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Prominent black conservatives are seeing how the mainstream media are using the death of George Floyd  — to portray America as racist, to vilify all police officers, to force the mantle of victimhood onto black Americans — and they are calling foul.

A bizarre op-ed at the Washington Post on Thursday commanded Hollywood to cease making movies and television shows about the police, because such entertainment is somehow empowering cops like the one accused of killing George Floyd and preventing Americans from understanding just how awful the police really are.

The team of Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) is crying foul as the New York Times blocks her book from appearing on its bestseller list while the senator is up for re-election despite having sold more copies than other books on the list.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry objected on Friday to Facebook’s policy that state-controlled media organizations will now be labeled as such. Authoritarian regimes such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea invariably have state-run media, which they would prefer unwitting readers to see as credible independent news organizations.

Social media giant Facebook reportedly plans to block ads from state-controlled media entities such as China’s People’s Daily. The company will also add “state-backed” label to regular posts by foreign state-controlled media.

The president spoke about the death of Floyd during a press conference on Friday about the unexpectedly good economic and job numbers.

Amazon has reversed its refusal to publish an e-book from author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, a prominent critic of the ongoing Chinese virus lockdowns.

A member of the White House Press Corps shouted a question at President Donald Trump during a Rose Garden press conference on Friday morning: “How would a better economy have protected George Floyd?”

The NYT columnist and economist Paul Krugman made the unsubstantiated claim that the great May jobs numbers might be “cooked.” He later apologized while still downplaying the record gains.

Friday, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough called into question Republicans’ “silence” when it comes to speaking out against President Donald Trump.

LOS ANGELES — Democrats have begun embracing calls to “defund” or even “abolish” police departments. But a new YouGov poll shows that only 16% of Americans approve of that — including just 33% of black Americans.

The New York Times is in disarray after its editorial page published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) that upset its readers and its own staff by calling for using the military to help restore order inside American cities gripped by violence, looting, and crime after the death of George Floyd.

“The media would destroy black America if it would get rid of Donald Trump,” said Joel Pollak to Dennis Prager on Thursday.

Zack Beauchamp, senior correspondent for left-wing “explainer” website Vox.com, apologized Thursday for criticizing calls by Democrats and Black Lives Matter activists to “abolish the police.”

Thursday, on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh rejected former Defense Secretary James Mattis’ insistence that emphasis is placed on unity by President Donald Trump at the moment of crisis in America.

As the world marks the 31st anniversary of China’s massacre of thousands of students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Democrats – including leadership in the House and Senate – and the left-wing media are comparing that deadly day to President Donald Trump’s visit on Monday to St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Amazon, the world’s dominant online distributor of books and e-books and the world’s leading online retailer, is censoring a book about the Chinese virus from lockdown critic and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson. Jeff Bezos and company gave Berenson a suggestion on how to adjust his approach: “Please consider removing references to COVID-19 for this book.”

Thursday on Fox News, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) responded to the backlash from within The New York Times for the paper’s decision to publish an editorial promoting the use of the Insurrection Act to quell the civil unrest throughout the country tied to the death of George Floyd.

CNN is teaming up with the perennial children’s program “Sesame Street” in a virtual town hall that will “address racism” in America in the wake of the police involved death of George Floyd. 

A number of prominent Catholics have reacted strongly to a statement by Washington, DC, Archbishop Wilton Gregory denouncing President Trump for visiting a shrine to Pope John Paul II.

When the New York Times is repeatedly bullied into rewriting headlines and forced to beg forgiveness for publishing Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) op-ed, it’s no longer a newspaper.

The New York Times faced a public backlash from its own newsroom on Wednesday after the paper published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) calling for the military to be used to quell nationwide rioting if necessary.

Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson led off his Wednesday broadcast with a warning against giving in to the violent mobs associated with nationwide protests underway in the name of the death of George Floyd.

Wednesday on MSNBC, Washington Post columnist George Will predicted President Donald Trump would lose in 2020, and that voters will forget him “fairly fast.”

“Peaceful protest” is only truly peaceful when it recognizes that others in the community have equal rights — not when it shuts down a city.

Top Republicans in the Senate are behind President Donald Trump’s effort to quell the violence and looting in the nation’s capital.

Conservative radio host and litigator Mark Levin declared Wednesday morning that former Vice President Joe Biden was “unfit to be president,” following Biden’s speech in Tuesday about the protests over the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Far-left Twitter, which has refused to take down posts on its platform coordinating looting in American cities, as well as posts encouraging riots and violence, has now censored conservative author and commentator Michelle Malkin for supporting the use of force against violent criminals.

President Donald Trump in an interview on Wednesday defended his decision to visit a burned church next to the White House on Monday, despite police forcing protesters out of Lafayette Park.

“Maybe they didn’t have tear gas, I don’t know,” Nancy Pelosi said, describing the clearing of Lafayette Park on Monday.

Wednesday, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough urged Defense Secretary Mark Esper to resign if he was used as a “political plot” when law enforcement officers reportedly used force to move protesters from Lafayette Square on Monday for President Donald Trump’s photo-op at St. John’s Church.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo went out of his way to encourage more riots in Democrat-run cities by arguing nowhere is it written “protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.”

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson dismissed the nation was in the midst of a race war and argued the fault lines were instead along class divisions.

Nickelodeon aired eight minutes and 46 seconds with the message “I CAN’T BREATHE” in white letters emblazoned across a black screen. The message’s length matches the purported amount of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin placed his knee on George Floyd’s neck. 

CNNLOL’s Sara Sidner, who identifies as a “journalist,” encouraged and championed rioting in Democrat-run cities on Sunday.