CNN anchor Chris Cuomo said late Monday that Antifa should not be equated with white supremacists, arguing that “in a clash between hate and those who oppose it, those who oppose it are on the side of right” even if they resort to “petty violence.”
“You attack cops, you slap the media, you are in the wrong, period,” Cuomo said in a commentary on “Cuomo Prime Time.” “But I argue to you tonight all punches are not equal, morally.”
“In the eyes of the law, yes. But in the eyes of good and evil, here’s the argument: If you’re a punk who comes to start trouble in a mask and hurt people, you’re not about any virtuous cause,” he continued.
“But when someone comes to call out bigots and it gets hot, even physical, are they equally wrong as the bigot they’re fighting? I argue no.”
This is an excerpt. Read more at The Hill.
Hey, has any one figured out yet why people don’t trust cnn yet? https://t.co/IdQJa7PUYP
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 14, 2018
Because physical violence isn’t as painful as words and ideas promoting Liberty.
It seems to me from watching the news, the people who are smashing windows and beating up people are those representing the Anitfa. Haven’t seen any white armed people in masks lately – remember this is 2018, not the 1950’s. Chris, keep your perspective and try to be fair. The original march in Charleston wasn’t about hate, it was to protest taking down the statue of Robert E. Lee. Didn’t they have a right to protest something they believe was wrong? You equate everything to hate if conservatives disagree with you. Why don’t you take on Maxine Waters and her reprehensible hate speech? You are a journalist on CNN and follow their dogma which only makes you nothing but a puppet of the left who pull your strings. Really sad.
Those who oppose hate ‘are on the side of right’
NO! I thing those on the right oppose hate!
Dum de dum dems are ALL haters! Hate the USA, the constitution & 1/2 the population (that they’ll admit to- they’re probably closet haters of others- minorities, religions, etc. Everyone but themselves.)
I’ve seen many who strangely agree with Cuomo.. Saying violence towards white supremacists is not only just, but moral.. AND THESE dolts seem to not understand WHY so many people hate the left.
Well we have the Cuomo anti American brother quiniela at work. Brother Chris saying Antifa is moral, and fights fascism, really Chris? Burning, attacking police and folks with Trump hats or even Trump tendencies?? Perhaps his tanking CNN ratings need a spark, an Antifa spark!! And brother Andrew the Governor saying America has never been great!! My God how deaf tone is this guy. The US helping the world defeat Nazism in WWII, then rebuilding Germany and Japan!! Or the US under Reagan policies causing the meltdown of the USSR in 1989? did you miss all of that Andrew?/ Bet your father. former Governor Mario Cuomo a just and Honorable American is turning on his grave listening to his sons!!
There’s been times, i honestly wondered. IF the generation that fought and won WW2, could see into the future, and SEE exactly how borked up things are these days.. Would they have still been so willing to make the sacrifices they did?
Would they have done anything different once they returned?
Those that oppose hate show their faces in public.
Those afraid of being held accountable for their actions hide theirs.
If you’re a punk who comes to start trouble in a mask and hurt people, you’re not about any virtuous cause. Why does that sound like an antifa thug to me?
One of these days they will tangle with the wrong person and end up with a skewered liver or something worse.
Called useful idiots for a reason… Remember that parasites have been around for a long time. Flicking them off like the bugs they are keeps us out of the slime.
When will people finally get tired of these kinds of stupid statements. Hate is OK, violence is OK, whatever you do is completely OK if you agree with CNN.
Nothing you do can possibly be right if you disagree with CNN.
OK, at least they keep it simple there.
At least they are proving what we’ve said for years. THE LEFT will resort to Nazi-esque brownshirt tactics to push their beliefs on everyone else.
Mobs of violent, armed people wearing masks to hide their identity are RARELY if ever on the side of right, especially under our system of government. They’re terrorists, pure and simple
And till the cops start TREATING them like the domestic terrorists they are, imo it won’t stop any time soon.
The Left plays with language constantly. What a given word meant traditionally is not necessarily what they say it means today. What it means today might not even be the meaning of the word tomorrow. “Liberal” is one such word that the Left has hijacked and redefined which is very different from what it used to mean. So many people will say “classical liberal”. The Left are even redefining (at least attempting to, I am not cooperating) “male” and “female”. I remember seeing Cuomo arguing with someone on his CNN show where he asserted that everyone should consider a person female if that person “identifies” as a female even though that person has a penis and no vagina. I said to myself, “Cuomo, you are so full of cr*p. Assuming you are straight, there is no way you would marry or have sex with such a person.” A study came out last week showing exactly that, which I think most people know intuitively.
My point is that in the Left’s mind, what constitutes a “bigot” is fluid. I read an article where Lefties argue that a straight male is a bigot refuses to have sex with a “female” that has no vagina. So by Cuomo’s argument, it is ok to commit physical violence against such a person. Tomorrow, the Left might find more they declare to be bigots. To them, it seems a bigot is anyone that doesn’t subscribe to the Marxism-lite (a.k.a. Progressive) ideology.
I am really tired of the Left trying to turn our society upside down and inside out. “Agree to disagree” is dead with them. If the Left continues to think violence is ok against someone they declare to be a “bigot” (remember, all language is fluid with them), I predict that one day they are going to pick on the wrong person and a major violent incident is going to happen. I hold Cuomo and people like him to be contributors to that violence.
I, too, am tired of the liberal communist trying to turn our society into a socialist society!! Time to take up arms against Satan’s terrorist!!
Yes! It’s PC.
the name cuomo is highly associated with aswype!
Someone should tell ANTIFA that only the Lone Ranger can wear a mask , not criminals.
They are the progeny of the goose stepping Brown shirts of the 1930s. Calling themselves Anti fascist is like calling Communists democrats, liberals, & progressives. It’s like calling CNN a news organization, it’s like calling Obama American, Hillary innocent, Chelsea brilliant, & Mueller, Comey & Mourning Joe unbiased. MAGA, OR ELSE!!!
So Chris is not quite tacitly condoning the violence of Antifa, an organization with a national network and funding. They oppose a a small loosely organized group of racists whose movement would likely dissipate and die without the violent tactics of Antifa and the active support of the media and liberal politicians.
I’d say he’s PROUDLY supporting antifa’s violence…
EHeassler, I’m beginning to suspect that “small, loosely organized group of racists” are a PUT-UP deal! Why are the “white supremacists” so VISIBLE, all of a sudden? Because the Left NEEDS them to justify their OWN lawless violence and anarchy, that’s why! And so the “right-wing extremsts” obligingly appear. I think they’re just MORE Soros employees like Antifa, PRETENDING to be the other side, because they NEED the other side, and if the “other side” won’t cooperate, they’ll just create their own!
AND why is it only 30 or so, seemed to show up to this event??
According to LOTS of liberals, most of us Trump supporters are fellow “white supremacists”. SO if that was the case, shouldn’t it then have meant, at least two more 0’s should have been added to the # of folks that turned up??
This guy is a loon. But then what passes for a journalist today is appalling. Case in point – reporters covering the recent Unite the Right rally in DC had lots of nasty things to say about the dozen or so so-called white supremacists who showed up, and nothing about the huge crowd of AntiFa who were there and actually attacked and beat up several reporters – go figure.
Most of today’s so-called journalists are nothing more than FIFTH COLUMNISTS and should be lined up and executed
That’s going too far- I think lobotomy would be good, Oh, most are probably self-lobotomizing with pot!
I wouldn’t say they should be executed, but stripped of their press credentials is ok..
And on another site, someone was whining about how ‘much it cost’ the city, to protect those 30 or so white supremacists that showed up… 2.6 million or so..
And i replied to him “SO do you think if hundreds, if not thousands of ANTI white supremacists, like antifa hadn’t shown up, to counter protest, the cops would even have had to spend 1% of that budget they allocated for security purposes??”
All i got in reply was silence.
docsuske, they’re probably already lobotomized–I think that is a requirement to be a “news” person on CNN or MSNBC. Isn’t this Cuomo CLOWN living proof of that?
Those who agree with Satan’s terrorist Antifa, are against Jesus Christ the son of the living God!
White supremacists are driven by white supremacy, not hatred, whereas Antifa is driven by pure hatred.
I wonder which side Cuomo would have supported in pre-World War II Germany’s violent clashes between Nazis and communists, both of whom were fighting against their interpretation of hate.
So-called liberal progressives (aka Antifa members/supporters) are neither liberal nor progressive. THEY want to control how YOU speak, think, and act; i.e., how YOU live. But those rules are not for THEM. THEY are ‘do as I say, not as I do’, fascist regressives.
Fascist regressives will intimidate through threats and violence to get what they want you to do. They are also Nazis, National Socialists, who want everything given to them through intimidation by threats and violence as well.
And before someone gets all wound up – even though Oxford defines fascism & Nazism as right wing, examine how the left operates and their desires; strong central government for all facets of daily life; i.e., government dependence; identity politics; disarming the civilian population; and all through violence and intimidation as is occurring now.
This idiot is as stupid as his moron brother. If it weren’t for antifa there would have been no violence. To paraphrase Richard Daly, antifa isn’t there to create violence; antifa is there to preserve violence.
Ironic millions of Germans were fooled into believing Hitler until it was too late. Antifa is so similar not by mistake to resemble ISIS. CNN has destroyed itself and what is going to happen when a real shooting revolution begins?
This is the most insidious public statement I have ever heard made by any government official. If the New York voters had any sense of allegiance to the concept of a functioning democracy, they would cashier this ignorant clown immediately.
If they had any sense, they wouldn’t have voted this trash into office, in the first place.
What Cuomo appears to be missing is the fact that Antifa is the hate group. Their plan and intent is to create violence. The mainstream media is ignoring it as one would expect. I have a hunch that Cuomo has some grey matter that has gone missing.
More like, he fully supports what Antifa’s doing.
It’s really hard for these left wing liberal socialists to accept the fact that antifa is nothing but the black version of the KKK. Ever since the second biggest mistake in American history, that being the liberals getting obama elected president, the blacks believe they are entitled to anything and everything, and all paid for by the working, taxpaying, American citizens. The really biggest mistake was made by Lincoln when he decided to free the blacks. Even that would have been alright had he followed his first thoughts of sending all of them, and their offspring, back to whatever country or Island they, or their parents, originally came from. This country would have been a hell of a lot better off these last 150 years without them. If that comes across as making me a racists, so be it.
The blacks are BLM. All the antifa creeps are white! I have not seen a single black person in their midst. Hmmm . . . they must be RACIST! 😀
As implied by this history, I am now an old man:
In 1960, Kennedy was handed the election by the corrupt Chicago mayor, Richard Daly.
Johnson had blood of thousands of military members on his hands from Vietnam.
Carter mismanaged the nation and failed to stop the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Bill Clinton was slime-ball in Arkansas and added proof in the White House.
Obama was / is a Kenyan-born Moslem Communist.
In spite of these and many other events, I have never resorted to violence in opposition.
Thus, there is absolutely zero justification for left-wing violence.
Carter not only “failed to stop” the Iran Hostage Crisis, elderal, he STARTED the Iran Hostage Crisis when he overthrew the Shah of Iran and left a power vaccum that led to the MAD Mullahs and Ayotollahs taking control of the country. The hostages were taken after all that happened, as a RESULT of the virulently America-hating Ayatollah taking control of the country.
As someone on another site tried to show, to disprove others who claimed “Its us on the right who are the violent ones”, he listed 20 pages worth of posts (the threat title) during obama’s first 2 years. ONLY 2 were hateful towards obama. YET he did a comparison to the first 6 months of trump (1/4th the time), and had over 180 threads bemoaning trump.. THAT right there, shows which side to me, is more full of hate.
Well, that would be great, if there was a SHRED of truth in it, but Cuomo is flat-out LYING in his attempts to give these nasty, mask-wearing little bully COWARDS a pass on their bad behavior!! Antifa is NOT “opposing” hate. They are, in fact, the very PERSONIFICATION of Leftist LOON hatred for ANYBODY who disagrees with them and any THING that goes against their Leftist LOON agenda. And contrary to their name, they FASCIST to the core–the modern-day equivalent of Hitler’s Brownshirt THUGS and apparently following the Brownshirt playbook to the letter! They’re also being funded by that EVIL old NAZI spider George Soros to travel around the country creating anarchy and violently attack anybody they perceive as a “Trump supporter.” They are the SHOCK TROOPS of the FASCIST Left, and apparently have their FULL approval, as I’ve not heard a SINGLE ONE of their Leftist LOON leaders condemn the violence being perpetrated on innocent, unarmed people by these Antifa VERMIN.
As for all the “right-wing” violence that supposedly justifies THEIR violent behavior, THERE IS NONE! In fact, I would go so far as to declare that all the “white supremacists” who are suddenly appearing all over are just MORE Soros employees playing the role of “white supremacists” to promote the “Trump is racist and so are all his supporters” line of BS they are constantly spouting, but have PRECIOUS LITTLE EVIDENCE to prove what they say!
Opposing hate with more hate is always a plan for the extreme left, who seem to think they are incapable of hate.
ANTIFA is driven by hatred and offer only violence. What a loon.
ANTIFA is a contradiction in terms, they wear masks; use violence and intimidation; and say they want to remove “Fascists” from speaking; however, they are using the same tactics as the Brown Shirts of Mussolini, THE FATHER OF FASCISM.
I actually don’t believe they are a contradiction. I FULLY feel they know good and well what they are doing..
gharrod —
The real puppet masters understand very well that they are opposing hate with more hate. They promote the process on purpose. The strategy is called “divide & conquer.”
So let me get this straight Cuomo haters are ok as long as they hate the right people. Like most leftist loons you equivocate on right and wrong, some people can hate others have no right to hate.
Cuomo is saying, I support ANARCHIST because they hate the people who don’t watch my stupid program.
Hate is hate.
The problem is not about being against it. The problem isn’t even about people trying to protect the rights of ‘alternative’ life styles. The problem is that the left drum up ways to try to make the right seem like the villains while they do the thug work in trying to force Americans to think the way they want us to, and they drive America into further poverty. The left always wants to raise the minimum wage:
No, they are not stupid. What happens when you raise the minimum wage? Certain things become harder to afford, and eventually, only the elite can afford what Americans of yesterday thought were basics.
When minimum wage is 3.50 an hour, paid to high school students and pre-college grads for experience, A burger at the restaurant stays at 99 cents. When minimum wage goes up to nearly 8.00 an hour, the burger at the restaurant becomes 2.50 to pay for the service of making it.
The left know very well what they are doing, and just when common people start catching on, then they inflame wars in America that were nearly non-existent or mostly beaten down back in the 1980s or before.
MOST black and white people were getting along without any violence in middle class neighborhoods and at the same middle class jobs from 1990s to 2005.
Enter Obama, and suddenly, you have HATE going on. I’m not saying hate was wiped out, but it was certainly less of a problem than it is now.
antifa doesn’t oppose hate, they DEFINE it. . .
Ain’t that the truth!!!