It’s getting to the point where continuing to give this guy public exposure is journalistic irresponsibility in the extreme. And I’m starting to suspect the media – rather than become circumspect and consider how it got the story so wrong – is making a desperate effort to resurrect its original narrative.

Wait! The MAGA kids really were racists! They really did mock the Indian! They did!!!!

How else to explain the Today Show putting this con artist on the air, yet again, for the third time, to respond to Nick Sandmann after Sandmann finally got his opportunity to defend himself against Phillips’s accusations? We’ve already heard what Phillips claims happened. He is responsible for setting in motion a torrent of unfounded attacks on a 16-year-old kid. You’d think maybe he would take a step back and think about his own actions.

But no. He’s doubling down, even after an avalanche of evidence is showing he’s a gigantic liar.

And incredibly, NBC is giving him a continued forum for doing so:

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“Do you think he should’ve apologized?” @savannahguthrie asks Nathan Phillips about Nick Sandmann pic.twitter.com/TV13kfaNSW — TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 24, 2019

At this point it’s pretty obvious Phillips is just trying to extend his 15 minutes of fame as long as possible. And why not, when he can continue making claims like these and no one is going to challenge him? We told you yesterday about Savannah Guthrie’s condescending glares and sneers aimed at Nick Sandmann. Where is that in the above clip?

Also, why is it Phillips who deserves the right to declare what is “enough for him”? He’s the one who’s been running around attacking a teenager. Why doesn’t Guthrie ask Phillips if he should apologize for going up to Sandmann and beating a drum in his face for several minutes on end? Why doesn’t Guthrie ask Phillips if Sandmann deserves credit for refusing to be provoked into an angry response?

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And this after Sandmann was nothing but respectful to Phillips, and accused him of nothing.

By the way, check out this language in USA Today’s story about the interview:

Phillips also confirmed on the Today Show that students were chanting “build the wall,” despite it not being picked up on camera.

Wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute here. He “confirmed” that they were chanting “build the wall”? How is Phillips a reliable enough source authority to “confirm” that? All available evidence, and the testimony of everyone else present, is that the kids were not chanting that. The videos, even the longest ones, don’t contain any hearing of the phrase.

When you report that someone “confirmed” information, you’re assigned by implication trust and authority to that person. It carries the presumption that the person doing the confirming is in a position to declare definitively if something is or is not true.

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If you don’t believe the person has that level of reliability and authority, you usually say he “claimed” whatever it is. That’s what the media do every time President Trump says something.

Phillips is claiming the kids were shouting “build the wall.” There is no corroborating evidence to suggest this is true, and everyone else denies it. Yet USA Today treats him as an absolute trustworthy authority and uses the word “confirmed” to describe what he said, as if Nathan Phillips saying it settles it.

This guy is a gigantic liar and a total con artist. And he insists on continuing his attack on a 16-year-old kid over a confrontation that Phillips himself provoked. And the media keep giving him a forum to do it.

The American media are a disgrace.