From Hollywood to Huffington Post: They lied about Covington student

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THE ANCHORAGE DAILY PLANET

It was all a lie, a lie that leftist celebrities, talking heads and the news media eagerly bought into hook, line and sinker – and without bothering to ask even the first question. Why? It mirrored their hatred of anybody not like them.

It started with an anonymous Twitter account hiding behind a fake name. It fired off a tweet of outrage that a bunch of Kentucky high school kids – Catholic high school kids wearing Make America Great Again hats, no less – had taunted and mocked a 63-year-old Native American “Vietnam veteran” after the March for Life in Washington, D.C.

The tweet included a video appearing to show just that. It went viral. The twitter sphere went bonkers largely, we suspect, because the students were white, Catholic and wearing MAGA caps – and the Left could not wait to pile on. The outrage was over the top.

Actor Jim Carrey likened the students to “baby snakes.” Kathy Griffen accused them of showing “Nazi signs.” The kids profanely were called bigots, bullies, white nationalists, racists. One “Saturday Night Live writer even offered to perform oral sex on anybody who punched them in their faces. One writer wanted them dead. Film producer Jack Morrissey joked about “MAGA kids” going “screaming, hats first into the woodchipper.” There were death threats and endless venom.

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