Christian student’s court victory over the apostles of hate

Oct 30, 2019 by

by Kathy Gyngell, The Conservative Woman:

THE great thing about American conservatives is that they fight back. They are not cowed by the Left, or by virtue-signalling liberals. They have steadfastly pursued the case of what became known as the Covington Catholic High School Scandal. We reported on it here.

You may remember. It followed last January’s March for Life in Washington DC, when the Press erupted with claims that a video showed boys from Covington, a Kentucky Catholic high school, who’d been on the march, harassing Nathan Phillips, a Native American activist, outside the Lincoln Memorial.

Additional extended video and first-hand accounts soon revealed that this was an egregious example of fake news.

Phillips was the one who waded into the group waiting for its bus and decided to beat a drum inches from the face of one of the boys, Nick Sandmann. The boys had merely performed school cheers in hopes of drowning out racist taunts from members of the Black Hebrew Israelites fringe group.

A tale of fake news and anti-Catholic hysteria it was, as Laura Perrins wrote, ‘a Leftist dream – to have a white, pro-life, Catholic male wearing a Trump Make America Great Again hat recorded harassing a Native American. What suited their prejudice better? The Twitter and media mob was unleashed with a ferocious intensity. Disgracefully, it wasn’t just the social media, but the mainstream media too that eagerly misreported this story with apparent total disregard of the boys they smeared.

The damage done to the boys thrown into this hostile limelight is difficult to quantify, not least ‘the psychological impact of having powerful individuals condemn you because the story fits their preconceived ideas, biases and agendas’. 

Nor, as Laura wrote at the time, should we be under any illusions. It was more than a mistake. Post the Kavanaugh hearings, the media in the United States are in full-on hate mode against Christians.

But a fightback against this injustice began. As various media figures either tried to keep the original narrative alive or refused to unequivocally retract or apologise for their initial claims, attorneys representing the students filed defamation suits against numerous media outlets and public figures.

Read here

To get the full picture, read also: Court to Washington Post: Don’t Try Too Hard to Get It Right by Ann Coulter, Townhall, July 2019.

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