WALSH: Smear Merchants Now Claim That Covington Catholic Students Wore ‘Blackface.’ That’s A Complete Lie.

The Left’s narrative about the incident involving students from Covington Catholic school has collapsed, but they will not drop their pitchforks quietly. Instead of admitting that they were played by a conman named Nathan Phillips, and that they wildly misconstrued an event that actually began when a group a black activists yelled racist and anti-gay slurs, they have instead set out to retroactively justify their treatment of the innocent students. They have already declared the Covington kids racist and bigoted, now all they have to do is find some sort of evidence to go with that charge. And, of course, if they find no evidence, they can always just lie. Which brings us to the latest smear.

A picture went viral yesterday showing a group of Covington students at a basketball game wearing all black, some in black paint, screaming at the black player of another team. Anyone with, say, a third of a functioning brain rattling around in their skulls will immediately understand the scene. The kids are all wearing black because the fans of sports teams often will come to games all in the same color. Oftentimes fans will wear black as part of a “blackout.” Other times they’ll white as part of a “whiteout.” Or sometimes they’ll wear blue or red or any other color. This is standard operating procedure in American sports, especially scholastic sports.