No really good reason you should, I suppose. He hasn’t been an active annoyance since the Clinton administration. And since then, he’s been nursing a sinecure at UC Berkeley.
So naturally, he had a theory as to who was really behind the recent unpleasantness…
“I was there for part of last night, and I know what I saw and those people were not Berkeley students,” Reich said.
Yeah? How many bricks did you throw, Bob?
“Those people were outside agitators. I have never seen them before.”
“There’s rumors that they actually were right-wingers. They were a part of a kind of group that was organized and ready to create the kind of tumult and danger you saw that forced the police to cancel the event,” Reich insisted. “So Donald Trump, when he says Berkeley doesn’t respect free speech rights, that’s a complete distortion of the truth.”
The article does not mention where Mr. Reich heard these rumors. He certainly makes bold extrapolations based on them, so I’m sure they’re really strongly-based.
Or rather I would be sure, except…
FIRST ON TRR: A UC Berkeley Rioter Has Been Exposed, & He’s a University Staff Member!
So…not from Breitbart after all?
Actually it’s said that Reich is right about one thing: The ones causing the most damage weren’t UCB students but a bunch of black bloc “anarchists” – and how I hate that they’ve appropriated that word, they’re nothing but nihilists – just looking for another Marin Starbucks to trash. But if you’d yanked off the masks you probably wouldn’t have found many alt-righters.
We live in strange times, indeed.
Sounds (reads) like a guy who has his tinfoil hat on and it’s a little too tight.
There’s over 38.000 students at Berkely. Kinda doubt Reich knows more than a few. And, as pointed out by a Rush caller, at 4′ 10″ what the hell would he have been able to see anyway.
“Outside agitators”
LOL. You gotta love that the apologistas for the New Fascists are using the late Mayor Richard Daley’s playbook. The irony would kill them if they had any intellectual integrity at all.
Cheers
I like Goats – has nothing to do with Reeeiiiccchhh, but hey – #rumors
(I actually enjoy the in-your-face insanity on both sides, makes me feel sane in comparison)
>and how I hate that they’ve appropriated that word, they’re nothing but nihilists
I sympathize. You sometimes do the same with ‘conservatives’.