Celebrities have their say on the Covington kids (Delayed grace is better than no grace at all)

Jamie Lee Curtis Admits She Jumped The Gun On The Viral Covington Catholic Students Story
I suppose that is as much grace and class as we can expect from virtue-signaling Hollywood elite.
"A celeb owning up and admitting wrong? *checks for flying pigs*
"Most people jumped the gun when the viral video of the Covington High School students and Native American activist came out. Heck, I was one of those people. I tried to be

measured in my initial response and still feel good about that, but to be truthful, I really didn’t feel comfortable writing about it because my gut TOLD me there was probably more to the story. But it was trending everywhere, and I didn’t feel like I had a choice. I couldn’t ignore the story. It HAD to be covered, so "I made a judgment based on the information available to me at the time.
"I still wish I stuck with my gut, but we’ve corrected the record and have done a TON of stories in support of those boys since then.
"If you know the truth and refuse to apologize, shame on you. YEAH YOU KATHY GRIFFIN.

"It IS possible to own up and admit wrong. Jamie Lee Curtis did. "

 Disney Producer Jack Morrissey Apologizes for ‘#MAGAkids into the Woodchipper’ Fantasy   But his opinion of the kids is unchanged.

 

Trevor Noah on Covington Teenager: Everyone ‘Wants to Punch That Kid’ (Video)

Debra Messing Attacks Covington Teenager: ‘Mocking, Condescending, Disrespecting, A**hole’

However, the viral footage led to celebrities going crazy in reaction to the students. Kathy Griffin encouraged their doxxing and public shaming, while actor Jeffrey Wright fantasized about the group of students being physically beaten up.

Hollywood celebrities joined the establishment media this weekend in promoting what has amounted to a hoax campaign targeting Catholic high school students with allegations of “racism” over their encounter with a Native American man at the March for Life.

Kathy Griffin Viciously Targets Covington Catholic Kids  . . . "She still wasn’t done; eleven minutes later she followed with this: “Names please. And stories from people who can identify them and vouch for their identity. Thank you.' ”

           Kathy Griffin‏                    

Names please. And stories from people who can identify them and vouch for their identity. Thank you.

The Shaming of Karen Pence

The Outline

"Will no one speak up for Karen Pence other than her husband?"

"In scarcely a week, the vice president’s wife has become a public face of hate. CNN’s John King suggests that what Mrs. Pence has done is so grievous maybe taxpayers shouldn’t fund her Secret Service security protection. The American Civil Liberties Union says she’s sending “a terrible message to students.”
. . .
"Will no one speak up for Karen Pence other than her husband?

"In scarcely a week, the vice president’s wife has become a public face of hate. CNN’s John King suggests that what Mrs. Pence has done is so grievous maybe taxpayers shouldn’t fund her Secret Service security protection. The American Civil Liberties Union says she’s sending “a terrible message to students.”

"The Guardian sees in Mrs. Pence a reminder of “the vice-president’s dangerous bigotry.” During a Saturday night performance in Las Vegas, Lady Gaga told her fans that what Mrs. Pence has done confirms she and her husband are “the worst representation of what it means to be Christian.” A former Washington Post editor and senior writer for Politico tweets: “How can this happen in America?”

"So what is this terrible thing Mrs. Pence has done? She plans to teach art part-time at Immanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia. This is a small private K-8 academy where Mrs. Pence has taught before. It adheres to a biblically rooted view of human sexuality." . . . 

It would be a shame if Mrs. Pence were to allow the mob to keep her from teaching art to those children at Immanuel Christian School. But however it turns out, her experience surely tells us which orthodoxies today are truly sacred and beyond question.

To her shame, Lady Gaga interrupts performance to trash the Pences
. . . "So what is this terrible thing Mrs. Pence has done? She plans to teach art part-time at Immanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia. This is a small private K-8 academy where Mrs. Pence has taught before. It adheres to a biblically rooted view of human sexuality." . . .

Sorry; this picture posted by mistake. I was looking for the Penses under "Families destroyed by Democrats" and didn't realize I clicked on this one:

 

More bitterly anti-Democrat material posted in The Tunnel Wall

Now Pelosi Owns the Shutdown

RealClearPolitics

 

"On Saturday, Donald Trump shrewdly flipped the table on Nancy Pelosi in the government shutdown standoff. He has now proposed a grand bargain on immigration: legalization of some 1 million so-called Dreamers -- the foreigners who were brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents -- and an immediate end to the shutdown, if she agrees to expand funding to $5.7 billion for the wall.

"It's the kind of checkmate political maneuver that may guarantee his re-election.

 

"It's smart because it now puts the onus on Pelosi to open the government. It also puts the pressure on Pelosi to act on immigration reform. For 25 years, Democrats have preferred to politicize the immigration issue -- and treat Hispanic voters as political hostages -- rather agree to a bipartisan solution to deal with the 10 million illegal immigrants residing in the U.S.

"There's no good option for Pelosi now." . . .

"Free and unfettered" press fettered by left-ism

Rich Terrell

What the right should learn from Covington Catholic flap  . . . "Washington Post, CNN, and the rest were prepared to ruin the lives of some adolescents, who had come to Washington to march for life, to score a cheap political point.
"The National Review’s coverage of the Covington flap mirrors its treatment of the Trump presidency. Its editors, like those at the erstwhile Weekly Standard, have been playing by the left’s rules since the National Review denounced the John Birch Society nearly 60 years ago. Said one editor at the time in the way of explanation, “We can’t afford to jeopardize the grudging status we’ve earned in the Liberal community.”
"Still worried about their “grudging status” among liberals, many of those prominent on the right insist that Trump and others honor all the left’s silly totems, even if they are as contrived as the old man’s beating the drum. If a conservative fails to do so, his more respectable betters will join the left’s shaming posse even if the ones being shamed are 16-year-old pro-lifers."

Why hasn’t Twitter banned the accounts of users who called for death of Covington students?

The social media platform certainly had no qualms about banning a Christian pastor who had written a book promoting traditional marriage, claiming it to be “hate speech.” In October of last year, Twitter banned ten conservative accounts, giving no reason at all.

Busted: The shameful tactics used against the Covington Kids have a long history

Covington Catholic High School closes Tuesday ‘to ensure safety’  . . . "The American Indian Movement Chapter of Indiana and Kentucky is holding a 10 a.m. protest outside the Diocese of Covington.

"The protest, which so far has drawn more media than protesters, was moved from the school Monday as a precaution." . . .

 

"Trump hate driving mainstream media ‘journo-terrorism’ against Catholic kids at March for Life"  "Over the weekend the “mainstream media” (MSM) which, in the age of POTUS Trump, has so obviously become little more than a propaganda organ for the Democratic Left, slipped back into its “journo-terrorism” role by promoting harm to a group of Catholic youngsters whose only ‘crime’ was supporting the president." . . .

"It should be noted at this point that Phillips — ever the ‘activist’ — has a history of pulling stunts just like this. As reported by The Gateway Pundit, Phillips, in 2015, targeted a group of mostly white frat boys, then ran to reporters to claim that he was the one who was harassed by them, a “racist” incident that, of course, was lapped up by the Democratic lapdog media. " . . .

. . . CNN piled on with, “Teens in Make America Great Again hats mocked a Native American elder at the Lincoln Memorial.” None of these reports could be further from the truth, as you’ve seen. In fact, the exact opposite happened.

Terrence Williams wonders at the difference in press treatment here.
At least the Covington kids didn't go with the "Hey-hey! Ho-ho! Blah blah blah blah, blah blah blo".  

 

Leftist Activism 101: Get in someone’s face and then play victim for the cameras

Legal Insurrection

This tactic was used against me and pro-Israel students at Cornell, and appears to have been used by an activist against a high school student in D.C.

"The recent interaction in DC between high school students (one in particular) and an older activist who is Native American reminded me of a warning I once received from a colleague as to how I needed to prepare myself if I ever was in a hostile crowd or confronted.
"A classic leftist/occupy activist tactic, I was warned, was to confront a target and immediately start screaming that the target was being aggressive even though that was not true.Unsuspecting people in the vicinity would not start recording the incident until there was this commotion. The videographers accompanying the provocateur also would edit the video to start when the provocateur started screaming. The target, not knowing what was about to happen, would not be prepared for it, and might even take the bait, such as in pushing the person away physically.
"Regardless of what the target did or didn’t do, you would have video of the innocent target being portrayed as the aggressor, and the provocateur portrayed as the victim.
It happened to me at Cornell in April 2014 after the student assembly rejected a BDS motion

 

. . . That same tactic was used against pro-Israel students at Cornell later in 2014 by the same Ithaca activist and other SJP students, as I documented in Cornell Pro-Israel students taunted: “F**k You Zionist scums”. 
"Look how the provocateur got inches from a pro-Israel student’s face, and started screaming “don’t touch me, don’t touch me” even though she was the aggressor and had not been touched. She then taunted the target to hit her, “slap me, do it, do it.” She also made a spitting sound (not clear if she actually spit) in the target’s face. The targeted student had the composure not to take the bait." . . .

 

When America agreed on a border barrier

BBC  "The battle over the border barrier has shut down the government, but it was not always such a divisive issue."