Portland, Oregon, has been making national headlines a lot in recent weeks as its ICE facility continues to be besieged by Antifa-led agitators who are hellbent on thwarting the Trump administration's illegal immigration agenda by any means necessary.

It got so bad there in September, in fact, that President Trump ordered the Oregon National Guard to step in to try and quell the harassment and violence, an order that is, of course, now playing out in the judicial system, with entirely predictable results so far.

In the midst of this, we've seen the feckless "leadership" of Oregon Democrats on full display, with Sen. Ron Wyden proclaiming in late September that Trump was "launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown," as though the conflict was not already provoked - by Antifa.

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Sadly, Wyden is still at it, this time taking aim at the on-the-ground journalists who have been exposing the truth about Antifa, and who have had a front row seat to their training and tactics, oftentimes at the risk to their personal safety.

On Monday, Wyden responded to a tweet from The Post Millennial's Katie Daviscourt, which contained a picture of both Daviscourt and independent Oregon journalist C.K. Bouferrache standing on top of the ICE Portland facility. 

In his remarks, Wyden sneered, "Assuming actual local news outlets like OPB, The Oregonian, Willamette Week, Oregon Capital Chronicle, the Portland Mercury, KATU, KOIN, KGW, KPTV & others would get the same rooftop reporting access as these right-wing influencers."

Not surprisingly, his statement did not go over well with the reporters who have done the hard work that so many in the Oregon media haven't. 

Here's what Daviscourt had to say:

1. I’m not an influencer.

2. I’m a full-time employed journalist who has been covering the occupation for the past 4 months, mostly by myself with the exception of another independent photojournalist @hunnybadgermom.

If local news had any ground presence over the last four months, they would have also been invited to embed with ICE/FPS.

Where have they been?

TPM's senior editor, Andy Ngo, who has been covering Antifa in the northwest for years with the battle scars to prove it, also responded accordingly:

The outlets you name haven’t even bothered to step outside at night up close with a camera, unlike the two women you’re smearing — women who actually put themselves in danger to document what’s happening. You showed zero care when they were assaulted. Instead, you’re parroting Antifa’s slander by dismissing them as “right-wing influencers.” You and your family are a disgrace.

As did Bouferrache:

TPUSA's Savanah Hernandez, who has also covered some of the "protests," also chimed in:

Instead of insulting them by insinuating that they are not "actual" journalists, just merely "influencers" who are there to take a picture, maybe Wyden should take Ngo up on his offer of spending an evening on the ground with them as they document the nefarious activities that the Portland PD stands by and watches instead of acting upon.

But then that would completely destroy the carefully crafted Democrat/media narrative of Portland being a "peaceful" and safe place, and we can't have that, can we?

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