Posted on 02/19/2019 4:53:49 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Teen in Lincoln Memorial protest sues Washington Post for $250 million
Keith Coffman
3 Min Read
(Reuters) - A high school student from Covington, Kentucky, sued the Washington Post for defamation on Tuesday, claiming the newspaper falsely accused him of racist acts and instigating a confrontation with a Native American activist in a January videotaped incident at the Lincoln Memorial.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Kentucky by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann, 16, seeks $250 million in damages, the amount that Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com and the worlds richest person, paid for the Post in 2013.
The lawsuit claims that the newspaper wrongfully targeted and bullied the teen to advance its bias against President Donald Trump because Sandmann is a white Catholic who wore a Make America Great Again souvenir cap on a school field trip to the March for Life anti-abortion rally in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 18.
The Washington Posts Vice President for Communications Kristine Coratti Kelly said: We are reviewing a copy of the lawsuit and we plan to mount a vigorous defense.
In a photo that went viral from the incident, Sandmann is seen standing face to face with Native American activist Nathan Phillips. Sandmann stares smiling at him while Phillips sings and plays his drum.
The incident sparked outrage on social media.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“He needs to sue several other people, too.”
Oh don’t worry, he will.
God bless this kid’s parents for taking this approach!
Great! We need to track this to its end and it better end with the washington post paying outs lots of money.
JoMa
:D
Excellent. This is the best news I’ve heard all day. Hit these demons where it hurts.
I hope Nick Sandmann becomes extremely wealthy.
But we’d want him to get something that’s WORTH something out of this. ;)
Excellent news.
Its lovely to think about all the smug Leftists sweating it out, wondering when their number will be called.
They were given a chance to retract & apologize, so hopefully the door has closed on that.
This kid is doing what I have been saying we have to do. Fight back and start suing and bankrupting these bastards. They have been ruining our country with the threat of lawsuits. Time to fight back.
Does the government charge tax on money earned in a lawsuit?
I know this will sound like wild optimism right now, but I think that someday we’ll look back at the Covington case as the day the media madness peaked out and journalism standards began to be reasserted.
Why? Because I think Kentucky juries are going to bankrupt some of the worst offenders, or at least cost them dearly, to make the point that enough is enough.
Actually, there should be a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all white youths who were incrementally affected by this dishonest reporting.
After all, every time the media falsely maligns white males, it amounts to “incremental slander” as more and more of the sheeple who watch MSM become more and more convinced that ALL white males are evil and racist.
I agree that the news media must be held responsible for taking an undocumented event and making it into a "news story" that casts individuals (not public figures, either) in a bad light. Responsible media would want to authenticate anything that might create a big stir when there's no fire, flood or criminal activity indicated, especially so with an anonymous source. But that's not taught in today's J-schools, apparently.
Planting news stories to achieve some private goal or to promote an event is not against the law, as far as I know. Sending an anonymous video out to millions of recipients in hopes that it will go viral is most likely legal also, as the federal criminal code is stuck at about 1998 on being current with technology.
The person who sent the poorly-edited video out to thousands of susceptible liberals should at least bear some responsibility for the public's reaction to the biased, incomplete, undocumented and anger-inducing clip. It may not be shouting fire in a crowded theater, but it's close.
If the WaPost has to pay, so should the originator.
And I think the person's identity is known by now, even if the culprit's account has been closed.
What a misleading headline. More like teen waiting for bus at Lincoln Memorial sues Washington Post for slander.
Love it. This young man will not be cowed.
This needs to happen far more often. The only motivation for the enemedia to stop defaming their political enemies is the pocketbook.
And it was frightening. Lefty lynch mobs called for assorted horrors even the most savage war machine could not envision:
<><> feeding teenage boys head-first into wood chippers,
<><> locking the boys into the school and burning the school to the ground.
The obedient media (print, broadcast, social) unwittingly exposed the wrath of the Lefts Orwellian hate days after the factual record was corrected.
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Let's see. Who else might be inconvenient to the left, who might the left war-mongers consider expendable?
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THE OBAMA LEGACY WRIT LARGE---who does the left consider "expendable"?
Obama Declares War On Extremism Are You An Extremist
FR Posted 1/13/15 by seekandfind
A list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be extremists or potential terrorists in official U.S. government documents. This list will really give you a good idea of what Barack Obama means when he uses the word extremist. Each of these 72 items is linked (at web site). As you can see, this list potentially includes most of the country
THE LIST OF "EXTREMISTS" WERE LISTED IN OBAMA-ERA OFFICIAL
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING THE DEPT OF DEFENSE
Those that talk about individual liberties, that advocate for states rights, that want to make the world a better place, that are interested in defeating the Communists
Those that believe that the interests of ones own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations. Anyone that holds a political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable. Anyone that possesses an intolerance toward other religions. Those that take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals
Anti-Gay, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Muslim,The Patriot Movement, Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians
Members of the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the Tennessee Freedom Coalition, the Christian Action Network, citizens networks.
Those opposed to the New World Order, engaged in conspiracy theorizing, those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the North American Union
Anyone opposed to Agenda 21, anyone concerned about FEMA camps, that fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations, the militia movement, sovereign citizen movement, that dont think they should have to pay taxes
Anyone that complains about bias, that believes in government conspiracies, that is frustrated with mainstream ideologies, that visits extremist websites/blogs, that establishes website/blog to display extremist views," that attends rallies for extremist causes, that exhibits extreme religious intolerance," that is personally connected with a grievance, that suddenly acquires weapons, that organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology
Those that have a belief that ones personal and/or national way of life is under attack, that possess a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism, that would impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists) that would insert religion into the political sphere, that would seek to politicize religion, that have supported political movements for autonomy.
Anyone that is anti-abortion.
Anyone that is Right-wing" including Returning veterans. Dept of Defense documents indicate Obama wanted homes of returning veteran earched. Those concerned about illegal immigration, those that believe in the right to bear arms. Anyone that is engaged in ammunition stockpiling Anyone that exhibits fear of Communist regimes, those that talk about the New World Order in a derogatory manner
Those that have a negative view of the United Nations, that are opposed to the collection of federal income taxes, that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr, that display the Gadsden Flag (Dont Tread On Me)
Those that believe in end times prophecies, including Evangelical Christians
Hey, MSM, what happened to calling him the "smirking MAGA teen"? I guess the fear of a $250 million lawsuit makes them report a little more objectively.
Judge Nap says it’s a no go, so WP and other trash outlets can breath easy now./s
Yes.
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