Jared Evan
In response to criticism that CNN is continuously praising mass gatherings when they are BLM organised, but condemning Trump campaign rallies for breaking COVID restrictions, the network seriously attempted to argue that the Trump rallies are scientifically more likely to spread the virus than BLM gatherings, Summit News pointed out.
On Wednesday, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh called out CNN’s hypocrisy on this matter, noting that “if people can protest in the streets by the tens of thousands, if people can riot, if people can gamble in casinos, then certainly they can gather peaceably under the First Amendment to hear from the president of the United States.
CNN Newsroom the following day had on “medical analyst” Leana Wen, who happens to be a former Planned Parenthood president, to explain why science means COVID doesn’t affect BLM protests as much as Trump rallies. This is an incredible attempt at explaining away the double standard, which the left has taken regarding the mask issues.
The media has relentlessly attacked Trump supporters for not wearing masks at Trump events and conservative gatherings, while ignoring the protestors who sometimes do wear masks but many times don’t. However protestors do not practice any social distancing. It is clear from watching footage of any BLM protest, event, or riot that not everyone is wearing a mask. With people screaming, dancing and chanting, the mostly young “revolutionaries” are not concerned with the virus, “social distancing” is not occurring at any outdoor street protest.
In the BLM protest peak, thousands were gatherin, often in close distances. In June a NYC “transgendered black lives” rally in Brooklyn, drew upwards of 7000 people, enclosed in a small space near Grand Army Plaza.
