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You know it is misleading to say Vietnam ‘era’ vet, all the news organizations said
Wikipedia: “Nathan Phillips (activist), Native American activist and Vietnam War veteran.”

UPI: “…laughing and chanting at Vietnam War veteran Nathan Phillips…

TMZ: “A mob of MAGA hat-wearing teenagers swarmed around a Native American Vietnam veteran…”

Slate: “…Nathan Phillips, a Vietnam War veteran…”

Washington Post*: “…Phillips, an Omaha tribe elder who fought in the Vietnam War…”

Phillips does not say, oh no, I am not a Vietnam Vet. He doesn’t make corrections of all these outlets calling him a Vietnam Vet. And he lied repeatedly about the incident.

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Actually you are wrong on this one. First of all the Indian is an activist and the truth is he is not a Vietnam Vet. Secondly, the young teens were surrounded by vulger, disrespectful so called adults. The teens stood there and did not say a word. You are listening to CNN or other left wing media that does not report the truth.!!!

I would have been proud to be a parent of these young teens.
Stop listening to the media propaganda.

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Thank you !!!

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lol - I post that it’s not surprising that mistakes were made regarding his vet status and you come back with links showing mistakes made with his vet status and think it’s a big gotchya! :rofl:

Thanks for the laugh matt!

He did not lie repeatedly about the incident, you should stop repeating that falsehood.

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While I was stationed overseas it was a common ploy for agitators to dress up like old people, then come up to an American Service member and spit on him. Often the American would cuss or even strike out. There would be a video camera with a high power lense that would record the event and edit out the spitting. It would then go on the news and internet saying look at the Americans intimidating and beating up our elderly.

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The kid is just standing there. If he wants to go to another place, the best thing is not go pounding a drum right at the guy, all these people, if he really just wanted to go to the monument, all he has to do is just move over to the right, avoid the crowd, where there was plenty of room.

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They were?! Oh, well I had no idea. Thanks for the update mary2. Or whoever… :wink:

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He said all the things that I said he said, and he has changed his story when caught, and what he changed to was a lie. He said that the whities went after him first. No, the teens did not go after him. He said he was supposedly to bring peace to the event and the blacks were endangered. Not one white guy approached the black racists despite being called every vile name in the book. He has changed his story and he lied, but hey, ignore those lies.

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Yeah, the kid is pretty stupid to simply stand there and smile at a guy who is apparently trying to walk through him while beating a drum in his face. I certainly wouldn’t be smiling.

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He didn’t say they went after him. It was reported that he said they swarmed around him which they did after MAGA boy decided not to join his peers that had moved out of the groups way as they were proceeding slowly toward the Lincoln Memorial.

Everything else you are attributing to him is simply twisted bull ■■■■■ I’ve acknowledged that he seemed to misunderstand the situation between the kids and the Hebrew Israelites but deciding to insult the 64 year old Native American Veteran and insist that he is just lying about something is on you. But it’s what we expect from republicans these days. Insulting veterans and our institutions. Carry on.

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lol - No, you’d have really shown him who was boss!

Funny the other kids decided to be respectful of the group of Native Americans slow progression while beating their drums and move out of their way. Guess they’re just not the bad asses you and Nick are.

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They did not swarm, he went right into them. Me jumping into a whole bunch of people is not them swarming on me. It is me going into them. He went into them. He was the initiator of the action. The guy did not move, all he had to do was move to his right, move to his left. I just heard him say ‘I moved to the right, he moved over there to block me.’ The teenager absolutely never moved to block him. The guy inserted himself into the situation, just stood there, he could have moved around him.

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You can clearly see from one of the videos that the kid is standing basically by himself when Phillips first stops in front of him because the kid blocked his path, then later in the video the other kids have come back in and begin jumping and shouting along as well as shouting other things.

To him, I’m sure it felt like they swarmed in around him but as I keep telling you and others feel free to continue insulting this 64 year old veteran by calling him a liar. It’s what we expect from republicans these days. Insulting our veterans and our institutions.

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You would think this guy would show some common courtesy by not trying to walk through people while banging his drum in their faces. But I guess to people like him and yourself, that’s simply how things should be…everyone else needs to get out of your way, right. “Hey, I’m walking here, move your ass or I’ll beat my drum in your face”. How quaint.

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And I’ll say it again, zealots…nothing more, nothing less.

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Trumpers be like “Stories like this one are example on why the media is not to be trusted…fake news!”

And yet look at the President…over six thousand false or misleading statements in a span of two years!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2018/11/02/president-trump-has-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/

We are living in an extremely politicized and partisan environment right now, which Trump has only made worse.

Should the “media” done a better job of reporting this story yes. But the fact remains that Donald Trump and his MAGA brand is about promoting division and discord.

He is a confirmed liar and cheat, and yet his vision of America is sold as making us great again? Stop kidding yourselves, Trumpers are cheering on the divisive environment in this country, they see it as comeuppance.

But really they are sinking this country in the gutter while they cheer and wear MAGA hats.

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We all know the kind…get right in someone’s face with a smirk…we all know the kind.

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I watched him say different things on different interviews, he first said the boys came up to him and surrounded him, he later changed his story when the longer video came out. Difference I am not obsessed with skin pigmentation like you guys are. Why should I believe him when. his stories are all over the place.

I supposed to be mad about a smirk, that’s the narrative look at the boys face, as Reza Aslan says “A face begging to be punched”. This to a child, and yet I am in the wrong.

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He was a straight white Christian male. That’s like some final video game boss level monster to the left.

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His group had a permit to be there. They’d listened to the loud kids going at it with the Hebrew Israelites for a long time and then he and some of his group were going to attempt to continue their closing prayer at the memorial.

You obviously have problems with their traditions as well, but other than your boi Nick, the rest of the kids showed courtesy and were going to let them harmlessly pass.

I’m sorry Nick let you down by smiling but at least he was rude enough to block them and show what a man he really is, right?