Nov 16, 2023
Fox News Host PROVEN WRONG By His Own Video In Stunning Mistake
Fox News host completely sinks his own argument as his video evidence, meant to attack protestors calling for a ceasefire outside Democratic HQ, proves his entire point wrong. John Iadarola and Mondale Robinson break it down on The Damage Report.
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There was a big protest outside of the DNC
yesterday in DC, calling for a ceasefire.
And exactly what the nature of that
protest was really depends on who you
talk to.
Because there's a lot of Republicans,
a lot of Democrats, members of the media
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that are working overtime to convince you
that this group of protesters fighting for
a ceasefire between Hamas and
Palestine were violent, that they were out
of control, that they were trying to break
into a building, and they are not going to
allow a complete lack of evidence
of any of that to get in their way.
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And I'm gonna give you an example of this.
But there is so much out there,
here's a little bit of Fox and Friends.
>> Speaker 2: They say that they just
showed up peacefully linked arms in front
of the entrance to the DNC and that
the police just started to attack them.
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As you can see from the video and
from Congressman Brad Sherman, a Democrat,
who says that the protesters attacked
the police and pepper sprayed them, even.
So, there's two sides to this story, but
the video, I think, tells the facts.
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>> Speaker 1: Yeah,
I think the video tells the facts, too.
Are you on Mushrooms?
They say they just locked arms and
got attacked, but
others say they pepper sprayed.
The video you are literally talking
over shows them locking arms and
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being attacked by the cops, or
at least roughed up by the cops.
It does not show, and
I watched that video so many times,
any violence from a protester
towards a member of the police.
It shows people engaging in, yes,
perhaps illegal civil disobedience,
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but the fact that it is disobedient or
that it is illegal does not by
its very nature make it violent.
And you just playing video that doesn't
show what you're saying over and
over again is never going
to make it violent.
We've got a lot more but
I can see how worked up you are, Mondo,
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what do you think?
>> Speaker 3: Well, John,
how are you gonna say and
show a video proving exactly you're wrong
and just do it with a straight face?
Also, those police officers are attacking.
And let me explain.
I've been arrested more than 56 times for
protesting, right?
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Some of them protesting.
[LAUGH] But what police officers know is
once you lock arm and then they start
rocking back and forth, they're inflicting
some serious pains on people joints,
especially those who are smaller or
in the middle.
You have all this force of going back and
forth, and
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you see the officers doing it,
not being synced.
You're creating some serious pressure
on both sides of those arms,
trying to break the links of those chains.
That is absolutely some
type of form of violence.
Yes, civil disobedience is,
I guess the world call it,
illegal, but
it has a rich history in this country.
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We were being the Tea Party, not the one
that we were just talking about, but
the Tea Party that got us free from
Europe was civil disobedience.
So it is absolutely disgusting when we
turn people in this conversation into
what they're doing with this video and
what they were saying.
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And for Democrats to keep
missing the writing on the wall,
one about the ceasefire, but
also about what people feel about this,
is gonna be the end of them for next year.
That red wave they were looking for
in 2022 will drown them in 2024.
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>> Speaker 1: Another
thing to worry about.
But, yeah, everybody watching this,
you saw the video.
We can play it again if you want.
We've got it queued up.
It doesn't show what they're saying.
He's literally talking over it.
And the thing that, God, it just makes
my blood boil, is I know there are so
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many people watching the original
broadcast of that, like, yeah,
that's them being violent.
Look at them roughing up those cops.
Look at that.
And, by the way, all of those Republicans
watching that are like, yeah, it's bad to
rough up cops, it's bad to attack cops.
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They didn't care at all on January 6th,
but all of a sudden the non-roughing up of
the cops is the worst thing
you could possibly do.
So, look, Fox and
Friends is spreading misinformation, but
there's a lot of people
working on that side.
Congressman Brad Sherman, a Democrat,
says, was just evacuated from the DNC
after pro-terrorist,
anti-Israel protesters grew violent,
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pepper-spraying police officers and
attempting to break into the building.
There's no evidence of pepper-spraying,
no evidence of them breaking the building.
They were blocking the exits,
which you're not supposed to do,
that is true, that does not mean
that they were breaking in.
Thankful to the police officers who
stopped them and for helping me and
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my colleagues get out safely.
If they had actually been trying
to break down the doors and
assault congresspeople, I feel safe in
saying we would be against that since we
demonstrated that in
the wake of January 6th.
It doesn't show that, though.
And it's a bipartisan thing.
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You got Marco Rubio saying, all US House
buildings lock down while pro-Hamas
rioters trying to storm the offices
of the Democratic National Committee.
The US Capitol Police are saying
that six were treated for
injuries ranging from minor cuts to
being pepper-sprayed to being punched.
Look, I cannot say that in that big
scrum that nobody threw a punch.
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But it clearly, all of the video evidence
shows that whatever violence there was,
the overwhelming majority of it was police
officers trying to break up the protest.
And the only evidence so far,
and you can see in this picture
that the Justice Democrats put out,
of pepper spraying is from the police.
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And I have a crazy theory.
Maybe I'm a kook,
let me know if you think I am,
I think they pepper-sprayed some people
and some of it wafted back over them and
then all of a sudden,
we got pepper-sprayed, too.
You guys are the ones
with the pepper spray.
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Maybe look in the mirror.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, John, I think also
people are forgetting that pepper spray
does not just stay where you point it at.
It's in the air, wind is blowing,
everybody was affected by it.
This is absolutely ludicrous.
What people don't understand is when we
do civil disobedience, there's plenty
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of steps, plenty of protesters,
legal protesters, legal observers, and
the first thing you were taught is not
to be violent with the police officers.
It goes against the entire
purpose of standing up for
the ceasefire that they're calling for.
So this is baloney, this is weak from the
Democrats that are siding with this, but
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what do we expect?
22 of these people actually voted
to censure Racheed to leave, right?
So I'm not surprised at all that we're
getting this from some of her colleagues.
But it is telling that Republicans go
down on lies for their followers, for
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their supporters, and Democrats can't
even tell the truth about theirs.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're 100% right.
I would just like a little bit
of truth to be told about that.
I mean, there's people trying.
Dave Weigel, journalist, was there.
He put up video, he's trying,
against all odds,
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to get people to accept what
actually happened there.
Said it was a very weird night, many
people sending me incorrect claims from
people who weren't at the protest
to refute the photos and
videos I took at the protest.
He was getting tweets from people saying,
yeah, you think you know
what happened there?
Well, I have first hand accounts.
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He's a first hand account,
his hands were there.
That's what it means.
And I just wanna briefly point out,
being for a ceasefire does not mean that
you're a pro-terrorist or pro-Hamas.
That's not actually how it works.
It also doesn't mean
that you're anti-Israel.
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And as I say, I've said so many times, and
I'm going to keep saying it, when somebody
uses the term pro or anti an entire
country, they think you are an idiot.
They think you are a dumb donkey that
they can manipulate into believing their
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propaganda by implying that you
having a view on a military tactic or
a political strategy means that you
are for or against an entire country,
a nation, a people, a religion.
That is not how it works.
Unless the people saying that
believe that Israel is one thing and
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all Israelis are one thing.
And they all believe
the exact same thing and
no dissent is allowed because
they're not people, they're robots.
That is an incredibly
offensive thing to think.
And it's just as dumb now as it was
back in 2003 when they were telling us
that if you were against the invasion
of Iraq, you were anti-America.
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That is not how it works.
It's propaganda.
Don't get affected by it.
>> Speaker 3: That's powerful, John.
It's powerful and this is why I still
eat French fries and not freedom fries.
>> Speaker 1: Yes, 100%.
By the way, I want to read
a statement from Eva Borgwart,
If Not Now National spokesperson, as they
were involved in the protest saying,
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as protesters engaged in a moral act
of nonviolent civil disobedience
outside of the building,
police charged to protesters and
attacked them without giving any
warning or order to disperse.
The police pepper sprayed us,
pulled them by the hair, and
thrown them down the stairs.
That is actually on the extended video,
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resulting in over 90
injuries to protesters.
Goes on to say, we are horrified to see
elected officials like Brad Sherman,
Marco Rubio, and Speaker Mike Johnson
spread misinformation and
accuse Jewish activists of being
antisemitic, pro-Hamas, especially since
many of our members are grieving Israeli
loved ones who were killed on October 7th.
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It is offensive, hurtful and dangerous.
These leaders should apologize and retract
their dangerous and hurtful statements.
I do not expect that
that is going to happen.
But while we wait, I suppose,
you can go to ceasefiretoday.com for
a variety of different ways that you can
have your voice be heard on this topic.
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These protests are certainly a way,
there's probably protests near you,
feel free to participate in them,
but there's other ways as well.
Mondale, they just lie.
>> Speaker 3: And what happens, John,
in those lies is we're gonna eliminate,
we're gonna otherize those 90 people
who are actually injured, right?
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That will never be mainstream,
that would not be the conversation.
And also there should have been warnings.
You don't just walk up to people and
grab people and snatch them by hair.
All of this is violent.
And I bet you there are videos to show and
support this.
The problem with this is this
country does not care about facts or
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what you can support, it goes by what
people are feeling at this moment.
And here's a tragedy that
no one is talking about.
There are so many people,
these were people who are Israelis,
Jewish people out here protesting and
calling for a ceasefire.
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And they were being attacked
by police officers and
also being said they are pro-Hamas,
just as you just said.
This idea that you can't
exist in a different space,
you have to support Benjamin Netanyahu's
government, who the people of Israel were
already pissed off at anyway and
about to do away with before October 7th.
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Now, if you criticize the same guy,
the same government, BB's government,
then you have a problem,
you are anti-Semitic.
And that is not fair to Israelis.
One, those on how they feel differently
than BB's government, and two,
those who are, like you said, diverse in
thinking about all of the politics of this
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government in general, man.
And I think the biggest part about
this is America sitting silent.
The president of the United States
refusing to say ceasefire is
necessary as we see thousands and
thousands of people.
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It takes 45 minutes, not me and
my stumbling Arabic language,
it takes 45 minutes for
a well spoken Arabic person to say every
child's name that died
before their first birthday.
That's how many kids have died.
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It would take 45 minutes to sit and
read those names.
That's how many kids under
the age of one have died.
And it is ridiculous that we can't
even say that it's time out.
We need a timeout,
a humanity timeout to address
what's happening in Gaza right now.
>> Speaker 1: That's a great point.
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And because things aren't changing,
is it gonna be 46 minutes in a couple
of days, 47 minutes, 48 minutes?
The clock is ticking.
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