SpecialOlympian wrote:Maz I want you to know I scrolled past your post slowly enough to see the Tim Pool video, at which point I sped up because in the past you have tried to describe him as an "honest lefty" to support your points. Here is his current YouTube video selection:
Well, ok you don't like Tim Pool. So what? A lot of people don't like Tim Pool.
And for the record, I don't think Tim Pool is an honest lefty although he is honest about more stuff that he isn't honest about.
Tim Pool is running a business, just like everyone else his main motivator is money and balanced journalism a close second. He's even openly admitted this.
Pool is a forward thinker and he has been smart enough to see that the far left/anti-conservative legacy media is about to fall and he is positioning himself to be a future thought leader and someone who can say "I told you so."
He has found a profitable niche in sometimes covering conservative issues from a liberal/centrist point of view while he is waiting for the fall. Kudos to him. He is a very bright young man.
But you haven't addressed one thing he said because I doubt you even watched the video.
Ironically, you were the one who started the thread about Alex Jones being banned from social media for targeted harassment, and now the same tech companies who banned him are allowing targeted harassment campaigns on these platforms. And you seem to support these boys having been harassed.
Anyways, your position is wrong, and it was wrong from the start. You knew it even at the beginning of the controversy but chose to double down because of your deranged ideology.
Everyone who is smart has either backed off and issued their mea culpas. Scott Adams was among the very first one I noticed. He even deleted his video where he called those boys racist and hailed the hobo crisis actor as some kind of hero.
I wish that he had not deleted his video because I never saw it, and also because it could be instructive on how people can be taken in so easily by clickbait-driven fake news.
And, finally,
Bishop Issues Apology to Covington Catholic FamiliesDiocese of Covington Bishop Roger Foys issued the following letter on Friday:
My dear Covington Catholic Parents,
Since Saturday, 19 January 2019 the events at the Lincoln Memorial following the annual March for Life have gained international attention. Within hours we were being pressured from all sides to make a statement regarding a video clip which purportedly showed students from Covington Catholic High School being disrespectful to Native American Elder Nathan Phillips. Based on what the video clip showed we condemned the actions of students who engaged in the alleged disrespect and promised to investigate the matter.
Since that time other video clips - some of much longer duration – have surfaced. Once these went viral some of the very same people who had put tremendous pressure on us to condemn the actions of the students now wanted a retraction from anyone who had previously issued a statement critical of them. All of this was based again on a video.
Subsequently, there have been death threats to some of the students and their families. The vitriol and hateful comments on some online stories, some of them appearing on websites that purport to be Catholic and pro-life, have been beyond belief and anything but pro-life. We even had a bomb scare at the Curia offices and had to close the Curia and Covington Latin School (across from the Curia) in light of safety issues. People who are not at all familiar with Covington Catholic High School, its students, faculty, staff, administration and/or the Diocese of Covington have felt free to criticize in the harshest terms.
Having issued a second statement that said that we have engaged a third-party investigative team to do a thorough and in depth investigation into the events that transpired on Friday, 18 January, it was our hope that this would ameliorate some of the hate being spewed on the internet and other news media. Unfortunately, this did not happen and people are still lined up on either side.
We are sorry that this situation has caused such disruption in the lives of so many. We apologize to anyone who has been offended in any way by either of our statements which were made with good will based on the information we had. We should not have allowed ourselves to be bullied and pressured into making a statement prematurely, and we take full responsibility for it. I especially apologize to Nicholas Sandmann and his family as well as to all CovCath families who have felt abandoned during this ordeal. Nicholas unfortunately has become the face of these allegations based on video clips. This is not fair. It is not just.
We now await the results of the investigation and it is my hope and expectation that the results will exonerate our students so that they can move forward with their lives. In any event, we will make the final report public once it has been received. In the meantime, we call on all those who continue to spew venom and hate to desist and instead pray for a peaceful resolution to this tragic spectacle.
Mr. Robert Rowe, the Principal of Covington Catholic High School, has also been the target of this venom. He is a fine leader and role model for every student at CovCath and I support him unequivocally. Those calling for his resignation simply do not know him.
This has been a trying time for all of us. I pray that with the grace of God and the goodwill of all involved peace will once again reign in the hearts and minds of our faithful. As for CovCath, we have a spirit that will not die!
Yours devotedly in the Lord,
Most Reverend Roger J. Foys, D.D.
The really sad thing is that if there had not been such a push back from dissidents and threats of legal actions, the school would likely have penalized these boys and ruined their lives since they had thrown them all under the bus on day 1.
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