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First Journalist Fired for Fake News and Threats Directed at Catholic MAGA Kids
Megan Fox ^ | Janaury 21, 2019 | Megan Fox

Posted on 01/21/2019 9:52:15 PM PST by grundle

It's been a bad week for the mainstream press, first with the Michael Cohen hoax by BuzzFeed and now with the Covington Catholic fake news, where journalists claimed that Catholic students mocked a Native American. That turned out to be untrue. It's safe to say that the spectacle has ruined everyone's last remaining shred of hope that the media would stop being the Enemy of the People. Clearly, that is not going to happen. The bright spot on the horizon is that The Wrap is reporting that at least one of these terrible "journalists" has been fired:

Digital company INE Entertainment has fired a journalist who publicly wished for the death of several Covington Catholic High School students and their parents in a pair of tweets over the weekend. Aside from his job as a post-production supervisor at INE, Erik Abriss is a contributor to New York Media’s pop culture site Vulture. “We were surprised and upset to see the inflammatory and offensive rhetoric used on Erik Abriss’ Twitter account this weekend. He worked with the company in our post-production department and never as a writer,” the company said in a statement to TheWrap on Monday.

Abriss was one of the hundreds of adults on Twitter calling for the deaths of children for the crime of wearing MAGA hats and smiling in public. Lashing out on Twitter, Abriss expressed his deep wish that the children and their parents would die.

"I don’t know what it says about me but I’ve truly lost the ability to articulate the hysterical rage, nausea, and heartache this makes me feel," typed Abriss. "I just want these people to die. Simple as that. Every single one of them. And their parents.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: bloggers; clickbait; covington; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; erikabriss; kentucky; marchforlife; mediawingofthednc; nathanphillips; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; twitter; vulture
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1 posted on 01/21/2019 9:52:15 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

“We were surprised and upset to see the inflammatory and offensive rhetoric used (by our reporting staff).”

The laughometer is off the chart on this one. Has anyone noticed the twitter feeds of say, 90% of all journalists in the mainstream media, let alone the virulent leftie blogs?


2 posted on 01/21/2019 9:56:30 PM PST by GOP Congress
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To: grundle

They couldn’t be doing a much better job of shooting their own feet if they tried.


3 posted on 01/21/2019 10:01:25 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: grundle

He is a Tadpole.

I want to see the Great White Shark so called Journalists hanging by their Tails.


4 posted on 01/21/2019 10:03:03 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: GOP Congress

Once and for all conservatives need to realize that the MSM, including Fox, is not on your side. Republican politicians need to stop pretending like the press is some sort of hot house flower that needs respect and support. They need to be destroyed. Fake news? No, worse than that. Enemy of the people.


5 posted on 01/21/2019 10:03:27 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw
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To: grundle

“typed Abriss. “I just want these people to die. Simple as that. Every single one of them. And their parents.””

Kinda lets you know what they have in mind should they ever seize absolute control of our country doesn’t it! Wanting us to die will be replaced with killing us.

Ayn Rand was right: “There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: Communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”


6 posted on 01/21/2019 10:03:43 PM PST by vette6387 (WQew)
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To: grundle

Liberals on another site refuse to believe their lyin’ eyes and ears and still think those kids need to apologize and then be punished for not moving away or removing their hats when the hate-filled activists engaged them.

It cray-cray.


7 posted on 01/21/2019 10:04:25 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

“I want to see the Great White Shark so called Journalists hanging by their Tails.”

I just wished we’d had the opportunity to execute Walter Cronkite.


8 posted on 01/21/2019 10:05:00 PM PST by vette6387 (WQew)
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To: vette6387

Uncle Walter was a stealth Commie. The new crop of so called Journalists wear their inner Stalin on their sleeves.

Nobody got wise to Uncle Walter until he was six feet under.


9 posted on 01/21/2019 10:11:18 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

You’re right that media isn’t on your side. But you seem to assume that GOP politicians are on your side. What makes you think that? Maybe you’re a billionaire donor?


10 posted on 01/21/2019 10:14:27 PM PST by rintintin (q)
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To: grundle

There comes a time when one would say everyone needs to take a step back and ponder.

With the current media, they would need to take 5 or 10 steps back and ponder.

They are so agenda/narrative driven. They don’t even collect facts. They just take any ‘anonymous source’ made up story and run with it.

The media has become a joke. And the joke is on them.


11 posted on 01/21/2019 10:16:55 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Kickass Conservative

“Nobody got wise to Uncle Walter until he was six feet under.”

For his vile reporting about the Vietnam War he should have been executed, along with the people in our government that got us into it in the first place. The thought that that $hit hole of a country became the “killing field” for 52,000 of our best ( including my cousin) should be cause enough to round up anyone who’s still alive who put us there, and hang them. In hindsight, we haven’t been involved in a war worth fighting since WWII. And I wished we had had Trump as our President when the Korean “conflict” started, because we wouldn’t have had 70 years and three Kims to deal with.


12 posted on 01/21/2019 10:19:39 PM PST by vette6387 (WQew)
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To: grundle

If you fire one another just takes their place. The MSM only hires radical liberals to do their “news” reporting.


13 posted on 01/21/2019 10:21:12 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: vette6387

Yet they still blame Nixon for the War initiated by JFK and kicked into high gear by General LBJ.


14 posted on 01/21/2019 10:23:07 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: bigbob

They are Mao’s Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, only worse.


15 posted on 01/21/2019 10:24:54 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("itYou can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: vette6387
Youthey-Are-After

The President is correct, so be alert out there everybody.

16 posted on 01/21/2019 10:26:44 PM PST by timestax (https://www.flickr.com/)
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To: vette6387

Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.
- P. J. O’Rourke


17 posted on 01/21/2019 10:35:40 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Don’t forget Bob McNamara either.


18 posted on 01/21/2019 10:40:49 PM PST by vette6387 (WQew)
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To: vette6387

>>>Don’t forget Bob McNamara either<<

He was the Muse.


19 posted on 01/21/2019 10:44:37 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
More Twitter fallout, but let's see how soon Twitter suspends the psycho's acc't.

20 posted on 01/21/2019 10:46:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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