If you checked in with any fake news outlet last week, then you know that January 20th was going to be “Chaos in Richmond.” Carnage was on the menu since “extremists” were going to descend on the Virginia state capitol and protest.
MSM had hyped the second amendment protest event as a massive assembly of “right wing militia groups.” Hoping to inflame racial tensions around the MLK holiday, the MSM reported that “white separatists” and neo Nazis would be squaring-off against Virginia law enforcement.
Further hyping the “clear and present danger” Governor Ralph “Blackface” Northam declared a temporary state of emergency ahead of the rally. The left and their media allies were determined to set the narrative that having so many people who support the Second Amendment in one place could only lead to death and destruction.
What was the reality? Over 22,000 people attended the rally. It was peaceful with no arrests. 22,0000 people with guns and no shootings or crime.
What happened? What happened was that Americans who believe in the rule of law showed up. This wasn’t a left-wing protest rally where rioting is the theme of the day as we saw in Berkeley a couple of years back. It wasn’t those Democratic foot soldiers Antifa going around beating up people as happens in certain cities in the western parts of our country. It wasn’t Black Lives Matter looting and pillaging as has happened in multiple cities across the country (Ferguson, Baltimore, etc.).
Now, it wasn’t that the MSM didn’t try to frame a story of imminent danger here. Curtis Houck from the Media Research Center assembled a montage of CNN and MSNBC media reports from the morning reports from CNN and MSNBC to highlight how the national media attempted to set the narrative. It was almost as if they were trying to instigate an incident.
#NEW MONTAGE from me showing how @CNN and @MSNBC spent their mornings hyping fears that "white nationalists" and "extremists" would cause "violence" at #VirginiaRally for the #2A like in 2017 at Charlottesville #LobbyDay2020 pic.twitter.com/wR91mMPfmR
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 20, 2020
Rather than being a group of white supremacists that the media hoped to entice to the rally, this was a diverse group of Americans peacefully protesting the government trying to take away their constitutional rights. This reminded one of the early Tea Party rallies in 2010. The crowd was friendly, upbeat and courteous. There was a lot of good humor, some funny posters and people taking lots of photos.
This rally was a victory for Americans. This was an epic fail on the part of the media. Is the media losing their ability to create chaos through their reporting?