Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) joined me on 840WHAS to discuss his tweets damning the students of Covington Catholic high school as "appalling" and displaying "racist hatred" at a January field trip to DC. Yarmuth declined to apologize for tweeting before learning the wider story of a group of adult Herbrew Israelites hurling abusive, homophobic language at the students, and how additional video showed that the Native American group approached the students. Initial social and traditional media accounts reported that the students "swarmed" the Native Americans to mock and intimidate the elders. Whoooooaaaaa. Slow your roll, rush-to-judgment team. The videos don't lie. Agenda-driven social justice warriors supplying limited views do lie. Student Nick Sandmann appeared on TODAY to tell his story. It was
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MAKE AMERICA LISTEN AGAIN: Kentucky high school boys Make America Garish Again, some blame needs to be assigned to adult chanters and Native American drummers encroaching on students’ space
There is plenty of blame to go around as we learn more about the heavily publicized story of high school boys mocking a Native American drum chant group. It turns out the lead agitator at the Lincoln Memorial was from the Black Hebrew Israelites, demeaning nearby white people as "peckerwoods" and labeling Native Americans as "savages" and "Uncle Tomahawks." (He begins shouting at the Kentucky students at about 59:00 in the video). The video comment threat includes this breakdown of events: Jerkbag Buttington III 7 hours ago 1:06:45 threatening an innocent bystander with violence 1:07:40 calls the kids "incest babies" 1:15:20 calls the kids "future school shooters" 1:24:53 is booed when he lets loose with homophobic slurs 1:27:00 "there will be no peace until there is bloodshed" There is additional