It doesn't get more absurd than Robert Reich's claims that Milo Yiannopoulos and his bawdy band of right-wingers were behind the Berkeley riots.  According to Cal's Professor Reich when he was interviewed by CNN's Don Lemon, he saw, with his own eyes, that the rioters were not Berkeley students.  Reich: I was there for part of last night and I know what I saw and those people were not Berkeley students.   Those were outsiders, agitators[.] ... I've never seen them before[.] ... You know there's rumors that they actually were rightwingers; they were part of a kind of a group that were organized and ready to create the kind of tumult and danger you saw that forced the police to cancel the event.  So ... Donald Trump, when he says Berkeley ... doesn't respect free speech rights, that's a ... complete distortion of the truth. I mean, Berkeley opened its biggest auditorium, uh, to this right-wing Breitbart news...(Read Full Post)