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Covingtongate Lawsuit Goes Forward, and Why Media Bros Should Be Concerned

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The lawsuit by Nick Sandmann against the Washington Post for its dishonest coverage falsely accusing a 16 year old boy of harassing Vietnam veteran Nathan Philips (discovered to be “stolen valor”) will go forward, a judge had ruled. This is a huge deal because it shows the trend of defamation law is moving in favor of those wrongfully accused by the media. (CNN will also have to answer for its fake news.)

The gist of the story vs. the specific assertions.

In defamation law, courts usually look to the overall “gist” or “feel” of a story to determine whether it is defamatory. In lawyer terms, this is known as the substantial-truth doctrine. This is a high hurdle for most plaintiffs to jump.

Also complicating lawsuits by victims of the press is that opinions are protected speech under the First Amendment. You can only sue for false statements of fact. The fact-opinion distinction is confusing even to lawyers, and it’s also a bit disingenuous for newspapers to claim that they can’t be sued for their news articles because the reporters were only sharing opinions.

The gist of the Washington Post’s coverage was awful. The gist was that a 15 year old boy attacked a poor helpless Vietnam Veteran. Zero fact-checking was done. And it was later revealed that Nathan Phillips was stolen valor. He never served in the Vietnam war despite claiming he had:

Here’s the full quote, taken from a video of Phillips posted to the Native Youth Alliance Facebook page (9:45 mark): “I’m a Vietnam vet, you know,” Phillips said. “I served in the Marine Corps from ’72 to ’76. I got discharged May 5, 1976. I got honorable discharge and one of the boxes in there shows if you were peacetime or… what my box says that I was in theater. I don’t talk much about my Vietnam times. I usually say ‘I don’t recollect. I don’t recall,’ you know, those years.”

Phillips also ran up to the children to harass and taunt them. Phillips was clearly in the wrong, but the media held him out as a war hero in their effort to ruin the lives of innocent boys.

To this day, Snopes falsely claiming Phillips did not hold himself out as a Vietnam veteran, despite there being video evidence of Phillips himself claiming to have served in Vietnam.

Looking past the “gist” of the story to the assertions WaPo made about Sandmann.

In the Court’s ruling, the judge looks beyond the gist of the story, and instead examines all 33 statements made by the Washington Post:

The Court first notes that the statements alleged by plaintiff to be defamatory have not changed in the proposed First Amended Complaint. They are the same 33 statements alleged in the original Complaint and set forth in the chart attached to the Court’s July 26, 2019 Opinion and Order (Doc. 47).

The Court will adhere to its previous rulings as they pertain to these statements except Statements 10, 11, and 33, to the extent that these three statements state that plaintiff “blocked” Nathan Phillips and “would not allow him to retreat.” Suffice to say that the Court has given this matter careful review and concludes that “justice requires” that discovery be had regarding these statements and their context. The Court will then consider them anew on summary judgment.

The Covingtongate ruling is a devastating loss for the Washington Post.

It’s hard to overstate how devastating this ruling is for the Washington Post.

Their coverage was indefensible. Why was an old man (stolen valor) going up to a group of teenagers newsworthy in the first place? What was the news value in what was a petty dispute at best?

We all of course know the answer.

Nick Sandmann was wearing a Make America Great Again hat, and he had to be destroyed.

The Washington Post and other outlets are struggling with what to do with their new social justice activists.

No 40 year old who had reported from war zones would have found the Nicholas Sandmann story worthy of coverage. But as people age out of reporting roles, new reporters must be hired. Legacy newsrooms are being loaded up with 20-somethings who grew up on Gawker.

The Gawker model is destroy destroy destroy – at least if the people you’re targeting is perceived as conservative.

As legal bills mount for the Washington Post, perhaps they’ll begin training new reporters in the proper role of journalists.

Mike Cernovich stood up for the Covington boys while conservatives attacked them.

When videos of Nick Sandmann hit, Ben Shapiro and David French attacked the poor boys. They undid their Retweets after Cernovich was able to get the truth of the story out.

But it’s good to know who stands up for the persecuted when it matters. When it’s hard.

For its part, WaPo accused me of “pouncing” on them:

A viral story spread. The mainstream media rushed to keep up. The Trump Internet pounced.

That outrage came from a parallel universe online, one that has been waiting for a moment like this. The pro-Trump Internet has, for years, worked to create a media environment that is designed to destroy the traditional news media and replace it. Mike Cernovich, a popular figure in this world, helped to promote the Pizzagate conspiracy theory in 2016. Pizzagate falsely accused a D.C. pizza shop of housing a secret pedophile ring, and ultimately inspired a believer to show up at the shop with an assault rifle.

WaPo itself lies about me. My reporting on pedophiles focused on Jeffrey Epstein, not a pizza parlor, and we’ve all seen my Epstein stories vindicated.

But if the WaPo wants to throw barbs about the dangers of fake news, maybe they can explain whey they lied about a 1t year old boy? What were they trying to inspire?

Aesthetics are politics.

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“Those who forget the body to pursue a ‘perfect mind’ or ‘perfect soul’ have no idea where to even start. Only physical beauty is the foundation for a true higher culture of the mind and spirit as well.
Only sun and steel will show you the path.” – Bronze Age Pervert

What would have happened if Nietzsche had injected a gram of trenbolone and 500 milligrams of modafinil before finishing the draft of his aborted book Will to Power?

We find out in Bronze Age Mindset, a book someone at my level of the game shouldn’t admit to reading let alone review. It’s a very offensive book. Before I begin, let me be clear: I disavow!

Reviewing a book like the Bronze Age Mindset is a sacrificial self-death, for the book is full of offensiveness and even reading a book today is seen as a crime. The greatest crime is speaking, the second greatest is thinking, and the third is reading. I’ll be crucified for this review in this year or next. No matter. My spirit will endure.

Bronze Age Mindset’s title is a wink to me as I remember being trolled by a nudist bodybuilder in 2012. Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) asked me if he was “gay” if he only had sex with men for money. His own lifestyle choices are none of my concern. I blocked him for being overly flirtatious.

BAP is back as Mike Anton and some conservadorks are trying to figure out why young men are rejecting conservatism for something else. What that something else is remains open, and BAM is not a work of political theory.

Mike Anton doesn’t even lift.

Riddle me this: If I told you that a person spends his free time dead lifting, and that’s all you knew about the person, would you be able to make a better-than-chance guess at his politics?

If you want to play ignorant, let’s put money on it. You can bet left wing or right wing randomly, and I’ll bet right wing every time. Who will have more money at the end of this wager?

Aesthetics are politics.

The left attacks the beautiful and virtuous and the beautiful and virtuous are more likely to be right wing. BAP understands this:

“The left realizes they look weak and lame – because they are. They know they have nothing to offer youth but submission and lectures. They know they’re unsexy and staid. If indeed leftist young men will start lifting and worshiping beauty, they will be forced to leave the left.”

By highlighting lost physical culture, BAP will bring more to the right than any Washington, D.C. think tank.

By encouraging physical culture, BAP is creating a new right wing movement. He confesses this in his book: “Any man who improves his body through sun and steel will drift away from the modern left, a program of decrepitude and resentful monstrosity. They know this and are afraid.”

If Mike Anton walked into a room, who would follow him? Who would fear him? A man who cannot inspire fear cannot inspire awe.

Mindset as art.

Curtis Yarvin, who is good looking In his own intellectual punk rock way (certainly better looking than in his Wikipedia entry), properly calls Bronze Age Mindset a book of art:

All revolutions begin as a fundamentally aesthetic break. The first step in a cultural revolution is the birth of a new artistic school. Behind this aesthetic must come an artistic movement, then artistic institutions. These institutions, if they prosper, become the cultural core of the new regime. Art is the spring, lever and hinge of any real change in our time.

Bronze Age Mindset is not a book about art.

Bronze Age Mindset is art in and of itself.

Like all great art, it offends.

Curvin Yarvin meets Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Before Arnold became a big dumb idiot who lied about his past, he was a man who sought power and provided inspiration. The Education of a Bodybuilding is a book by a different man.

“As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.”

No one cares about Arnold is doing today unless he reprises his role as Terminator (a role he first undertook at 40 years of age) or to talk about the Golden Age of bodybuilding.

Do young men see any conservative politicians like Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan and think, “That man is a winner!”

Trump won because young men see a powerful figure who wants to fight.

A day in the DMV.

“There’s no one here I’m afraid of,” I thought while sitting for 4 hours in the DMV to renew my drivers license, and more importantly, “This is a problem.”

I am 42. There should be many people in a public setting who could defeat me, and we need such men for the future.

Where are youths with thick necks and fire in their eyes? You see them when you go to Hungary or Romania.

Walk down the streets of an Eastern European nation and pop off like people do in major U.S. cities. See how that goes!

Yoram Hazony’s rejection of male beauty.

Yoram Hazony intimiates in a Tweet that BAP’s fans merely share pictures of “semi-nude men.”

Why must male beauty be rejected?

Does Hazony doubt the link between physical power and mental power?

A young Netanyahu would be more BAP than milk toast nationalist.

Bibi’s son Yair has gotten into trouble for sharing frog memes.

The left also attacks male friendship while claiming, “That’s gay,” is homophobic. (If some behavior is gay, who cares?)

The fact is that the left fears men meeting together.

Hazony and other old men seek to keep out the young men rather than provide mentorship.

BAP is a vibe.

You don’t read Bronze Age Mindset. You FEEL it. You laugh at loud if your spirit is mighty. What does this even mean:

“In this no-man’s land there is mafia, so many perverts, there is some crime but it’s kept at mostly very low or nonviolent level because place is full of off-duty cops on the make and no doubt spooks foreign and domestic, and who knows what else. I find life without such refuge to be almost intolerable, so here I felt free but I think was after day in a haze and the glycine was kicking in. I must have taken 600 mg theanine as well, and after much coffee was spacing out….”

In this passage BAP is explaining the feeling any man who has traveled has felt. Knowing danger was down any corner – and also adventure.

BAP is gym culture, and hence why conservatives won’t understand it. If I told you, “THIS IS YOUR FACE ON PRE-WORKOUTS,” would you even know what that memes?

Bronze Age Mindset brings together ancient history, memes, and gym culture into a book that is more influential than any modern work of conservative from the past decade.

This very offensive book is available here.

Washington Post Columnist and Never Trump’er Max Boot Calls Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Brave

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Max Boot, a Never Trump’er, had this to say about rapist and murderer Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

  • Trump could not have heard “whimpering and crying” because there was no audio, and Esper and Milley refused to confirm those details. The assertion that Baghdadi died as a coward was contradicted by the fact that rather than be captured he blew himself up.

Baghdadi committed suicide to escape justice, and also murdered his three children. Max Boot in turn writes pro-ISIS propaganda for Baghdadi.

Yesterday the Washington Post and other media outlets ran propaganda for Baghdadi.

According to the New York Times, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had “a spiritual gift.” This detail was included in Baghdadi’s obituary and will be used as pro-ISIS propaganda.

The Times was trying to outdo the Washington Post, which wrote in its obituary, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.”

 

And here is how Democrat Michael Bloomberg’s described a mass murderer:

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi transformed himself from a little-known teacher of Koranic recitation into the self-proclaimed ruler of an entity that covered swaths of Syria and Iraq

 

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New York Times – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had “spiritual gift”

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According to the New York Times, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had “a spiritual gift.” This detail was included in Baghdadi’s obituary and will be used as pro-ISIS propaganda.

The Times was trying to outdo the Washington Post, which wrote in its obituary, “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.”

 

And here is how Democrat Michael Bloomberg’s described a mass murderer:

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi transformed himself from a little-known teacher of Koranic recitation into the self-proclaimed ruler of an entity that covered swaths of Syria and Iraq

 

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The Washington Post Refers to Terrorist Leader Baghdadi as “Austere Religious Scholar”

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“Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48,” is the headline the Washington Post wrote to describe the death of a terrorist and mass murderer. (Yes, the headline is real.)

 

For years the Washington Post ran propaganda from Jamal Khashoggi, who was not a journalist but instead was a columnist paid by the terrorist-sponsoring nation of Qatar.

Bloomberg has an even more pro-ISIS headline (Archive), “Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi transformed himself from a little-known teacher of Koranic recitation into the self-proclaimed ruler of an entity that covered swaths of Syria and Iraq.”

Watch my film Blood Money to learn more about how Washington D.C. insiders are paid to support terrorism.

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