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    The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story

    The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story

    Interesting story from the Atlantic.

    The journalist Kara Swisher found a way to link the horror to an earlier news event, tweeting:

    And to all you aggrieved folks who thought this Gillette ad was too much bad-men-shaming, after we just saw it come to life with those awful kids and their fetid smirking harassing that elderly man on the Mall: Go $#@! yourselves.


    You know the left has really changed in this country when you find its denizens glorifying America’s role in the Vietnam War and lionizing the social attitudes of the corporate monolith Procter & Gamble.


    Celebrities tweeted furiously, desperate to insert themselves into the situation in a flattering light. They adopted several approaches: old-guy concern about the state of our communities (“Where are their parents, where are their teachers, where are their pastors?”: Joe Scarborough); dramatic professions of personal anguish meant to recenter the locus of harm from Phillips to the tweeter (“This is Trump’s America. And it brought me to tears. What are we teaching our young people? Why is this ok? How is this ok? Please help me understand. Because right now I feel like my heart is living outside of my body”: Alyssa Milano); and the inevitable excesses of the temperamentally overexcited: (“#CovingtonCatholic high school seems like a hate factory to me”: Howard Dean).


    By Saturday, the story had become so hot, and the appetite for it so deep, that some news outlets felt compelled to do some actual reporting. This was when the weekend began to take a long, bad turn for respected news outlets and righteous celebrities. Journalists began to discover that the viral video was not, in fact, the Zapruder film of 2019, and that there were other videos—lots and lots of them—that showed the event from multiple perspectives and that explained more clearly what had happened. At first the journalists and their editors tried to patch the revelations onto the existing story, in hopes that the whole thing would somehow hold together. CNN, apparently by now aware that the event had taken place within a complicating larger picture, tried to use the new information to support its own biased interpretation, sorrowfully reporting that early in the afternoon the boys had clashed with “four African American young men preaching about the Bible and oppression.”



    But the wild, uncontrollable internet kept pumping videos into the ether that allowed people to see for themselves what had happened.


    The New York Times, sober guardian of the exact and the nonsensational, had cannonballed into the delicious story on Friday, titling its first piece “Boys in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Mob Native Elder at Indigenous Peoples March.”


    But the next day it ran a second story, with the headline “Fuller Picture Emerges of Viral Video of Native American Man and Catholic Students.”


    How had the boys been demilitarized from wearers of “Make America Great Again” hats to “Catholic students” in less than 24 hours?


    O, for a muse of fire.


    It turned out that the “four African American young men preaching about the Bible and oppression” had made a video, almost two hours in length, and while it does not fully exonerate the boys, it releases them from most of the serious charges.


    The full video reveals that there was indeed a Native American gathering at the Lincoln Memorial, that it took place shortly before the events of the viral video, and that during it the indigenous people had been the subject of a hideous tirade of racist insults and fantasies. But the white students weren’t the people hurling this garbage at them—the young “African American men preaching about the Bible and oppression” were doing it. For they were Black Hebrew Israelites, a tiny sect of people who believe they are the direct descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel, and whose beliefs on a variety of social issues make Mike Pence look like Ram Dass.



    The full video reveals that these kids had wandered into a Tom Wolfe novel and had no idea how to get out of it.


    Julie Irwin Zimmerman: I failed the Covington Catholic test



    It seems that the Black Hebrew Israelites had come to the Lincoln Memorial with the express intention of verbally confronting the Native Americans, some of whom had already begun to gather as the video begins, many of them in Native dress. The Black Hebrew Israelites’ leader begins shouting at them: “Before you started worshipping totem poles, you was worshipping the true and living God. Before you became an idol worshipper, you was worshipping the true and living God. This is the reason why this land was taken away from you! Because you worship everything except the most high. You worship every creation except the Creator—and that’s what we are here to tell you to do.”
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    The enemedia did not make a mistake. The media did what enemies do.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    This is one of the most embarrassing moments for both the mainstream and social media. The mainstream media jumped to a false conclusion based on some half baked story going viral on social media.


    The social media aspect will be forgotten, but the damage to the mainstream media's credibility is more significant.

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    CNN may be next in being sued. $250 mil. Video at link.

    CNN is fake news and this potential lawsuit seeks to prove it.

    CNN is likely to be hit with a massive lawsuit worth more than $250 million over alleged “vicious” and “direct attacks” on Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, his lawyer has told Fox News.

    Lawyer L. Lin Wood discussed his decision to sue CNN for its reporting and coverage of his client during an interview that will air on Fox News Channel’s “Life, Liberty & Levin” on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET.


    “CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals' homes,” Wood told Fox News host and best-selling author Mark Levin.
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    Rumor has it that the same attorney that forced CNN to settle a libel suit in the Richard Jewell Olympic Park Bombing "fake news" incident is representing these kids.

    Uh Oh. CNN time to start writing the check
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    Richard Jewell Settles with Cnn, Then Sues Atlanta Newspaper

    Compiled From News Services, St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)


    Richard Jewell sued The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the college where he once worked as a security guard on Tuesday, accusing them of libeling him in stories linking him to the Olympic bombing.
    Jewell's lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed in Fulton County Superior Court. It accuses the newspaper of portraying him as a man with "a bizarre employment history and an aberrant personality" who was likely guilty of placing the bomb.
    Those stories quoted Piedmont College President Ray Cleere as describing Jewell as a "badge-wearing zealot" who "would write epic police reports for minor infractions," the lawsuit said. Lin Wood, an attorney for Jewell, called the lawsuit "the first step in what will be a long and hard-fought battle against a billion-dollar corporation that tried and convicted Richard Jewell for a crime he did not commit." "They need to be held accountable when they commit this kind of act. And the only way to get the message across to Cox Enterprises Inc. is to get their attention with a financial verdict," Wood said, referring to the owner of the Atlanta newspapers. Roger Kintzel, publisher of the Journal-Constitution, defended his newspapers' coverage of the bombing as "fair, accurate and responsible." "Noticeably lacking is any explanation of what is false about what we reported," Kintzel said at a news conference. In December, the newspapers refused Jewell's demand to print a retraction to three stories about him while he was a suspect. Meanwhile, Jewell and his mother, Barbara Jewell, settled a complaint against CNN for an undisclosed amount, according to a joint statement issued Tuesday by CNN and Jewell's attorneys
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    They will settle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    They will settle.
    I think the fact set for them is even worse than the Richard Jewell case. Way more evidence and even more blatant disregard for facts.. if that is possible.
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    I feel like the media is so used to a the free for all bashing of public figures like Trump or conservative commentators etc.. that they forget the line they cross when they hit private non public figures.

    They have no sense of the intellectual nature of their duties.
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