Posted on 01/21/2019 2:36:22 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The viral video of a group of MAGA-hat wearing teenagers waiting for their buses last Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial has been paraded by news outlets as a confrontation with a Native American elderly man and has swept the weekend internet like the storm that is gripping most the nation.
There was plenty for Americans to be upset by in that video, but contrary to the reporting by the Associated Press, the bad behavior did not come from the group of boys. Perfect examples of how not to behave were shown by a group of five black self-proclaimed “black Israelites”, the media that altered the narrative with a spin that is Orwellian, and the Native American man himself for unabashedly lying to the cameraperson directly after the incident about chants of “Build the Wall” that hours of video prove never occurred.
The ugliness started when a set of five self-proclaimed black Israelites began preaching anti-white messages for at least an hour before the Catholic school boys walked into the area. Thanks to their own livestream of the event, the boys were not searching for a problem as had been suggested, but instead makes clear of a regrouping effort at their designated meeting spot after their participation in the March of Life.
The black “activists”, emotionally emboldened by witnessing children in red MAGA hats, directed their verbal abuse on the assembling group of kids...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I sincerely hope the MSM is sued. Especially if they KNEW the longer video existed.
LOL!
DU Libtard communists started up a thread about this thread.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211702875
This Nathan Phillips dude is a REAL sketchy character. He apparently has TWO active voter registration records in Ypsilanti (Berkeley of Michigan).
He’s a “Vietnam veteran” - but was born in 1955...
His wife also has an active voter registration record in Ypsi.
She died in 2014...
This Nathan Phillips dude is a REAL sketchy character. He apparently has TWO active voter registration records in Ypsilanti (Berkeley of Michigan).
He’s a “Vietnam veteran” - but was born in 1955...
His wife also has an active voter registration record in Ypsi.
She died in 2014...
LOL....good one.
The amazing thing about this non-event is that the only thing the boys were ever accused of is “smirking”. Even if they were (they weren’t), so what?
Bttt.
5.56mm
What is Nubia?? I’m not up on fictional countries?
How about Chick-Fil-A?
Dances With Soros....
Dems Dream Ticket..Liz Warren/Nate Phillips 2020 Slogan: An Indian for a Fake Indian...
I just sent an email to Covington’s mayor. He spoke out against the students, too.
Sure he was...sure he was...
I sincerely hope the MSM is sued. Especially if they KNEW the longer video existed.
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In the camera phone era, all reporters and news organizations know that multiple videos exist. They also are obligated to interview the boy they are slandering and reporting his side of the story. This is what they call advocacy journalism and has been the modus operandi of the corporate/democrat media since the sixties. It is not journalism. It is bigotry, and what our President commonly refers to as FAKE NEWS!
They should be sued by the students, and the school regardless of the outcome or prospects of conviction and damages. It should be done through go fund me by the principals involved every time this happens
Nate Phillips was introduced to Liz Warren, he told her he could correct her problem of not having any Indian in her.
Ummmm.....just NO!
It's where anyone with a sign up date later than yours comes from. You know, noobs.
The longer videos looks like these people and events were foisted upon the visiting school kids, rather than the other way around.....what was initially reported was indeed a “ wild mischaracterization” and a social media pile-on of the event.
This was a ‘major’ media misfire since BuzzFeed!
In the camera phone era, all reporters and news organizations know that multiple videos exist. They also are obligated to interview the boy they are slandering and reporting his side of the story. This is what they call advocacy journalism and has been the modus operandi of the corporate/democrat media since the sixties. It is not journalism. It is bigotry, and what our President commonly refers to as FAKE NEWS!I sincerely hope the MSM is sued. Especially if they KNEW the longer video existed. - Tench_Coxe
They should be sued by the students, and the school regardless of the outcome or prospects of conviction and damages. It should be done through go fund me by the principals involved every time this happens.
I agree. That would be salutary.OTOH what really should happen is that the Republican Party should sue the socks off of the Associated Press and its membership, and all other wire services and their customers, and the FEC and the FCC.
The objection to that is the idea that the New York Times v. Sullivan - being a unanimous SCOTUS decision - will forever make it hard for politicians to sue for libel. I challenge that, because if you read the Sullivan decision today, the case seems quaint. It is odd that the plaintiff was not even explicitly named in the (what he said was offending) publication. Odd that the complaint wasn’t about editorial content but an advertisement. And most especially, it was odd that the plaintiff was neither a Republican nor what would be recognized today as a conventional Democrat - he was a Southern Democrat.
The case was decided in 1964, by the Warren Court. The fact that southern Democrats were in bad odor nationally then has only gotten stronger today - openly racist southern Democrats have disappeared. And, in point of fact, the Party of Lincoln is not and never was openly racist. The point is that the Sullivan case did not raise the slightest hint that the SCOTUS ruling would have any different effect on Republicans than on Democrats. The ruling applies to Democrats and Republicans equally - in exactly the same sense that a law against sleeping under bridges applies to rich and poor alike. Rich people don’t need to sleep under bridges, poor people do. Democrats don’t get libeled, Republicans, all too routinely, are.
SCOTUS must be told that - and that domination of journalism by “the party of government” Democrats (or, equivalently, of Democrats by journalism) means that the objective of the First Amendment is defeated when the government protects journalistic malfeasance directed at opponents of Democrats. The objective of the First Amendment is to prevent the unification of the press and the state. It tries to do so by preventing the state from controlling journalism. But if journalism controls the Democrat Party, and the Democrat Party controls the state . . .
Freedom of the press existed before the ratification of the Constitution, but was not absolute because the people had a right to sue for libel, and there were pornography laws. The meaning of the freedom of the press, therefore, was " freedom of the press as it was know, and limited, at the time the First Amendment was written.” Thus, under the Ninth Amendment, we still have the right to sue for libel. Even if we belong to a political party. I would even say especially if we belong to a party of limited government.
The fact that “the MSM” exists as an identifiable entity with an obvious political tendency constitutes an antitrust violation. The fact that the MSM is not objective means that the FEC is illegitimate, and other government agencies must avoid making decisions on the premise that it is objective. Including our universities.
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