Are we saying if he’s not a Vietnam vet then it’s ok to get in his face and mock him like that when (if you watch the full 90min video, rather than clips from The Daily Caller) he stood where he did to try to stop the MAGA kids from encroaching further towards the Black Israelite group (who btw didn’t move an inch from their position)?
We’re saying the media should do some basic fact checking before jumping on the bandwagon and making reports based on edited video clips uploaded to social media. The kids did not get up in his face either, he walked towards them, started banging a drum and they moved back from him apart from the smug face kid who stood his ground.
FYI that elder said said the kids shouted "Build the Wall" - the video shows they didn't, he lied.
He said they approached him, the video showed he walked up to them, he lied.
He said the kids were attacking the Black Israelites, the video shows they weren't, he lied.
He said the kids acted "beastly" to the Black Israelites, the video shows they didn't, he lied.
The kids biggest crime in this is being obnoxious teenagers and wearing a MAGA hat.
Meanwhile literally no one bothered to try and dox or report on the black Israelites who abused just about everyone in the video. When they called a black convington kid an “Uncle Tom”, “Coon” and “N*****” the kids rallied behind their fellow pupil... something which was completely ignored as it didn’t fit the narrative of them being racist.
If that’s not what we’re saying then who cares? The media gets far more right than it gets wrong when it comes to Trump-related stuff, but unfortunately their penchant for self-flagellation (along with the right wing apparatus’s appetite for magnifying every error) means that the error becomes the focus, even when the majority of the story was right.Journalists make mistakes. Always have, always will. They also get wilfully conned from time to time. Always have, always will. Ask Dan Rather.
So because they get most stuff right we should give them a free pass when they get stuff wrong ? Mate they plastered a bunch of kids/minors faces all over the media for the world to see and pushed a false narrative to make them look like the second coming of hitlers youth. They deserve to be pulled up on it, it’s massively irresponsible.