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."
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Bust the wheels off their wagon.
Paraphrasing Jim Rockford.
The families need to sue the school—Covington threw them under the bus.
These Covington Catholic students say students and their parents are being doxed, even if they weren’t in Washington, DC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6YlyKvcN8k
I thought that death threats were illegal. Start rounding these big mouth morons up and start filling the cages. Just think of it.... Journalists and celebrities behind bars. Wow, what a zoo that would make.
They should start a “go fund me” - they would raise enough to take every fake news media company to court for the next 5 years.
and on the front page above the fold too!!!
Good, go after Disney as well
“We FINALLY have a president who will point out the vile leftist media’s smears of conservatives.
THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!”
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I wish he had been more descriptive of what happened - innocent kids and their families targeted for violence and death due to the fake news mob.
Sue the fifth-column leftist media and financially castrate them.
Even more so than the media outlets, it would be delightful for some individual celebs to get whacked with a huge lawsuit and have massive legal fees. You, Kathy Griffin.
LOL I know. I hate it when that happens after I hit send.
We should file a class action suit against a ton of corporate mcgovernment derpstate fifth columnists. I suppose they prefer summary judgment however
Tweets are about simple messages, not long descriptions. People will track down the story to get the details. I think Trump did fine.
The entire Main Stream Media is engaged in a bullying campaign against a bunch of high school students. Pure ugly bullying. They want these kids dead.
Exactly what I wrote, George. I was thinking of you in particular when I wrote it.
These kids were doxed on the Louisville Courier Journal’s Facebook page by some nasty radical leftists. I encourage all Freepers to push back against these sick, evil leftists by putting these idiots on blast
I’m not sure that “innocent kids and their families targeted for violence and death due to the fake news mob” is a “long description”. In fact, it is shorter than what DJT wrote and doesn’t even fill a whole tweet.
people have got to play nice...
Sue, eat popcorn. Discovery, eat popcorn. Trial, eat popcorn. Appeal, eat popcorn. Please go for it, I can always buy more popcorn.
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