{"id":300378,"date":"2019-02-20T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=300378"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T21:28:45","slug":"covington-kids-sue-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/02\/20\/covington-kids-sue-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Covington Kids Sue the Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: “Covington High Student\u2019s Legal Team Sues Washington Post<\/a> — Attorneys representing the Kentucky high school student [Nick Sandmann] involved in a confrontation that went viral on social media last month announced Tuesday that they were suing the Washington Post for $250 million in compensatory and punitive damages.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"By the way, $250 million is exactly the amount Jeff Bezos spent to buy the Washington Post back in 2013. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a coincidence or a targeted figure. Now, the lawsuit was filed in federal court in Kentucky where the boys have a tremendous amount of local support. The lawsuit accuses the Post \u201cof practicing \u2018a modern-day form of McCarthyism\u2019 by targeting Nicholas Sandmann and \u2018using its vast financial resources to enter the bully pulpit by publishing a series of false and defamatory print and online articles … to smear a young boy who was in its view an acceptable casualty in their war against the president.\u2019”<\/p>\n

Bingo! Thank God for this legal team zeroing in on what the purpose of this was. A spokesman for the Washington Post said that, well, we\u2019ve got nothing to say. We\u2019re reviewing a copy of the lawsuit. But you can rest assured that we plan to mount a vigorous defense.<\/p>\n

They make the point in the lawsuit that this kid barely weighs 150 pounds. There\u2019s no way he could bully anybody, particularly surrounded by a bunch of bullies himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lawsuit claims the Post \u2018ignored the truth\u2019 about the incident and says the paper \u2018falsely accused Nicholas of … \u201caccost[ing]\u201d Phillips by \u201csuddenly swarm[ing]\u201d him in a \u201cthreaten[ing]\u201d and \u201cphysically intimidat[ing]\u201d manner … \u201cblock[ing]\u201d Phillips path, refusing to allow Phillips \u201cto retreat,\u201d \u201ctaunting the dispersing indigenous crowd,\u201d [and] chanting, \u201cBuild that wall,\u201d \u201cTrump2020,\u201d or \u201cGo back to Africa,\u201d and otherwise engaging in racist and improper conduct.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

None of that happened! None of it! Not a single word of it happened out of the mouth of Nick Sandmann or any of the other kids from Covington. Not a single thing. And the Washington Post is not the only media reporting these outrages.<\/p>\n

“Sandmann\u2019s attorneys accuse The Post of publishing seven \u2018false and defamatory\u2019 articles about the incident between Jan. 19 and 21 and claim the paper \u2018knew and intended that its false and defamatory accusations would be republished by others, including media outlets and others on social media.\u2019”<\/p>\n

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Exactly right. Folks, you know it as well as I. It\u2019s a classic illustration of media malpractice. This is not journalism. This is pure activism, the Washington Post and its reporters advancing an anti-Trump agenda along with everybody else who is in that camp of anti-Trump.<\/p>\n

The president this morning quoted from the lawsuit against the Post and added his encouragement. He tweeted the following: \u201c\u2019The Washington Post ignored basic journalistic standards because it wanted to advance its well-known and easily documented biased agenda against President Donald J. Trump.\u2019 Go get them Nick. Fake News!\u201d That\u2019s from the president.<\/p>\n

This stuff is so serious because there doesn\u2019t appear to be any solution to it. The media\u2019s not gonna self-correct. The media\u2019s gonna have no conscience about this. The people that watch the Drive-By Media are gonna be totally duped by it. There\u2019s no reason for them to doubt any of this, just like there\u2019s no reason for them to doubt the original reporting about Jussie Smollett.<\/p>\n

Nick Sandmann, the rest of his life is gonna be tagged with this. It\u2019s always gonna be, if you look him up, applying for a job somewhere, you look him up, this episode and its original reporting is gonna be the first thing Google or any other search engine shows anybody regardless how this ends up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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