Translation: "Please bear with us while we desperately attempt to do everything within our power to COVER OUR EMBARRASSED ASSES for being stupid enough to thoughtlessly condemn our students who were deceitfully framed by FAKE NEWS."
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-covington-principal-doesnt-apologize-tells-parents-matter-is-being
By Claire Chretien
LifeSite News
January 21, 2019
KENTUCKY, January 21, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) - The principal of Covington Catholic High School, Robert Rowe, sent an email to parents tonight informing them that an "independent third-party investigator" is looking into the incident that made their children the subject of death threats and blatantly inaccurate national media coverage. Rowe did not apologize for the joint statement of the Covington Catholic administrators and the Diocese of Covington condemning the now-vindicated students and suggesting they may be expelled.
"The incident that took place at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. is being fully investigated by an independent third-party investigator. Based upon and following an investigation, we will be taking the appropriate action regarding this matter," wrote Rowe. "Please know that the administration is currently working with the diocese, local police departments, and local authorities to ensure the safety of our students, faculty and staff."
"Please note that we have been advised should you receive any type of threatening communication, you are asked to contact the local authorities," he continued. "Thank you for your patience during this most difficult time. Please continue to pray for our community."
The media, the Diocese of Covington and other Catholic leaders, left-wing and conservative activists, and even the March for Life itself condemned the students for allegedly harassing a Native American man, a narrative forwarded by a short video of an encounter between Covington students and left-wing activists.
But a full video of the encounter showed a very different situation, with the older man confronting the students and other protestors calling them offensive slurs - and the students remaining calm and not returning the mistreatment in kind.
A Polish lawmaker has invited the "wrongfully accused" students to address Parliament. Pro-life Republicans Sen. Rand Paul and Rep. Thomas Massie, both from Kentucky, have expressed support for the students.
"The honorable and tolerant students of Covington Catholic School came to DC to advocate for the unborn and to learn about our nation's (capital)," tweeted Rep. Massie, who represents the congressional district in which Covington Catholic is located. "What they got was a brutal lesson in the unjust court of public opinion and social media mobs."
A number of media figures who initially condemned the students, many of whom were wearing "Make America Great Again" hats in the viral videos, have retracted their initial reporting on the incident and/or apologized.
Even pro-gay Jesuit Father James Martin walked back his comments, saying he regretted wading into the controversy. He did, however, use the classic victim-blaming approach of questioning the students' clothing: " ... why were so many Covington students wearing MAGA hats? It's a free country, for sure, but they were at the March for Life, a religious event, under the care of their Catholic high school administrators, not a political rally."
Yeah, it is a free country, you asshole ... and they can wear any #$%&!@& hat they want to. If they wear something innocuous that triggers you infantile snowflakes into throwing irrational temper tantrums, that is YOUR problem.
President Trump has enacted a number of pro-life, pro-religious liberty policies. He addressed the March for Life via video message this year, and Vice President Pence attended and spoke at the March. Pence also keynoted the March for Life's annual Rose Dinner.
March for Life tweets:
Given recent developments regarding the incident on Friday evening. March for Life has deleted its original tweet and removed our statement on this matter from our website.
It is clear from new footage and additional accounts that there is more to this story than the original video captured. We will refrain from commenting further until the truth is understood.
The Diocese of Covington has not retracted its initial remarks. It does not appear that Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, the former president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has retracted his condemnation of the students' "shameful" actions, either.
No, the Archbishop is still trying to figure out how to discreetly remove all the egg he so stupidly smeared all over his own face. I suspect he will ultimately try to weasel out by assigning some concocted, petty "infraction" against the boys and then call it all good and tell everyone to move along, there's nothing to see here. However, what the Catholic Church truly needs is an Archbishop who can be a real man and admit the truth - he was wrong and the boys have been exonerated.
The March for Life initially released a statement criticizing the students' "reprehensible behavior" but deleted that statement from its website and Twitter after move evidence surfaced and it became apparent that the liberal media narrative was far from accurate. It released two tweets saying in part, "We will refrain from commenting further until the truth is understood," and declined to comment further earlier today.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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