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POSTED ON JANUARY 7, 2020 BY JOHN HINDERAKER IN MEDIA BIAS
SANDMANN SETTLES WITH CNN
Nick Sandmann is an innocent kid who was waiting for a bus with a group of his fellow high school students in Washington, D.C., when he was accosted by an Indian activist who, accompanied by a gang of his followers, aggressively and obnoxiously beat a drum in his face. Sandmann committed the apparently unpardonable sin of standing still in the face of this activist onslaught, which caused him to be viciously smeared by media outlets like CNN and the Washington Post. Happily, Sandmann’s family retained a good lawyer and has sued several of the media outlets that lied about him.

Now the first domino has fallen: CNN has settled Sandmann’s case against it:

CNN agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann.

The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington, Kentucky.

Sandmann’s lawsuit sought $800 million from CNN, the Washington Post and NBC Universal. Trial dates are still not set for Sandmann’s lawsuit against NBC Universal and the Washington Post.

Settlements of this sort are almost always subject to confidentiality agreements that prohibit the plaintiff from telling the press how much he got. Often it is the defendant that doesn’t want the world to know how much it paid; sometimes it is the plaintiff (or more likely his lawyers) who doesn’t want the world to know how little he settled for.

In this instance, I am pretty sure that it was CNN, one of the main malefactors, that didn’t want the world to know how much it paid Sandmann as a result of its pathetically biased reporting. Now Sandmann’s lawyers can use CNN’s contribution, likely in the mid six figures, to fund their ongoing battle against the Washington Post, NBC and any others who slandered the boy. That is how the system works, and in this case, it appears to be working for the good.

They knew the truth and lied.

Did CNN pay or NOT?

Ya know,, just thinking back,, I swear I remember people Here, on this very site, cheering and proclaiming that when the suits were dismissed, that proved they were right and that no good, MAGA hat wearing kid was indeed a racist and deserved the bad press and whatever bootprints life left on hisass was good enough for him.

Yeah, we actually have lying, delusional people here,
I Wonder if this will help them start to see..
That old Indian dude,,??
That's the racist sackoshitt in the story.

Ohhh, snap!
Heck, I dunno,,
Can an Indian even BE racist?
Or is that something only white people can do?