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After refusing to retract a story labeling innocent Catholic high school kids harassed at the Lincoln Memorial “racist”, NBC Nightly News doubled down on the incendiary charge on Monday. In a report by correspondent Ron Allen, the network sided with instigator Nathan Phillips despite more video vindicating the teenagers. Telemundo also decided to smear the teens with no mention of the death threats they were receiving.
“This face-to-face confrontation igniting charges of racism. Kentucky high school students accused of mocking Native American elder Nathan Phillips, who claims his drumming was a gesture of peace,” claimed Allen.
Allen singled out junior Nick Sandmann by seemingly suggesting he was the one who started everything because he was “at the center of the controversy”. Instead of providing a straight report about what the longer video clearly shows (the students were the ones being harassed), Allen cast doubt by saying the students “insist this longer video shows what really happened.”
Focusing on their possible punishment, Allen hyped how Sandmann and his classmates could face expulsion. But Allen abdicated his responsibility as a journalist to report how the teenagers were receiving death threats. “Sandmann also said both he and his family have received physical and death threats over the past few days thanks to the social media mob that jumped on the initial story,” Garrett Tenney reported on Fox News Channel’s Special Report that same evening.
On top of that, NBC also failed to report how the radical liberal mob on social media targeted the wrong student (who wasn’t even there) and threatened the lives of him and his family.
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