Jim Bratten
Recently, the Propaganda Press has doubled down in attempts to destroy itself. The BuzzFeed fiasco wasn’t bad enough, apparently. So the next attempt was staged within their template of racism and white supremacism, using high school children. It revealed something about the leftist media – far more sinister than mere fake news.
The plot involved Covington (Kentucky) Catholic High School students who had bussed to Washington, DC to attend the annual Right to Life March. Some of the high school students wearing MAGA caps waited for their bus near the Lincoln Memorial after the Friday event. Radical activists, the Black Hebrew Israelites and a group of Native Americans, aggressively approached the group of students.
A three-minute video was posted online by the group of Native American protesters, edited from a two-hour version recorded at the event. The editing was purposeful – to paint the idea that the young students in MAGA caps were harassing and intimidating a benign, peaceful collection of black and Native American protesters. Throughout that day, reporters and pundits advanced the story that racist, white students in MAGA hats provoked and taunted, smeared and slandered black and Native Americans. The script was formed around their racism – as white Christians. After all, the Southern Poverty Law Center lists Catholics as racist, violent extremists.
Except that’s not what happened. The actual occurrence was the opposite of what was portrayed by the media. The longer version of the video showed the Black Hebrew Israelites (anti-Semitic, black supremacists) harassing the Covington students with profane epithets, accusing the children of being the products of incest and worse. The shouting of obscene expletives continued until the black supremacists realized the kids wouldn’t react, obeying their adult chaperones by standing stoically. Media did not show any of this because it didn’t fit their vitriolic narrative: “MAGA caps are racist because Trump is racist and these Christian children are also racists, taught at an extremist Catholic high school. MAGA caps are the new white hoods!”
Of the Native Americans gathered, one advanced to less than a foot from a male student wearing a MAGA cap, thumping his tom-tom and chanting, staring intently into the kid’s face as the rest of the man’s group moved to encircle the students. It was obvious that the Native American, Nathan Phillips, attempted to provoke the student. We found the media’s glorification of Phillips’ military service fake; throughout the activist’s history he falsified what he professed to be. In short, he’s a sham.
As the false narrative from media outlets spread, the attacks on the various Covington students, and their families, grew. The family of 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann, the student stared down by Nathan Phillips, and many other families of children at Covington Catholic High School, have been smeared and “doxxed” (their personal addresses, emails, phone numbers and other personal information released on social media). Nick and other students, and their families, even teachers at the high school, have been threatened with violence. Nathan Phillips and his activist followers tried to protest outside the high school in Covington; thwarted only when the high school closed for two days due to threats. Phillips’ Native American radicals even threatened the diocese that runs the school. As of last Saturday, the school’s website and Facebook page have been shut down.
Nick’s family has hired a famous lawyer who specializes in lawsuits against media organizations for slander, defamation, libel, and First Amendment violations. After the abuse these children and their families have suffered because of Trump hatred and media-inspired, anti-Christian bigotry, lawsuits against vicious reporters and their “news” organizations will follow. We hope the settlements are substantial.
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