The Covington High School student who was dragged through the mud by the media is now firing back, naming many leftist journalists and their organizations. The Daily Caller reports:
The legal team behind Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann are sending letters to various media organizations, celebrities and politicians it says completely misrepresented the confrontation between the teenager and Native American activists last month and potentially defamed their client.
In a story first reported Friday by The Cincinnati Enquirer and confirmed Sunday to The Daily Caller by lawyer Todd McMurtry, the letters have been or will be sent “over the next couple of days” to media organizations like CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Celebrities and politicians like Jim Carrey, Alyssa Milano, Bill Maher and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren are also on the list.
It is the first step in a potential and far-reaching libel and defamation suit that McMurtry, of the Hemmer DeFrank Wessels law firm in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, says would be “a significant and unique lawsuit.”
Most of mainstream media and others vilified Sandmann, other students and Covington Catholic High School in general when the youths were shown on camera wearing MAGA hats in Washington, D.C., where they had participated in the Jan. 18 March for Life rally. The students were caught on cameras engaging in spirited dialogue with Native American Nathan Phillips, who falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran. At least partially due to Phillips, the confrontation was widely interpreted as intolerant youths abusing a Native elder, before greater context was provided.
Spreading malicious fake news about innocent private citizens should have consequences, and this could be a decisive moment in American jurisprudence.
It’s about time! Actually, it’s well past the time. We do have remedies on the books for libel, character assassination, don’t we? Let’s exercise these protections–while we still have them.
Good for the students-finally someone is actually telling the truth and exposing those who don’t.
This lawsuit should include absolutely everyone who was involved in discrediting the young people, and be a significant amount of money to bankrupt many of them. Then the false news reporters might change their minds on how they report news in the future. Get CNN and MSNBC for a couple billion dollars. Get the private people who were mentioned for 50 million each. That would make America Great Again.
I am so glad that excellent attorneys have availed themselves to help the Covington kids, their parents, and their school. Maybe this will finally cause a downturn of racial slurs and animosity, denigration of religion, and libelous and scandalous statements made to young men who were innocent of wrongdoing. This type of behavior must be stopped and those performing these vicious attacks must be punished to the fullest extent of the law.