ABC Radio “News” featured this story an hour ago. “Teens in MAGA hats confronted “Native American” and may be subject to discipline up to expulsion.” I guess smiling at a whack job beating a drum in your face constitutes “confrontation”.
You would think after the BuzzFeed fiasco, they’d be a bit more careful. The full video showing what really happened has been everywhere for close to a day now.
CNN still running with the original reporting as of a couple hours ago
taxpayer-funded Australian ABC not only reporting it on radio, but documenting it as well. they jump on every anti-Trump story without checking:
20 Jan: ABC: Teenagers in MAGA caps stare down native American protester during Washington DC rally
by AP/ABC
The man playing the drum was identified by the “Indian Country Today” website as Nathan Phillips, an Omaha elder and Vietnam veteran who holds an annual ceremony honouring native American veterans at Arlington National Cemetery.
“When I was there singing, I heard them saying ‘Build that wall, build that wall,’” Mr Phillips said, as he wiped away tears in a video posted on Instagram...
He said he wished the group would put their energy into “making this country really great”.
Mr Phillips later told the Washington Post he was thinking about his dead wife and the struggles faced by indigenous communities while being taunted by the high school students.
He said he “felt like the spirit was talking through me”...
Congresswoman Deb Haaland of New Mexico, who had been at the rally earlier in the day, sharply criticised what she called a display of “blatant hate, disrespect, and intolerance.”
“This veteran put his life on the line for our country,” she tweeted Saturday. “Heartbreaking.”...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-20/boys-in-maga-caps-stare-down-native-american-protester/10730044
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