[Tired of Taxes]

The Spin:

The media isn't to blame for getting the story wrong - oh, no, no, no.

This isn't about the media's willingness to demonize a group of teenagers because of MAGA hats. Oh, no, no.

The fault lies with the "pro-Trump internet" that "has, for years, worked to create a media environment . . ." It's all part of a right-wing plan to destroy the media and replace it.

[BenLurkin]

The pinkos who run the so-called “news” media are the victims. Wow.

[Freedom4US]

“Those who shared the video in those first 24 hours, including many conservatives, seemed to feel it was emblematic of the vitriol and racism that drives the worst of American culture.”

WTF are they talking about? The whole thing is complete nonsense. It really has nothing to do with Trump per se. Leftists are completely consumed with hate, rage, and jealousy. I like how they tried to include “conservatives” in this dumpster fire.

Anyone who threw those kids under the bus is no conservative. Paycheck republicans. Frauds.

[bigbob]

People see right through their nonsense.

The media could not be doing a better job of shooting itself in the foot if it actually was trying to do so.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

So the “pro-Trump Internet” surrounded the poor oppressed media in a menacing fashion and smirked?

[Phil DiBasquette]

Ambiguous territory ...sure

[Restless]

So, the media rush to get the story out there without checking to see if it’s true, the facts show their version of events was completely wrong, and we’re bad people for noticing.

[Equine1952]

Destroying the lame stream media? Ok I’ll bite, what’s the downside? Is the this more of the vast right wing conspiracy? Geez, this story is BS.

[thoughtomator]

It ain’t the “Trump Internet” they gotta worry about.

It’s law enforcement and the criminal charges coming down the pike against media figures, as well as libel lawsuits numerous and potent enough to put all the major corporate media organizations out of business.

They have NO idea what can of worms they opened here. This will reverberate for decades.

[Telepathic Intruder]

If a lie doesn’t succeed, cover it up with another lie. They won’t stop lying because they don’t dare tell the truth.

[Vince Ferrer]

If journalists had done their job, this wouldn’t have exploded in their faces. It’s that simple.

[Maris Crane]

To paraphrase a good question:

ARE THERE NO HONEST PEOPLE IN THE MAIN STREAM MEDIS??

Hope springs eternal in the human breast...

[GOPJ]

The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called. - George Orwell - 1984

How would the slugs at the Washington Post have covered this if the teenagers waiting for a bus had been black and verbally attack for wearing 'Hope and Change' tee shirts?

[GOPJ]

The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called. - George Orwell - 1984

How would the slugs at the Washington Post have covered this story if the teenagers waiting for a bus had been black and verbally attack for wearing 'Hope and Change' tee shirts? And if the 'indian' had been a white southerner beating a drum in their faces while a crew behind him yelled every disgusting thing they could think of to anger black teenagers... and I mean 'everything'...

Yeah the slugs at the Washington Post would have condemned the black kids, right? /s

[The Fop]

Yeah, nobody “pounced” on these kids, right? Only Conservatives pounce. And the Liberal media/DNC/celebrity twitter cabal isn’t a well oiled machine....just the Trump media is.

Makes me think of when I was a kid, and kids would say “I know you are, but what am I?”

[Fledermaus]

Damn that vast right wing conspiracy!

[Widget Jr]

The more this story goes on, the more it looks like it was a set up to be a story.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

That outrage came from a parallel universe online, one that has been waiting for a moment like this.

"Waiting for a moment like this"? The WaPo's denial is truly epic. There's absolutely no need to wait - moments like this are created by the MSM on a daily basis. We barely had time to get over the fake-news hysteria about Trump telling Cohen to lie before this latest fake news showed up.

[Electric Graffiti]

The leftist anti-American propaganda media are very close to being brought to mob justice.

[yesthatjallen]

"A viral story spread. The mainstream media rushed to keep up. The Trump Internet pounced."

OR

"An un-vetted video. The mainstream media rushed to judgement and create false narrative based on questionable sources with their own agendas. People of reason strive to present facts"

[Yardstick]

...showing Phillips slowly approach the teens...

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Legacy media weasel moving the goalpost by throwing “slowly” in there. The key fact revealed in the full video is that Phillips approached the group. He waded into the group like he’s done in the past, because that’s his schtick. Doesn’t matter if he waded in fast or slow. Then he proceeded to bang his drum in the kid’s face. Thus the original narrative is overturned and the good guys win. The fact that it took a “parallel media” to bring this to light just shows how necessary the modern new media is.