I’ve wanted to write about the Covington students for days, but couldn’t seem to find the best angle to approach the story. Every time I’d put it off for a day, I kept thinking that it was done and the public was moving on. But it isn’t going away. Like in that one town in Pennsylvania with an eternal coal fire under it, the fire keeps burning and it has driven sane people away with its toxic fumes.
I’m fully disgusted by the spectacle of an entire mass media complex–represented by journalists, social media, and entertainment figures–inciting the mob to attack minors who did nothing worse than either stand there and smirk at a guy or voice their political opinions.
This is the same media that has ignored the violent mob behavior of its ideological allies. The same one that calls for
The first time I watched the video, I kept expecting to see someone hit the Indian or something with all of the outrage surrounding it. Maybe he’d get hit with a bike lock or trapped and cornered to be pelted with eggs? No, it was a mischevious smirk. Wait, what?
What exactly did the students do that was so awful? Wearing MAGA hats? Did I miss a change in the rules about teenagers being encouraged to make political displays and statements in public? Remember that the same media that ran manufactured outrage stories on the Covington students all weekend is the same one who practically gave that loathsome David Hogg his own news and commentary show last year. He has said and did things in public far more insulting and inciteful than anything these guys did, let’s be honest.
Whatever they supposedly did, suggesting that they should get
The whole episode is the work of a media complex that is equal parts incompetent and malicious. We have seen it again and again whether it’s CNN threatening to dox a guy for sharing a meme or Buzzfeed lying so blatantly about the Mueller Witch Hunt that the Grand Inquisitor himself had to tell them to back off with the torches
It’s one thing when the media flagrantly lies and misrepresents public figures or when moron celebrities virtue signal about wanting to beat up the president. It’s disgusting, but the targets in those instances have fame and power to defend themselves.
Yes, I know. Trump is now going to use these kids as a prop to bash the dishonest Fake News that he is perpetually battling. It’s hard to blame him when they so richly deserve it though. This was fully self-inflicted.
I keep hoping with every story like this where the media pushes a narrative that is quickly discredited that it will start the pendulum swinging back the other way toward responsible and sober adult behavior. Unfortunately, I think we’re still heading for a bloodletting.
This whole incident bothers me more than any previous ones because it shows me that even the young aren’t safe from the mob when it is deliberately turned loose by today’s utterly corrupt partisan media.
apparently protesters showed up at the school today.. and they canceled classes due to several threats. When i first heard of this, i was “Oh fuck, what did some mouth ass little kid do now” I watched the first videos, and was perplexed. “ok? so what did he do or say to him?…i never saw anything that shewed him disrespecting the old man or yelling at him… i watched it again, and i had to wonder, maybe the kid offended him when he asked if he wanted a tic tac….. seriously., see his teeth ugh…..oh and it seems now that… Read more »
Wherein Philips twice lies about being a Vietnam veteran.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/21/us/nathan-phillips-maga-teens-interview/index.html
This is going to be good.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/ky-prosecutor-confirms-multiple-investigations-underway-into-twitter-users-for-terrorist-threats-against-covington-kids/
DO IT.
Whatever happens these kids’ lives have been changed. Will they continue to be hounded long into adulthood? Unfortunately, probably yes since the Twitter mob have selective but long memories of nonexistent offenses. But it looks like the few honest liberals left have been backtracking while others have been backpedaling as in deleting their tweets in the hope that nobody will remember them.
William Price is a piece of work, but he’s gotten his fifteen minutes and it won’t be long before he’s running for the Democratic nomination.
PS I meant Phillips
Disney producer Jack Morrissey apologized for suggesting that the Covington students should be murdered with a wood chipper.
https://www.thewrap.com/film-producer-jack-morrissey-apologizes-for-deleted-covington-woodchipper-tweet/
Not good enough. He must be fired and permanently disgraced. Nobody can be allowed to threaten violence against children and keep working for Disney or anywhere else. Roseanne was ruined for much less than this.
OT but it looks like Venezuela has a new el presidente. If true, then good riddance to Maduro.
This guy just cut the Gordian Knot of the social media news cycle of the past two weeks.

Good summary from AS I thought….
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2019/01/andrew-sullivan-the-abyss-of-hate-versus-hate.html
+1 on Sullivan’s observations. This especially: A campaign slogan for a candidate who won the votes of 46 percent of the country in 2016 is to be seen as indistinguishable from the Confederate flag. This is not the language of politics. It is a language of civil war. I can understand this impulse emotionally as a response to Trump’s hatefulness. But I fear it morally or politically. It’s a vortex that can lead to nothing but the raw imposition of power by one tribe over another. There can be no dialogue here, no debate, not even a State of the… Read more »
I think those soical justcie warriors and snowflakes are great. They are like food for people like me. They behave like children and they have the body strenght of children becasue they only eat grass with lawnmower sauce. So they come up to me and start complaining, I then insult them as much as I can, saying all the things I know they dont want to hear, then they get hysterical and start crying like children and I laugh and laugh and laugh. Good times. They are funny, you can have a lot of fun with them and they are… Read more »