Confrontation on the National Mall

[milkteeth]

I think one thing we need to remember from this whole thing is we are never ever going to get these MAGA hogs and piglets to feel any shame or admit that they've done something wrong. They live in a different universe where they will always have an excuse to pull out of their ass (remember the 'they were just waving good-bye!' whopper the sieg heil-ing Wisconsin teens tried to use) that exonerates them from whatever bad behavior has been caught on tape and it will only further their delusions of victimhood. We need to be going after the people who amplify their squealing and give them a platform to try to steer the narrative. 

5 hours ago, Dandruff said:

It'll be interesting to see what happens if Covington shows up for the March for Life next year.  Will some of the same teens be there?  Same chaperones?

 

 

They'll probably speak at the March for Life next year ?

[adidas]

Worth reading, imo. 

https://thinkprogress.org/covington-catholic-video-nathan-phillips-nicholas-sandmann-72512dd30615/amp/

[candygirl200413]

New York Post already wrote an article about Mr. Phillips getting cited for drinking in the 70s once when he was 17. Media is so disgusting about this. Plus the kid getting an interview on the Today show:

Black Children Don’t Have Nick Sandmann’s Rights

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There’s something Promethean about the experience: Minorities are lashed to the rock that is America, MAGA eagles peck at our livers all day, then the next day the media tell us that we have to understand the “true” motivations of the MAGA eagles—and then releases them again to peck at our livers all day.

 

[adidas]

It is about power. 

An imbalance of power is when abuse, prejudice and bullying thrive. 

By deflecting, dismissing and rewriting, the media is just giving the white, MAGA wearers more power. 

The smirk on the brat’s face says he knows it too. 

[formergothardite]

From the link @adidas shared. 

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The privilege, the racism, the searing hate in the video is undeniable. The only question is whether or not we will call it what it is or — as so often happens — rewrite history.

This is why we need to stop pretending that these boys and that community have some sort of special less awful form of racism. That they aren't as bad as other racist. No they are. They do just as much damage and it helps no one to pretend that these guys and the community that supports them aren't racists. 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[Audrey2]

On 1/26/2019 at 10:11 AM, GreyhoundFan said:

 

Oh, I'm sure he'll have some nice Big Macs and Quarter Pounders for them. McDonalds is still running their 2/$5 special (or was as of Friday).

[onekidanddone]

12 minutes ago, Audrey2 said:

Oh, I'm sure he'll have some nice Big Macs and Quarter Pounders for them. McDonalds is still running their 2/$5 special (or was as of Friday).

More like Slim Jims, Hot Pockets and Boons Farms Strawberry Hill

[GreyhoundFan]

"The Washington Post sued by family of Covington Catholic teenager"

Spoiler

The family of the Kentucky teen who was involved in an encounter with a Native American advocate at the Lincoln Memorial last month filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post on Tuesday, seeking $250 million in damages for its coverage of the incident.

The suit alleges that The Post “targeted and bullied” 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann in order to embarrass President Trump. Sandmann was one of a number of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky who were wearing red “Make America Great Again” hats during a trip to the Mall when they encountered Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist.

News accounts, including in The Post, and videos of their encounter sparked a heated national debate over the behavior of the participants.

“In a span of three days in January of this year commencing on January 19, the Post engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified, and threatened Nicholas Sandmann, an innocent secondary school child,” reads the complaint.

It added, “The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the President.”

The suit was filed by Sandmann’s parents, Ted and Julie, on Nicholas’s behalf in U.S. District Court in Covington. It seeks $250 million because Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos paid that amount for the newspaper when he bought it in 2013.

In a morning tweet Wednesday, Trump voiced support for the lawsuit, quoting a line from the complaint and writing: “Go get them Nick. Fake News!”

The lengthy complaint, which carried the names of five attorneys from two law firms, alleged seven “false and defamatory” articles published online or in print by The Post. It also cited tweets sent by The Post to promote its stories.

The Sandmanns’ lead attorney is L. Lin Wood, who represented Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in 1996. He also represented John and Patsy Ramsey in pursuing defamation claims against media outlets in connection with reports on the death of their young daughter, JonBenet.

A Post spokeswoman, Kristine Coratti Kelly, said in response to the suit, “We are reviewing a copy of the lawsuit, and we plan to mount a vigorous defense.”

According to the allegations made in the complaint, Nicholas Sandmann and his classmates were waiting for a bus at the Lincoln Memorial after attending the March for Life rally on the Mall when a group of African American men who call themselves Hebrew Israelites began yelling racial epithets at them. The high school group began a series of school sports chants in response, the complaint said.

Phillips, a self-described Native American activist who was on the Mall that day for the Indigenous Peoples March, has said he was walking toward the Lincoln Memorial when he encountered the Covington group. He was chanting and beating a small drum when he came face to face with Sandmann.

The Sandmanns’ suit asserts that the newspaper “bullied” Sandmann in its reporting “because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red ‘Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap.”

It calls Phillips “a phony war hero [who] was too intimidated by the unruly Hebrew Israelites to approach them, the true troublemakers, and instead chose to focus on a group of innocent children.”

It added that The Post “did not conduct a proper investigation before publishing its false and defamatory statements of and concerning Nicholas.”

It also accused The Post of ignoring online videos that showed a fuller picture of the incident and of using “unreliable and biased sources,” thus acting with “knowledge of falsity or a reckless disregard for the truth.”

 

[onekidanddone]

12 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"The Washington Post sued by family of Covington Catholic teenager"

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The family of the Kentucky teen who was involved in an encounter with a Native American advocate at the Lincoln Memorial last month filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post on Tuesday, seeking $250 million in damages for its coverage of the incident.

The suit alleges that The Post “targeted and bullied” 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann in order to embarrass President Trump. Sandmann was one of a number of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky who were wearing red “Make America Great Again” hats during a trip to the Mall when they encountered Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist.

News accounts, including in The Post, and videos of their encounter sparked a heated national debate over the behavior of the participants.

“In a span of three days in January of this year commencing on January 19, the Post engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified, and threatened Nicholas Sandmann, an innocent secondary school child,” reads the complaint.

It added, “The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the President.”

The suit was filed by Sandmann’s parents, Ted and Julie, on Nicholas’s behalf in U.S. District Court in Covington. It seeks $250 million because Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos paid that amount for the newspaper when he bought it in 2013.

In a morning tweet Wednesday, Trump voiced support for the lawsuit, quoting a line from the complaint and writing: “Go get them Nick. Fake News!”

The lengthy complaint, which carried the names of five attorneys from two law firms, alleged seven “false and defamatory” articles published online or in print by The Post. It also cited tweets sent by The Post to promote its stories.

The Sandmanns’ lead attorney is L. Lin Wood, who represented Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in 1996. He also represented John and Patsy Ramsey in pursuing defamation claims against media outlets in connection with reports on the death of their young daughter, JonBenet.

A Post spokeswoman, Kristine Coratti Kelly, said in response to the suit, “We are reviewing a copy of the lawsuit, and we plan to mount a vigorous defense.”

According to the allegations made in the complaint, Nicholas Sandmann and his classmates were waiting for a bus at the Lincoln Memorial after attending the March for Life rally on the Mall when a group of African American men who call themselves Hebrew Israelites began yelling racial epithets at them. The high school group began a series of school sports chants in response, the complaint said.

Phillips, a self-described Native American activist who was on the Mall that day for the Indigenous Peoples March, has said he was walking toward the Lincoln Memorial when he encountered the Covington group. He was chanting and beating a small drum when he came face to face with Sandmann.

The Sandmanns’ suit asserts that the newspaper “bullied” Sandmann in its reporting “because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red ‘Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap.”

It calls Phillips “a phony war hero [who] was too intimidated by the unruly Hebrew Israelites to approach them, the true troublemakers, and instead chose to focus on a group of innocent children.”

It added that The Post “did not conduct a proper investigation before publishing its false and defamatory statements of and concerning Nicholas.”

It also accused The Post of ignoring online videos that showed a fuller picture of the incident and of using “unreliable and biased sources,” thus acting with “knowledge of falsity or a reckless disregard for the truth.”

 

Nano second of silence for the poor lily white snowflake.  Naaaa never mind.

[Howl]

This suit doesn't stand a chance.  The kid was WEARING A MAGA HAT!  It's sort of a "our sincerely held MAGA belief" deserves protection! 

[Cartmann99]

Who is paying for MAGA-teen's lawyers?

[Audrey2]

6 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"The Washington Post sued by family of Covington Catholic teenager"

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The family of the Kentucky teen who was involved in an encounter with a Native American advocate at the Lincoln Memorial last month filed a defamation lawsuit against The Washington Post on Tuesday, seeking $250 million in damages for its coverage of the incident.

The suit alleges that The Post “targeted and bullied” 16-year-old Nicholas Sandmann in order to embarrass President Trump. Sandmann was one of a number of students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky who were wearing red “Make America Great Again” hats during a trip to the Mall when they encountered Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist.

News accounts, including in The Post, and videos of their encounter sparked a heated national debate over the behavior of the participants.

“In a span of three days in January of this year commencing on January 19, the Post engaged in a modern-day form of McCarthyism by competing with CNN and NBC, among others, to claim leadership of a mainstream and social media mob of bullies which attacked, vilified, and threatened Nicholas Sandmann, an innocent secondary school child,” reads the complaint.

It added, “The Post ignored basic journalist standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented, biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump by impugning individuals perceived to be supporters of the President.”

The suit was filed by Sandmann’s parents, Ted and Julie, on Nicholas’s behalf in U.S. District Court in Covington. It seeks $250 million because Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos paid that amount for the newspaper when he bought it in 2013.

In a morning tweet Wednesday, Trump voiced support for the lawsuit, quoting a line from the complaint and writing: “Go get them Nick. Fake News!”

The lengthy complaint, which carried the names of five attorneys from two law firms, alleged seven “false and defamatory” articles published online or in print by The Post. It also cited tweets sent by The Post to promote its stories.

The Sandmanns’ lead attorney is L. Lin Wood, who represented Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused in the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in 1996. He also represented John and Patsy Ramsey in pursuing defamation claims against media outlets in connection with reports on the death of their young daughter, JonBenet.

A Post spokeswoman, Kristine Coratti Kelly, said in response to the suit, “We are reviewing a copy of the lawsuit, and we plan to mount a vigorous defense.”

According to the allegations made in the complaint, Nicholas Sandmann and his classmates were waiting for a bus at the Lincoln Memorial after attending the March for Life rally on the Mall when a group of African American men who call themselves Hebrew Israelites began yelling racial epithets at them. The high school group began a series of school sports chants in response, the complaint said.

Phillips, a self-described Native American activist who was on the Mall that day for the Indigenous Peoples March, has said he was walking toward the Lincoln Memorial when he encountered the Covington group. He was chanting and beating a small drum when he came face to face with Sandmann.

The Sandmanns’ suit asserts that the newspaper “bullied” Sandmann in its reporting “because he was the white, Catholic student wearing a red ‘Make America Great Again’ souvenir cap.”

It calls Phillips “a phony war hero [who] was too intimidated by the unruly Hebrew Israelites to approach them, the true troublemakers, and instead chose to focus on a group of innocent children.”

It added that The Post “did not conduct a proper investigation before publishing its false and defamatory statements of and concerning Nicholas.”

It also accused The Post of ignoring online videos that showed a fuller picture of the incident and of using “unreliable and biased sources,” thus acting with “knowledge of falsity or a reckless disregard for the truth.”

 

I cannot say I am surprised. All along, he has had the entitled frat boy asshole attitude, in my opinion. 

*I am not saying that all young men who are involved in a fraternity are either entitled or assholes. The college in which he graduated from in 1994 had quite a thriving Greek community. I was exposed to some good fraternities and some whose members were just assholes. (Yes, I do keep my language pretty clean, but that word perfectly describes some of the young fraternity members I knew in college.)