NBC Also Settles With Sandmann For Sandbagging Him

MSM didn’t play it up, but Fox News reported “Nicholas Sandmann reaches settlement with NBC in Covington Catholic High School controversy”, where a Native American elder banged a drum in his face at the Lincoln Memorial after a March For Life rally & the outlet suggested the smiling youth was a poster boy for white supremacists because he also wore a MAGA hat.

Mr. Sandmann’s $275 million law suit against NBC & MSNBC as well as each of the other media outlets who were charged with also sandbagging him was already settled in 2020 by CNN & the Washington Post, also for undisclosed sums. Law school professor William Jacobson told Fox at the time of the earlier CNN & WaPo outcomes they were “a rare example of a ‘little guy’ being able to stand up to a media behemoth” and estimated the deals were worth “at least seven figures.” Sandmann’s attorney had promised more than a dozen other defendants would be sued, including ABC, CBS, The Guardian, HuffPost, NPR, Slate, The Hill, & Gannett.

The Sandmann lawsuit update comes on the heels of a similar alleged media smear campaign involving gun toting Illinois teenager Kyle Rittenhouse who was acquitted of all homicide charges in the shooting deaths of two Kenosha Wisconsin rioters who had attacked him, but was also cast in media reports (as well as President Biden & other pols) as a “white supremacist and vigilante.” At that time, Sandmann told Fox’s Sean Hannity: For Rittenhouse “to deal with an overload of stress where you have this feeling that half of the country – hundreds of millions of people – hate you for something that you are innocent of, but how you are painted can do a lot to you mentally. It takes a very strong will to be able to resist that and keep a level head.” While Rittenhouse has “hinted” at possible Sandmann-like lawsuits against his alleged defamers, including Pres Biden, LeBron James, Joy Behar, et al, he has yet to pull the legal you know what, if ever.

Davd Soul