I’ve written about the liberal mental disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.  It causes once professional and prudent people to blindly attack President Trump, anyone who works for him, supports him, or exhibits any item in any way associated with Trump, like, for instance, a red MAGA hat.  The media Trump haters have forsaken any semblance of responsible journalism.  We knew the media didn’t tell the truth, but it used to be able to distinguish truth from lies.  It can’t anymore, and now the truth doesn’t even matter.  Lately, we are getting “reporting” that starts out, “If true …”  You know, “If true, Trump is a criminal;”  “If true, Trump will be impeached.”  It’s supposed to be the media’s job to confirm what’s true before it’s published.  Remember All the President’s Men?  The Washington Post hated Richard Nixon and wanted to remove him as much as today’s media wants to remove Trump, but they took pains to verify stories before they published them.  Not anymore.  All week we’ve been assailed by a story from the March for Life.  It’s the story of a group of Kentucky Catholic High School boys who marched against abortion, an elderly Native American banging a drum, and a group of African American protestors (or possibly lunatics).  The story run by the media was that the schoolboys cruelly mocked an elderly Vietnam veteran, in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial.  If true, it wouldn’t be much of a story, except some of the schoolboys were wearing MAGA hats, no doubt a capital offense.  There was the haunting picture of a 16 year old simply standing near the Indian banging his drum.  The kid didn’t say anything, and didn’t do anything, so he must have been at fault.  The media denounced the schoolboys.  The Indian, one Nathan Phillips, told CNN that he stepped between the schoolboys and the African Americans, all duly ordained ministers of the Order of the Black Hebrew Israelites, because the schoolboys were about to attack the BHI clergymen.  If true, Phillips was a peacemaker.  If true.  The problem is none of it was true.  This didn’t stop the media from denouncing the schoolboys as beasts.  “A racially-charged frenzy of barely-restrained violence” committed by a “frothing mass of MAGA youth, frenzied and yelling and out of control.”  This motivated a Tweet storm from so-called “woke” folk of the media and Hollywood.  The schoolboys should be expelled, their chaperones fired, their school  burned to the ground with the boys in it, the boys should be thrown into a wood chipper.  That seemed a bit strict, even if true.  In addition, the liberal imbeciles once again missed the irony.  The same imbeciles who invite illegal alien criminals into America, no questions asked, and who favor releasing such criminals back into society rather than deporting them under the law, advocated arson and the murder of American boys who committed no crime.  The Phillips story wasn’t true.  Video evidence, which easily could have been reviewed before the boys were condemned, proved that the BHI’s cursed and taunted the schoolboys, calling them things like, “a bunch of faggots made by incest, racists, bigots, white crackers,” etc.  One of the schoolboys was black.  The BHI priests called him “nigger,” and told him the white men would harvest his organs. (Apparently he was thinking of  Planned Parenthood).  The leader of the BHI’s, one Chief Ephraim Israel, of the House of Israel, Brooklyn Archdiocese, admitted all this.  Chief Israel said the students tried to shut him up by loudly reciting Covington Catholic school spirit chants, “They started doing their chants, so I was cutting into them.  I called them dogs.  They sounded like dogs.”  How religious of the Chief.   The Chief was sorry that Phillips got in the way because he “actually interrupted what we was teaching, we had so much more to go.”  I guess we missed out on the human sacrifice portion of the class.  What the adult BHI’s were yelling at children are known in the law as “fighting words,” words calculated to start a fight.  Such words are not protected by the 1st Amendment.  The BHI’s are lucky they were dealing with polite Kentucky Catholic schoolboys.  You yell that crap at some Jersey high school guys, and asses will be kicked.  Just sayin’.  Those kids showed great restraint.  After the imbeciles learned the truth, they recanted their death threats, right?  Wrong!  The Tweets stayed up, and the school had to close.  But real religious leaders came to the aid of the schoolboys, right?  Wrong!  Father Edward Beck, a CNN contributor, said, “I think the students acted inappropriately.  You had kids behind them (the BHI’s) seemingly mocking this elder and smirking and laughing at him.  I don’t understand how the chaperones don’t step in and say, first of all, boys, get to the bus.”  Okay, they were waiting for the bus in the spot were they were ordered to wait.  Father Beck wasn’t done, “The hats that they were wearing, the so-called MAGA hats, come with a certain political agenda that, in my opinion, can be seen as anti-Catholic, anti-Christian.  Because abortion is not the only pro-life issue.  What about immigration and the migrants?  What about capital punishment?  What about the environment and climate change?  By wearing that hat, it’s saying you’re aligning yourself with a political agenda.  The students have no right to be wearing that hat.”  And there you go, that’s what it was all about, the hats.  No hats, no story.  The priest’s message was,” Yeah, we hate abortion, but we hate Trump more.  And, “What about capital punishment?”  You really want to go there, Father?  But for capital punishment, there would be no Catholic Church.  Think about it.  If Pontius Pilate had put Jesus on probation, where would they be?  If instead of Christ on the Cross, every church had a depiction of Jesus reporting to his probation officer, the Vatican wouldn’t have all that gold.  If Father Beck sounds like a Communist, forgive him.  He’s a Passionist,  an Order whose members are not allowed to possess land.  They rely on their own labor and on contributions from the faithful to maintain themselves financially.  Stalin would have been so proud, except he killed all the priests.  Oh well.  Oh, and what about Mr. Phillips?  He never was in Vietnam.  He joined the Marines, and worked as a refrigerator mechanic in Nebraska and California, before he went AWOL.  At least he kept Ho Chi Min from taking Omaha.  At the end of the day, “If true” journalism sounds a lot like starting a story, “Once upon a time.” In either case, what follows is fantasy.