Covington Catholic High School students smeared by mainstream media lies -- Don'

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Covington Catholic High School students smeared by mainstream media lies -- Don't expect an apology
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/covington-catholic-high-school-students-smeared-by-mainstream-media-lies-dont-expect-an-apology

The young men of Covington Catholic High School have been subjected to nothing short of a political inquisition because of their faith, the color of their skin and their devotion to making America great again. And they are owed an apology.

What CNN, The New York Times, the Washington Post and National Review (among others) did to these teenage boys is simply outrageous.

The boys had been in Washington to participate in Friday’s March For Life. Later in the day, they assembled outside the Lincoln Memorial to wait for school buses. And that’s where the trouble started.

You can tell by the video that there is more to it.

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Kathy Griffin calls for doxing student's identities after viral video at Native American march: 'Shame them'
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kathy-griffin-calls-for-doxing-students-in-viral-video-shame-them

Following a now viral video that shows an intense confrontation between high schoolers and Native Americans, actress and comedian Kathy Griffin is calling for the students to have their identities revealed so that she and others can hold them accountable for their actions.

Griffin took issue with the students of Covington Catholic High School on Sunday seeing as the video appears to show a group of them, many wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, harassing a group participating in the Indigenous Peoples March.

The Indigenous Peoples March in Washington on Friday coincided with the March for Life, which drew thousands of anti-abortion protesters, including the group from Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Kentucky.

Kathy Griffin is truly vile like Peter Fonda, Pat Dassault, Pete Davidson, Chelsea Handler, Hayley Geftman-Gold, Katie Rich, Madonna, Ken Jennings, Emily Bazelon, and Chris Britt. Talk about odious. She complains about being bullied and she is the bully.  

She has not learned from her Donald Trump head stunt and Demi Lovato feud. She got a feud with Kevin Hart.   

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The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran
https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-video#comment

Updated at 8:30 p.m.: Nick Sandmann, the Covington student in the middle of the controversy, has released a statement. Here it is in full:

I am providing this factual account of what happened on Friday afternoon at the Lincoln Memorial to correct misinformation and outright lies being spread about my family and me.

I am the student in the video who was confronted by the Native American protestor. I arrived at the Lincoln Memorial at 4:30 p.m. I was told to be there by 5:30 p.m., when our busses were due to leave Washington for the trip back to Kentucky. We had been attending the March for Life rally, and then had split up into small groups to do sightseeing.

When we arrived, we noticed four African American protestors who were also on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. I am not sure what they were protesting, and I did not interact with them. I did hear them direct derogatory insults at our school group.

The protestors said hateful things. They called us "racists," "bigots," "white crackers," "faggots," and "incest kids." They also taunted an African American student from my school by telling him that we would "harvest his organs." I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear.

Because we were being loudly attacked and taunted in public, a student in our group asked one of our teacher chaperones for permission to begin our school spirit chants to counter the hateful things that were being shouted at our group. The chants are commonly used at sporting events. They are all positive in nature and sound like what you would hear at any high school. Our chaperone gave us permission to use our school chants. We would not have done that without obtaining permission from the adults in charge of our group.

At no time did I hear any student chant anything other than the school spirit chants. I did not witness or hear any students chant "build that wall" or anything hateful or racist at any time. Assertions to the contrary are simply false. Our chants were loud because we wanted to drown out the hateful comments that were being shouted at us by the protestors.

After a few minutes of chanting, the Native American protestors, who I hadn't previously noticed, approached our group. The Native American protestors had drums and were accompanied by at least one person with a camera.

The protestor everyone has seen in the video began playing his drum as he waded into the crowd, which parted for him. I did not see anyone try to block his path. He locked eyes with me and approached me, coming within inches of my face. He played his drum the entire time he was in my face.

I never interacted with this protestor. I did not speak to him. I did not make any hand gestures or other aggressive moves. To be honest, I was startled and confused as to why he had approached me. We had already been yelled at by another group of protestors, and when the second group approached I was worried that a situation was getting out of control where adults were attempting to provoke teenagers.

I believed that by remaining motionless and calm, I was helping to diffuse the situation. I realized everyone had cameras and that perhaps a group of adults was trying to provoke a group of teenagers into a larger conflict. I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand.

During the period of the drumming, a member of the protestor's entourage began yelling at a fellow student that we "stole our land" and that we should "go back to Europe." I heard one of my fellow students begin to respond. I motioned to my classmate and tried to get him to stop engaging with the protestor, as I was still in the mindset that we needed to calm down tensions.

I never felt like I was blocking the Native American protestor. He did not make any attempt to go around me. It was clear to me that he had singled me out for a confrontation, although I am not sure why.

The engagement ended when one of our teachers told me the busses had arrived and it was time to go. I obeyed my teacher and simply walked to the busses. At that moment, I thought I had diffused the situation by remaining calm, and I was thankful nothing physical had occurred.

I never understood why either of the two groups of protestors were engaging with us, or exactly what they were protesting at the Lincoln Memorial. We were simply there to meet a bus, not become central players in a media spectacle. This is the first time in my life I've ever encountered any sort of public protest, let alone this kind of confrontation or demonstration.

I was not intentionally making faces at the protestor. I did smile at one point because I wanted him to know that I was not going to become angry, intimidated or be provoked into a larger confrontation. I am a faithful Christian and practicing Catholic, and I always try to live up to the ideals my faith teaches me – to remain respectful of others, and to take no action that would lead to conflict or violence.

I harbor no ill will for this person. I respect this person's right to protest and engage in free speech activities, and I support his chanting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial any day of the week. I believe he should re-think his tactics of invading the personal space of others, but that is his choice to make.

I am being called every name in the book, including a racist, and I will not stand for this mob-like character assassination of my family's name. My parents were not on the trip, and I strive to represent my family in a respectful way in all public settings.

I have received physical and death threats via social media, as well as hateful insults. One person threatened to harm me at school, and one person claims to live in my neighborhood. My parents are receiving death and professional threats because of the social media mob that has formed over this issue.

I love my school, my teachers and my classmates. I work hard to achieve good grades and to participate in several extracurricular activities. I am mortified that so many people have come to believe something that did not happen – that students from my school were chanting or acting in a racist fashion toward African Americans or Native Americans. I did not do that, do not have hateful feelings in my heart, and did not witness any of my classmates doing that.

I cannot speak for everyone, only for myself. But I can tell you my experience with Covington Catholic is that students are respectful of all races and cultures. We also support everyone's right to free speech. I am not going to comment on the words or account of Mr. Phillips, as I don't know him and would not presume to know what is in his heart or mind. Nor am I going to comment further on the other protestors, as I don't know their hearts or minds, either.

I have read that Mr. Phillips is a veteran of the United States Marines. I thank him for his service and am grateful to anyone who puts on the uniform to defend our nation. If anyone has earned the right to speak freely, it is a U.S. Marine veteran.

I can only speak for myself and what I observed and felt at the time. But I would caution everyone passing judgement based on a few seconds of video to watch the longer video clips that are on the internet, as they show a much different story than is being portrayed by people with agendas.

I provided this account of events to the Diocese of Covington so they may know exactly what happened, and I stand ready and willing to cooperate with any investigation they are conducting.

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I provided this account of events to the Diocese of Covington so they may know exactly what happened, and I stand ready and willing to cooperate with any investigation they are conducting.

And he should add:

And every scheister lawyer who wants to sure the pants off everyone who turned this into a circus.

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Another vile Tweet.

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The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran
https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-video#comment

I will be 67 next month.

I went to Nam right out of high school.

Left Nam at the end of 73 and shut the door on the way out!

The 'Indian' was born the same year as my brother.
This clown was no Nam vet ... unless he joined at the age of 15!

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Nathan Phillips rally attempted to disrupt Mass at DC’s National Shrine
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/nathan-phillips-rally-attempted-to-disrupt-mass-at-dcs-national-shrine-91038

Washington D.C., Jan 22, 2019 / 03:58 pm (CNA).- While chanting and playing ceremonial drums, a group of Native American rights activists reportedly led by Nathan Phillips attempted Jan. 19 to enter Washington, D.C.’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception during a Saturday evening Mass.

The group of 20 demonstrators was stopped by shrine security as it tried to enter the church during its 5:15 pm Vigil Mass, according to a shrine security guard on duty during the Mass.

“It was really upsetting,” the guard told CNA.

Nathan Phillips is nothing but trouble.

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Heard an attorney on the radio this morning (Fox and Friends) who is taking the case for these boys.  He's going to start suing for libel and defamation and he's doing pro bono.  He said bringing these kinds of lawsuits can be wildly expensive so he's just going to do it on the kids behalf.

He's formally giving the media (and anyone else he can track down) until Friday to apologize and remove any lies about these kids from their web sites.  If they don't comply he said he will start filing the suits.

This is going to be FUN!  I wonder if he could sue DU for the vile stuff they're posting over there about those kids ...

KC

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Heard an attorney on the radio this morning (Fox and Friends) who is taking the case for these boys.  He's going to start suing for libel and defamation and he's doing pro bono.  He said bringing these kinds of lawsuits can be wildly expensive so he's just going to do it on the kids behalf.

He's formally giving the media (and anyone else he can track down) until Friday to apologize and remove any lies about these kids from their web sites.  If they don't comply he said he will start filing the suits.

This is going to be FUN!  I wonder if he could sue DU for the vile stuff they're posting over there about those kids ...

KC

DU would shut down. Start with Kathy Griffin and Michael Rappaport. We can also get SE Cupp and Luke O'Brien.

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I agree Ben.  Harassment is threatening to sue them (read article), sending threatening emails, Facebook messages etc.  I know the difference btwn criticism and harassment.

Also a different opinion is not “getting it wrong”Kirsten Powers added,
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It is not harassment to point out when writers, as many honorable ones admitted, get a story fundamentally factually wrong. https://twitter.com/KirstenPowers/status/1088133835693481984 …
10:27 AM - 23 Jan 2019

https://twitter.com/KirstenPowers/status/1088141262027476993

Suing someone is not harassment. What part do you not get?

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Kirsten Powers is just another stupid liberal scrunt. 

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I agree Ben.  Harassment is threatening to sue them (read article), sending threatening emails, Facebook messages etc.  I know the difference btwn criticism and harassment.

Slander lawsuits are civil justice, not "Hharassment". And advance warnings are giving the slanderers time and opportunity to set right the wrong the slanderers did, not "Harassment". But translating Powers' ProgSpeak into honest and plain English:

Oh, crap! We F'ed up, dare not admit being wrong, and could lose! Play the victim card!

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Every day I get up and say “no more Twitter” and somehow end up back here.  I always regret it.

Deleting the app now.

10:36 AM - 23 Jan 2019

https://twitter.com/KirstenPowers/status/1088143361779920897

What's the matter? You are still on Twitter.  Why are you still there?

She is whining about being harassed.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/426685-cnns-powers-deletes-twitter-app-after-harassment-claim-over-covington

CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers announced she was deleting her Twitter application on Wednesday after she said she was harassed on the popular platform regarding her criticism of the Covington High School students' interaction with Native American activist Nathan Phillips that went viral over the weekend.

Show us the proof you are being harassed!