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Showing Original Post only (View all)de Blasio Fires Back: "They my friend are not the majority. Stop portraying them as the majority." [View all]
Bill de Blasio shows how Liberals should take control of Right Wing planted reportersWhat you managed to do is pull up the few who do not represent the majority, who are saying unacceptable things, who shouldn't be saying those things. And some who actually physically attack police officers which I said is absolutely unacceptable.
...yes there are some bad people who say inappropriate things. There are some people who say hateful things. They have no place in these protests. They are not what I am talking about. I am talking about the vast majority of New Yorkers and vast majority of Americans who believe in peaceful democratic process. I dont care where they are in the political spectrum. The vast majority of our citizens are good and decent people who do not say negative things, racist things nasty things to police, threatening things to police.
The few who want conflicts attempt that and unfortunately so many times you guys enable that. I don't see reports on the many decent good people. I don't see reports on the everyday cops who do the exemplary thing and hold the line and show restraint and discipline no matter what invective hurled at them."
The reporter then attempted to interrupt Mayor as if everything the mayor said went unsaid. The Mayor slammed back.
You know what, I am telling you all over again thats how you want to portray the world but we know a different reality," said Bill de Blasio. "There are some people who do that. It's wrong it's wrong they shouldn't do that. It's immoral It's wrong its nasty. Its negative. They should not do that. But they my friend are not the majority. Stop portraying them as the majority."
More good politicians must challenge the media when they are attempting to steer the narrative instead of reporting the events. Too many times they have become but the tool of one side of the discourse at the detriment of us all.
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de Blasio Fires Back: "They my friend are not the majority. Stop portraying them as the majority." [View all]
kpete
Dec 2014
OP
Can the mayor fire those cops and this filthy prick who goes on the tv blaming
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#1
reporter? dont know what you are talking about, I was talking about the cops
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#8
If someone had shot the mayor while they had their back turned, would they have been exercising
jtuck004
Dec 2014
#19
The white citizens pay most of the taxes, and they could shut this down any time. And they would if
jtuck004
Dec 2014
#32
No, I'm just not making excuses like you are. And no longer wasting my time reading them. n/t
jtuck004
Dec 2014
#37
Who is kidding whom? They operate on our tax money. If those were white bodies on those slabs
jtuck004
Dec 2014
#36
Those are tabloid rags, unfortunately people buy them. Murdoch's Post is a lying,
sabrina 1
Dec 2014
#42
I really want people to remember that Bill de Blasio was blamed for police deaths by virtue of being
Cha
Dec 2014
#5