{"id":182613,"date":"2019-01-24T06:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182613"},"modified":"2019-01-28T06:54:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T06:54:54","slug":"he-lied-native-american-activist-nathan-phillips-never-served-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182613","title":{"rendered":"HE LIED: Native American Activist Nathan Phillips Never Served in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cassandra Fairbanks \u2013 Gateway Pundit Jan 22, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nathan-phillips3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-182564 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nathan-phillips3.jpg\" alt=\"nathan phillips3\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nathan-phillips3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/nathan-phillips3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Washington Post has had to issue yet another retraction after falsely claiming that far-left Native American activist Nathan Phillips served in the Vietnam War. He didn\u2019t \u2014 but this lie was previously used to help raise money for a documentary about his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Monday, the Washington Post quietly issued a correction to their story about the activist, saying that while he served in the Marines, he was never deployed to Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cCorrection: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War. Phillips served in the U.S. Marines from 1972 to 1976 but was never deployed to Vietnam,\u201d the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/01\/20\/it-was-getting-ugly-native-american-drummer-speaks-maga-hat-wearing-teens-who-surrounded-him\/?utm_term=.4cb5c6a282eb\">update<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nathan Phillips &#39;war hero&#39; narrative is crumbling. <\/p>\n<p>From WaPo: &quot;Correction:&#8230;Phillips served in the U.S. Marines from 1972 to 1976 but was never deployed to Vietnam.&quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pDOOnuyCKq\">https:\/\/t.co\/pDOOnuyCKq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Cardillo (@johncardillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johncardillo\/status\/1087783356325134336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This wasn\u2019t the first time that Phillips has misrepresented his service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2012, over $6,000 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/37503939\/between-earth-and-sky\">was raised<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for a documentary about his life in which he claimed to be a Vietnam veteran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a video about the documentary, director Maria Stanisheva explained that her documentary was about Phillips\u2019 belief that he could pray cancer away from his wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Stanisheva explained in the footage that Phillips had been sent to a Catholic boarding school at the age of five. From the sound of it, he resents the experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>\u201cNathan\u2019s past is a difficult one. He was forced out of his family at the age of five to be integrated into a Catholic school \u2014 like so many other Native Americans \u2014 not being allowed to see his family for ten years,\u201d\u00a0Stanisheva stated.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Stanisheva goes on to say that \u201che was then a Marine in Vietnam \u2014 and right after that he became an alcoholic for 20 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Countless media outlets and reporters used this false claim about his service in an attempt to shame those who questioned his antics when he confronted the students in Washington, DC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Another day \u2014 another fake news media lie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2019\/01\/he-lied-native-american-activist-nathan-phillips-never-served-in-vietnam-but-raised-money-by-saying-he-did\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, he made money by claiming he did<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182616,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182613\/revisions\/182616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}