Kirsten Powers, a former Fox News political analyst who transformed almost overnight into a far-left zealot when she began providing commentary to CNN two years ago, has apparently deleted the Twitter app on her phone due to alleged harassment from supporters of the Covington kids.
“Every day I get up and say ‘no more Twitter’ and somehow end up back here. I always regret it. Deleting the app now,” she whined in a Twitter post, ironically enough, Wednesday afternoon.
Every day I get up and say “no more Twitter” and somehow end up back here. I always regret it.
Deleting the app now.
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) January 23, 2019
While she cited no specific reason for her abrupt departure, previous tweets from earlier in the day showed her complaining about “orchestrated harassment campaigns against journalists.”
These complaints were ridiculed and torn apart by Twitter users, including her former colleague at Fox News, Guy Benson, as well as Meghan McCain’s husband, Ben Domenech.
Look:
This @washingtonpost story captures the real lesson of this episode—don’t succumb to orchestrated harassment campaigns against journalists.
“The Covington Catholic story went viral. The mainstream media chased it. The Trump Internet pounced.” https://t.co/Bu3zEeIFpE
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) January 23, 2019
Journalists aren’t the true victims here & this is not the real lesson.
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 23, 2019
It is not harassment to point out when writers, as many honorable ones admitted, get a story fundamentally factually wrong. https://t.co/ygHtdgGmkf
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) January 23, 2019
I agree Ben. Harassment is threatening to sue them (read article), sending threatening emails, Facebook messages etc. I know the difference btwn criticism and harassment.
Also a different opinion is not “getting it wrong” https://t.co/GmIxenSWbC
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) January 23, 2019
Does she really know the difference, though? Some think not, especially in light of how she had joined the mob in tarring and feathering the Covington Catholic High School boys who were filmed last weekend standing up to the harassment of a black hate group and a fake “war hero.”
Ever since the incident occurred and the media subsequently began smearing the boys with false accusations of racism and bigotry, Kirsten had been riling up the mob with her own flurry of false accusations against the 15- to 17-year-old high school boys.
In one particularly foul and patently false accusation, the CNN commentator accused the boys of referring to one of their black classmates with the n-word.
Also at 1:18 the harassers yell “Y’all got one n***** in the crowd!” One of the boys turns around and holds up two fingers…another holds up one finger apparently referring to the one black boy in the group.
How is this “shockingly little evidence of wrongdoing” — your words https://t.co/IvgXff490R
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) January 21, 2019
is that what you call referencing a black classmate as N—–? “not reacting perfectly?”
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) January 21, 2019
The kid didn’t utter that reference, the hecklers did. Shortly after that—when the hecklers told the black kid that white people would kill him and steal his organs—his friends embraced him. Didn’t seem like they had any racial malice toward him.
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) January 21, 2019
i didnt say they uttered it i said they referenced it by holding up fingers
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) January 21, 2019
Powers also accused the boys of possessing so-called “white privilege.”
Because of all the pure nonsense she spewed, as well as how indignant she acted when called out for peddling falsehoods, few seem to take her complaints about harassment seriously.
Among her critics is conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, a woman who’s been threatened by far-left activists with rape and death for years, only to be dismissed afterward.
According to Malkin, what Powers interpreted as harassment was likely nothing more than her being “fact-checked” and “informed that she will be held accountable for false & defamatory statements.”
Look:
“Harassed” = fact-checked; informed that she will be held accountable for false & defamatory statements; and exposed to bothersome videos, updates & context by the “hoi polloi” that did not fit her narrative. Buh-bye. https://t.co/ExnIbgGyzY
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 23, 2019
Headline correction: She was not “harassed” for “criticizing” Covington students. She was *criticized* for *harassing* Covington students.
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) January 23, 2019
Others appear to agree:
She deleted it because she’s a coward and not willing to simply apologize as others of character have done. It doesn’t fit her narrative.
— Coach Smith ?? (@Smith22Coach) January 24, 2019
I hope she gets sued. Hmmm, maybe that’s why she removed the app; poor impulse control that exposes her to a libel suit.
— Dee ? (@deeyork) January 24, 2019
I used to respect @KirstenPowers
Now, all she does is disappoint me.
That is because she’s engaging in this insane effort to find some reason to justify the actions of Nathan Phillips & Black Hebrew Israelite.
— True American Ohio (@TrueAmericanOH) January 23, 2019
You gotta love it. All of a sudden CNN reporters are “harassed” when asked to correct their fake news reporting. LOL!!
— Ravi Yande (@ravireport) January 24, 2019
Removing the app will not make her defamations silent!
— RWilliams (@Goose4653) January 24, 2019
Wouldn’t it be way easier to just say “I messed up, I apologize for my errors in judgement and will work to correct any damage I may have caused”????
— Joe Davids (@JDavids413) January 24, 2019
Now just imagine how the #CovingtonBoys boys feel. Right, Kristen?
— ❌ ?? I. M. Deplorable ?? ❌ (@gregorybrock) January 24, 2019
Because of the media’s fake, defamatory news reports about the Covington boys, the kids have been hit with threats of being burned alive and sexually abused. Their school was likewise forced to shut down Tuesday. It finally reopened Wednesday, but only with a thorough police presence.
It’s unclear whether the alleged harassment faced by Powers has been severe enough to force her to contact local authorities and hire bodyguards.
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