Owen Gregorian

Part of it was that they kind of desensitized people to that sort of scenario.

That they made it seem like, okay, yeah, it's just another Antifa Proud Boys thing.

These guys like to go at it with each other, so...

You know, who cares?

But I think, you know, the ones that rise above that and become this sticky story that becomes a huge story and the media won't let it go are the ones where they're successful in getting someone to do something.

And I think that's what happened with this person that hit this person with a car and killed them, which turned it into more of like a George Floyd-like thing.

I mean, I think it was before George Floyd, right?

But it was that sort of thing all of a sudden because somebody died.

And so now it was a huge story.

I would connect it to the ice shooting that's going on now in the news, that it's going over and over again in the news cycle.

And it probably never would have had any stickiness to it unless someone died.

There's two other things I would add to this.

One is, you know, when you question, like, why was the media harping on this so much?

And the way I think about that is that I think it goes all the way back to Watergate.

You know, if you remember, or anybody's old enough to remember Watergate, where they took down Nixon...

The media did that by having this drip, drip, drip.

Every day there was a new story.

They kept ratcheting it.

You know, walls are closing in sort of thing.

And they learned through that experience that if they do it the right way, the media could take down a president because that's what happened with Nixon.