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Five Days Later, NBC is STILL Pushing the Totally-Debunked Covington Catholic Narrative
bigleaguepolitics.com ^ | Jan 23, 2019 | By Peter D'Abrosca

Posted on 01/24/2019 6:53:48 AM PST by Red Badger

Five days after slandering innocent teenaged boys from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, unleashing a violent leftist social media mob against them, most cable news networks have attempted to quietly distance themselves from the story.

But not the National Broadcasting Company.

Tuesday evening, NBC ran the following headline: “Gay valedictorian banned from speaking at Covington graduation ‘not surprised’ by D.C. controversy.”

“Video of white students from Covington Catholic High School confronting a Native American elder at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, D.C., last Friday went viral this past week,” said the opening line of the piece.

Trending: Native Activist Who Harassed Catholic Teens Identified As Actor From 2012 Skrillex Video About Attacking Police

This has been the mainstream media’s narrative from the beginning. They have willfully and purposefully attempted to destroy the lives of innocent teenaged boys, despite the fact that video evidence of the encounter indisputably proves that they were not the aggressors.

Worse, the NBC headline is entirely misleading.

The “gay valedictorian,” named Christian Bales, did not even attend Covington Catholic High School. Rather, he attended Holy Cross High School. Holy Cross is part of the Diocese of Covington, but totally unrelated to Covington Catholic High School, as NBC would have its readers believe.

The only reason to frame the story as such is to push an anti-Christian agenda.

To that point, Holy Cross High School did not ban Bales from speaking for his sexual orientation, but rather for failing to turn his speech in on time, which NBC admits in its article.

“At the time, a spokesperson for the Diocese of Covington said the students’ speeches were not submitted on time and ‘were political and inconsistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church,'” the piece said.

Bales even said he was unsure whether his sexual orientation was related to the Diocese’s decision, and did not dispute that his speech was turned in late.

“Bales said at the time that he was unsure whether his sexual orientation played a role in the Diocese of Covington’s decision to not permit him to speak at graduation,” the piece said.

But for the framing of this “news” article, it would be a total non-story. Told plainly – a student missed the deadline to submit his valedictorian speech and was disallowed from speaking – is not exactly an attention grabber. Nor does it serve to further the narrative against the Covington boys.

So NBC consciously spun the story to fit the biases of its readers and gave it an over broad headline to catch eyeballs and attract clicks. This is not journalism. It is anti-Christian activism.

The fact that the Covington Catholic boys have been put through the ringer by the media, have been doxxed, had their lives have been threatened, and their parents’ livelihoods have been put into jeopardy, means nothing to the left wing terrorists in the media.

NBC’s Savannah Guthrie also tried to pressure Nick Sandmann, the student at the center of the controversy, into an apology during an interview that aired on TODAY on Wednesday, hardly hiding her obvious disdain for the boy.

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Knowingly publishing a fake news story about someone used to be called slander and defamation.

It still is....................

1 posted on 01/24/2019 6:53:48 AM PST by Red Badger
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Look what MSNBC is running now: Nathan Phillips on student: 'I forgive him'.

Sure, you forgive him for just minding his own business while you and the antichristian media attacked him.
2 posted on 01/24/2019 6:56:29 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Red Badger

Stuck on stupid. Lawsuits in order. Big time.


3 posted on 01/24/2019 6:56:47 AM PST by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: Red Badger

The non stop news stories about this non-story has diverted the public’s attention away from last week’s Buzzfeed real story.


4 posted on 01/24/2019 6:57:23 AM PST by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: Red Badger

A lawyer is representing the Covington students for free and has threatened to sue anyone (with deep pockets) who hasn’t retracted and apologized by tomorrow.


5 posted on 01/24/2019 6:57:57 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Red Badger

is that not consistent with their
solicitation-by-oralsex for violence?

have they lost their license yet?
anyone arrested yet?

no. so it will continue and expand
until they offer sex and money to remove
an ELECTED PRESIDENT.


6 posted on 01/24/2019 6:58:22 AM PST by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

More power to him................................


7 posted on 01/24/2019 6:58:46 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

“Fonda was also a Vietnam vet, she played for the opposing team.”


8 posted on 01/24/2019 6:58:53 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Liberals//GOPe's 2019 Strategy, mantra, plan = 'No Borders, No Walls, No USA at All!'!)
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To: Red Badger

May they soon become Covington Catholic News.


9 posted on 01/24/2019 7:00:10 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: CaptainK

The non stop news stories about this non-story has diverted the public’s attention away from last week’s Buzzfeed real story.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This country is really in the dumpster. I know that because the whole country can be mesmerized by a video of a 15 year old kid standing politely and smiling at a refrigerator repairman.


10 posted on 01/24/2019 7:02:41 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Red Badger

Repeat a lie loud enough and long enough....


11 posted on 01/24/2019 7:11:03 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty and hateful and use and racist slurs but feel morally superior.)
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To: Red Badger

last week NBC was pushing the “Trump Told Cohen to Lie” Buzzfeed story, even 24 hours after it was being denied by even Mueller and being seriously debunked elsewhere.

NBC are pure propagandists.


12 posted on 01/24/2019 7:11:16 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

No
Brains
Center


13 posted on 01/24/2019 7:11:25 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: shelterguy

Who is now a drummer.


14 posted on 01/24/2019 7:12:32 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: PGR88

CEOs nbc and cnn in open warfare against trump


15 posted on 01/24/2019 7:13:40 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Red Badger

NBC, nice big deeeeep pockets to pay off the lawsuit.


16 posted on 01/24/2019 7:16:35 AM PST by null and void (Build the wall, or don't get paid at all.)
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To: null and void

I guess they didn’t lean a damn thing from the Richard Jewell lawsuit................

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it..................


17 posted on 01/24/2019 7:17:45 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: gcparent

You know the difference between a drummer and a large pizza don’t you?


18 posted on 01/24/2019 7:18:29 AM PST by null and void (Build the wall, or don't get paid at all.)
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To: Red Badger

They have, what, 18 hours left to make a faux apology and retract?


19 posted on 01/24/2019 7:19:52 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: null and void

Please tell us.


20 posted on 01/24/2019 7:19:59 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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