Posted on 01/31/2019 4:16:23 PM PST by Starman417
Now that he smoke has cleared and the facts are in, let's take a look at the insanity that took place two weekends ago here in The Swamp. With so many electrons that have already been spilled on this story, there's no need to recap events. Let's look back on the worst of the worst of what we witnessed. In no particular order:
1) Hate first, ask questions later.
Really no explanation needed. I first learned of this via a high school buddy's Facebook feed. Even though I've pretty much left Facebook I still have to at least glance at it each day since our neighborhood and Little Bob's school use it to post news. The post on this was one of the knee-jerk immediate damnation pieces. And this particular guy is someone who I'm pretty sure has never posted anything partisan political in however many years we've been connected on FB. Even worse, some other guys who I know to be Conservatives (or very nonpolitical) joined the pile-on the in the comments. Soon after in Twitter I found the truth of it and posted such. One of the Nonpoliticals thanked me, while some woman I didn't know proclaimed that she teaches her boys to never read such unreliable sites and concluded with "White boys gonna white boy" I half debated responding the next day before exiting the conversation, but the next day the initial post had been taken down.
Even when I was active on FB, I would almost never tag people or post on their walls, but I made an exception for The Babylon Bee's take on it by dropping the post on his wall. He responded by citing two other offenses that the boys and their families committed, but I decided it was time to remember why I decided to leave FB in the first place. Since I never heard anything else about his other two allegations I'm assuming that they were false as well. What killed me about this was seeing people fall for this who weren't Jezebel contributors, Hollywood producers, or even my typical frothing at the mouth Leftist friends. These are people who I know are good folks who fell for this hook, line, and sinker. Thankfully the evidence was here to exonerate those kids, but what if hadn't been?
2) The press' failure to vet Chief Sitting Bull
Dr. John broke down how Nathan Phillips is a Fraud and a Liar. How did it never even enter the thought process of the propagandists from the profession formerly known as Journalism not think that they would get fact checked on every detail of this story? Even worse, Phillips is a professional agitator who's been in the public eye for some time now. And never once did they bother to look into his background?
3) They are kids for f***s sake!
Remember those good old days when "For the children!" was one of The Left's mantras? We've seen doxxing, threats against Covington High School, demands to destroy their lives, all from the side that claims to stand for compassion. Then again, if Virginia Governor Northam had been there for those students, I'm sure that he would have ensured that "The students would be kept comfortable. The students would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother."
4) Twitter
Apparently death threats against minors is acceptable, while telling recently laid off "journalists" to Learn to Code is ban-worthy hate speech.
5. NBC News: Wearing a MAG Hat Means You're a Nazi!
This may need to be a separate post of its own, but is the notion of wearing a hat proclaiming that you want the country of which we're all citizens to be great actually offensive? Being a DC resident, I recall early 2009 when you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting some smiling groupie proudly wearing gear celebrating a man who literally promised to try to destroy this country. And yet why did I never felt the slightest bit threatened, nor feel the urge to assault one of these happy little aspiring Fascists? Oh, that's right. I'm a friggin' adult.
6. Just because you are obviously and undeniably wrong is no reason to stop lying.
While they were far from the only outlet, The Washington Post wasn't about to let a triviality like getting caught in a lie stop their assaults on Covington, and Catholicism in general.
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
Crucifixion is the right word. I always said he was Christ like in his approach and peaceful smile.
The mob is controlled only by only the most base negative emotions: fear and hate. The liberal media has gotten good at feeding them just that, at the direction of the Democrat party.
This disappeared from the news cycle right around the time of the lawyer’s deadline to retract or be sued for libel.
Now it’s the fake hate crime in Chicago and “climate change” causing record cold.
Some people still scoff at the idea that there’s a culture war in this country. They’re fools.
“Cruci-fiction” is a brilliant take.
Imagine what vile motives they would have imputed to him if he had not been smiling...
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