Trump is right, the mainstream press is the enemy of the people.
Ben Collins is a reporter for NBC based in New York City.
He decided to tweet this about Monday’s gun rights rally in Virginia (now deleted but text captured).
Reporters covering tomorrow’s white nationalist rally in Virginia, I’m absolutely begging you:
Verify information before you send it out tomorrow, even if it’s a very sensational rumor you heard from a cop.
Don’t become a hero in neo-Nazi propaganda circles with made-up stuff.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 19, 2020
From the getgo, he framed the rally as a white nationalist rally and wanted his fellow reporters to run with that narrative.
He defended his position saying the gun rights rally had been “co-opted
by white nationalist” highlighting the FBI arrests or a handful of people prior to the rally.
Since I have the honor of being retweeted by some people disputing the characterization of the rally in my mentions (many of whom are less polite than Stephen here), here's how this gun rally devolved into being co-opted by white nationalists.https://t.co/jZo2URm9h9
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 19, 2020
He was taken to task by a number of other conservative-leaning journalists for his horseshit assertion, so deleted his original tweet.
But that he put it out there in the first place, staging the narrative before the rally had even begun shows the level of mendacity the mainstream press like NBC is willing to go to, to disparage law-abiding gun owners marching for their rights.
A reporter that lies and makes shit up. Who would have thought. Doing the Dems work for them setting up for Mass arrests or mass shootings by the government