Dan 'fake, but accurate' Rather weighs in on the Covington Catholic HS video

Greg P. | 6:21 PM on January 20, 2019

By now it’s clear that the original narrative that those kids from Covington Catholic HS harrassed a Native America veteran in D.C. over the weekend was, at the very least, not at all as bad as what was first widely reported throughout the media. This new piece from Reason magazine sums it up nicely:

.@reason: “Video footage strongly contradicts Native American veteran Nathan Phillips' claim that Covington Catholic High School boys harassed him. The media got this one completely wrong,” writes @robbysoave https://t.co/9Ki4iiTkQ9

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 20, 2019

But not to former CBS News anchor Dan Rather. He doesn’t seem to care at all about any new evidence that’s come to light in the past 24 hours:

1/3 The young men trying to intimidate Native American veteran Nathan Phillips rightly outrage. But who taught them the chants, fostered the intolerance, stirred up racial division for political gain? Adults and political leaders hold the greatest responsibility for our times.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) January 20, 2019

2/3 History has taught us over and over how easy it is to use hate of “the other” as an organizing principle for mob rule. In these images of today we see the echoes of the Civil Rights Era and other moments in the American story of persecution, harassment, and violence.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) January 20, 2019

3/3 We're repulsed by smug privilege in the face of pain, a lack of empathy in young people – symptoms of a much deeper rot stretching back centuries. But history also shows the chorus of the complicit can be vanquished by the heroic actions of those who will not be silent.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) January 20, 2019