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.
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“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.
Thank you.
The kids were actually waiting for the bus and doing school pep cheers in front of the Lincoln Monument. Activist Nathan Phillips saw them there and led his Indian drum march unit right through them.
It was Phillips that led the Standing Rock protests in 2016 and 2017 against the construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota.
Even their statements are pompous.
Burn the mess to the ground.
"D@mmit. We got *caught*."
Does rummy have anything to do with Cheese Pizza?
If we want to go all the way back to the 1950s, it would probably be easier to list the people National Review DIDN’T stab in the back. I meant to include Derbyshire in the list.
Proverbs 17:18 is most fitting here. First I heard about the incident mentioned Beth Moore jumping on the boys. Shameful and shallow celebrities and fake journalists all around. That boy held his cool with the old drummer boy. Not sure I could have been so patient. I watched the 9 minute video. This shows yet again how easily manipulated media is and yet how proud to not easily admit wrong. The NR author should be fired.
If you watch the full videos on twitter, the indian activist & his band of thugs approached the teens waiting for a bus. Beating the drum and using racial slurs.
I am proud that the young man stood his ground.
Are you saying the kid is deaf?
This the parent’s account that gives the real facts about the incident:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3721517/posts
I have been doing that for a long while now. Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh!
The National Review is still in business? Who reads it?
Looks like a scruffy bum.
I’m guessing Bill Kristol reads every page of that Anti-Trump drivel.
“Nathan Phillips”?
The Indian guy’s name is Nathan Phillips?
You can’t Get a more Caucasian name than Nathan Phillips.
Is he Paleface Lizzy Warren’s brother or something?
Is he really an Indian?
Does he have the bona fides to prove it?
What tribe does he belong to?
The Tennis Club Tribe?
Has he ever ridden a horse bareback?
Or even wearing a shirt?
Has he ever had to pee pee in a teepee?
Has he ever sold an athletic ticket for ten times the asking price, or done any other scalping?
The National Review is a tiny symptom, not the problem.
The problem is, the pace of technology is outrunning humans’ ability to assimilate it. Many people have having dangerous mental disturbances as a result.
There is mass hysteria over everything.
Some think global warming is going to kill them, and soon.
Some think people from the “other” political party are going to ruin the country and make it an unlivable hell.
Some think they will be put into camps soon.
Some think a civil shooting war is imminent, and/or a total economic collapse that will end the world.
As a human race, we are better off than ever in history and yet everybody’s a nervous effing wreck.
The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross
By Nicholas Frankovich
January 20, 2019 2:55 AM
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.
For some of us, the gospel stories of Jesus’s passion and death are so familiar we no longer hear them. The evangelists are terse in their descriptions of the humiliations heaped on Jesus in the final hours before his crucifixion, the consummate humiliation. Read the accounts again or, if you’d rather not, watch the video. The human capacity for sadism is too great.
The man the crowd ridiculed is Nathan Phillips, an elder of the Omaha tribe. He was in Washington for the Indigenous Peoples March, on Friday. It coincided with the March for Life, which Covington Catholic High School organized a contingent of students to attend. According to Phillips, their confrontation with him, in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial, involved a disagreement about “the wall.” He’s against it. They’re for it. Some of them, including the boy who makes himself the co-star of the video by stepping forward and getting in Phillips’s face, wore “Make America Great Again” hats.
They confused issues. Over the years, I’ve heard (and perpetrated, I confess) some imaginative definitions of the “seamless garment,” or “consistent ethic of life.” It’s a matter of identifying a common principle that can be shown to underlie and unite various causes — the abolition of abortion, of euthanasia, of the death penalty, of you name it — that most people would say are disparate and unrelated. How heightened border security might be of a piece with protecting unborn children is less intuitively obvious than most such hypothetical linkages I’ve encountered.
Among the unfortunate messages that the Covington students are sending through the video, several versions of which have gone viral, is that in its heart the pro-life movement in the United States in 2019 is less concerned to advocate for human rights than to cheer for one of the two major political parties or, more broadly, for one side in the great divide between Right and Left, or red and blue, as if the abortion debate were a Yankees–Red Sox game. Don’t do that if you want to persuade Democrats and independents who are ambivalent about abortion to hear you out on why their lives mattered even when they were gestating, and on why the lives of those who at any given moment are conceived but not yet born matter no less.
In a joint statement, Covington Catholic High School and the Diocese of Covington apologized, condemning the students’ actions and noting that their conduct “is opposed to the Church’s teachings on the dignity and respect of the human person.” I don’t know how Phillips would describe his religious affiliation. He speaks of indigenous traditions. Some people who observe them integrate them with Christianity, but some don’t. In any case, keeping in mind the parable of the proper priests and the Good Samaritan, whose religious practice Jesus’s listeners thought was wrong, listen to Phillips reflect on his experience on the Mall. Decide for yourself who is more pleasing to Christ, Phillips or his mockers. As for the putatively Catholic students from Covington, they might as well have just spit on the cross and got it over with.
I think he is from the omaha branch of the fukowee tribe. These people are just as militant as the NAACP thugs.
My pastor did the same thing. I sent him an email later letting him know that there is another perspective to the story and included a link. I signed it Respectfully, So-and-so.
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