First, Buzzfeed News ran a story Jan. 16 that asserted President Donald Trump told his long-time private attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about talks with Russia about a Trump Tower in Moscow.
A brief video clip of a white male high school student in a Make America Great Again hat staring silently as a Native American activist stood before him beating a drum and chanting was unleashed on Twitter.
Twitter users described the moment as a confrontation between smug privileged white teens and a besieged Vietnam veteran proud of his Native American heritage.
The Washington Post reported that the high schooler was wearing a "Relentless smirk." The story reported the assertion of Nathan Phillips, the Native American drummer, that the kids were shouting, "Build that wall," even though, the story noted, there was no video of the students chanting about a wall.
Later, conservatives posted a video that showed that Phillips, rather than being surrounded by students as he had claimed, actually had approached the students.
Twitter has turned into a forum in which people prove their goodness by berating others as unworthy, and conservatives also trash-talked the students from Kentucky's Covington Catholic High School.
When Trump first entered the White House, there was a concerted move to keep him off Twitter because even his own staff was concerned that his often combative bursts on Twitter were, well, unpresidential.
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2019/01/27/buzzfeed-twitter-provide-two-black-eyes-for-media-n2540283
A brief video clip of a white male high school student in a Make America Great Again hat staring silently as a Native American activist stood before him beating a drum and chanting was unleashed on Twitter.
Twitter users described the moment as a confrontation between smug privileged white teens and a besieged Vietnam veteran proud of his Native American heritage.
The Washington Post reported that the high schooler was wearing a "Relentless smirk." The story reported the assertion of Nathan Phillips, the Native American drummer, that the kids were shouting, "Build that wall," even though, the story noted, there was no video of the students chanting about a wall.
Later, conservatives posted a video that showed that Phillips, rather than being surrounded by students as he had claimed, actually had approached the students.
Twitter has turned into a forum in which people prove their goodness by berating others as unworthy, and conservatives also trash-talked the students from Kentucky's Covington Catholic High School.
When Trump first entered the White House, there was a concerted move to keep him off Twitter because even his own staff was concerned that his often combative bursts on Twitter were, well, unpresidential.
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2019/01/27/buzzfeed-twitter-provide-two-black-eyes-for-media-n2540283
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