Blowback over Covington Catholic 'Blackface' accusation begins

New York's Daily News' ironically used to be known as New York's picture newspaper. Maybe that's because a large number of those who buy it only look at the pictures. But that's the irony--the pictures [as in video] at the Lincoln Memorial of Native American serial liar, Nathan Phillips, clearly show that the boys from Covington Catholic High School, in Kentucky, did not harass him, but it was the other way around. Yet that didn't stop the rag from trying to go after the school in order to somehow justify their lies about the incident.

After the left-leaning media-led smear campaign against the Covington High School boys fell apart with video evidence clearly demonstrating that not only did the boys not target an African American group with "racial epithets" and "harass" Phillips, (it was the boys were actually the ones who were pelted with insults and harassed) the left-wing New York Daily News published another hit-piece on the Catholic school on Monday.

The piece, shamelessly titled "SEE IT: Covington Catholic High students in blackface at past basketball game," begins by saying snarkily, "This won’t help Kentucky student Nick Sandmann’s case." It then shamelessly "reports":

A photo said to be featuring Covington Catholic High School students clad in blackface during a 2015 basketball game made the rounds on Twitter Monday morning amid last week’s Indigenous Peoples March controversy.
The photo depicts several white students, some in blackface, shouting at an opposing black player.
While the photo’s origins couldn't be verified, the official Covington Catholic High School YouTube account published a video last January boasting its basketball school spirit, and several clips, including one from 2012, showcase attendees chanting in black face, a mockery of the opposing players. The school took down the video later on Monday.

It's obvious to anyone with a high school education, or who at least attended one high school or college basketball game, that the idiots at the Daily News have no idea what they're talking about.

Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire summed up the arguments succinctly in an op-ed:

Anyone with, say, a third of a functioning brain rattling around in their skulls will immediately understand the scene. The kids are all wearing black because the fans of sports teams often will come to games all in the same color. Oftentimes fans will wear black as part of a "blackout." Other times they'll white as part of a "whiteout." Or sometimes they'll wear blue or red or any other color. This is standard operating procedure in American sports, especially scholastic sports. 

Why are they screaming at the opposing player? Well, because he is the opposing player and that's what the home fans do and have done in every basketball game or football game ever played anywhere on Earth. Why is the opposing player black? Well, because that just happens to be his race. If he was white, they would be just as unwelcoming. This is part of the pageantry of sports.

The blowback to the leftist Daily News' hit-piece has gone online, including a post from Robert Barnes, the lawyer who repeatedly called out journalists for libeling the Covington teens and is threatening lawsuits on their behalf against any who fail to adequately retract their false reports.

"Fake news. This is a blackout event, not people in blackface. Hence, notice how the kids entire bodies are in black paint or black clothing. I guess NYDN thought it wouldn’t be fair if they didn’t get sued too," wrote Barnes in response to the Daily News tweet.

Let's hope Barnes is serious and drags their butts to court.

"Many independent journalists who lean left agree the kids were falsely attacked, led by one of the best grassroots journalists in the country on these kind of issues," he wrote Tuesday after a series of posts directed as specific reporters. "No media member who refuses to retract at this juncture has any credible defense to libeling these kids."

The problem is that the First Amendment generally protects journalists from being sued. But this is not journalism--that seems to have died a long time ago, even before Trump became president.


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