Chelly Boufferache on Right-Wing Propagandists, Left-Wing TryHards, and the Serial Abuse of the Protest Narrative

Chelly Boufferache on Right-Wing Propagandists, Left-Wing TryHards, and the Serial Abuse of the Protest Narrative

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November 4, 2025 · 1h 21m

About this episode

Chelly Boufferache discusses her experiences during the George Floyd/BLM protests and the media's portrayal of the events.

Remember 2020, when the narrative about the George Floyd/BLM protests became so much Silly Putty in the hands of the media, don’t believe your lyin’ eyes and all that? Chelly Boufferache, known on social media as Hunnybadgermom , remembers it well, both as a longtime Portland resident distressed by what was happening to a city she loved, and as a photographer/videographer watching the chaos night after night after night. (NB: I shot the three videos below; any crappy quality is mine!) Chelly and I reported together many of those nights. We were tear-gassed, had our equipment swiped, were surrounded by people in black bloc hissing, “We know who you are.” We watched the federal building be molested over and over and over. We saw an untold number dumpsters on fire, marched with young men toting rifles, kicked through a metric ton of broken glass. We chronicled the LARPing as it turned to murder , and saw people celebrate that murder . It was an electric time to be reporting, the friction partially due to the pushback both Chelly and I received for telling the story as we found it, which was that nearly all the violence at that time was coming from the left, which, with a heavy…

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Guest: Chelly Boufferache

Topics covered

  • media narrative
  • protests
  • political commentary
  • law and order
  • left vs right
  • Portland

Keywords

  • protests
  • media
  • narrative
  • Portland
  • violence
  • law and order
  • politics
  • George Floyd
  • BLM

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Places: Portland

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