Posted on 01/21/2019 6:50:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Lawyer for Covington Catholic HS Families Threatens Lawsuits Against Media Unless They Retract False Stories
Thanks to the sloppy, one-sided reporting of the malicious, agenda-driven media, a group of Catholic high school teenagers and their families have become the subjects of threats and harassment from a hateful online outrage mob. Their only sins? Being white, Catholic, and supporters of the president.
The full story has emerged in the wake of the fake news blitzkrieg over the weekend, and the media outlets that spread defamatory smears against the kids are now being warned to correct and retract their stories or face a lawsuit. Contrary to the media's malicious narrative, the kids were not racist rednecks mobbing a Native American elder with hateful slurs. It was quite the opposite.
Los Angeles-based trial lawyer Robert Barnes offered to represent the Covington families for free should they decide to sue the New York Times.
Barnes told PJ Media that he was working with the families to sue the media outlets that defamed them.
He said that "anyone who doesn't correct and retract" their false smears would be subject to a lawsuit and that updated stories merely indicating "a more complex picture has emerged" would not necessarily be enough.
When asked if such stories would count as a retraction, he replied that it "depends."
According to his website, Barnes has a history of taking on causes of underdogs: "Fighting for individuals against unethical law firms, corrupt banks, and rogue government agents, Barnes continues the family tradition his great-grandfathers started centuries ago, fighting for the freedoms that founded America."
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SUE the bastards for everything they have!!!!!!!!!!
The school’s ‘investigation’ is too figure out how big of a check to write to Mr. Sandmann and his classmates.
He should have a slamdunk defamation case against the school and diocese as they knew he was at the Memorial to meet the bus to take them home.
If you go to these large protest gatherings, there is a large platform set up for media and a few characters dressed in costumes screaming to draw attention to themselves. Young people are drawn to these attention whores and try to get photos with them and interviewed by media. The social media culture of young people fuel this instant fame. I am not placing blame on this event but instead just wanting parents to warn their children about the protest traps that are set up for media fodder.
And school and diocese sponsored trip.
And fomenting violence online is criminal speech. And perps should be charged accordingly.
since there is no law, there is no criminal offense
It is now ok to counter attack red people. They left their reservations and attacked good Americans
I agree. This destroying people’s lives has gone too far. You should be free to say what you want but you should also be willing to pay the price for your decisions.
“When you have to sue, sue! Don’t talk!”
Good luck with that.
I believe you’re mistaken.
Key sentence: “Bishop Roger Joseph Foys of Covington, Kentucky, along with the Covington Catholic High School administration succumbed to the mainstream media’s leftist spin of the Friday, January 19 altercation, issuing a joint statement of condemnation.”
The school is backpedaling. If they stood by those students to begin with, the statement would not say that the diocese and school jointly issue the statement.
Or if the diocese released that statement, they would have released a separate statement.
They didn’t. They turned their back on those young men.
Not surprising the bishop sees no problem with what amounts to a type of child abuse with his diocese's condemnation statement. After all, the church has engendered and covered up other forms of child abuse for many years.
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