NBC Applauds Film Hailing Violent Left-Wing Rioters as Heroes

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In just another example of blatant media hypocrisy, on NBC’s 3rd Hour Today show Friday, co-host Al Roker enthusiastically talked to the cast of the Netflix film The Trial of the Chicago 7, which lionizes the far-left radicals who incited the violent 1968 riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Amazingly, the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot never came up in the discussion, even as the ’68 rioters were given glowing labels like “iconic” and “hero.”