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Walking Back the Covington Kids Tweet
from The Smiley Face Killers · #132
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3 minTim explains why he deleted a joke tweet about the Covington Catholic/Lincoln Memorial controversy after the full video exonerated the kids, and rants about the media's rush to judgment and the left's demonization of MAGA-hat teens.
- 0:23Tim took down a tweet joking about the Covington kids situation at the Lincoln Memorial.
- 0:46The media's misrepresentation of the event was willful and almost nobody did their due diligence.
- 1:06Tim tweeted a joke saying the video was a reminder that some of the children need to be shot, acknowledging it's hard material to land.
- 1:30The full video exonerated the kids—they didn't start anything and were actually being harassed by Black Israelites and the Native American man.
- 1:59The kids' only crime in the left's eyes was being white, wearing MAGA hats, and attending a pro-life march.
- 2:44Even with new evidence, Twitter users are digging deeper, imagining the kids as racist, misogynist, homophobic Nazis based purely on their appearance.
- 3:18Tim wouldn't want his own kids walking around in any political hat or ideology shirt—he'd tell them to be unique people, not advertisements.
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