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<\/p>\nRUSH: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, what would happen to me if I said that a hijab triggers me and scares me? I couldn\u2019t say that? Well, why not? I mean, if a “Make America Great Again” hat scares, why can\u2019t a hijab? I guess I can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: “Facing a lawsuit after she spread defamatory falsehoods on Twitter,” imagine that: Somebody lying on Twitter, “Rep. Ilhan Omar on Wednesday deleted a tweet without explanation or apology. In her tweet,” the revered and respected “Omar had actually defended the racist, homophobic Black Hebrew Israelites who taunted the Covington Catholic High School students” last weekend. “Omar was wrong about virtually all of that except the bit about the PR firm.<\/p>\n
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“Nicholas Sandmann\u2019s family did hire a PR firm to help them get their message out to a largely hostile media,” and they got ripped to shreds by the Drive-Bys-for-hiring a PR firm. You know why? The only people that hire PR firms are guilty! The only people that hire PR firms wish to spin the truth. Which, of course, is BS. PR firms are part and parcel of lobbying. I don\u2019t even need to go there. “The Covington kids had just participated in the March for Life, not a ‘protest of a woman\u2019s right to choose.\u2019<\/p>\n
“While a short video taken of a group of teens shows a confrontation with protesters where a boy makes a joke about rape, the kid reportedly doesn\u2019t even attend Covington Catholic High School. The Covington boys were not taunting the black separatists. They were trying to drown out the black separatists\u2019 racist taunts with school cheers.” It was the Congressional Black Hebrew Israelites that were instigating everything here, and then when Nathan Phillips — the frail, brave, and courageous, lying Vietnam War vet Indian leader.<\/p>\n
When he saw that there was a crowd that had gathered, and he saw some white kids, he said (paraphrased), “Well, let\u2019s go join the protest against these little heathens,” and he shows up and starts banging on the drum. The kids thought that he might have been coming over as an ally. They really did think that. But that\u2019s before they knew who Nathan Phillips is. Nathan Phillips a classic liberal. If there\u2019s a protest, go make it worse! If there\u2019s a protest, if there\u2019s anybody in a protest that\u2019s conservative and it\u2019s a pro-life bunch of kids, then go out there and start taunting them.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what Nathan Phillips\u2019 instinct is. He\u2019s a leftist! He\u2019s a leftist first, then he\u2019s an Indian activist second, lies about Vietnam third, but he\u2019s a leftist activist. He\u2019s a community organizer, like an Obama type. He\u2019s constantly seeking out trouble and hoping to amplify it and turn public opinion against whoever in the protests are his political enemies. The Covington kids did not surround Nathan Phillips. He walked into them. He was loudly beating a drum, and he was doing war chants. They did not respond with racist chants or all these things that Ilhan Omar said.<\/p>\n
Ilhan Omar said that these boys were “protest[ing] a woman\u2019s right to choose.” They were making jokes about rape, doing all these horrible things — and then they attacked Nathan Phillips, surrounded Nathan Phillips, started doing racist chants. This is what she lies about! She lies, puts this all on Twitter! She went on to misrepresent everything — and this woman is a celebrated freshman. The Democrats think she\u2019s great — and she couldn\u2019t tell the truth if her life depended on it! None of them can! They\u2019ve all been corrupted by whatever their political agenda is!<\/p>\n
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And everything in life… If they see a worm snaking in front of \u2019em they\u2019re gonna find a way to politicize it! So the Covington kids hired a lawyer out there named Robert Barnes. Robert Barnes is representing the families of the Covington Catholic boys, and he “warned Omar about being held legally culpable for the false claims in her tweet, [and] she quickly deleted it. … Omar later tried to shame conservatives who were sharing screenshots of her” lies, and she deleted that one, too! She tries to delete the evidence that she had lied about them, then she chastises people who had screenshots of her lies, and then she deletes that.<\/p>\n
So the lawyer here, Robert Barnes, is doing this pro bono — which means U2 is paying for it, for those of you in Rio Linda. “Barnes has given journalists, news outlets, and celebrities until Friday to either retract and apologize for posting [their lies] about the Covington Catholic boys or face legal action.” So quite naturally the lawyer “received a bomb threat on Wednesday afternoon, hours after he gave the media a 48-hour notice to correct the record.”<\/p>\n
There were bomb threats being, quote-unquote, “phoned in.” They were all from Twitter, and as law enforcement tracked down Twitterers and the tweeters, of course they couldn\u2019t find anybody because all of the addresses are fake and the IP routing was disguised. These are gutless, anonymous, little wandering shreds of human debris populating Twitter. They don\u2019t matter to anybody. They\u2019ve never mattered. They know their lives don\u2019t matter. This is all they can do to make themselves feel like they have relevance and power.<\/p>\n
But because of the nature of the threats — bomb threats and so forth — you have to take \u2019em seriously. From The Daily Wire: NBC News tweeted back on Tuesday night that “a Covington Catholic High School student was banned from speaking at the school\u2019s graduation because he was gay.” Did you hear about this? (interruption) You didn\u2019t hear about this? NBC, out of the blue… The thing happens over the weekend. The media gets it dead wrong, everybody gets it dead wrong, and then the media begins to apologize, tries to cover their tracks — while still covering the story as though the kids are guilty.<\/p>\n
They tried to do both. To their credit (ahem), some of the conservative intellectual Never Trumpers did offer mea culpas. They swallowed hard. They bit the bullet and they swallowed hard. But the primetime networks, while admitting that there was another video that cast the event in an entirely different light, they continued to report on the boys as a bunch of reprobates anyway. Part of that is NBC News sent out a little tweet two nights ago that a Covington Catholic High School student was “banned from speaking at the school\u2019s graduation because he was gay.”<\/p>\n
This is not recently. This is something that supposedly happened in the sordid past of the school. But guess what? That claim was false. It was false in several ways. The kid was not prevented speaking because he was gay. He wasn\u2019t permitted to speak at graduation because he submitted the speech too late, and then the school decided that it was too political for a graduation ceremony, and then it was learned that the student — who supposedly was banned from speaking at the graduation \u2019cause he was gay — didn\u2019t even attend Covington High School!<\/p>\n
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But there\u2019s NBC running with a story (paraphrased), “Yeah, it has to be true! White, rich, suburban, Catholic teenagers equals white racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. Guilty! So let\u2019s go find news that supports our narrative,” and they found some locoweed to say, “Yeah, they wouldn\u2019t let me speak because I\u2019m gay!” NBC says, “That\u2019s great! That\u2019s great,” and they run with it, \u2019cause, folks, they don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s true. There\u2019s a new rubric. “If this is true” is now included in the story or the tweet. “If this is true, then” blah, blah, blah…<\/p>\n
The student did not even graduate Covington Catholic High. Meanwhile, in other media news, back on Tuesday, Don Lemon — proclaimed by President Trump as the dumbest man on TV in America. Don Lemon decided to attack the Covington Catholic High School chaperones for not teaching the students that “MAGA hats trigger ‘marginalized people.'” On Tuesday night, CNN host Don Lemon “ripped the … chaperones,” the adults at the event over the weekend, for not teaching these little racists that “Make America Great Again baseball caps trigger ‘marginalized people.'”<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think they trigger marginalized people, Don. I think they trigger people like you. I think they trigger your average, ordinary, mainstream media socialist and liberal. See, Don, I don\u2019t think you people have any marginalized people, unless you all are. You all are so far gone, you are so far away from the center that every damn one of you exists out there on the margins. There isn\u2019t a sensible, reasonable one left. “OK. The MAGA hat, the MAGA hat carries a certain connotation that provokes a conditioned reaction from many people.<\/p>\n
“Especially from marginalized people,” said Don Lemon. “For example, Pocahontas, right? This was a Native American. Their chaperone should be keenly aware of that. Those kids should know that. And let\u2019s say that the kids didn\u2019t know that because they\u2019re…” What it does Pocahontas got to do with anything? For example, Pocahontas; right? I guess he\u2019s getting… Is he mad at Trump for calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas”? Is that what this is? “Those kids should know that. And let\u2019s say that the kids didn\u2019t know that because they are kids.<\/p>\n
“Their chaperones should be responsible enough to educate them. After all, they are students.” Let\u2019s say those kids didn\u2019t know that \u2019cause there\u2019s kids. Their chaperones should be responsible enough to educate \u2019em. After all, they\u2019re students.” Another CNN host, Fredo Cuomo, “said he did not understand why Covington Catholic allowed their students to wear MAGA hats to D.C. because ‘wearing the MAGA hat would have still been a violation of endorsing a political position.'” Uh, wouldn\u2019t attending the March for Life be seen as “endorsing a political position”?<\/p>\n
After you\u2019re showing up in opposition to the March for Life? Wouldn\u2019t that be seen as showing support for and endorsing a political position? Churches are not required to prevent their students from expressing their public political opinions. But, see, that\u2019s another thing that can\u2019t stand. That\u2019s gonna change. We can\u2019t let churches get away with this. We can\u2019t let Catholic Church get away with mining and manufacturing a bunch of little Trump robots out there.<\/p>\n
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From the Washington Examiner: “