I recommend today's article in the Atlantic Monthly site: The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story, and the Damage to their Credibility Will Be Lasting. The article describes how numerous other videos of this controversial event show that the media's original anti-Trump story was not only incorrect, it was in fact completely backward from the real events. It was the students who were being hassled by the American Indian (who is NOT a Vietnam vet, as he claimed), and before that by an African-American religious group, not the other way around.
Of course all kinds of media hogs and liberal politicians and clueless Hollywood celebrities weighed in with their outrage - hoping, I suppose, to get a little more publicity for themselves.
A few media outlets actually apologized - quietly and half-heartedly - but to my amazement even today some media writers are still trying to push the same story, and attacking the students and their high school, even though the original story it is now thoroughly discredited. And of course now that we know the full story, none of the media have anything to say about the Native American or the African-American's bad behavior - that would be politically incorrect! I find it sickening.
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