Koko78 Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 1 minute ago, KD in CA said: It's the beginning of the end for Trump. True, only 6 years of his administration left before he's finally removed from office.
Paulus Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 (edited) I hate how people so flamboyantly throw around the fact someone was in the military. Like I give AF. Or, that service somehow obliges someone to be put on a pedestal. He was there for a political issue, and politics followed. His service is of ZERO CONSEQUENCE. Also, ***** that Indian douche. Edited January 20, 2019 by Paulus
Magox Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 This is truly fake news. Anyone who actually has seen extensive video can clearly see that the kids did not behave in an egregious inappropriate manner as portrayed by the media. The Native American dude confronted a bunch of 15-16 year olds. That is a fact 4
Deranged Rhino Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 Just now, Magox said: This is truly fake news. Anyone who actually has seen extensive video can clearly see that the kids did not behave in an egregious inappropriate manner as portrayed by the media. The Native American dude confronted a bunch of 15-16 year olds. That is a fact Elements of the media is the enemy of the people. They want to divide us. They want us fighting with one another rather than rationally discussing topics which would inevitably lead many to the realization of who the actual enemy is. This is a (dis)information war. 1 1
whatdrought Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 1 minute ago, Magox said: This is truly fake news. Anyone who actually has seen extensive video can clearly see that the kids did not behave in an egregious inappropriate manner as portrayed by the media. The Native American dude confronted a bunch of 15-16 year olds. That is a fact The worst case is that some teens did some teenager level mocking of people who were confronting them. I think, given the context of the video, it is more likely that the kids were trying to play along and were awkward af teenagers, like all teenagers anywhere. 5
B-Man Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 19 minutes ago, Magox said: This is truly fake news. Anyone who actually has seen extensive video can clearly see that the kids did not behave in an egregious inappropriate manner as portrayed by the media. The Native American dude confronted a bunch of 15-16 year olds. That is a fact The Catholic Bonfire At The Stake By ROD DREHER Good morning from Dublin. It is really interesting to observe US public controversies from outside the American bubble. I am startled by the massive controversy that has erupted over the Covington (KY) Catholic school boys and the Native American man, Nathan Phillips, in the aftermath of the March For Life. Several video clips of the confrontation between an elder of the Omaha tribe and a large group of Catholic high school boys wearing MAGA hats have gone viral. Here’s a news story about the video, summing up the basics of the controversy. A selected part of the clip shows boys jumping and hooting and acting in a somewhat intimidating way towards the older man, as if to mock him. Some people interpret the boy standing in front of the man, the kid with a rictus grin, as sneering at the old man. Others say that you can’t assume that was a sneer; maybe the kid just didn’t know what to do. In any case, the Catholic school has apologized for its students’ action, and the mayor of their hometown has denounced them. The boys were in town for the March For Life. The video is being widely cited as an example of the Trumpification of Christianity, and connected to the Karen Pence school controversy as yet another example of why conservative Christianity is an evil that must be driven from the precincts of the decent. It is possible that the Catholic boys were complete asses. My initial judgment was that they certainly were that. You don’t treat a peaceful elderly person like this. Even if they thought he was wrong, those boys owed him respect. Yes, the old man approached them, but they could and should have handled him with respect. They come off as bullies. But then I watched more clips, showing the greater context of the incident. It is not as simple as it has been portrayed. Below is a more complete video account of what happened. In it, one of the Catholic boys is overheard asking, “Does anybody know what he’s doing? Does anybody know what’s going on here.” And, in it, one of the Indians with Phillips shouts: “White people, go back to Europe. This is not your land.” He curses the students with f-bombs (video is NSFW). He goes on: “You’re being a white man about it. That’s all you know how to do.” You didn’t see that in the news reporting, did you? Then, at the 4:40 mark, members of an insane black radical cult called the Black Hebrews (I remember them from my DC days) starts ranting at the boys about whites and *****, and says that “your president is a homosexual.” He makes fun of Christian civilization, saying: “You give faggots rights!” {SNIP} Last night before bed, having only seen those shorter videos, I retweeted a condemnation of these boys. Now I regret that, having seen the whole video, and observing how left-wing activists — some of them Christian — are seizing on this ugly incident to discredit the March For Life, a massive annual event protesting the murder of the unborn. To be clear, it is POSSIBLE that these boys really did make fun of this old Native American man. If that’s what happened, they should apologize. I don’t think this is what happened at all, though. These boys were already chanting their high school chants. Nathan Phillips confronted them. They don’t appear to understand what point he was making with his own chanting and drum-beating. And now they are held up to the contempt of the country for something they appear not to have done at all. And, the news accounts conveniently ignore the provocative, racist, foul-mouthed attacks on the boys by one of Phillips’s Native American companions. Here’s something else: in 2015, this same Native American elder, Phillips, confronted college students wearing Indian garb at a college party, and claimed he was treated disrespectfully by them. So he said; no video exists. It appears that he was looking for a confrontation of some sort. If those college boys behaved that way, it was indeed wrong, and offensive. But Nathan Philips seems like a man who seeks out these opportunities for confrontation, and then to go to the media with them. Notice in the clip that went viral, Philips had a man with a camera following him as he approached the MAGA boys. The media are creating a narrative. Back in 1993, I covered the massive gay March On Washington. It was a highly diverse gathering, with lots of ordinary, man (or woman) next door types. There were also plenty of freaks. My personal favorite was the man who walked by wearing nothing but a vestment of leaves, with a branch coming out of his butt. He was part of a group called the Radical Faeries. The mainstream media coverage of the march focused almost 100 percent on the middle-class Normies, and left the freaks — the sadomasochists, the Radical Faeries, the topless obese lesbians, and so forth — out of the coverage. As a young journalist who had actually been on the ground there, this was an important direct lesson in how the media shape the narrative. It’s one thing to know abstractly that the media do this, but quite another to watch it happen in real time, with an event you were part of. The Normie narrative was highly useful to the cause of mainstreaming gay rights, and bringing about gay marriage. The freaks would have hurt that cause. Therefore, they were edited out of the story. Similarly, in this case, the white Catholic boys in their MAGA hats appearing to intimidate a Native American elder serves as a useful club with which to beat the entire March For Life, as well as conservative Christianity in general. I’m not saying that it wasn’t news, or shouldn’t have been reported. But tell the whole story. Tell how Phillips instigated this thing, and how the boys appear not to have understood what was happening. Tell how Phillips’s companion cursed them and hurled a racial slander at them. Talk about the Black Hebrews. Tell the whole story, not just the part that is useful to a left-wing narrative. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-covington-catholic-bonfire-at-the-stake/ 1 1
Q-baby! Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 35 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said: "May" In honour of Trump, the school is being renamed Covfefe Catholic High School.
B-Man Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 Quote Robert P. George @McCormickProf 1h1 hour ago I apologize to the Covington Catholic boys. What Rod Dreher says of himself goes double for me. I jumped the gun and that was stupid and unjust. It is I, not the boys, who needs to take a lesson from this. . Quote Kim Conde @kimconde752 2h2 hours ago I was duped,and I’m sorry. I jumped to conclusions and played along. I did exactly what #FakeNewsMedia wanted me to do. Reprimand a group of catholic teenagers boys for being #ProLife. I have deleted my tweet. Quote Kurt SchlichterVerified account @KurtSchlichter 3h3 hours ago Liberals designated that catholic kid a witch and want to publicly burn him. Whether the kid was right, wrong, or some of both is immaterial. This is a weapon designed to intimidate you. Don't play along. Be ready to fight back. . 2
DC Tom Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 Reminder: they're white, Christian kids wearing MAGA hats. Their very existence harasses minorities. 1
Deranged Rhino Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, Rob's House said: I don't get it. Don't get what?
Rob's House Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 2 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said: Don't get what? I don't get what the story is. I see an old Indian banging a drum and a bunch of kids who think it's funny. Where's the story? 2
whatdrought Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 1 minute ago, Rob's House said: I don't get what the story is. I see an old Indian banging a drum and a bunch of kids who think it's funny. Where's the story? cause racism. 1
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