In an interesting turn of events, the Associated Press no longer appears to believe that staging a riot at a capitol building with the intention of disrupting and diverting legislative proceedings is an insurrection.
In an article entitled "Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege," the AP ran through a list of potential words to describe the events in Washington, DC on that day.
After running through a list of words used to describe January 6, from rally or protest to assault, riot, insurrection, domestic terrorism, coup attempt, they determined that mob, riot, or insurrection were the appropriate terms.
The AP trots out and entirely new definition of the word insurrection to back their idea that storming the capitol and distrupting legislative sessions is absolutely not an insurrection.
"...conservative social media commentators and bloggers have used the word insurrection alongside videos of protesters at state capitols in attempts to equate those demonstrations to the Jan. 6 attack...".
Over the course of two years, the AP revised the definition of the word insurrection to go from "An act or instance of revolting against civil authorities or an established government" to being "a violent uprising that targets government authority."
The truth is that for the AP, one definition of insurrection is admissable when Democrats are undertaking the aggression, but an entirely different standard applies when it's the GOP staging the protest.
No comments:
Post a Comment