Posted on 01/22/2019 3:56:40 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
In the newest twist in the fake news fiasco that led to the Covington Catholic teens being doxxed and receiving death threats, the Native man at the center of the controversy, Nathan Phillips, is not a Vietnam veteran.
The Washington Post, one of the first mainstream news publications to seize on the narrative of racist teenagers harassing an elderly veteran, published a correction to its story today, noting that Phillips is not a Vietnam veteran.
From The Washington Post:
Correction: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips served in the U.S. Marines from 1972 to 1976 but was never deployed to Vietnam.
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Many began questioning the media’s reporting that Phillips served in Vietnam when his age, 64, became known. Assuming he enlisted at 17, Phillips would have had to be deployed to Vietnam in 1972, and the last Marines left Vietnam in 1971.
Phillips, who Big League Politics painstakingly exposed as a left-wing fundraiser and media darling who appeared in an anti-police music video and previously accused a different group of students of anti-Native racism, never specifically called himself a Vietnam veteran. Instead, perhaps seeing this revelation coming, Phillips carefully used the phrase “Vietnam times veteran”, a vague expression that seemingly means he served in the military during the Vietnam war.
While it seems this fact should have been easy to check, it did not stop the entire mainstream media from referring to Phillips as a Vietnam veteran.
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Is his indian name Heaping Bull?
But. But. ..
You mean they purposely reported fake news and later told us it was fake news.
JoMa
now how about that native american claim? 1/1024?
My question is: is he even a veteran at all?
Next thing you know, they’ll be reporting he’s not an actual ‘indian’ either.
Do they know for sure he ever served or are they taking his word for it?
Who paid him?
I consider the “Vietnam vet” thing to be irrelevant. Even if the drummer was a Vietnam vet, how were the kids supposed to know it? It was just something the media threw in to make the kids seen worse. It was Alinskyite: shame the opponent according to his own standards.
“kids seen worse” s/b “kids seem worse.” #@!%$##!@&%$
A M A Z I N G...WaPo issues a correction
Nathan Phillips, is not a Vietnam veteran...... My guess is he is a Veteran of some sorts. Who maybe got the boot after after a few years due to being cuckoo.
I know there are people who have filed a request for his military records.
However, he is 100% douschebag.
Produce the DD 214.
“Nathan Phillips, is not a Vietnam veteran.”
But he is a serial liar who has been claiming to be a Vietnam Vet (Stolen Valor) for a long time, and using that claim to fraudulently fundraise.
Is his Indian name Shit on Heel?
In any language it’s Leftist Bigot and he should be referred to as such every opportunity. Jokes can wait.
Thus ain’t a correction.
It’s a modified limited hangout.
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