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2019-01-21 Home Front: Culture Wars
The Covington story is going down the memory hole, references to it are vanishing.
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Posted by 3dc 2019-01-21 01:42|| || Front Page|| [10325 views ]  Top
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#1 The Left is now openly attacking our children - seeking to destroy their lives and calljng for them to be killed. What the hell
Posted by Rex Mundi 2019-01-21 02:16||   2019-01-21 02:16|| Front Page Top

#2 They now have a new issue with people and it is called Libel. And We intend to class action their asses into the rocks from where they slithered from. They are ravenous wolves and have no regard for Life or Limb.

Of the narrative, for the narrative, by the narrative.
Chicken and egg.

I prefer Filet and French Toast.
Send some to the Pope while you are at it.
He is of no help at all.
Posted by newc 2019-01-21 02:36||   2019-01-21 02:36|| Front Page Top

#3 That didn’t happen.

Find any video of the kids chanting "build the wall" and link it on here. You can’t.

Here is a pretty comprehensive unedited video https://youtu.be/t3EC1_gcr34 of the events in question. The kids were there for about an hour and Nathan Phillips showed up from out of nowhere with several people shooting video, walked into their group, drummed in that kid’s face, and left after about 3-5 minutes.

There was no threat of violence from the kids. The Black Hebrew Israelites were hurling racist and homophobic insults at the kids AND the Indigenous People’s March participants ( calling them “Uncle Tomahawks”), with several of the Indigenous Peoples March participants getting into angry confrontations with the BHI.

The BHI did threaten several people with violence including a guy on a skateboard playing loud music to drown them out who they called a “stupid Puerto Rican”, random people walking by, and the kids in question, but it is not unusual for them to do so as they are listed as a militant hate group by the SPLC. Keep in mind that news media orgs have seen this video and don’t report any of this overt bigotry by the BHI.

Nathan Phillips claims that the kids approached and surrounded him, prevented him from escape, and chanted “build the wall”, all of which are definitively proven false by every video of the event.

This entire story is a construct at best and at worst it’s an occasion of an adult harassing children and then convincing the world it was the other way around.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-01-21 03:01||   2019-01-21 03:01|| Front Page Top

#4 this is not as lucrative a defamation lawsuit as the Rolling Stone made up story about the fraternity rape but it is still a decent defamation lawsuit because one of the defamers is the WaPo with deep, deep pockets because of Bezos

probably several groups of attorneys vying to get the lead on this but expect a lawsuit in a few weeks
Posted by lord garth 2019-01-21 06:36||   2019-01-21 06:36|| Front Page Top

#5 If I was Trump, with logs of money, I'd have teams of PI's following these reporters and others around so that when the time comes, he can put out his hand and says, "Let's see what's in your file? Oh, I see you like underage hookers and buying cocaine....we'll just hand this off to the police and post these nice photos up on the internet. Oh yes, what was your question?"
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-01-21 06:46||   2019-01-21 06:46|| Front Page Top

#6 The Black Hebrew Israelites were hurling racist and homophobic insults at the kids AND the Indigenous People’s March participants ( calling them “Uncle Tomahawks”)

Not very bright, are they?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-21 07:14||   2019-01-21 07:14|| Front Page Top

#7 They report Nathan Phillips is a Vietnam War veteran and is 64 y.o.

That age has to be wrong or he has to be about the youngest American to serve in Vietnam.
Posted by Penguin of the Desert 2019-01-21 08:41||   2019-01-21 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Trump should invite the students to the White House and give them an insiders tour.
Posted by Jim Cramer6666666 2019-01-21 08:46||   2019-01-21 08:46|| Front Page Top

#9 That age has to be wrong or he has to be about the youngest American to serve in Vietnam.

Given previous experience with this sort of things (MSM scoops) I half-expect to find out in a few days that he's not a Indian Native American


Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-21 08:53||   2019-01-21 08:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Ward Churchill to the courtesy phone..Ward Churchill
Posted by Warthog 2019-01-21 09:02||   2019-01-21 09:02|| Front Page Top

#11 El Paso Times has a long article. Hat tip to Duckduckgo.
Posted by Bobby 2019-01-21 09:23||   2019-01-21 09:23|| Front Page Top

#12 Doesn't matter what happens to the actual story now, the mission has been accomplished - 'Trump hates Indians' is what the average person will remember.
Posted by Glenmore 2019-01-21 10:08||   2019-01-21 10:08|| Front Page Top

#13 #1, Not just the Left; plenty of "conservatives" piled on as well, not to mention the kids' own school and diocese.

I'm coming to hate "conservatives" as much as the leftoids.
Posted by charger 2019-01-21 12:20||   2019-01-21 12:20|| Front Page Top

#14 As your foremost sage said
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-21 13:07||   2019-01-21 13:07|| Front Page Top

#15 How many times in the past did folks like Phillips pull this gambit and have it work because there was no counter-evidence.

Film everything, blast the narrative.
Posted by rjschwarz 2019-01-21 13:24||   2019-01-21 13:24|| Front Page Top

#16 There is a crowdsourced campaign underway on Twitter to track slander level comments and turn them over to legal counsel for the boys. Currently tracking up to 6000 individual comments
Posted by Rex Mundi 2019-01-21 13:30||   2019-01-21 13:30|| Front Page Top

#17 those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire

Yes. Yes. Yes. The foundational truth of all human organization.

I phrase it thus: "There's two kinds of people: Me and all the rest of yous..."

Also
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-21 13:59||   2019-01-21 13:59|| Front Page Top

#18 #16. Ever notice how only white males can be guilty of slander, etc?
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-21 14:01||   2019-01-21 14:01|| Front Page Top

#19 One of my college friends who has turned out to be one of the most vocal Trump Haters out their refuses to believe the Boys' story. Even after watching video after video he thinks they are guilty of everything the are accused of.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2019-01-21 16:16||   2019-01-21 16:16|| Front Page Top

#20 Deacon, WWII veterans who fought against the most hateful peoples around the world called it Brain Washing, and were very familiar with the phenomenon that made large societies totally submissive to the "cause".

It is a set of beliefs that regarding the other side there is no such thing as "Grace".
Posted by Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2019-01-21 17:13||   2019-01-21 17:13|| Front Page Top

#21 The Concinnati Enquirer today:

Covington Catholic chaperone: 'Nothing the chaperones could have done differently'

The five chaperones weren’t even aware there was a memorable incident.

NPR is still reporting on the story today. It’s softer than earlier versions, but Mr Phillips’ version remains the one they’re going with. They aren’t keeping up with the debunking.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-21 17:35||   2019-01-21 17:35|| Front Page Top

#22 Even after watching video after video he thinks they are guilty of everything the are accused of.

After living through the last presidential election and reading a bunch of Scott Adams, I have come to realize that facts simply do not matter any more. If they ever did. It's all about feelings and after-the-fact rationalization. Any facts contrary to the world-view disappear in a burst of cognitive dissonance.

Two tells for cognitive dissonance brain-lock: The victim rolls their eyes and snorts "Please!" , or their rebuttal takes the form of "So.. [absurd conclusion]". The classic example of the latter is "So you think we should organize our society along the lines of lobsters". (British newsie Cathy Newman interviewing Jordan Peterson)
Posted by SteveS 2019-01-21 17:42||   2019-01-21 17:42|| Front Page Top

#23 There are clearly reality-based voters who can be moved, SteveS, because President Trump’s poll numbers keep getting better. But I suspect most of them are being as quiet about it as Pakistani Muslims who discovered Christ.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-01-21 19:46||   2019-01-21 19:46|| Front Page Top

#24 Deacon - all vegetables go bad, eventually. Trash
Posted by Frank G 2019-01-21 20:08||   2019-01-21 20:08|| Front Page Top

#25 TW -- The first rule of Trump Club is nobody talks about Trump Club.
Posted by JHH 2019-01-21 20:12||   2019-01-21 20:12|| Front Page Top

#26 Kathy Griffin Wants to Name & Shame the Covington High School Kids

Maybe a few people should contact the Oak Park IL City Manager and comment about the fact that Ms. Griffin's name is literally written on the wall of the Village Hall (along with some others as listed HERE) I have seen it, and here is a shot of Dr. Bernard Fantus' entry.



village@oak-park.us
708.358.5770

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2019-01-21 21:07||   2019-01-21 21:07|| Front Page Top

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