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Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann filed a lawsuit against NBC Universal on Wednesday for a whopping $275 million. The defamation suit was his third and largest he had filed against an unaccountable media giant (the others were against The Washington Post and CNN).
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight Thursday, Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway assessed that the reason Sandmann enjoyed such broad support was that “people sense the injustice” done to him by a vicious liberal media.
Hemingway noted that if someone were to analyze why the media pounced on Sandmann “it would not make the media look very good.” Explaining:
They liked this story because it was the way to make a March for Life – an event they do not cover year after year despite, the fact, that hundreds of thousands of people attend it each year in Washington, D.C. It was a way to make the March for Life look bad. It was a way to make Donald Trump voters or supporters look bad. And so, it was convenient, it fit a narrative that they would like to perpetuate.
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