/dev/null Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 26 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said: Facts are irrelevant. The Narrative has been framed. But as details emerge the media will shift focus to their next shiny bauble 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 2 minutes ago, Rob's House said: I don't get what the story is. I see an old Indian banging a drum and a bunch of kids who think it's funny. Where's the story? See the bolded below WHAT’S NEWS? by John Hindraker On Friday, somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000 people attended the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. The crowd dwarfed that at the so-called Women’s March the following day. Vice-President Pence addressed the March for Life crowd in person, and President Trump spoke via satellite. Was that news? No. The only “news” that emerged from the massive rally arose out of a peaceful confrontation between some high school boys from Kentucky and an elderly Native American Man and a group of his followers. Supposedly, the boys treated the man disrespectfully. This became front-page news across the country. Why? Because it was important? Of course not; on Friday there were countless traffic accidents that deserved to make the news more than this encounter between teenagers and an aged activist. {snip} The MAGA hats were, of course, key to the story. They made the insignificant encounter into front page news, because the left-wing media got a twofer: an opportunity to smear both the right to life movement and President Trump and his supporters. If you paid attention to the news, you would think that the only noteworthy thing that happened at the March for Life was the Indian/teenager standoff. Yet it turned out that even that meagre story was mis-reported. Rod Dreher and Roger Kimball have the details. In fact, if you look at video of the entire encounter, what happened was that the Kentucky teenagers, while waiting for a bus in front of the Lincoln Memorial, were being harassed by a separate group of eccentrics. The kids were jumping up and down and chanting when the Native American activist, along with several supporters and a camera, approached them and waded into the Kentucky teenagers, beating on his drum. He got into the face of one of the teenagers and pounded his drum a few inches from the boy in what was obviously intended to be an intimidating manner. A few moments later, members of the first group jeered at the Kentucky kids, calling them “faggots.” I have watched several videos of the incident, of varying lengths and shot from multiple perspectives, and haven’t see that the boys did anything wrong at all–certainly nothing warranting a news story. The boy who is now being crucified on social media did nothing but stand still while the left-wing activist beat a drum in his face. This story was fake news at its worst, but the facts didn’t matter. The March For Life quickly denounced the high school students, their diocese has disowned them, and their school threatened to expel them. The lives of those who are recognizable in the videos will likely be ruined. For what? Even if a group of high school kids had “mocked” a gang of aggressive activists who intruded into their midst, how is this front-page news? We are rapidly reaching the point where there is little actual news reported. Instead of news, we have narrative. What fits the far-left narrative is reported, whether accurately or not. What doesn’t fit the narrative is disregarded. Our news media exist not to inform us, but to propagandize on behalf of the left. No wonder no one trusts them! https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/01/whats-news.php 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Deranged Rhino said: the media is not going to be content until they wrongly foster a mass lynching. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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leh-nerd skin-erd Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 20 minutes ago, Foxx said: the media is not going to be content until they wrongly foster a mass lynching. When someone is out on the ledge, threatening to jump, there always seems to be manipulative, petty and heartless cretin on the ground encouraging them to jump. Often, media members fill the role of the cretin. How these people survive professionally screwing up stories is beyond me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Even Tapper is tapping out of the narrative now. But again, the damage is already done. Millions of people will believe what they first heard about this story, not the corrections after the fact. It's a pattern we keep seeing - fueled in part by the (non compromised) media's need to be first/drive clicks and the (compromised elements) media's desire to push us further towards a shooting war. Here they didn't even retract/correct. They just deleted their article. Shameful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 2 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said: Even Tapper is tapping out of the narrative now. But again, the damage is already done. Millions of people will believe what they first heard about this story, not the corrections after the fact. It's a pattern we keep seeing - fueled in part by the (non compromised) media's need to be first/drive clicks and the (compromised elements) media's desire to push us further towards a shooting war. Here they didn't even retract/correct. They just deleted their article. Shameful. Is tapper siding with the fake news narrative or is he being passive aggressive in mocking it? He's not saying he thinks the media got it wrong. He's saying the author of the article claims it. I'm confused by his angle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deranged Rhino Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 1 minute ago, The Poojer said: Is tapper siding with the fake news narrative or is he being passive aggressive in mocking it? He's not saying he thinks the media got it wrong. He's saying the author of the article claims it. I'm confused by his angle I read his tweet of the article (which really is worth the time to read/has the best coverage of the incident imo) as him backing off. But maybe I'm wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 2 minutes ago, Deranged Rhino said: I read his tweet of the article (which really is worth the time to read/has the best coverage of the incident imo) as him backing off. But maybe I'm wrong. Yeah I can't tell. At least he's raising the possibility of "the rest of the story" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 6 minutes ago, The Poojer said: Yeah I can't tell. At least he's raising the possibility of "the rest of the story" he's Paul Harvey? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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3rdnlng Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 24 minutes ago, Foxx said: he's Paul Harvey? Fake news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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boyst Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 When it comes to native Americans vs Americans. I just say look at the scoreboard! Goooo whitey! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yall Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Meanwhile CNN is still running the original story/headline, front page without a hint of journalistic integrity. In other news, literally no one is surprised. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 5 minutes ago, yall said: Meanwhile CNN is still running the original story/headline, front page without a hint of journalistic integrity. In other news, literally no one is surprised. there must be alot of outraged people waiting for their flights 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Maybe the reason journalists assume that James O’Keefe’s videos are deceptively edited is that deceptive editing is the ordinary course of business for them. ANOTHER UPDATE : More good people apologize: Kyle Smith piece: Nathan Phillips Lied. The Media Bought It. But the media didn’t just buy it. They were co-conspirators. Plus, from the comments: “Anyone who thinks these recent attacks on these Catholic boys and on the Knights of Columbus aren’t geared to the next Supreme Court opening is kidding themselves.” Stand up to bigotry: Support Amy Coney Barrett! Also from the comments: “Amazing that this story occurred just 24 hrs after the BuzzFeed/Cohen fiasco with its obligatory non-stop MSM impeach-o-rama. Gellman amnesia at its finest. And when you see the Catholic hierarchy rush to throw these innocent kids to the wolves, you begin to understand the dimensions & persistence of the Church’s pedophile crisis. They are not the faithful & reliable stewards of our children they claim to be. CYA > justice.” MORE STILL: An Apology From Rich Lowry of NRO: “I deleted my original tweet and we also took down a strongly worded post by my colleague Nick Frankovich that relied on the incomplete video. It’s another reminder — even for an old hand like me — that it’s best not to make snap judgments and to wait for all sides of a controversy to have a chance to be heard.” You can’t trust what the likes of CNN and Buzzfeed say about people on the right. You absolutely need to do your own due diligence before piling on. And for the record, here’s the archive version of the now-deleted NRO piece by Nicholas Frankovich The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross. Related: The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran. A bogus story about Trump supporters. Who could imagine such a thing? . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedge Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 (edited) The kid who just stood there when the asshat Indian started banging the drum right in his face showed remarkable composure. Not only that, that same kid also was trying to get some of the other kids around him to calm down, who were going back and forth with the other Indian who was talking smack. Bang Drum Long Time deserved a lot worse than a wounded knee. Edited January 21, 2019 by Hedge 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 (edited) Just catching up on this story, but not surprised to come here and see Tibs started another far-left quick-to-judge hysterical rant about yet ANOTHER fake news story. The media just got done going full Canadian on the fake Cohen story and you would THINK they would slow down so as to not embarrass themselves again and genuinely PROVE this concept of fake news. Not only do they push ANOTHER fake story, but they don't even wait a day to recover for the last embarrassment. How embarrassed do these people need to be before they learn their lesson? They've truly gone full Canadian. And you never go full Canadian. Look. Jack Morrissey went full Canadian. Edited January 21, 2019 by LABillzFan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Damn, this just gets worse. How in the effin' world does the left lose their mind like this? Read this dude's thread about what the left did to his brother and family...all because of a FAKE news story that the left just HAD to push. You leftists have lost your effin' minds. You should all be embarrassed. Every freaking last one of your dirtbags. You make this country suck ass. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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