By Dave Andrusko

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Tip of the hat to Life News. In light of last Friday’s events, clearly I hadn’t kept close enough track of Nick Sandmann. You’ll remember he was the young victim of a full court, guns blazing media hit job a year ago at the March for Life. Undeterred, on January 4, 2019, Nick posted on his Twitter account
“I will never pass on an opportunity to March for Life!”
As of this morning, that tweet had 47,500 “likes” and over 8,000 retweets.
CNN, among the media outlets that most egregiously slurred the Covington Catholic High School student, reached a settlement last month for an undisclosed amount in federal court. According to Curtis Houck, citing Fox 19,
“[t]he amount of the settlement was not made public” and was a piece of a $800 million suit Sandmann brought against “CNN, the Washington Post and NBC Universal.”
The piece noted the settlement would not affect Sandmann’s legal actions against the other two outlets.
Sandmann attorney Lin Wood added that his client would also sue newspaper chain giant Gannett. According to Fox 19, that suit will be brought “in the next 60 days.”
In the media frenzy, it was widely speculated that Sandmann and fellow Covington Catholic High School students “were taunting the two [Native American activists], but footage later revealed the students were the targets of harassment,” Anthony Leonardi reported last Friday.
At the time of the confrontation, NewsBusters reported that “CNN and fellow liberal cable outlet MSNBC dedicated 53 minutes and 20 minutes in the first weekend (January 19-20, 2019) after the confrontation with CNN host S.E. Cupp being arguably the worst:
CNN devoted the most time on the incident, giving 18 minutes and 16 seconds to the original version between Saturday and Sunday morning.
S.E. Cupp spent almost seven minutes Saturday night on her Unfiltered show, lashing out at the “mob of MAGA hat-wearing high school students” who are “clearly…not getting a good education” with parents being failures “because it makes little sense to angrily chant ‘build the wall’ to a population with literally zero illegal immigrants who were here long before we were.”
The following Monday Cupp tweet she’s “truly sorry” for “reacting too quickly to the Covington story.”
As the Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra explained,
Sandmann was falsely accused of being disrespectful to a Native American man who stood in front of him and beat a drum in his face on January 18 while attending The March for Life in Washington, D.C.
A short video clip, which took the exchange out of context, went viral on social media and led to multiple false attacks being launched against the students from lawmakers, media organizations, media figures, and celebrities.
We will keep you up to date on any subsequent developments in the suits brought against other media outlets.