Photo: Nathan Phillips
This is becoming embarrassing.
First, the liberal media
had a banner week last week peddling two fake news stories.
One story came from
BuzzFeed, which alleged that President Donald Trump directed his ex-personal
lawyer Michael Cohen to lie about a real estate deal in Russia. The Mueller
investigation refuted that claim.
Then, we have this Covington Catholic High
School students wearing MAGA hats hounded a Native American story, which was
refuted by video evidence.
The students weren’t chanting, “build the wall”
either. They were doing sports chants to drown out the obscenities hurled
at them by a bunch of Black Hebrew Israelites.
Nathan Phillips, the Native
American man in the video, was the one who approached the group of teens.
It’s
a rather innocuous story, but the media saw MAGA gear and went insane.
White,
Catholic, and pro-Trump—these kids have to be destroyed. To grease up the
outrage machine, Phillips’ military record was brought up, but there appears to
be an issue with his service timeline.
There is no doubt he is a veteran but was he in Vietnam?
No, no he wasn’t. He uses the vague “Vietnam times” veteran, which is just
ridiculous. He was stateside during his time in the Marine Corps, never rising
above the rank of private in that time span.
The Washington Post tried
to run interference on this part of the story, reporting that a group
representing Phillips said there is no evidence that he said he was a Vietnam
War veteran. The Lakota People’s Law Project, who represent Phillips, added
that they mistakenly said that he was in a press release.
[...]
In reality, Phillips served from June 1972 to May 1976 in
the Marine Corps Reserve, a service spokeswoman, Yvonne Carlock, said
Wednesday. He did not deploy, and he left the service as a private after
disciplinary issues. From October 1972 to February 1973, he was classified as
an antitank missileman, a kind of infantryman, Carlock said. He then became a
refrigerator technician for the majority of his service.
Daniel Paul Nelson, a leader in the Lakota People’s Law
Project, said in an interview that his group made the error and that Phillips
never told the group he served in Vietnam.
[…]
With all the scrutiny of Phillips’s military record, he
has now been victimized twice, Nelson said.
“It’s definitely a distraction,” he said. “It’s a
diversion, in fact. I’d like to make the point that these papers being released
demonstrate the most important fact, which is that he was in the military. He
did not lie about that, and there are a lot of people who have been in a very
irresponsible and vicious manner targeting him without being able to prove
that.”
Wrong. There’s a video where Phillips says he’s a
“Vietnam war veteran.”
Even the author of the Post piece had to tweet it out,
noting that Phillips wasn’t making accurate remarks.
The liberal media has
eaten so much trash over the past ten days. It’s ridiculous.
I wish I could say
stop sucking, but the anti-Trump pathogen might be too tough to flush out of
the Left’s system. They just keep stepping on rakes.
