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Home Front: Culture Wars
Tribal Leader and Alleged Vietnam Vet Nathan Phillips Lied. The Media Bought It.
2019-01-22
[National Review] If you’re in a public place and someone starts heckling you, are you entitled to heckle back? How about if someone does something much worse than heckling you in a public place? What if that person in fact takes a drum up to you and starts banging it in your face? Are you entitled to heckle back? How about smirking? Are you allowed to smirk?

I think you are, even if you’re wearing a MAGA hat. Even if you’re an entitled brat. Even if you’re an entitled Catholic brat.

We’ll stipulate that the Catholic boys from a high school in Kentucky were a little obnoxious when an indigenous man named Nathan Phillips banged a drum at them in front of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday. But Phillips was being a lot more obnoxious. To put it another way, if you were minding your own business in a public place and someone came right up to you and put a drum up to your face and made a huge racket inches from your nose, would you be happy about it?

The kids from Covington Catholic High School in Covington, Ky., were ambassadors for causes much bigger than themselves: Catholicism and the right to life. As such, they should have comported themselves better than to jeer and do a tomahawk chop in front of Phillips. Ideally, the kids would have ignored him and walked away. Until about ten minutes ago, it was broadly agreed in our culture that kids are allowed to do some dumb things because they’re kids. Should these kids’ lives be ruined because some of them responded to obnoxious provocation by being a bit rude themselves? I’d say their reaction was if anything more restrained than you would expect from teenagers. I’d advise them to do better next time. I certainly wouldn’t consider expulsion.
Posted by:Besoeker

#17  Should be on the district attorney's list for assault.

Shoot, break my arm it heals. Damage my hearing its gone. This is not a situation which became noisy, Chief Miscue is using and instrument (drum, no pun intended) to (attempt to) cause bodily harm (hearing loss).

How about Felony Child Endangerment? Certainly for the doxxers who are calling for a school massacre.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-01-22 19:40  

#16  Nathan Phillips is still mouthing off to the media. I hope he is on some lawyer's list....
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2019-01-22 17:29  

#15  How about smirking? Are you allowed to smirk? A few times in my life I have done this that when someone was shouting in my face. My options were either to smirk or to plant a fist.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2019-01-22 16:34  

#14  At this point I would not be a bit surprise to learn that Nathan Phillips is not enrolled with any federally recognized tribe, or is not even native American.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2019-01-22 16:33  

#13  Just wondering... Honourable discharge?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-22 16:19  

#12  Saying bad things about black conduct in the MSM is career ending.

They smother that truth with 2 pillows
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-22 16:18  

#11  give the NReview credit for adding a paragraph about the Black Hebrews who were shouting insults at the kids

this has been almost non-reported -- the Black Hebrews were adults yelling at kids and using fowl language and they did this for at least 30 minutes
Posted by: lord garth   2019-01-22 16:10  

#10  At Insty -

WASHINGTON POST FINALLY CORRECTS THE RECORD ON NATHAN PHILLIPS’ MILITARY SERVICE: “Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips served in the U.S. Marines from 1972 to 1976 but was never deployed to Vietnam.”

My guess is that the only Ranger Recon was concerning bar girls at the local dive club. New in town GI Marine?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-01-22 16:09  

#9  where did Nathan Phillips get the money to go to this event with his drum

his own retirement funds
the tribal fund
some leftist foundation
Posted by: lord garth   2019-01-22 16:07  

#8  I hope the National Review survives, otherwise I'll have to remember the names of all the writers when I decide who I do/don't/partially trust. Now I can just note a page is from the National Review and take a pinch of salt from the rim of my glass before reading.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-01-22 13:53  

#7  The kids from Covington Catholic High School in Covington, Ky., were ambassadors for causes much bigger than themselves: Catholicism and the right to life.

Well, you see, that's the problem. These kids had the nerve to be openly religious and pro-life so the media crucified them.

But, hey, if you don't like NR, you might like Pajama Media's article better.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-22 10:52  

#6   Even if you’re an entitled brat. Even if you’re an entitled Catholic brat.

Rather presumptuous of the author, isn't it?
Posted by: Raj   2019-01-22 09:48  

#5  NR went to shit as soon as WFB passed on, and I agree that they'll eventually meet the fate of the Weekly Standard.
Posted by: Raj   2019-01-22 09:47  

#4  National Review are cucks by another name.
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-01-22 09:29  

#3  First they subverted the Republican party. Then they corrupted conservatism. Now wait til they get a load of what they have left me to become...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-01-22 09:29  

#2  It is to be hoped that National Review will soon go the way of the Weekly Standard.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889   2019-01-22 09:24  

#1  The Left has fallen back upon traditions of selling hate and lies. See - Two Minutes, Orwell was suppose to be warning, not a How To manual

"As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap"
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-01-22 07:57  

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