Can the Covington CNN Lawsuit Save the Media From Itself?
By Jeffrey Lord | March 16, 2019 4:00 PM EDT
The bill of particulars goes on for a full 58 pages. Here is the headline over at the Daily Caller: “Sandmann’s Second Defamation Suit Hits Cnn for $275 Million.â€
“Sandmann,†of course, is sixteen-year old Nicholas Sandmann, the young Covington, Kentucky teen who found himself at the center of a viral video media storm that seemed to depict him as confronting an elderly Native American at the end of the annual pro-life march in January.
The video, as it turned out, was wildly incomplete. In fact, it was the Native American man, Nathan Phillips, who confronted Nicholas, pounding a drum inches from the boy’s face. This after a group of far-left wingers calling themselves the “Black Israelites†hurled racial and homophobic at the Covington kids, the latter merely waiting for their bus home to Kentucky. Young Nick, wearing a souvenir red “Make America Great Hat†simply smiled politely.
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