[billethkid]

Originally Posted by Lottoguy

I don't understand how you can call it fake? Did the guy in golf cart not say those words? Hardly fake when you see it and hear in the first 8 seconds of the video. It was also terrible what the rest were saying in that video. I can only imagine what the next one in a couple of months is going to sound like.

The REAL players in the tape...you know the other 99% of parade participants and protestors that behaved getting their point across.

So what is fake.

The bully foul mouthed woman and the sucker who took her bait......DO NOT REPRESENT The Villages or the event......it represented the 1% minority view of a riot instigating, politically driven, inconsiderate woman.
While practicing her 1st amendment right to free speech, intimidating/baiting others trying to do the same thing.

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by Luisa

Typical racist, hateful, one sided news desperately looking for something to belittle us because of who we support. A group had a large “White Trash” banner along side a banner for the opponent on Bailey Trail, across from Lake Miona maybe a month ago. Many Villagers saw this. I WANT THIS ON THE NATIONAL NEWS! This is a racial slur! “White Supremacist” is also a racial slur used by the same people to demean white people for there own “power grab”.

Maybe it's just me, but the image that sticks in my mind is of Biden walking out on that cemetery on Memorial Day, all dressed in black with a black mask over his face and black sun glasses on - straight outta of the Godfather. And the next thing you know all hell is breaking loose.

Now we've got the media associating Trump's image with so called "White Supremacists". If the media has to destroy the reputation of an entire community to make their point, so be it.

The whole thing is very inflammatory and actually quite scary.

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by Gulfcoast

Nah. People aren't stupid. Anyone watching the uncut video, which is what Trump posted, could see that there was stupidity on both sides but that the main instigator was that woman. The media is the one who routinely posts little snippets of videos out of context just to get a rise out of people - so if you are unhappy with their "editing" you should direct your complaints to the ones doing the actual editing.

I'm not going to let the media bully me away from what really seems to be a nice community and a good group of people.

Majority of us are nice people.....there are ignorant and stupid people on both sides. I don't view the media being the bully, in the current climate reporting on anything racist is their responsibility, as is pointing out that Florida is a huge hot spot approaching epicenter status. We can fix both but because we chose not isn't the media's fault...it's ours.

[Luisa]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

What the "news" didn't show you was that the lady in BLM shirt was walking up to each cart and saying " F U, Fing Nazis" Later she is interviewed and tells how it is so hard for her to live in TV.

The media is a complete joke. They don't report stories, they push agendas.

Glad to hear the real truth. I thought there was more to the story, but as usual the media only reports one side. Use to hear black power all the time and that was perfectly acceptable. I saw Mexican flags with Mexican pride written on them in my home town in California and they are sold on Walmart site. Can you imagine the outrage if we had white pride flags. But what is new.

[Luisa]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

What a disgusting human being

My thoughts exactly. The real story needs to be on national news.

[JPFTZG]

I wondered what kind of response the video and the President's tweet would get in TV.
The whole thing was a mess on both sides but the biggest loser will be the reputation of TV . I understand people can have events to support their side but the frequent Trump rallies and signs on their carts are there not only to support the President but to provoke anger on the other side. I think in these very emotional times it would be best if every one backed off on events that will raise tensions. I have been in the Villages for many years and the underlying political atmosphere is not a healthy one. There are many good people in the villages who are being dragged down by events such as this. The Villages reputation has been seriously hurt, how about calming down everybody

[Luisa]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Majority of us are nice people.....there are ignorant and stupid people on both sides. I don't view the media being the bully, in the current climate reporting on anything racist is their responsibility, as is pointing out that Florida is a huge hot spot approaching epicenter status. We can fix both but because we chose not isn't the media's fault...it's ours.

The media is racist.

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by JPFTZG

I wondered what kind of response the video and the President's tweet would get in TV.
The whole thing was a mess on both sides but the biggest loser will be the reputation of TV . I understand people can have events to support their side but the frequent Trump rallies and signs on their carts are there not only to support the President but to provoke anger on the other side. I think in these very emotional times it would be best if every one backed off on events that will raise tensions. I have been in the Villages for many years and the underlying political atmosphere is not a healthy one. There are many good people in the villages who are being dragged down by events such as this. The Villages reputation has been seriously hurt, how about calming down everybody

I guess the question is, will it be o.k. for U.S. citizens to go to campaign rallies? What if Trump or Biden comes to speak at TV? Will we be harassed for going to hear them speak?

When it comes time to vote, will we feel safe doing so? Is it o.k. to have a political bumper sticker on your car or will an angry mob descend on you and scare you away from the polling place.

We need to control ourselves plain and simple. There was nothing wrong with the Trump golf cart parade. There were no offensive banners, no one was shouting ugly things UNTIL the so called "protesters" got in their faces and turned things nasty. This golf cart parade would never have made it into the news at all if that one woman had just stayed home that day.

[GoodLife]

Grantifa, the FU screaming woman, obviously wanted to provoke a response.

I'd love to see somebody walk up to some Black Lives Matter protesters, actual black BLM protesters, and scream in their face "FU ya Fing Nazi"

You might get more than a white power salute.

[Boilerman]

Originally Posted by John_W

If it wasn't for this woman standing in the middle of the street trying to disrupt a peaceful golf cart parade, while she yelled profanities there wouldn't of been any news. The fellow who yelled "White Power" was in retaliation to her yelling 'Where's your Hood. You say nasty things, and you'll get nasty things right back in your face. Can you image wearing a T-Shirt that said, Veterans while riding in your own golf cart, and having this woman jump out in front of you and shouting nasty things right in your face!!

The man in your photo doesn’t appear to be the man who yelled “white power”. If you watch the video, the nasty women doesn’t seem to be around when that happens.

It doesn’t mean the man yelling “white power” wasn’t harassed - it looks like all the trump supporters were being screamed at as they drove by.

[gatorbill1]

I don't know about anyone else, but I would not want to be in the same club as the person who makes such a racist comment. Was he thrown out????

Originally Posted by Michael Charles

This morning I checked my email and there were 6 emails from family and friends wondering what kind of community TV is after they saw the news last night.

Anybody else get some surprising questions from friends and family that know nothing of TV?

So, would anybody like to comment on the question I asked in my original post?

[Gulfcoast]

Originally Posted by Michael Charles

So, would anybody like to comment on my original post?

Tell your friends/family to watch the entire video, send them the link. Context is everything. Don't believe the media spin on things, use your own eyes and good judgement.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by gatorbill1

I don't know about anyone else, but I would not want to be in the same club as the person who makes such a racist comment. Was he thrown out????

Ditto.

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Majority of us are nice people.....there are ignorant and stupid people on both sides. I don't view the media being the bully, in the current climate reporting on anything racist is their responsibility, as is pointing out that Florida is a huge hot spot approaching epicenter status. We can fix both but because we chose not isn't the media's fault...it's ours.

Yours is the best post on this whole thread. Thank you for bringing some commonsense to this hot mess.

Both political sides are at boiling point right now, and it takes very little fora situation like this to boil over into something physical. That is all we need to show the world a bunch of old people rolling around in the dust.