COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL VS. NATHAN PHILLIPS
A NON-LIBERAL’S VIEW
There has never been a starker example of the bias by left wing media than the coverage of the recent confrontation in Washington, D.C. between Covington Catholic High School (CCHS) students and some American Indians. The footage has been shown time & again.
The cast of characters had to have made liberals salivate. On the one side, there were these Christian, pro-life students from a Catholic school in Kentucky, in Washington. D.C. for the annual protest against the Roe vs. Wade decision. To boot, many were wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) red hats, from Donald J. Trump’s p**********l campaign. Every true blooded American progressive knows that r****m is in the heart of every Donald Trump supporter.
On the other side were some members of the approved, aggrieved minority, Native Americans, aka Indians. It was heaven sent.
We first saw a video that showed a smiling Nicholas Sandmann, a Covington student, wearing a MAGA hat, face to face with Nathan Phillips, an Indian, rhythmically banging a drum. After a time, Phillips turns to his left and walks on.
The media jumped all over it. It was played on the major networks but CNN & MSNBC showed it incessantly for the next several days. After a day or two of this, the rest of the video emerged, spearheaded by Tucker Carlson on Fox News, with a fuller video to give it some context.
To start, it showed a fairly large group of students at the bottom of the stone steps of the Lincoln Memorial. They were waiting for a bus. We presume they were mostly CCHS students. Many wore MAGA hats, not surprising since Donald J. Trump is the most pro-life president since the famous or infamous Roe vs. Wade decision.
Right after that, but before the Phillips-Sandmann face off, a group of Black Hebrew Israeites (BHI) harassed and called the CCHS students ‘r****t garbage c*****rs,’ ‘incest babies’ with one saying to a black CCHS student they’d arvest his organs.
In that segment of the video, people clothed and looking like Native Americans can be seen interacting with the BHIs. The BHIs are loosely affiliated groups some of which are considered r****t and h********c.
Then the video focuses on Sandmann & his fellow students. Phillips with some other people, who seem to be Indians, somehow materialize among the students in the foreground. Phillips leads them, beating rhythmically on his drum. Among those behind him is another older male but younger than Phillips. We assume he is also a Native American. He walks behind Phillips and stands there as the face off with Sandmann ensues.
A few feet in the background, a darker skinned male, also likely an Indian, stands among the other students extends an arm, with what appears to be some kind of a recording device, toward the camera. Some of those students clapped in sync with Phillips’ drumming. The man presumed Indian was standing among those students and obviously did not feel intimidated.
Many of the students were smiling and seemed to be enjoying themselves. Some used the ‘tomahawk chop,’ a gesture used by the fans of at least two professional sports teams, the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Chiefs, but that some Native Americans object to. Finally, Phillips turns to his left and walks on.
Sandmann was later interviewed on NBC by Samantha Guthrie and stated that he smiled because he was unsure of Phillips’ intention and that he was trying to defuse the situation. She asked him whether he felt owed Phillips deference due to his age.
Phillips was first touted as a Viet-Nam veteran but it turned out he was in the military during the last years of our involvement but never deployed there. Moments after the confrontation with Sandmann, he was stopped from entering a Catholic Church during a mass while still banging his drum.
The major networks were all over it as were some newspapers, such as The Washington Post which has lost all claim to legitimacy since Meg Greenfield’s departure. CNN & MSNBC had round the clock coverage.
The late night comedians were completely on board with the media. One said that Sandmann had the most punchable face he’d ever seen, which makes me think he’s not seen a face like his.
The Diocese of Covington, at first joined in the dramatics condemning the students but then muted their criticism as the full video emerged. A team of four licensed investigators spent 240 man-hours examining videos and interviewing witnesses including 13 of the 16 chaperones who accompanied the students. They attempted to contact Phillips but he did not return communications.
The Diocese has concluded that the students acted with restraint and did not mock nor taunt Phillips, as various media reported, nor any other Indians nor Black Hebrew Israelites. And what no one has seen fit to discuss is that the students were all teenagers which bolsters the conclusion that they acted with commendable restraint.
This report was barely mentioned on CNN but PBS’ Judy Woodruff did cover it, to their credit. Otherwise, there has been stone silence and many of the original inflammatory reports remain on-line and have not been corrected or retracted.
It is an honored tradition for Americans to journey to Washington, D.C. to register their opinions. Numerous demonstrations occur every year in the city on behalf of various causes. In fact, there is a good chance that one is going on there as you read this article.
No one has asked whether Phillips was being provocative. Given the circumstances right after the Black Hebrew Israelites, I think I would have thought he was.
Phillips was walking banging his drum. He walked toward Sandmann who stood still and, from what I could tell, entered what I would call his personal space. Personal spaces vary from culture to culture and circumstance to circumstance but, I thought he violated Sandmann’s who was certainly justified in being concerned about Phillips’ intentions. It might even have been justified for Sandmann to conclude that Phillips was intent on assault and try to defend himself.
Sandmann and his family received death threats. They have now hired a high powered slander and libel attorney to take legal action. I hope they get a substantial award.
CNN, MSNBC, those comedians, WaPo and the major networks have been completely discredited with this but they didn’t need any as far as I am concerned. They owe Nick Sandmann and all those students an apology. Don’t hold your breath. Such is the status of progressive journalism.
crazylibertarian wrote:
COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL VS. NATHAN PHILLIPS
A NON-LIBERAL’S VIEW
There has never been a starker example of the bias by left wing media than the coverage of the recent confrontation in Washington, D.C. between Covington Catholic High School (CCHS) students and some American Indians. The footage has been shown time & again.
The cast of characters had to have made liberals salivate. On the one side, there were these Christian, pro-life students from a Catholic school in Kentucky, in Washington. D.C. for the annual protest against the Roe vs. Wade decision. To boot, many were wearing Make America Great Again (MAGA) red hats, from Donald J. Trump’s p**********l campaign. Every true blooded American progressive knows that r****m is in the heart of every Donald Trump supporter.
On the other side were some members of the approved, aggrieved minority, Native Americans, aka Indians. It was heaven sent.
We first saw a video that showed a smiling Nicholas Sandmann, a Covington student, wearing a MAGA hat, face to face with Nathan Phillips, an Indian, rhythmically banging a drum. After a time, Phillips turns to his left and walks on.
The media jumped all over it. It was played on the major networks but CNN & MSNBC showed it incessantly for the next several days. After a day or two of this, the rest of the video emerged, spearheaded by Tucker Carlson on Fox News, with a fuller video to give it some context.
To start, it showed a fairly large group of students at the bottom of the stone steps of the Lincoln Memorial. They were waiting for a bus. We presume they were mostly CCHS students. Many wore MAGA hats, not surprising since Donald J. Trump is the most pro-life president since the famous or infamous Roe vs. Wade decision.
Right after that, but before the Phillips-Sandmann face off, a group of Black Hebrew Israeites (BHI) harassed and called the CCHS students ‘r****t garbage c*****rs,’ ‘incest babies’ with one saying to a black CCHS student they’d arvest his organs.
In that segment of the video, people clothed and looking like Native Americans can be seen interacting with the BHIs. The BHIs are loosely affiliated groups some of which are considered r****t and h********c.
Then the video focuses on Sandmann & his fellow students. Phillips with some other people, who seem to be Indians, somehow materialize among the students in the foreground. Phillips leads them, beating rhythmically on his drum. Among those behind him is another older male but younger than Phillips. We assume he is also a Native American. He walks behind Phillips and stands there as the face off with Sandmann ensues.
A few feet in the background, a darker skinned male, also likely an Indian, stands among the other students extends an arm, with what appears to be some kind of a recording device, toward the camera. Some of those students clapped in sync with Phillips’ drumming. The man presumed Indian was standing among those students and obviously did not feel intimidated.
Many of the students were smiling and seemed to be enjoying themselves. Some used the ‘tomahawk chop,’ a gesture used by the fans of at least two professional sports teams, the Atlanta Braves and Kansas City Chiefs, but that some Native Americans object to. Finally, Phillips turns to his left and walks on.
Sandmann was later interviewed on NBC by Samantha Guthrie and stated that he smiled because he was unsure of Phillips’ intention and that he was trying to defuse the situation. She asked him whether he felt owed Phillips deference due to his age.
Phillips was first touted as a Viet-Nam veteran but it turned out he was in the military during the last years of our involvement but never deployed there. Moments after the confrontation with Sandmann, he was stopped from entering a Catholic Church during a mass while still banging his drum.
The major networks were all over it as were some newspapers, such as The Washington Post which has lost all claim to legitimacy since Meg Greenfield’s departure. CNN & MSNBC had round the clock coverage.
The late night comedians were completely on board with the media. One said that Sandmann had the most punchable face he’d ever seen, which makes me think he’s not seen a face like his.
The Diocese of Covington, at first joined in the dramatics condemning the students but then muted their criticism as the full video emerged. A team of four licensed investigators spent 240 man-hours examining videos and interviewing witnesses including 13 of the 16 chaperones who accompanied the students. They attempted to contact Phillips but he did not return communications.
The Diocese has concluded that the students acted with restraint and did not mock nor taunt Phillips, as various media reported, nor any other Indians nor Black Hebrew Israelites. And what no one has seen fit to discuss is that the students were all teenagers which bolsters the conclusion that they acted with commendable restraint.
This report was barely mentioned on CNN but PBS’ Judy Woodruff did cover it, to their credit. Otherwise, there has been stone silence and many of the original inflammatory reports remain on-line and have not been corrected or retracted.
It is an honored tradition for Americans to journey to Washington, D.C. to register their opinions. Numerous demonstrations occur every year in the city on behalf of various causes. In fact, there is a good chance that one is going on there as you read this article.
No one has asked whether Phillips was being provocative. Given the circumstances right after the Black Hebrew Israelites, I think I would have thought he was.
Phillips was walking banging his drum. He walked toward Sandmann who stood still and, from what I could tell, entered what I would call his personal space. Personal spaces vary from culture to culture and circumstance to circumstance but, I thought he violated Sandmann’s who was certainly justified in being concerned about Phillips’ intentions. It might even have been justified for Sandmann to conclude that Phillips was intent on assault and try to defend himself.
Sandmann and his family received death threats. They have now hired a high powered slander and libel attorney to take legal action. I hope they get a substantial award.
CNN, MSNBC, those comedians, WaPo and the major networks have been completely discredited with this but they didn’t need any as far as I am concerned. They owe Nick Sandmann and all those students an apology. Don’t hold your breath. Such is the status of progressive journalism.
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