The New Covington Kids Thread Since The Old One

[DC Tom]

14 hours ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

Anyone who watches the mainstream media watches fake news. 

 

Thanks, Joe, for making my point.

[Pine Barrens Mafia]

3 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Thanks, Joe, for making my point.

 

I interpreted your post to mean Fox viewers versus CNN viewers.

 

 

[Chef Jim]

14 hours ago, mead107 said:

16 and will be able to vote soon. ?

 

If Nancy Pelosi had her way he’d be able to vote now. 

[DC Tom]

9 minutes ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

I interpreted your post to mean Fox viewers versus CNN viewers.

 

 

 

You made my point already, you can stop now.

[Buffalo_Gal]

This is an excellent video. It goes past the Covington Kids though (and really hits media matters hard)
 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[/dev/null]

If the Covington kids were a symbol of white supremecy and hatred of those who are different, what does that make these kids

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-philadelphia-muslim-society-children

[row_33]

Future members of Congress?

 

[B-Man]

  

NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: 

CNN Wrote Over 20 Articles On Covington Catholic Students, Ignores Philly Muslim Children Chanting About Chopping Off Heads.

 

 

As Jim Treacher has said:

[row_33]

3 hours ago, B-Man said:

  

NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT: 

CNN Wrote Over 20 Articles On Covington Catholic Students, Ignores Philly Muslim Children Chanting About Chopping Off Heads.

 

 

As Jim Treacher has said:

 

facts????

 

 

 

[B-Man]

JOHN STOSSEL AT REASON TV: The Rise of Citizen Journalists.

[Tim] Pool leans left and supported Bernie Sanders. But he reports whatever he sees.

 

Earlier this year, the media jumped on a video of a grinning Covington High School kid wearing a Trump hat, claiming he was taunting a native American man—but Pool was skeptical.

 

“All of these big news outlets, even the Washington Post, CNN, they immediately made the assumption ‘he must be a racist,'” Pool told Stossel.

“I didn’t make that assumption … I said, I have no idea what this is. I just see a guy banging a drum and a kid with a weird look on his face. So I looked at some other videos,” Pool said.

 

On YouTube, Pool found a longer clip of the encounter and used that to show that the Native American elder approached the kids as they waited for a bus—not the other way around, as had been claimed. There was no evidence that the kids were racist.

 

“No one watched the longer video?” Stossel asks?

 

“Nope,” Pool says. “Here’s what happens. One left-wing journalist says, look at this racist. His buddy sees it and says, wow, look at this racist. And that’s a big ole circular game of telephone where no one actually does any fact-checking. And then—New York Times, Washington Post, CNN all publish the same fake story.”

 

Pool, along with Reason’s Robby Soave, told the real story.

[B-Man]

Clearly NBC doesn´t know who the teen´s lawyer is.

 

 

 

NBC accused of smearing Covington Catholic teen in ´Law & Order´ episode by Valerie Richardson

Original Article

If you watched “Law & Order: SVU” this week, you may have noticed that the teenage boy in the red cap locked in a faceoff in the middle of a rowdy crowd bears a strong resemblance to Nicholas Sandmann. A week after being sued by the Covington Catholic teen, NBCUniversal aired an episode Thursday of the long-running hit series with a scene that looked a lot like the 16-year-old Sandmann’s viral Jan. 18 encounter with an older Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial.

[ALF]

Judge dismisses Covington student's defamation suit against Washington Post

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-dismisses-appeal-from-kentucky-teen-over-encounter-with-native-american-at-lincoln-memorial-rally

[Prickly Pete]

6 minutes ago, ALF said:

Judge dismisses Covington student's defamation suit against Washington Post

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-dismisses-appeal-from-kentucky-teen-over-encounter-with-native-american-at-lincoln-memorial-rally

 

Conservatives = Anti Sex Trafficking

Liberals = Pro Defamation of Teens

[Buffalo_Gal]

Judge dismisses Covington student's defamation suit against Washington Post
 

A federal judge in Kentucky Friday threw out a defamation lawsuit filed against The Washington Post by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann and his family over the paper's reporting of an incident between the young man and a Native American man this past January in Washington.
 

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In a 36-page ruling, U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman noted that the Post never mentioned Sandmann by name in its initial coverage of the incident, referring only to groups of "hat wearing teens." Bertelsman added that "the words used contain no reflection upon any particular individual" and thus could not be constituted as defamation. The judge also ruled that the newspaper used language that was "loose, figurative," and "rhetorical hyperbole" which is protected by the First Amendment.
 

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The Sandmann family said they would be asking the appellate court to review the trial court's decision on appeal.
 

“I believe fighting for justice for my son and family is of vital national importance," said Ted Sandmann, Nicholas' father. "If what was done to Nicholas is not legally actionable, then no one is safe."
 

“The law must protect innocent minors targeted by journalists publishing click-bait sensationalized news," Todd McMurtry, co-counsel for the Sandmann family, said in the statement. "This is especially true in the current hyper-partisan political environment.”
 

Sandmann also filed separate lawsuits against CNN and NBC that remain pending.

 

[Uncle Joe]

11 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

Judge dismisses Covington student's defamation suit against Washington Post
 

A federal judge in Kentucky Friday threw out a defamation lawsuit filed against The Washington Post by Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann and his family over the paper's reporting of an incident between the young man and a Native American man this past January in Washington.
 

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In a 36-page ruling, U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman noted that the Post never mentioned Sandmann by name in its initial coverage of the incident, referring only to groups of "hat wearing teens." Bertelsman added that "the words used contain no reflection upon any particular individual" and thus could not be constituted as defamation. The judge also ruled that the newspaper used language that was "loose, figurative," and "rhetorical hyperbole" which is protected by the First Amendment.

 

 

Good news for some PPP members. 

Edited July 27, 2019 by Uncle Joe

[B-Man]

WASHINGTON POST SHOULD PREPARE TO LOSE THE COVINGTON APPEAL:

 

A federal judge dismissed Nicholas Sandman’s defamation suit Friday, but don’t assume that’s the end of the case.

 

It’s not and the once-respected newspaper’s attorneys and editors better prepare to lose on appeal.

 

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

LOL   this stupid kid actually thought he could win (after he acted like a dickehad) 

[Whatnot78]

13 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said:

LOL   this stupid kid actually thought he could win (after he acted like a dickehad) 

 

Him with a smirk on his face is acting like that?  Poor kid is getting judged by you and others because of the way he was portrayed by the media.  No kid deserves the hate he has received.

[Koko78]

47 minutes ago, ShadyBillsFan said:

LOL   this stupid kid actually thought he could win (after he acted like a dickehad) 

 

How, exactly, did this "stupid kid" act like a "dickehad"?

[3rdnlng]

1 hour ago, Koko78 said:

 

How, exactly, did this "stupid kid" act like a "dickehad"?

Don't ask. If anyone knows dickheads, it's Shady.

[IDBillzFan]

1 hour ago, ShadyBillsFan said:

LOL   this stupid kid actually thought he could win (after he acted like a dickehad) 

 

Can you break down for us how the kid acted like a *****?

 

Please feel free to provide the unedited full- length video and break it down for us. Don't hesitate to support your case by also breaking down the history of the drum-banger as well as the black men who were yelling in the background at the black kids who were with Sandman.

[unbillievable]

It's funny that a Newspaper used the defense that they printed opinions, and not facts, to get a defamation suit dismissed. ?

[B-Man]

15 minutes ago, unbillievable said:

It's funny that a Newspaper used the defense that they printed opinions, and not facts, to get a defamation suit dismissed. ?

 

Exactly.

 

FTA that I posted above:

 

It wasn’t until videos capturing the entire incident came out that the media realized it had been peddling fake news. The full video showed that Phillips had not attempted to make his way to the Lincoln Memorial, but had instead marched into the group of students and stood in front of Sandmann, beating his drum and singing. The Post and other outlets immediately issued mea culpas, but the damage had been done: Sandmann had been branded a smirking racist and rendered a subject of scorn throughout the country.

 

When Sandmann appeals, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals will consider his arguments. Given the procedural posture of this case—the motion to dismiss stage—Sandmann has solid grounds to argue for reversal.

 

That’s because at that stage, the court must read the facts in the light most favorable to Sandmann, and if a reasonable jury could interpret the Post’s statements as defamatory, the court must allow the case to continue. An analysis of Judge Bertelsman’s opinion indicates that he overstepped his bounds in several areas and resolved factual disputes that should have been left for a jury to decide.

 

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If the Judge Is Right, All News Is Mere Opinion

Here, there is a great irony to the judge’s decision. His analysis of the reporting rendered virtually every statement concerning the incident mere opinion. Judge Bertelsman even went so far as to declare The Washington Post’s reporting “rhetoric” and “hyperbole” 

 

Bertelsman is half-right. The Post and every other major media outlet now resort to rhetoric and hyperbole in reporting on all things Trump and conservative, such as the March for Life. And they regularly peddle opinion as fact. But the Post’s coverage of the encounter between Sandmann and Phillips, and the passages above, reported false facts. Those false facts subjected Sandmann to “public hatred, ridicule, contempt, aversion, or disgrace,” eliminating the need under Kentucky law to show the defamatory statements caused damages.

[Hedge]

 

 

 

 

Note that the Federalist article is from July, prior to this event, so there is no new news in it.

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

[Tiberius]

Another campaign promise of Trump falls by the wayside...

 

Murray Energy Is 8th Coal Company in a Year to Seek Bankruptcy - The New York Times

1 day ago · Murray Energy, once a symbol of American mining prowess, has become the eighth coal company in a year to file for bankruptcy protection. The move on Tuesday is the latest sign that market forces are throttling the Trump administration's bid to save the industry.

[3rdnlng]

Why are you posting this here?

[Koko78]

4 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

 

 

Next discovery update in 6 years...

2 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

Why are you posting this here?

 

Because Nicholas Sandmann will have to go elsewhere to get coal dust to make his blackface costume... or something.

[Buffalo_Gal]

30 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

Next discovery update in 6 years...

 

The smart thing for WaPo, CNN, etc to do is offer a large settlement to make it all go away. But,  I doubt they are that smart and I expect them to go the Oberlin college route. 

Edited October 31, 2019 by Buffalo_Gal

[Buffalo_Gal]

I smell an appeal (can it be appealed?) or else some animals really are more equal than others. 
 

Covington Catholic students' defamation suit against Warren is dismissed
 

A Kentucky judge has dropped presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D.-Mass., from a libel lawsuit filed by eight Covington Catholic High School students on grounds of sovereign immunity.
 

The lawsuit, filed in August, named Warren along with a New Mexico congresswoman and 10 other public figures claiming they made defamatory comments about the students following their January encounter with Native Americans in Washington, D.C.
 

Only Warren and Rep. Deborah Haaland, D.-N.M., were dismissed from the suit. “Sovereign immunity ‘extends to agencies of the United States’ or ‘federal officers [acting] in their official capacities,’” the decision by District Judge William O. Bertelsman read.
 

Sovereign immunity is the doctrine that the U.S. government or those acting on its behalf may not be sued without its consent.
 

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[DC Tom]

5 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

I smell an appeal (can it be appealed?) or else some animals really are more equal than others. 
 

Covington Catholic students' defamation suit against Warren is dismissed
 

A Kentucky judge has dropped presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D.-Mass., from a libel lawsuit filed by eight Covington Catholic High School students on grounds of sovereign immunity.
 

The lawsuit, filed in August, named Warren along with a New Mexico congresswoman and 10 other public figures claiming they made defamatory comments about the students following their January encounter with Native Americans in Washington, D.C.
 

Only Warren and Rep. Deborah Haaland, D.-N.M., were dismissed from the suit. “Sovereign immunity ‘extends to agencies of the United States’ or ‘federal officers [acting] in their official capacities,’” the decision by District Judge William O. Bertelsman read.
 

Sovereign immunity is the doctrine that the U.S. government or those acting on its behalf may not be sued without its consent.
 

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Not just sovereign immunity, but the "Biden Rule" - the new legal principle of "anyone running for office has blanket immunity from criminal or civil investigation."

[dubs]

5 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

Not just sovereign immunity, but the "Biden Rule" - the new legal principle of "anyone running for office has blanket immunity from criminal or civil investigation."

infuriating

[Uncle Joe]

5 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

I smell an appeal (can it be appealed?) or else some animals really are more equal than others. 
 

Covington Catholic students' defamation suit against Warren is dismissed
 

A Kentucky judge has dropped presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D.-Mass., from a libel lawsuit filed by eight Covington Catholic High School students on grounds of sovereign immunity.
 

The lawsuit, filed in August, named Warren along with a New Mexico congresswoman and 10 other public figures claiming they made defamatory comments about the students following their January encounter with Native Americans in Washington, D.C.
 

Only Warren and Rep. Deborah Haaland, D.-N.M., were dismissed from the suit. “Sovereign immunity ‘extends to agencies of the United States’ or ‘federal officers [acting] in their official capacities,’” the decision by District Judge William O. Bertelsman read.
 

Sovereign immunity is the doctrine that the U.S. government or those acting on its behalf may not be sued without its consent.
 

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Aren't native Americans sovereign? She was only coming to the defense of her people.

[KRC]

10 hours ago, DC Tom said:

 

Not just sovereign immunity, but the "Biden Rule" - the new legal principle of "anyone running for office has blanket immunity from criminal or civil investigation."

 

I hereby announce my candidacy for any office necessary. Not that I have anything to cover up, but I wanted to make sure that I cannot be prosecuted for anything I am about to do.

[Buffalo_Gal]

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

I think this got lost, and in light of the CNN settlement and more people getting served, I thought it deserved a bump.

 

 

[Foxx]

https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1215108962657480704

 

[B-Man]

CNN’s Covington Settlement Shows Danger Of Agenda-Based Reporting

by Jeff McCall

 

Original Article

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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