired old things that we are used to hearing from politicians. This is why the media bent over backwards to stop people from listening to him. Most people I know who can’t stand Trump and think he is going to be this horrible dictator, didn’t listen to a single one of his speeches. Myself included, I was on the fence about Trump even after he won the candidacy until I heard him speak. It was different he was talking about things I never heard a Republican talk about, things I feel are important.

And this is exactly why the media is in panic mode. If Trump does just some of what he talked about wanting to do, the politician as we know it is dead in the water. This is why you see the media and politicians working together trying to undermine him. They are trying to cling to their one party system where they divide the country up into little groups and pander accordingly.

President Trump took away our emotions

One very overlooked aspect of the Trump effect and something that slingshot him to the White House was, he removed the emotion from the argument. One deeply rooted tactic of the left was to use what their entire ideology is based on against people on the right, emotion. They will call people bigot, racist, misogynist and so on, this is effective for two reasons. One it gets people on the left worked up against whomever it is they are attacking. It also immediately puts the person that is being attacked on the defensive and turns the debate into an emotional battle. The interesting part about this tactic is it usually only works if the person who is being attacked isn’t guilty of the accusation. Most people who truly are racist or misogynistic wouldn’t be bother this, but against someone who is not and also dislikes those ideologies it is extremely effective.

When President Trump was being attacked on a daily basis with these usually tactics he just stayed on message. He rarely if ever acknowledged the attacks. Because of that he was accused of not being a “polished” politician. This need to be “polished” is exactly why the right couldn’t win the last two elections. Since the campaign by Obama was run mostly on if you attack him at all we will call you a racist, the right never stayed on message. They were constantly backtracking and trying to defend themselves against these claims no matter how baseless they may have been. So not only did this empower the base of the left but it made people on the right feel like their party was out of sync.

Trump was able to defeat this tactic by staying on message no matter what attacks were thrown at him. By doing this he also empowered a lot of people who used to shy away from sharing their opinions and the facts that created those opinions.  No longer was the left able to shut people down by just calling them names. President Trump made it clear that someone calling you something doesn’t make it so, if you stay on message they can’t shut you up. By removing the emotion and just talking about the facts their tactic becomes useless.

This lack of “polish” not only got him to the White House but it empowered a lot of people who felt voiceless. This is not just white males like the media would have you believe. It is all enemies of the left such as black conservatives. Women who don’t feed into the feminist movement. Legal immigrants who came to America to have a better life for themselves and their children. All of these groups who are supposed to be protected by the left but get attacked the first time they refuse to fall in line. This is who President Trump gave a voice during his campaign, and is why he won the White House.