![]() Israeli Operatives Called Iranian Military Commanders With a Warning: Flee the Country or Die... ![]() DeLauro Explodes, Interrupts Bondi: ‘I Don’t Want to Hear All of Your Filibuster About This’... ![]() 'Please let me know, IMMEDIATELY': Trump alarmed by ex-Russian president using other 'N word' to help Iran ... ![]() Young woman sent boyfriend haunting video just before dying in horror accident...
|
NPR Valorizes Elderly Lefty Protester: 'Crystalizing Moment' for Anti-Trump Movement![]() In Friday’s online NPR piece “The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old veteran John Spitzberg at the Capitol,” Alina Hartounian, who edits and writes for NPR.org from Arizona, played up how a clip went viral on the Left of a protester getting arrested by Capitol Police next to his walker. NPR played up the feisty old man angle to an embarrassing extent. This is a standard stunt: Police tell you not to cross a line, so all the protesters who want to get arrested quickly (or slowly) violate it. The report began in medias res, the reporter striving to tell a compelling story of a sympathetic scene, as opposed to an objective report of a standard arrest. In the video, one officer wheels away John Spitzberg's rollator walker, while the other uses zip ties to bind his hands behind his back. The 87-year-old veteran is unsteady on his feet -- the result of several disabilities he suffers -- as the crowd applauds, cheers and chants, "We won't back down, we won't retreat!" Soon, the cheering turns to jeering and booing and chants of "Shame!" against the officers. The scene has been shared widely across social platforms and viewed millions of times, becoming a crystalizing moment for those protesting the Trump administration. Now back at a
President Trump Delivers Address to the Nation, June 21, 2025 |
![]() Every Church Needs A Second Amendment-Fortified Security Plan... ![]() National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - June 22, 2025... ![]() Greg Abbott Just Said 'NO' to Dan Patrick's War on Weed... ![]() Iran fires at US airbase in Qatar, but all missiles are shot down — as Trump mocks ‘very weak’ retaliation: ‘IT’S TIME FOR PEACE!’...
|
QUESTIONS, SHOOT US AN EMAIL (ATTN: ASHTON O'BRIEN) at DRUDGEREPORTNEWSARCHIVES@GMAIL.COM