A journalist has been fired for widely spreading fake news and hate regarding the Covington high school “incident” in Washington. The Wrap reports:
Digital company INE Entertainment has fired a journalist who publicly wished for the death of several Covington Catholic High School students and their parents in a pair of tweets over the weekend. Aside from his job as a post-production supervisor at INE, Erik Abriss is a contributor to New York Media’s pop culture site Vulture.
“We were surprised and upset to see the inflammatory and offensive rhetoric used on Erik Abriss’ Twitter account this weekend. He worked with the company in our post-production department and never as a writer,” the company said in a statement to TheWrap on Monday.
“While we appreciated his work, it is clear that he is no longer aligned with our company’s core values of respect and tolerance. Therefore, as of January 21, 2019, we have severed ties with Abriss.”
Passions ran high on social media Saturday after video emerged of several students from Covington, many of whom were wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, surrounding a Native American elder who was in Washington, D.C. for the Indigenous Peoples’ March. Many viewers believed the teens were attempting to taunt the elder, Nathan Phillips.
This will hopefully the beginning of a mass punishment against those who purposefully spread fake news and called for harm to come to those boys. Civil suits against them would be the next step.
Firing some low level twit who works for the “Fake News” is not enough. I was happy to see that the lawsuits have already started against some news organizations and their “reporters”. A lot of those fine young people who were maligned in the media, are about to go to college for free on the MSLSD, CBS, ABC, CNN, dime.
Those reporters tout their “Freedom of the Press” all the time, but it doesn’t count when you use slander and libel and downright lies to get the story out. Just like the proverbial “Shouting ‘Fire’ is a crowded theater”, there are limits you need to stay away from.
Swamp News, MSM=Fake News, Fox News.The Pravda Racists Divisive Commie news and their propaganda HATE machine at full throttle! They are destroying the country within! Prosecute these deep state traitors now, Pres Trump!
The Washington Post Newspaper as to its circulation in the Washington Metropolitan area that includes parts of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and all of the District of Columbia is in affectionately referred to as “Provda West”.
It is really a shame that people have to hate Kids that are just doing what they have every right to do. We all have the right under the 1st Amendment the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
All LEFTIST/COMMUNISTS are out for blood-the more innocent the blood, the better
The media, including True, needs to STOP saying that the students “surrounded” Phillips, it WAS Phillips who walked right up to and put his drum in the face of the student. The students didn’t move, HE did.
My understanding of the incident, too! Phillips was the instigator of the incident. The boys all go to a HS in KY and went to DC to witness/protest against a March for abortion….
Wow, it’s scary how easily triggered those on the left can become over very little. They are ready to kill this poor kids for standing outside wearing red MAGA hats. Crazy. I’m glad to see that this leftist “journalist” was fired. More need to be fired to send a clear message that this loony behavior is unacceptable.
That leftist who was fired, will be working in another fake news organization by next Monday.
People read the news of his firing and assume that he will live out his miserable life flipping burgers or washing cars. Nothing could be farther from the truth. There are Fake News organizations that consider being fired for being hateful and a liar, to be a resume enhancement. He’ll be working at CNN or MSLSD by next Monday.
Tolerance is a big joke, the communist left is as intolerant as anyone else, look at Twitter this guy and millions of other communist democrats who are intolerant still have accounts on tolerant twitter, twitter is a Joke everyone knows they’re liars and intolerant of concervitives, what we have is a country held hostage by communist democrats and their communist media.
D.E., I have to disagree with your statement of “as intolerant as anyone else.” Most of the “communist left” that makes the news are over-the-top. I just wonder what drugs they took as youth. As for the rest, I totally agree with you.
Sorry folks, but the American people have no one to blame but themselves by letting the Dems do whatever they want to do with no consequences. By voting these libtards into office, by staying home & not voting among other things. We had better wake up & stand up to the libtards & vote republicans into office & get rid of the hard core radicals or we’ll lose this wonderful country into socialism, thus killing the American dream!!!
The democommunists will continue to win as long as the Libertarians syphon off republican votes.
Your’e partially right Vet. The other half of the problem is all the damned illegals and dead people voting, especially in places like Calipornia. If the Libertarians concentrated on the lower political positions, they would make it much easier for a Republican to win the more important positions and also would give them a better chance to win at least something! They could even become a party of importance, IF they would start small and grow instead of always playing the spoilers. BTW, Thanks for your service from a fellow Vietnam vet.
I guess “Fake News” exists after all…
Michael, I read there was a third group that started the animosity against the students, and it was the Native American who came between the groups to pray for peace. The stations were wrong, as usual (deliberately by selectively editing?). But the man drumming the tom-tom was trying to calm things.
The indigenous people were the first humans to come to North America, therefore had every right to own the land. It was our forefathers, the Europeans, who forced them onto miserable pieces of land to make way for “civilization.”
Billy and George, one does not need a license to open a website or to launch a cable channel; only over-air radio and television stations need licenses. Google, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have the power to ban websites from their services (searches and advertising, both critical to website and channel survival). Too bad they only ban conservative web sites. (Related – it will be interesting to see if they now ban BuzzFeed for the same reason they banned InfoWars – as a purveyor of conspiracy theories.)
You are wrong about the injun. He is a serial agitator and works for big money leftist organizations, SJWs. He has done this many time in the past and may not in fact even be a veteran. He also lied to the press about the Christian group surrounding and harassing him. That is until the additional video surfaced, then he admitted that they didn’t.
You apparently think that North America, the United States region should have been left to wild animals and wild indians. That’s not how the world has ever worked. Civilization has always sought to progress. You must read Thomas Sowell’s book: Cultures and Conquests. Education is your friend.
international law deeds land taken in conflict to the victors. Borders and populations change. Technology prevails whether the catapault or drones. You are way out of line and the Indian was trying to get a violent response for his Liberal press employer.
Obviously the more advanced culture of the Europeans prevailed. Also he was claiming police brutality. On the res the police are tribal members so take your complaint to them–not to us. When I taught 7th grade, I noted how humorous it was for the 7th grade boys to kind of demand respect but since they had one foot in childhood and one in adulthood they would soon be bouncing superballs off the ceiling. The tribes too have one foot in and one out of the US. They demand “sovereignty” and the oh so sensitive Americans allow they to carry on activities (gambling, selling illegal fireworks etc.) because of that status, but try cutting off the federal welfare! Suddenly they are all about being part of the US>
I think you meant to reply to Brit.
Nathan Phillips is almost certainly NOT A VIETNAM VET. I read today that he was born in 1955 which means that the earliest that he could have gone to Vietnam was 1972. In 1972 troop withdraws were taking place. The U.S. were pulling people out, not putting them in and especially not a 17 or 18 year old kid that never had any combat experience. He’s a leftist phony.
The Washington Compost made a retraction today and admitted that the injun wasn’t a Viet Nam Vet.
Ok, Phillips (aka Stanard) served in the Marine Corps Reserve 4 years, in Kansas, Nebraska and Commiefornia. He went AWOL at least 3 times and left the Service with the rank of….private. He never claimed to be a Viet Nam Vet, but instead referred to his service as: Viet Nam time Vet, but never attempted to correct being mistakenly called a Viet Nam Vet.
I hate assholes like that! Now I see a whole shitload of military hats and shirts being pedaled with “Vietnam Era Vet” on them. Makes me want to PUNCH the assholes selling that kind of shit!
Exactly correct, Viet Vet! Nathaniel Standard joined the USMC in 1972 as a Basic Electrician, and was discharged in 1976 and NEVER went to Vietnam, he was mostly USMC Reserves in KS and NE, and got out as a PRIVATE after 4 years, after being UA ((unauthorized absence) . He was NEVER a “Recon Ranger”, which is impossible in the USMC anyway. And, he NEVER went to TO VN, although he served during the VN ERA. I respect him for serving in the MARINES, but not for pretending to be a VN VET and milking his pretended status for the last 40 plus years. He had his more than shot at 15 minutes of fame and now he is outed by his own selfishness and desire to be relevant and to be anti -White.
Forgot to comment on the third group. Yes that was the Black Israelites group, a black hate group (black supremacy). They hurled invective and vulgarity at the Christian group. The video is out there.
Where is the video on the Black Israelites? Saw the threatening marches of the Black Lives Matter during the R convention in DC. Terrifying. They were dressed paramilitary and chanting obscenities as they marched loudly down the street. Hate filled rhetoric. Why is this not a hate crime to vilify white Americans but we can’t speak against Blacks, Muslims etc.
Marcy:
Radical Blacks and Radical Muslims are the perfect partners for the Democrat agenda in this country. Remember, Obama would not admit that there was a radical Muslim group who were definitely terrorist and Black Lives Matter was sanctioned by the Democrats – BLM wanted to kill police officers. Then you have the current ANTIFA, which is mostly white radical communists. Our democrat party wants these groups on their side. They are just other groups sanctioned y the Democrats to raise another avenue against President Trump. Until America says enough is enough, you will never see the media or democrats, say hate crimes can be utilized when whites are the victims. Just part of a well organized front against America and President Trump.
Brit, you obviously read the wrong news if you think this “person” was trying to calm the situation. He is a serial agitator and has been proven on the wrong side many times in the past. I would request as the left’s heroine Pocahontas that this “supposed veteran” take a test to prove he is even a Native American.
Run a DNA test on his Native American nose and alone the findings and results Will predictably support the stated conclusion. More important was his behavior of sticking his Tom Tom in the students face violating personal space with an apparent intention of erupting a young man’s temper in response. The man was clearly on “the warpath”.
You need to bone up on lives of Indians in the U.S. They existed in rival tribes who were killing each other off until they got together to have peace in order to survive long enough to have their kids grow to adults. They did not own land, they used land and when it would no longer produce the crops enough for their tribe they moved on. In our area a tribe lived on the water front and grew food by alternating their space along the water front and their main food was fish. The Senecas seeing what this tribe was doing wiped the Neutons out stole their women and boys to get the water front and their crops. Unfortunately the Senecas didn’t get the rotating planting deal and moved into the middle of the state that had good land and to get away from the French moving in on the water front. Women who were kidnapped to replace men through wars never attempted to go back home because the culture was women were transferrable among the tribes and women accepted their new tribes. Babies had their noses pinched so enemy tribes wouldn’t hear the baby crying and attack the camp. As a result Indian babies did not cry. Babies also were left to die if they had a physical problem as life was tough enough for tribes without having non normal babies dragging the tribe down as they moved from spot to spot. When European priests came they found out that Indian babies were being born with all kinds of problems caused by sexual diseases which the Indians brought with them from wherever they first migrated from. Indians thanks to sexual diseases and wars were on the verge of wiping themselves out. The priests had to teach or tell the women to wash themselves after sex and make their men do the same. It helped some but penicillin helped much better. Our Indians treated the white man as they treated other tribes when Indians got pissed. Torturing to death for the men and women were raped by the males of tribes and than either killed or taken in by the tribe women. Indians of today are not Indians found in the U.S. centuries ago any more than the Japanese and Germans we fought world wars with are the same as the Japanese and Germans of today are. What the Europeans brought to the Indians of the U.S. was current medicine and civilization and it is up to them to make their way through education which is free for all in the U.S. Their numbers of today are well over their numbers of three million when the Europeans got here so there has been no genocide like anti whites proclaim.
One correction, I believe the indians got the sexual diseases from European voyagers.
There was no PURPOSEFUL genocide. Except for a few isolated cases, the wholesale genocide of the American indians, as suggested in the book: American Genocide, is a lie. Most of the indian deaths were the result of diseases, such as small pox, brought unintentionally to these shores. Naturally the left, who think that North America should have been left to wild animals and wild indians, consider that and military action in response to indian depredations, as part of the genocide.
Penicillin was discovered in 1942 by Alexander Fleming of the English army (I thought)
Yet another ignorant brainwashed idiot spewing the liberal talking points that the evil, naughty, racist White Europeans “stole” Indian lands. Indian “had every right to own the land”? They owned ALL land? So now all White Europeans MUST move back to Europe, right? Of course we will leave ALL the Indians, Blacks, Muslims, Hispanics from ALL other nations, and Asians her to SHARE the “Indian lands with them, because the Indians were SO willing to share “THEIR LANDS” with everyone else who somehow stumbled onto what was primitive America before it was civilized, because as we all know, before the evil, naughty Whites criminally dared to enter the “Indian lands”, NO Indian EVER died, there were NO diseases, they all lived in peace, never killed anyone, never made slaves of anyone else, and all worshipped the Great Spirit, and they all had magical powers, and they were all happy with their other Indian neighbors, correct? The fact that they killed anyone who dared to enter their lands, even if the trespassers were peaceful does not matter. And today, everyone still allowed to remain in the country will share the great native American culture of banging drums and chanting in insane unidentifiable languages ( by the way, can ANYONE, especially Native Americans, tell us what Nathan Phillips was chanting? What did he actually say? ) Thanks for all of your wonderful , generous, sharing culture, Native Americans!
Those “Native Americans” came here to North and South America before us, but that doesn’t mean that they can lay claim to the continents. They all came here on a land bridge from Asia or came across the water in the Bering Straits. The European settlers actually treated the Natives better than the Germans treated the Jews and the Romanians. They decided that the natives didn’t deserve to live no less settle into a new home. For millennia, the people who invaded other people’s lands, just killed everyone. And just look at the Muslims who conquered most of Africa and sold the Sub-Saharan Blacks into slavery. And they conquered much of Europe, keeping the Spanish and French and many other people groups in domination for over 300 years until they were able to drive them back to the Middle East. Now they are invading and subjugating Europe again, while the people and their governments sit back and welcome the invasion. If the Muslims were the ones who came here in the 1600’s, the Indian Tribes would have been destroyed and everyone would have been killed.
It’s beginning to look like this indian is not a Viet Nam Vet and probably not a veteran at all (which was my guess from the start), however the greater thing is this: you have to laugh at the leftists thanking the indian for his Service and scolding the white boys for harassing this military veteran. The left has a long history of hating the U.S. military and undermining the military. President’s Karter, Klinton and Ovomit decimated the military and both Klintons and Ovomit’s abject hate for military personnel is manifest. Ovomit also purged the officer corps. It is more than safe to say the left loathes the U.S. Military. In fact they finally found a couple of “soldiers” they could get behind in Bowie Bergdahl and Chelsa Manning.
I would say you nailed it. Well done!
Fake News suppose to be hate crime period. When someone knowingly post something fake need to be prosecuted. It a crime
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS NOW THE COMMUNIST PARTY. WE SEE IT NOW. BUT IT WAS INFECTED AND TAKEN OVER BACK IN THE 70’S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZHKBVS1zGw
Former communist, David Horowitz (frontpagemagazine.com), has stated that the communists took over the democommunist party at the 1968 democrap convention in Chitcago.
Yes they did and along with it they took over public education (infliltrated by hippies) and the media both of which had always drifted to the left of center but in that time frame they went hard left and continue their decline into the very totalitarian thought our soldiers fought to preserve us from. We must find a way to fight back but they have, like a brain worm, infested our children’s minds since the 60′ so now we have a large contingency of brain washed commie style young adults.
Yes, the Counter Culture (communists) launched a Culture War on the U.S. in the 60s. The chaos we see today, the nihilism, mass shootings, school shootings and all sorts of societal maladies is a direct result of that ongoing war.
The commies started infiltrating our society and institutions back in the ’30s if not slightly before that. The McCarthy hearings in ’54, while totally receiving a put-down from the press (MSM), turns out to be quite accurate, though it may not have gone far enough! By ’68 (I was a protester) the commies were all through our universities, as well as other industries. Today, this poster (me) is a loyal Trump supporter, not GOP, but Trump! I agree the dems are NOW the communist/socialist/progressive party…..IMHO
Since President Trump has taken office, all the media and Congress has done is tried to destroy him and his family. They’ve attacked, harassed, stalked and threatened conservatives. Chased them out of restaurants, stores, even stood outside their homes and yelled. And the media reports on this – without saying it’s not acceptable and should be stopped. THIS is ALL they’ve done. They haven’t done a darn thing for the people, and have stated recently that this is their only priority. When are Americans going to wake up? When it affect them personally? When they’re the ones being attacked? It’s not enough that they’ve pulled down statues, closed businesses, allowed boys into girls’ restrooms, told us what books we can read, music to listen to, movies to watch; even what our kids are being taught in schools. Now they’re coming after our children – and only because they’re conservatives. When are you going to rise up and say ‘Enough!’ and refuse to cave to them? When all your freedom is gone? Do you want unhinged people running the country? Say NO to Democrats. It started with them, and they’ve never ONCE condemned the media. I have even seen posts on social media from Democratic Congress members that have called for these kids to be vilified.
This is the time when a definition of Free Speech needs to be spelled out. You cannot yell fire in a crowded theater. What these fake news agencies are doing is no different, IMO. The US Supreme Court has to set precedent and spell out what is free speech and what is inflammatory unprotected speech. The level of hate and misinformation as well as division being spewed by these incredulous humans is WRONG!
Agree. Fake News is bearing false witness. It should be prosecuted as hate speech as much as the much publicized incidents of leftist persons (usually made up it seems). Let’s push on our elected officials to clean house in the print industry. Totally for free speech in opinions but they can’t have their “own set of facts” when they are not factual and are published for vitriol.
Just who are these “indigenous peoples” the Indigenous Peoples’ March is supposed to honour? As far as I know NO BODY just appeared on the North American continent. They ALL came from somewhere else!
And let’s get the story right; the KIDS were assaulted by the Indians, NOT the other way around! Let’s stop firing these behind the scenes, token people! FIRE the “reporters” that perpetuate these fake “stories”!
They had piss and moaners from everywhere, one I saw was from Australia.
A good book is by Thomas Sowell: Cultures and Conquests. Sowell is a ‘Black’ intellectual.
Excellent read and right on point! Thomas Sowell will not let the bleeding hearts miss the march of history and how status of various peoples has evolved.
Also another good read “Economic Facts and Fallacies” by Dr. Sowell.
Until it’s legal to shoot these leftist sonsabitches they need to be sued in to poverty!
That is not enough the news agencies should all be punished for lying and fake news that has been going on too dam long. The responsible parties are the agencies that allow this to happen and they are over watched by agencies. The agency in charge should take action against all of the stations that have been lying and fake news for the last over two years. These stations should lose theor license and immediately. Those companies advertisisn on those stations should think twice, do you want to be associated with liars and fake news. This country is being torn apart by these lies and fake new stories and they shoulde be punished immediatey and stop this from going on. If I was incharge the owners of these stations would be fined 1 billion dollars each and given three days to get rid of the liars and hire some respectable people that will give news stories and not lies and fake news.
Billv, you are so right. These lies spewed from these reporters and the employers they work for, who make up stories to get a headline not only need to be fired, they need to be punished. Their licenses need to be revoked and heavily fined.