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I have not stated anywhere that the MAGA kids approached Phillips. Yes, a lot of the media made knee-jerk reactions to the incident. But they were right in assuming the kids were trying to bully Phillips who was trying to diffuse a situation between the two groups (and apparently it worked because he was able to redirect the focus on him and his drumming).
You can have more than one provoker.
Yes...however, I've never blamed another person for only staring at someone, especially a minor,
when an adult is the one who walked up to him and banged a drum directly in his face. Try again or continue with your utter and inexcusable dishonesty.
I have not stated anywhere that the MAGA kids approached Phillips.
In an interview Saturday, Phillips, 64, said he felt threatened by the teens and that they swarmed around him as he and other activists were wrapping up the march and preparing to leave.
If he was trying to diffuse the situation, then he probably should've been a lot more clear in what he was trying to do, or at the very least handled that in a different way. Because the way he approached him made it seem like he was trying to get in his face.
Where did he lie?
In everything that he said.
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Exactly as described by #CovingtonCatholic they were doing a cheer Nathan Phillips enters while most of their backs are turned, they're in the middle of a cheer so they think he's part of it, they even clap! They're excited he's there. #StandWithCovington
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Where is the direct quote?
“It was getting ugly, and I was thinking: ‘I’ve got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial,’ ” Phillips recalled. “I started going that way, and that guy in the hat stood in my way, and we were at an impasse. He just blocked my way and wouldn’t allow me to retreat.”
I am not doubting the Black Israelites were in the wrong. However, maybe you should specify what video and what time on the video you speak of.
He walked up to him. If he didn't want to get into a staredown, he didn't have to walk up to the kid, right?
You didn't even bother to read the story at the link, did you?
Philips was not racist that I saw. He was just a jerk for trying to intimidate teens physically.
Video proof of him getting in the kid's face?
I didn't know getting between two hostile groups to diffuse that situation (which it did) is 'being a jerk.'
Obviously you missed the weekend debates on this board and all the videos that have come out since the media spun one of their usual lies.
It's tiresome to repeatedly post videos to people like you who missed 1 1/2 days of debate and changing facts.
This is ridiculous. You have never seen someone stare someone down before? :lamo
Proof is in the video.
The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran - Hit & Run : Reason.com
This is an excellent article over what really happened:
While it seems that Phillips was trying to diffuse the situation, things got confused, including him. The true bad guys in this whole thing seems to be the Black Hebrews.
But then again, why would high school students be at a political rally of any kind? Groups shouldnt be using children for political purposes.
I didn't know getting between two hostile groups to diffuse that situation (which it did) is 'being a jerk.'
Philips has been one of the worst for making this whole thing more ridiculous. He is the only one claiming he was trying to diffuse the situation. All I see him doing in clips is staring down the young man who can't figure out why an old dude is drumming in his face.
Philips also says he was worried and trying to get away, but the kids were blocking him. He has some very confusing ways of 'diffusing a situation'
How do you know he specifically walked up to that kid?
Which is it, Geoist? Did he "get in there" to "diffuse the situation," or did was he just trying to "retreat," as the Washington Post directly quotes him as saying he was?
Because there are literally dozens of video clips showing it ...
Are you intentionally claiming ignorance of what has transpired and come to light in the last 36 hours?!?
Video proof of him getting in the kid's face?
I am speaking to the specific scene of a MAGA kid staring down Phillips.
Specific quote, please.
You're giving me tweets without links? Seriously?
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