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CNN’s Kirsten Powers: Covington Students Called Classmate ‘N***er’ with Hand Gesture
Breitbart ^ | 22 Jan 2019 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 01/22/2019 3:00:07 PM PST by detective

CNN political analyst and USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers bizarrely claimed on Monday that Covington Catholic High School students referred to a black classmate as a racial slur with silent hand gestures to their harassers — who were actually saying the word.

The alleged gesture occurred in the lead up to a confrontation between some of the school’s students and a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during Friday’s March for Life event in Washington, D.C.

Initial video of a confrontation between Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann and Native American activist Nathan Phillips created a firestorm of controversy on social media, with both left and right-wing media observers accusing the student of racism. Sandmann, donning a red Make America Great Again baseball cap, is seen smiling as he stands in front of Phillips, an elder with the Omaha tribe, who is beating a drum close to his face. Some of Sandmann’s classmates were laughing and making hand gestures in what some say were attempts to make fun of Phillips.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: cnn; covington; kirstenpowers; krazykirsten; nword; slur
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The fake news media just can't stop lying.

CNN needs to make up more lies after their initial lies were all proven false.

1 posted on 01/22/2019 3:00:07 PM PST by detective
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Its just like CNN just can’t get over the fact that despite everything they did in 2016 to help their messiah Hillary, she STILL lost


2 posted on 01/22/2019 3:02:40 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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I give cnn a silent hand gesture every time they come on the tv.


3 posted on 01/22/2019 3:03:01 PM PST by shelterguy
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Sue Carlos Danger’s former lover for slander.


4 posted on 01/22/2019 3:04:10 PM PST by freedom1st (Build the Wall)
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To: detective

Now CNN is tripling down on their lie.


6 posted on 01/22/2019 3:07:14 PM PST by robel
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The black radicals were harassing their black classmate, who looked very young
Seems to me the boys were pulling him away from the radicals to protect him


7 posted on 01/22/2019 3:08:01 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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Funny how and Powers has no problem with actual racial slurs hurled at the students by screaming savages who surrounded them.


8 posted on 01/22/2019 3:08:10 PM PST by gibsonguy
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Reminds me of Get Smart: “would you believe, the student hummed Dixie? Would you believe, the student once refused to share his ice cream with someone who might have African ancestors?...”


9 posted on 01/22/2019 3:08:14 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: shelterguy

Give em the middle finger and a piece of cop baton


10 posted on 01/22/2019 3:08:35 PM PST by aces
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Btw
Lawsuit


11 posted on 01/22/2019 3:08:35 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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Hand gestures like “Hands Up Don’t Shoot”?


12 posted on 01/22/2019 3:08:50 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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The last lie didn’t work so let’s trot out something else!


13 posted on 01/22/2019 3:09:30 PM PST by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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CNNs current reporting strategy is “We will keep lying until you believe us.”

Goebbels is beaming with pride for CNN.


14 posted on 01/22/2019 3:11:23 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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channel 12 (FOX affiliate) in Portland is still putting out the fake version of the incident.


15 posted on 01/22/2019 3:11:28 PM PST by Cold Heart (The main purpose of The Wall is to protect the US from its own politicians.)
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I truly hope that CNN reaps the violence rewards it so actively wants to happen to MAGA folks.

Mistaie. I hope that CNN reaps those awards times 10^6.


16 posted on 01/22/2019 3:12:09 PM PST by Da Coyote
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Wasn’t there a front-page story last year about how Trump was “about to say the n-word, but stopped himself” ?


17 posted on 01/22/2019 3:12:15 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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It’s going to cost them a lot, going after non-public-figure children in this way. They appear to be unaware that the extraordinarily high standard regarding public figures which lets them get away with years-long litanies of slander against Trump and others does not apply in the case of a private citizen, and that committing crimes against children makes the tort much much worse.


18 posted on 01/22/2019 3:13:35 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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I refuse the racist assertion that only black people are allowed to use the word ‘nigger’ and that everyone else has to use asterisks or else call it ‘the n-word’.

If they really wanted everyone to stop using that word then they’d stop using it themselves.

And until they do I will insist on being able to spell it out when it is germane to the topic at hand.


19 posted on 01/22/2019 3:14:00 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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Kirsten, Kirsten, you have fallen SO FAR since leaving FoxNews. I suspect you are irredeemable now.


20 posted on 01/22/2019 3:15:15 PM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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