Media Matters picks the wrong screenshot to downplay May Day violence

You guys didn't see what happened in Paris and Portland, huh? https://t.co/qCue7uOaY4

— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) May 2, 2017

As Twitchy told you, some of yesterday’s “peaceful” May Day marches were anything but. But according to the fine folks at Media Matters, all those reports of violence and property destruction were just part of a smear campaign by “right-wing media” to make peaceful demonstrators look bad:

Right-wing media attempt to portray May Day demonstrations as violent anarchy: https://t.co/Iyz4yM9XRZ pic.twitter.com/P1Qk2p0rKg

— Media Matters (@mmfa) May 2, 2017

Thing is, if Media Matters’ goal is to prove the right-wing media wrong, maybe they should try a little harder:

https://twitter.com/GlomarResponder/status/859530207958450177

Whoops.

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