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Journalists and Celebs Rush to Delete Tweets Slamming MAGA-Hat Kids
Mediaite ^ | January 21 2019 | Pardes Seleh

Posted on 01/21/2019 11:15:02 AM PST by LouieFisk

Over the past 24 hours, journalists and public figures on Twitter have deleted previous posts slamming a group of MAGA hat-wearing teens for allegedly taunting a Native American vet, after more footage was released disputing the initial story. From CNN’s Jake Tapper to Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, many on the internet are sharing a fuller explanation of the initial viral story. Others, however, are very subtly just using the ‘delete’ button.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: american; catholic; covington; hollywood; kids; maga; media; native; theleft
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To: Fido969

Oh, no. They’ll fall over each other to forgive one another.


61 posted on 01/21/2019 1:07:08 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Karma_Sherab

And boy how the Times are still “a changing”—the truth, that is!


62 posted on 01/21/2019 1:09:20 PM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: luvbach1
I saw the video with the old Indian with a tomtom getting in the face of the MAGA-hatted, smiling teen. I saw no hint of taunting; rather a benign and tolerant smile.

I thought the same thing. The original photo didn't support the charge of "taunting."

Media and lefties only saw taunting because their perception is warped by their white-hot hatred of Trump and conservatives.

63 posted on 01/21/2019 1:14:37 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: central_va

“I should have said libel not slander. I get those confused.”

Most people these days wouldn’t know the diff - and, on Twitter, it could just as well be viewed as both anyway.


64 posted on 01/21/2019 1:23:56 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Kickass Conservative

“Gee, I was starting to become a big Scott Adams fan.”

Yeah. Et tu, Scott?


65 posted on 01/21/2019 1:24:11 PM PST by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: LouieFisk

It’s ok. They are minors, they are not public figures by any stretch of the imagination, and the internet is forever.


66 posted on 01/21/2019 1:25:34 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: LouieFisk

It’s ok. They are minors, they are not public figures by any stretch of the imagination, and the internet is forever.


67 posted on 01/21/2019 1:26:51 PM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: LouieFisk

Too bad screen capture lives forever.


68 posted on 01/21/2019 1:31:56 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: BraveMan
Nixon stopped the draft in 1974.




69 posted on 01/21/2019 1:35:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Apparently there are lawyers getting ready to do just that. There is one boy who was named improperly who is getting death threats.


70 posted on 01/21/2019 1:39:21 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: LouieFisk

and let us not forget Jamie Lee Curtis... Her breasts in the one shot defines genetic perfection. just sayin...


71 posted on 01/21/2019 1:44:26 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: LouieFisk

I hope the parents sue every single one of these louts right into tomorrow for racemongering and encouraging violence towards minors.


72 posted on 01/21/2019 2:12:52 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: LouieFisk; All

These kids are being threatened with murder - being burned alive in their school etc. And this young man is particularly in danger as the cretins have named him,

Cache these 3 links and make them go viral -

Demand the FBI and DOJ investigate this puke dj who is twittering for murder and TWITTER who says ‘no problem’

link one: The WHOLE story (the media did not make a mistake, they deliberately skewed the story and need to be held accontable - the FCC?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ28BH0WUM8&fbclid=IwAR0SZYvkZ-1tUx_JfvOZ0sCCvmywEYzdybLqxe5T8sf3kP7teaWWYGHFeL0

Link 2: DJ, on Twitter, (and Twitter saying no problem, calling for shooting these kids, for burning them alive in their school - FBI? DOJ?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/los-angeles-dj-calls-for-covington-catholic-school-to-be-burned-down-with-kids-locked-inside-twitter-says-he-didnt-violate-rules/?fbclid=IwAR2TPIRr9pQ_bkaeK_eLJJakRUVWwFIumB2W3spTgshAp4nvAyQ1B-j61AI

3: the young man’s’ reasoned response

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzWo8EW7qNo


73 posted on 01/21/2019 2:15:51 PM PST by maine-iac7 ( Christian is as Christian does mt-h)
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To: papertyger

“Me thinks the liberal thinkers will be hard to find when bullets start flying.”
“Thus underscoring the importance of good detective work... ;-) “

And current enemies lists.


74 posted on 01/21/2019 2:59:02 PM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: LouieFisk

All of these outlets need to lawyer up. There’s a s**tstorm coming and a lot of money is available for the taking.

CNN ran with their nonsense yesterday well after most of the other news outlets backed down. Then they began to subtly change their text until today where the headline reads: “A new video shows a different side of the encounter between a Native American elder and teens in MAGA hats”

But the damage by then had been done.

It doesn’t matter if you change your story, apologize, or say that things were different with the “available information at the time”. They put these kids in danger for several days, and many of the lunatics who first got their lies haven’t heard or seen any of the “retractions” (if you can call them that).

I’m hoping a smart bunch of lawyers downloaded all of the earlier text from these outlets. It’s time to make the news media and mentally unstable celebrities pay for their hatred.


75 posted on 01/21/2019 3:10:38 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: LouieFisk

I love watching these asshats eating a heapin’ helping of crow.


76 posted on 01/21/2019 3:16:05 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

“I love watching these asshats eating a heapin’ helping of crow.”

Me, too!heh.
Although it seems as if it may be a pipe dream, I hope they would learn a lesson from this. Since even some good people on “our side” even jumped the gun on this, I’d hope such also have learned the lesson by now.


77 posted on 01/21/2019 3:20:26 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: windsorknot
eatCrow
78 posted on 01/21/2019 3:23:43 PM PST by timestax
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To: Magnatron

“All of these outlets need to lawyer up.”

I hope the children and parents sue them - and twitter.


79 posted on 01/21/2019 3:34:49 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: sit-rep

Where’s Laz?


80 posted on 01/21/2019 4:35:29 PM PST by crazydad
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