CNN's Stelter, Blitzer Lament Boarding up of Buildings, Get Smacked With Reality Check on Why It’s Happening

There are reports being filed in states across the country about how business owners are boarding up their buildings in advance of the election in the event there is rioting in the aftermath.

Images from cities like Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and New York City – all Democrat-run cities that have seen a heavy amount of looting and rioting over the last few months – have flooded social media, showing the precautions some businesses are taking in an effort to minimize damage from potential post-election day chaos:

Driving through downtown LA…so many businesses boarded up & in the process of boarding up. Same thing happening in Beverly Hills & Santa Monica in anticipation of election night. All 3 areas hit hard by looters & rioters during George Floyd unrest. pic.twitter.com/wxrfs3ErDN

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) October 30, 2020

Everywhere I walk in NYC I see shops being boarded up… only one side riots when elections don’t go their way. pic.twitter.com/fHICs8yxVx

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) November 1, 2020

DC is boarded up for “peaceful protest” pic.twitter.com/7JGaVKeiKO

— Andreas Hellmann (@ahellmann) November 1, 2020

Stores boarded up in #Boston in Downtown Crossing ahead of the election. Very sad to see. pic.twitter.com/5jwyO1tnhL

— Marlena Baldacci (@MarlenaTV) November 2, 2020

CNN “Situation Room” host Wolf Blitzer shared video Sunday on Twitter that showed an entire city block in Washington, D.C. boarded up. The longtime CNN anchor acted shocked that business owners would feel the need to take such actions – this after the months of Antifa/BLM-led destruction that has taken place in major American cities like Portland, Seattle, D.C. and so on, all of which has been glamorized by CNN:

I never thought I would see so many buildings here in the nation’s capital boarded-up on the eve of a presidential election in anticipation of possible unrest. And it’s not just in DC. It’s happening in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere around the country. So sad! pic.twitter.com/fmPnUBbr8T

— Wolf Blitzer (@wolfblitzer) November 1, 2020

CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter devoted an entire segment Sunday to concerns about violence happening once election results start rolling in, but he absurdly framed it from the perspective of those concerns being primarily about how Trump supporters allegedly wouldn’t take it well and would take to the streets in the event Trump didn’t win:

Stelter: Are businesses in D.C. boarding up their storefronts because Trump is casting doubt on the election? pic.twitter.com/wz2sZcGBWA

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) November 1, 2020

It’s hard to know where to start here, between Blitzer’s feigning of ignorance or Stelter’s predictable gaslighting. But I think we can tackle both at the same time by giving them both a little reality check in terms of what their coverage of the riots has been like over the last several months. If either of them want to understand why DC, L.A., NYC and all the rest are boarding up, all they need to do is to watch some of their own anchors – or themselves – either downplaying the left-wing riots or justifying them in the name of social justice or whatever:

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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) November 1, 2020

This you? pic.twitter.com/UzM28EiFh3

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) November 1, 2020

Talk about lack of awareness. pic.twitter.com/OUR5fhQcuW

— Stacy Hamlet 😃👁👩🏻‍⚕‍ (@happyeyedoc) November 2, 2020

It’s almost as if downplaying the riots has consequences. pic.twitter.com/CKwZznD2MZ

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) November 1, 2020

Hey @wolfblitzer, your network has rained praise upon the riots causing this preparation all year long. https://t.co/yCuKtZiR97

— RestorationPAC (@restorationpac) November 1, 2020

Watching a CNN anchor lament the ongoing riots is like watching Godzilla go, “Oh my gosh, oh no, Tokyo is all ruined now.” https://t.co/sMjGYtfNBZ

— Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) November 1, 2020

None of those businesses are spending money they probably don’t have (thanks to shutdowns) closing down and boarding up their buildings because they think that it’s Trump supporters who are going to be taking to the streets en masse if he loses. They’ve watched the scenes play out on their streets for months of left-wing agitators and rioters harassing residents, looting, rioting, setting buildings on fire, etc.

Those buildings are being boarded up because they know that regardless of what happens on election night – no matter who wins, the Usual Suspects on the left will come up with any excuse to wreak more havoc on innocent people who don’t deserve it. And true to form, CNN will gaslight to infinity and beyond about it when it does.