WorldNetDaily kept up its race-bating over a Cincinnati brawl in an Aug. 3 article by Joe Kovacs that emphasized a white victim while complaining about a black pastor’s remarks:
The white woman who was viciously pummeled by blacks in Cincinnati last weekend is now speaking for the first time, while a black pastor in the city is calling for the white victims of the beatdown to be arrested and have their mugshots made public.
“I just want to say thank you to everyone for all of the love and support,” said Holly through tears.
[…]Pastor Damon Lynch of the New Prospect Baptist Church in Cincinnati is now urging the arrest of any white person who may have started the violence, even if he or she were a victim.
“Nobody’s asking, why didn’t he just walk away?” Lynch said at a news conference with city officials and leaders.
“When I see the mugshots, I only see people who look like me. I don’t see the person who re-engaged, slapped not the initial person, but slapped another black man. So I don’t see the slapper’s mugshot.”
“This is racial, because it is unequal justice. And so until we see all the mugshots, this is still a racial issue.”
Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval agreed with Lynch, suggesting even those who were beaten could face charges.
Kovacs went on to repeat race-baiting and conspiracy-mongering by others:
Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, spoke with journalist Benny Johnson about the incident, with the senator saying the city has suggested the woman beaten is a Russian asset.
“So [CNN’s] Jake Tapper, who knows about this story, flagged it for him, decides not to cover it at all, Can you imagine just for a split second if the races were reversed?” Moreno asked Johnson.
“Jake Tapper would be living in Cincinnati. He would be covering this story 24/7. The breaking news alerts would be on all the time. Can you imagine if somehow we said, ‘Oh that person is some sort of criminal alien from some country like Haiti. They would slaughter us.”
Johnson responded: “We all are aware of what the reality would be if a bunch of young, white men hunted down elderly black couples at a country music festival. And then everybody stood around and cheered and filmed it as the couples got beat within an inch of their lives. It would end the country as we know it. Every major city would burn.”
Kovacs did not explain why a white person who allegedly instigated a brawl should not face consequences for it, even if he was allegedly injured during it.
The next day, WND linked to a Fox News video about a town hall right-winger Vivek Ramaswamy, who’s running for Ohio governor as a Republican, held after the brawl — but wrote nothing about happened there. Kovacs hyped Holly’s status as a “white victim” again in an Aug. 5 article noting that “Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen is among those donating to the recovery of Holly, the white Ohio woman who was knocked unconscious in a viral mob attack in Cincinnati on July 26, as contributions approach a half-million dollars.”
Kovacs fawned over the mysterious “Holly” again with more race-baiting in an Aug. 6 article:
The white woman who was knocked unconscious last month by a black mob in Cincinnati broke down in tears Wednesday as she reacted to the outpouring of love and financial support she’s receiving from the public.
“My little one who needs the help, we were going to be on the streets. I just don’t even know what to say!” cried Holly, who covered her face as she burst into tears during an interview with Benny Johnson, the journalist who created her GiveSendGo fundraiser page.
Kovacs went on to hype that “The FBI announced a fifth person allegedly involved in the vicious beatings was arrested this week, and is reportedly Holly’s personal attacker,” adding a mugshot of the black man.
Colin Flaherty would be proud.
Strangely, Kovacs’ fellow WND reporter Bob Unruh was not so interested in race-baiting. A July 31 article by Unruh that hyped a newly released “photograph of a woman who was brutally beaten in an attack in Cincinnati” made no mention of anyone’s race at all.