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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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To: Red Badger

Leftists lie, folks. Never trust them. Ever.

JoMa


41 posted on 01/24/2019 8:11:15 AM PST by joma89
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To: Red Badger

Fake Veteran Nathan Phillips: Career Liar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Od_SSpVaiM


42 posted on 01/24/2019 8:13:46 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Stepan12

The music was actually pretty good. But those were extreme dildoos.


43 posted on 01/24/2019 8:20:02 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Red Badger

NBC - Nothing But Crap


44 posted on 01/24/2019 8:22:58 AM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: gcparent
What they really wanted was for the kid to push him out of the way so Phillips could claim assault and for violence to erupt.

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

45 posted on 01/24/2019 8:27:11 AM PST by GOPJ (Jane Fonda spent more time in Vietnam than Chief Ten Teeth - (Nathan Phillips))
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To: GOPJ

Thanks. Instead all they got was a nervous smile on a teenage boy. They turned the smile into a smirk and went from there.
Anyone who was once a teenager or had one should be watching this hoax in horror. Shame on media, diocese, pundits, celebrities, politicians and assorted cowards.


46 posted on 01/24/2019 8:34:51 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: GOPJ

Thanks. Instead all they got was a nervous smile on a teenage boy. They turned the smile into a smirk and went from there.
Anyone who was once a teenager or had one should be watching this hoax in horror. Shame on media, diocese, pundits, celebrities, politicians and assorted cowards.


47 posted on 01/24/2019 8:35:14 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

Remember how the press would go after W smirking all the time.


48 posted on 01/24/2019 8:37:54 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Nick Sandmann is a practicing Catholic. Am I the only person to remember the famous quote by Mother Teresa “Peace begins with a smile”.


49 posted on 01/24/2019 8:45:59 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: dfwgator
Orwell in 1984:

The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself — anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.

In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (incredulity when a victory was announced, for instance) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.

50 posted on 01/24/2019 8:49:49 AM PST by GOPJ (Jane Fonda spent more time in Vietnam than Chief Ten Teeth - (Nathan Phillips))
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To: Red Badger

51 posted on 01/24/2019 8:51:30 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: gcparent
Orwell in 1984:

" The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself — anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.

In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.

52 posted on 01/24/2019 8:53:14 AM PST by GOPJ (Jane Fonda spent more time in Vietnam than Chief Ten Teeth - (Nathan Phillips))
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To: RightGeek

Excellent.


53 posted on 01/24/2019 8:54:31 AM PST by GOPJ (Jane Fonda spent more time in Vietnam than Chief Ten Teeth - (Nathan Phillips))
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To: Grampa Dave

Excellent post!!


54 posted on 01/24/2019 8:55:29 AM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s OK, NBC has deep pockets and I’m sure the school can use new band uniforms.


55 posted on 01/24/2019 10:57:37 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Gator113

Thanks!

Love to skewer the left wing mediots and politicians.


56 posted on 01/24/2019 1:42:15 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Liberals//GOPe's 2019 Strategy, mantra, plan = 'No Borders, No Walls, No USA at All!'!)
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