Posted on 01/20/2019 5:30:04 PM PST by Impala64ssa
According to a source inside of #NeverTrump stalwart National Review, who spoke to Big League Politics on the condition of anonymity, the magazine is in turmoil after publishing a now-deleted piece bashing the Covington Catholic High School students.
Deputy managing editor Nicholas Frankovich penned a piece called “The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross,” which was published at 3 a.m. on Sunday.
“The guy who posted that did it at 3am without running it by anyone,” an employee familiar wit the situation told Big League Politics.
The source said that editor Rich Lowry is “deeply chagrined” by incident.
Trending: Video Evidence Shows Lying Media Falsely Slimed Teenagers for Interaction with Native American Man at March for Life
“Rich feels bad about this,” the source added.
“It appears that most of the teenagers in this video are from a Catholic high school near Covington, Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. They mock a serious, frail-looking older man and gloat in their momentary role as Roman soldiers to his Christ. ‘Bullying’ is a worn-out word and doesn’t convey the full extent of the evil on display here,” the piece, archived here, said.
High-profile members of the magazine immediately took to Twitter to bash the teenaged boys from Covington Catholic after the mainstream press accused them of racist hatred towards Nathan Phillips, a Native American man. After several hours of running with that narrative, Big League Politics, among other independent news outlets, published stories showing the full context of the incident. As it turned out, the Native man approached the boys, beating his drum in the face of the boy at the center of the incident. It is clear that the Native man was the cause of the confrontation.
Since the real story came to light, the magazine has reversed course. It published a Sunday piece telling the actual story, but did not apologize for, or mention its deleted hit piece on the boys.
The heavy hitters at National Review took to Twitter to clarify that, after actually researching the incident, that they were wrong and the Covington Catholic boys were wrongly accused. None of them, though, mentioned the hastily deleted story at issue.
“Deleted my initial tweet on Lincoln Memorial incident. Even the video I watched last night that suggested some ambiguity didn’t fully capture what really happened. This was not what it was portrayed as *at all*” said Lowry.
The author posted it himself at 3 AM without oversight? Expect a trip to rehab to avoid the ax.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/nathan-phillips-covington-catholic-high-school-march-for-life-mocking-students-spit-cross/
Agenda driven fake news. Tools of the internationalists of the New World Order.
I wonder if they've made a job offer to Jason Leopold yet.
“He hasn’t retracted on his Twitter.”
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Nope,we have been drowning in lies the past couple of days-——the Buzzfeed fiasco and now this.
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WTF? There are no “Heavy hitters” at National Review. What a bunch of juvenile squat.
Proverbs 18:17 The first to plead his case seems just, Until another comes and examines him.
You had many on the right last night going after these kids..I saw the ENTIRE video this morning, these kids did NOTHING wrong..absolutely NOTHING..all they wanted to do was go to the March For Life event and do some sightseeing and look what happened..all because you had a left wing loon wanting his 15 minutes of fame and an eager media who want these kids dead because they wore MAGA hats..I am saddened for my country I really am, America is dying a slow painful death..and I blame it for the most part on the media..who have divided this country more than anyone else could
chagrined - to vex by disappointment or humiliation
I had to look it up. More than just disappointed.
Don’t forget John Derbyshire
Fox was reporting that the Covington boys surrounded the Native American activist and were disrespectful. This illustrates how bad reporting gets legs that are unstoppable.
The first time I saw an ad for NR in the 90s, I thought that you literally had to have a PHD to ever “get” it because it must be so fancy. That every article must be blessed by that aristocratic Buckley person....and the Queen.
Now this? Now NR is doing “hot take” articles at 3AM?
How many times does the public need to get hoodwinked before people catch on? My own pastor, who is part Cherokee, even commented on the affair from the pulpit today. And based upon his sermon today (on another topic), I will opine that he needs to adopt some of the skepticism that I have towards the Media and so-called experts. At least he has said that he has stopped watching television news.
Frankly, if you take anything that starts at Buzzfeed at face value, you are just asking to get conned.
Wow. He looks like he should be drinking Ripple from a bag in a local gutter.
He probably shares the bottle of Ripple with the “Indian elder”
For goodness sakes alive...
Has anyone ever been around a bunch of teenagers, especially boys, when some type of unusual event occurs? Every last time, they get a silly grin on their faces and probably giggle. It means nothing....Kids (boys) will be boys.
The guy beating the drum walked up to the high school students and inserted himself into their gathering. Same observation for the black group of taunters.
If you have ever taken a group of kids on a field trip and tell them to assemble at XYZ at 1:00pm. Someone in the group will be the mother hen. That far from home, these kids do not know where to go when trouble arrives.
Really, the media has shamefully run wild with a non-story.
Ciao!
Something even bigger starting to happen
It turns out the kid in the video that the Indian guy is banging his drum in his face
The kid that the left wants to Lynch for smiling..
Turns out that kid might be deaf!
Not confirmed yet but if you watch the video the kid at the end looks like he turns round signing
asking what this guy is saying to him
If nothing else, this shows EXACTLY who the people at National Review are.
Specifically, once a Trump supporter is accused by the media of some type of racism, bigotry, or similar - they IMMEDIATELY GO ON THE ATTACK against that person, and by default, all of us.
...and they wonder why we’re so sick of those losers and won’t abandon Trump. They cannot even wait for the FACTS to come out - they IMMEDIATELY BLAME US.
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