NPR Correspondent Mara Liasson has caused some controversy online after she compared the Allied forces who participated in the D-Day invasion to Antifa, the “terrorist organization” that regularly holds violent demonstrations to protest the government.
“Biggest antifa rally in history,” she tweeted.
Biggest antifa rally in history. https://t.co/ypa46PvYx1
— Mara Liasson (@MaraLiasson) June 6, 2020
The tweet did not go over well at all, especially as Antifa members continue to hold violent protests in major cities across the country after the killing of George Floyd.
Here’s how some people responded to the tweet:
This is such a heartbreakingly inaccurate comparison. I know you know that.
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) June 7, 2020
This is a repugnant tweet, Mara.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 6, 2020
Mara, if Antifa & DDay Troops are the same, then why did they deface their own memorial in DC this week? https://t.co/E9ZJlCLeKv
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 7, 2020
— Tony Bruno (@TonyBrunoShow) June 7, 2020
These are the kind of tweets that should end careers.
— DJ (@DJNYified) June 6, 2020
Comparing the Patriotic Americans who stormed the beaches of Normandy with the Antifa Marxists who are trying to destroy America is absolutely vile.
— John Betts (@JohnFromCranber) June 7, 2020
@BretBaier is this an appropriate take from one of your panelists? It's repulsive, to be frank.
— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) June 6, 2020
she compares those who fought Hitler to the people who burned low income housing to the ground. she compared your grandparents to whomever killed a retired police chief. https://t.co/6p4BMuzR50
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) June 7, 2020
They didn't land in Normandy to beat shop owners with 2x4s.
— mallen2010 (@mallen2010) June 7, 2020
This comparison is obscene. The heroes of D-Day have nothing in common with the Communist scum of Antifa, which had its origins in Stalinism pic.twitter.com/jgjkWBM43o
— Bob Kosch, Easter Worshipper (@KoschBob) June 7, 2020
Defund NPR.
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) June 7, 2020