First Journalist Fired for Fake News and Threats Directed at Catholic MAGA Kids

PJ Media

. . . "The bright spot on the horizon is that The Wrap is reporting that at least one of these terrible "journalists" has been fired:

Digital company INE Entertainment has fired a journalist who publicly wished for the death of several Covington Catholic High School students and their parents in a pair of tweets over the weekend. Aside from his job as a post-production supervisor at INE, Erik Abriss is a contributor to New York Media’s pop culture site Vulture. “We were surprised and upset to see the inflammatory and offensive rhetoric used on Erik Abriss’ Twitter account this weekend. He worked with the company in our post-production department and never as a writer,” the company said in a statement to TheWrap on Monday.

"Abriss was one of the hundreds of adults on Twitter calling for the deaths of children for the crime of wearing MAGA hats and smiling in public. Lashing out on Twitter, Abriss expressed his deep wish that the children and their parents would die.

" 'I don’t know what it says about me but I’ve truly lost the ability to articulate the hysterical rage, nausea, and heartache this makes me feel," typed Abriss. "I just want these people to die. Simple as that. Every single one of them. And their parents.”

Well, that's disturbing. But it gets worse." . . .

Mr. Abriss, please give us your thoughts on these, um, school children:

 

A battle the Trump administration should relish

PowerLine  "Yesterday, John noted that the escalating Democratic attacks on Catholicism are, in part, an attempt to prepare the battlefield for the day when Justice Ginsburg dies or is unable to continue on the Supreme Court. In that event, said John, President Trump will likely nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg, and Democrats will make Barrett’s religious faith the basis for attacking her nomination.

"To which I say, bring it on.

"Judge Barrett is the mother of seven children. Two of them were adopted from Haiti. Her youngest biological child has special needs. She is a remarkable and very sympathetic women.

"In addition, she is a first rate legal mind. Barrett graduated summa cum laude from the Notre Dame Law School, where she was executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. She then clerked for our friend Judge Laurence Silberman on the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court.

"As a law professor at Notre Dame, Barrett was twice named “distinguished professor of the year.”

"She continues to teach law as a sitting judge.

"Do the Democrats really want to got after someone this sympathetic and this distinguished because she believes in the tenets of the Catholic faith? The answer seems to be yes. After all, they did it when Barretts’ nomination to the court of appeals was before the Senate." . . .

Haters Won’t Stop With the Jews  . . . "Some have theorized that the Democrats’ escalating attacks on Catholicism are preparing the ground against the day when Ruth Ginsburg dies or is unable to continue on the Supreme Court. President Trump is almost certain to nominate Amy Barrett to replace her, and Democrats will make Barrett’s religious faith the basis for their inevitable smears. Their theme will be, explicitly or implicitly, that no practicing Catholic should be allowed to serve on the Court." . . .

Did Savannah Guthrie graduate from the CNN School of Journalism?

Tenured Prof. Don Lemon, visiting lecturer.

NBC’s Savannah Guthrie and Nathan Phillips Spread Fake News About His Vietnam Claims
 Listen to her tone of condolence toward Phillips and of accusation toward young Sandmann.
. . . These lies continue, even after the full video proves they did nothing wrong. For the better part of an hour, the boys were taunted by a group of black nationalists hurling racist and homophobic slurs. The boys reacted with good humor and even sought a dialogue." . .
 Guthrie wanted the boys to apologize for wearing MAGA hats

If the Covington boys had been members of a media- and Democratic Party-favored group, such as DACA DREAMers, the confrontation against them by the Black Israelites and Nathan Phillips would be viewed as a hate crime.  But these are white, Catholic boys wearing MAGA hats attending a pro-life rally.  Their parents have been described by Hillary Clinton as deplorables and by Obama as bitter clingers to God and guns.  They are fair game.

Nathan Phillips Tried to Disrupt Catholic Mass by Chanting, Beating Drum

 

 NBC Tries To Smear Covington Catholic Again. There's Just One Big Problem. Well, Two.  . . . "The headline for the article, clearly meant to suggest the school is anti-gay, reads: “Gay valedictorian banned from speaking at Covington graduation ‘not surprised’ by D.C. controversy.” This headline actually makes the tweet look more accurate.

"Others, including Federalist contributor Chad Felix Greene (who also happens to be gay), quickly noted how misleading the story was, as the student was not banned for speaking because he was gay. “He submitted the speech too late and it was too political for the venue,” Greene wrote."

So, basically, NBC found a student from another school to trash Covington Catholic, and insinuated that somehow Covington is anti-gay.. . .

McConnell Defends Covington Kids, Shames Lying Media From Senate Floor
. . . "While many in the media did offer apologies to the students, many, including newly-elected Congresswoman Ilhan Omar continued the attacks on the children days after the media lies were debunked.
"Attorney Robert Barnes gave the left-wing media sycophants and celebrities 48 hours to retract their libelous statements against the Covington teens or face lawsuits." . . .
Mr. Barnes received death threats because of his efforts

The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran

I Failed the Covington Catholic Test

Remember who is whom in this societal struggle:

The Covington Catholic Students Deserve A Huge Apology From Everyone. I’ll Start

The Federalist Papers

The Covington Catholic school students should go on with the rest of their young lives knowing that many are sorry they contributed to their public impugning and regret it. By Glenn T. Stanton

" . . .The boys, not the instigators, were the assaulted, and the Native-American gentleman wasn’t the victim he and others made himself out to be. He seems to not have been a truth-teller either. There had been a great deal of nasty behavior going on for some time from a great many adults on the scene, and there doesn’t seem to be any evidence in the larger footage of the skirmish that the boys did much of anything ugly to anyone." . . .

"In fact, even though teens, it looks like they conducted themselves more kindly and restrained than the others involved. This brings me to my purpose here. I want to apologize for following the pitch-forked crowd. I made a conclusion about these boys that put them in the worst possible light.

 

"I thought (knew!) they were punks and said so publicly. I was as wrong as I could be about that, and I am deeply sorry. Sorry to anyone who saw that on my Facebook page. Sorry to anyone it swayed to think badly about the boys. Sorry to the boys themselves, their school, and their parents.
"Now, let me be clear. My Facebook audience is minuscule, so the number of folks who saw my comment was insignificant. I don’t apologize or excuse myself for how few I passed the false story to. I apologize for joining the horde, period.
"I will be writing a personal letter of apology to the boys, not to further flagellate myself, but to offer something to counter the mega-tons of vitriol that came crashing down upon them. "They should go on with the rest of their young lives knowing that many regret contributing to their public impugning.
"They need to know that the world is indeed fairer than this, and to have faith in people doing the right thing when the whole story is gathered. They should have such letters to read as encouragement months and years from now as they continue to struggle with what went down. This will follow them a great long while." . . .

The Left’s Tactic: Attack Christians

Noisy Room

. . . "Ah, but the GOP in the Senate passed an interesting resolution introduced by Senator Sasse. See the 2-page resolution here.
"Guess what….that resolution passed without opposition last Wednesday following his floor speech. This was a formal rebuke of Senator Hirono and Harris and rightly so. Remember this as lil’ Ms. Harris begins her presidential campaign. One last item…
Article VI of the U.S. Constitution forbids the imposition of a religious test for any office holder.
"Furthermore, let us not forget the 1st Amendment:

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
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The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference. It prohibits any laws that establish a national religion, impede the free exercise of religion, abridge the freedom of speech, infringe upon the freedom of the press, interfere with the right to peaceably assemble, or prohibit citizens from petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances. It was adopted into the Bill of Rights in 1791. The Supreme Court interprets the extent of the protection afforded to these rights.

The Senate Oath of Office that Hirono, Harris and all Senators make when taking office: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

When did patriotism become racism?

In the sixties it was the hair; now it's the hat. Approved headgear, meaning NOT "Make America Great Again" caps, must be anti-American! Only those shown here are accepted and declared righteous.

NBC/ Savannah Guthrie approved.

Bob Weir "It's become axiomatic in our country that anyone who disagrees with a minority group member, or a left-wing radical, will be branded a racist.  You believe we need a wall on our southern border to stem the flow of dangerous drugs and human-trafficking?  You must be a racist!  You say Al Sharpton is a tax-evading demagogue?  You're a racist!  (The fact that he owes millions to the IRS doesn't matter.  He's black, hence you can't criticize

him without being charged with racism.)  In fact, it's become an egregious act of racism for anyone to support President Trump, the wall on the southern border, or any other issue that promotes American values.

"When did it become a racist act to wear a hat that reads, "Make America Great Again"?  Keep in mind: it doesn't matter how many patriotic blacks wear MAGA hats, or how many go public with their support of President Trump.  As far as the left is concerned, those blacks are "Uncle Toms," or traitors to the left-wing strategy of undermining the values of our country.

"Those who engage in such ludicrous accusations undoubtedly feel that it's their trump card (no pun) to use whenever they're losing an argument." . . .

 

. . .  "A real problem with the abundance of spurious racist allegations is that legitimate claims may soon be viewed as simply more mendacious attempts to win disputes with non-whites.  I think it's a truism that all decent people will come to the defense of those being victimized by bigots.  But what happens when the line between actual and feigned bigotry becomes blurred?  It's been my experience that most educated, successful, self-respecting minorities didn't get where they are by using their skin pigmentation to extort their way up the ladder of success.  Sadly, we don't hear nearly as much from them as we do from the race-baiters who continue to see it as the only way to be relevant."

 

CNN’s Angela Rye Compares MAGA Hat To KKK Hood: I’m ‘So Triggered’ By The ‘Hatred’ It Represents…

Democrat to Pelosi: ‘Get in the Damn Room’ with Trump, Negotiate on Border Wall

Breitbart  (Video)   Democrats are livid about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s continued refusal, on their behalf, to engage in any negotiations with President Donald Trump over his planned wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a freshman from Michigan, is publicly urging Pelosi to drop the games and “get in the damn room” with Trump and negotiate on the wall.

“ 'We all have a fire under us to get something done,” Slotkin said, per a local news report. “ 'We’re trying to still figure out the dynamic between all of us, and the leadership is still trying to figure out how to manage this very, very energetic and outspoken class.” . . .