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, permanently returned to Twitter this Monday after a roughly one month hiatus.
While she cited no specific reason for her abrupt departure last month, most assumed it was in response to the scathing backlash she received for having smeared 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.
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) January 23, 2019
While Powers posted a few spare tweets between Jan. 23 and Feb. 18, it wasn’t until this Monday that she returned full-time, for a lack of a better word, and began tweeting profusely again.
She marked her return with a lengthy thread in which she attempted to walk back some of her criticism of the Covington Catholic High School boys who were falsely accused by her and others in the left-wing media last month of harassing a Native American man.
Read her full thread below:
1) I have spent the last few weeks in a mostly Twitter free zone to spend time reflecting on what role I may have played in what indisputably has become a dangerously toxic culture. I am not proud of what I have found.
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) February 18, 2019
2) I work hard to see
every side of an issue and also speak up when I see a wrong. But in
doing that I am too often judgmental and condemning–both on and off social media–in a way that is
contrary to my belief system and my faith.— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) February 18, 2019
3) I want to stand on the side of justice and equality but also of grace and I have failed to do that. Part of grace is recognizing my own fallibilities and imperfect judgment and reminding myself that there but for the grace of God go I.
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) February 18, 2019
4) Yes, this applies in the Covington case. This will please nobody because I still believe the teenagers were disrespectful, but my tweets were lacking in grace. As a Catholic I felt duty bound to speak up and hold them accountable, but that really isn’t my job.
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) February 18, 2019
5) I also don’t believe these teenagers should be tarnished forever for what amounts to one really bad day. I know that black teenage boys don’t get this benefit of the doubt or grace, but I want more black teenage boys to get this benefit, not fewer white teenage boys.
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) February 18, 2019
6) It should be said I have been an equal opportunity scold, and liberals have been on the receiving end of my judgement and I regret that as well. I am rethinking my view on Al Franken, for example, after hearing from many friends on the issue of the rush to judgement.
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) February 18, 2019
7) I often am too rigid in trying to be pure in my principles and don’t leave enough room for this mess of life. So I’m writing this as an apology to both left and right and making a pledge to do better.
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) February 18, 2019
8) I also hope to be part of a conversation — if we ever have it as a country — about the path to redemption for people who have stumbled and even failed spectacularly. This is where I plan to put my focus and not on rendering judgements about other people’s behavior. THE END
— Kirsten Powers (@KirstenPowers) February 18, 2019
Long story short, though she still believes the Covington kids disrespected Native American man and “stolen valor” perpetrator Nathan Phillips, she admitted in her tweets she had judged the kids too harshly and that it’s not her “job” to “hold them accountable.”
Accountable for what? That remains unclear …
She also threw in the race card by alleging that black teenage boys who’re accused of misbehavior never get the “benefit of the doubt” allegedly afforded to the Covington kids.
The Covington boys — particularly Nick Sandmann, the boy seen in the video below smiling politely as Phillips rudely bangs a drum in his face — were smeared, not given the “benefit of the doubt.”
And to top it off, Powers said she’s “rethinking my view on Al Franken,” whom members of the far-left believe didn’t deserve to be booted from Congress, despite indisputable photo evidence that he once groped model and sports commentator Leeann Tweeden while she was asleep.
When the evidence surfaced two years ago, Powers rightly demanded Franken resign. But now she apparently regrets that decision. *facepalm*
Social media users weren’t even remotely impressed by her attempt at introspection. If anything, most social media users appeared to be entirely disgusted.
Look:
.@KirstenPowers still can’t admit that the #CovingtonCatholic kids were 100% the victims here and that she was dead wrong. https://t.co/6rwhllZQqk
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) February 19, 2019
Kristen, you to look at a group of Catholic white boys, being harassed by a group of adult native Americans, as the boys being disrespectful. If the boys were black and the harassers were white adult MAGA’s, would they also be disrespectful? Not in your book. You’re a fraud https://t.co/B7uYfL5j3N
— Brickhouse (@Brick______) February 19, 2019
In summary: you reflected, you’re catholic, you don’t really apologize, you still think everything is racist, Al Franken should be redeemed, and you think the media should be quicker to forgive democrats. Got it. Why waste a week?
— FranticHamster28 (@FHamster28) February 19, 2019
I like how the only insight all of her long winded non-apology brought about was that she’s rethought her stance on Al Franken. Democrat shill to the core…?
— Pete Campbell (@pcampbell001) February 19, 2019
If your introspection has led you to double down on the Covington teenagers but back pedal on an adult Al Franken, your bias got worse.
I used to respect you.
— YourFutureSelf (@FutureSelf2050) February 19, 2019
Notice you don’t say anything negative about Al Franken, just the Covington boys. It’s ok to touch women inappropriately but don’t disrespect a man who gets in your face banging a drum. Try harder.
— Kim Hubbard (@kimhub) February 19, 2019
So, Covington kids bad, and Al Franken good. And you try to be woke.
Got it. Thanks for the self-serving virtue signalling after your naval gazing.
— Tom walker (@Tomwalk24954466) February 18, 2019
It’s like Powers learned nothing from her brief hiatus. But it gets worse. During an appearance early Tuesday morning on CNN, she said that she still believes the Covington kids should “be disciplined” and forced to apologize for basically doing nothing wrong:
Al Franken, on the other hand, why, he’s one of the good guys, didn’t you know!?
Leeann Tweeden said, “Al Franken mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.”
How can the NYT say “It’s not necessarily fair to him” to have to resign? Do you think they’d say that if it were Trump who did it? NO.
Franken Should Go #AlFranken pic.twitter.com/om2ruM1fmp
— Patrick Henry (@FightNowAmerica) November 17, 2017
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