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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI would say the PR firm hired by the Covington school is working.
Makes me nuts that MSM are giving him time.
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)Bettie
(15,998 posts)they automatically get the benefit of the doubt and the other parties are not white or wealthy, so everyone really, really wants to make the rich, white boys the aggrieved parties.
Vinca
(50,170 posts)joshcryer
(62,265 posts)And they're very good at it.
And humans are malleable.
And narratives are manipulated.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Now these young men will be meeting t-rump at the WH. t-rump is a racist, and it appears he is rewarding them for their racism. Majority of the USA will see this as a slap in the face.
Can't wait for Graham to kiss his arse again - ugh.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)The majority of America will see them as poor persecuted victims of the mean old Trump-hating MSM...
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Which extends the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief's dishonorable track record of pissing on veterans, POWs, General, Admirals, and Gold Star families.
The way republicans piss on our military is an absolute disgrace.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Beyond that the same simplistic bumper stickers will be repeated over and over again, and the pretense of sincerity will be offered as to why other groups aren't being targeted with like criticism, while irrelevancies will be given as further 'proof' of our alleged myopia for more effective counter-narratives by the lowest common denominators.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)It's all about their image, and not about making sure their students are taught to be decent human beings. I wonder what Pope Francis thinks of this whole affair.
KT2000
(20,544 posts)is my understanding. It is a RW firm. Daddy must be connected.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)never admits he's wrong, who can with a straight face deny ever saying something he said on national TV 48 hours earlier, and who without apology or explanation can play the "You gonna believe me or your lyin' eyes?" -game with no repercussions whatsoever is so dangerous...
A very slick, well-connected PR firm told the BIGGEST names in the media that what they plainly saw on video (backed up by witnesses) was NOT what really happened, and after being shamed for "jumping to conclusions", the biggest names in media mostly swallowed the bait without even a thought and stumbled over each other trying to apologize to the Lil' Hitlers and their outraged, influential parents... I haven't seen such a blatant denial of an obvious truth since the Rodney King video.
It's one thing to give Trump this kind of leeway since the media out of habit will always see him more as an entertainer playing a comedic fish-outta-water role than a big-boy president making big-boy decisions. But it's another thing entirely for some non-Trump entity to pull this shit and get away with it THIS easily... We're beyond 1984 here, and giving the powerful an increasing ability to literally bend the laws of reality and re-shape it how they want (especially for a bunch of bratty little shits who were frankly not even worth the effort) should scare the ever-livin' shit out of every rational human left...
KT2000
(20,544 posts)that is how connected Nick Kavanaugh Sandmann's family is.