The fuckers caved!

[Sonny Mirviss]

BREAKING: Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann Gets Settlement From CNN After $275 Million Lawsuit

Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann received reportedly has received a settlement from CNN after suing the far-left network for smearing him last year.

“CNN agreed Tuesday to settle a lawsuit with Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann,” Fox 19 reported. “The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington.”

Sandmann attorneys Todd McMurtry and Lin Wood filed a $275 million lawsuit against CNN in March of last year in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Smirking punk gets his payday.

[Bettie]

1. Now he knows that he can be as awful as he wants to

and if someone dares to raise their voice against him, his whiteness, maleness, and wealth will ensure he faces no consequences and even comes out ahead.

When this happened, my two teenage boys (white, middle class) thought he was being dickish for no reason, then they noticed the hat and said "Oh, he's one of those".

[BannonsLiver]

9. With any luck the money will ruin his life and make him unhappy

That's happened to some lottery winners who probably didn't have nearly the air of entitlement this shitstain has.

[SharonAnn]

2. CNN is a "far-left network"?

[Sherman A1]

3. I would not consider them Far Left at all

I consider them to be useless infotainment, but not far left.

[California_Republic]

17. +1. What's the source?

[Different Drummer]

5. My thought exactly.

DD

[maxsolomon]

7. No link in the OP.

But that tells you about the source.

[greyl]

8. According the OP's rightwing source, dailywire. nt

[Habibi]

11. Yeah, Google turned up some hits from local news sources,

one of which appears to have deleted the story.

eta: sorry, meant to reply to Max.

[DFW]

34. Conservative News Network

CNN is far-left like a Jeep is seaworthy.

[Jamastiene]

47. Not by any stretch of the imagination is CNN a "far-left network."

I don't know who in the world came up with that, but they need their definition of "far-left' examined.

[TheRealNorth]

55. When you are a goose-stepping Fascist....

… anyone critical of "The Leader" is a far-left pinko commie.

[Zeus69]

4. Good lord

This little prick got paid for being a prick.
Our country gets more "broken" by the month...

[brush]

6. Sue, sue, sue...never get told no or held accountale. Creating another trump.

[FakeNoose]

10. It's another payday for the lawyers

God I hate this! It's only going to encourage more lawyers to bring more nuisance lawsuits.

[smirkymonkey]

12. I hope this little prick goes to college.

And gets the shit beat out of him on a regular basis, where mommy won't be around to coddle him. Talk about a face badly in need of a fist.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. He probably will go to college, ...

... and he'll be in the same frat as Kavanaugh, laughingly raping and drinking.

[smirkymonkey]

19. I am sure there will at least be a contingent who will be aware of his reputation who

will not be so kindly disposed. I really hope karma catches up with him one day soon.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. Aww, you're just mad 'cause he's smirkier than a smirky monkey.

Between him and Martin Shkreli, it's hard to pick which face is the most punch-worthy.

[smirkymonkey]

23. I'd throw DJT, Jr. in that mix.

It would be very hard to decide which one to punch first.

[dewsgirl]

13. This sets a terrible precedent.

[Habibi]

14. I'm not seeing any legit sources for this info.

Whatcha got?

[brettdale]

16. FAR LEFT NETWORK?????

I see the OP only has 43 posts. The post didnt contain an actual link?

Is this a passive aggressive way of trying to get a point across.

[iscooterliberally]

18. I googled the first sentence and got this:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit

[unblock]

21. the problem with "undisclosed amount" is that it very well could by $1.

if the amount is sufficiently nominal, be it $1 or even $10,000, in practice few corporations would like to keep paying lawyers a ton of money when only a small sum is at stake.

and jerk who sued can then go on tv or ghost-write a book or go on the right-wing lecture circuit and make a mint (the settlement may prevent him from disclosing details, but that never seems to stop people profiting of the notoriety from such things.)


point is, there's plenty of room for him to have lost money overall from the legal case after paying lawyers and to still make money off the incident as a whole.

[former9thward]

48. This would be a contingent fee case.

The plaintiff would not lose a nickle. Also there are suits against other media outlets still proceeding.

[Raine]

22. CNN must have been afraid

to go to court.

[Amishman]

30. I can understand why, the details were misreported initially

The lawsuit claims malice where it was probably just the usual bad info of a breaking story. Still there is risk, especially if they expected it to go through a right leaning court. WaPo tried to have the portion against them dismissed and were denied. I wouldn't be surprised if they settle as well.

[stopdiggin]

38. you're right here. lot's of people jumped on the bandwagon. and should have waited.

and if if a news organization is responsible for "creating" a false narrative (not just following but helping create) ...
I'm betting the argument here is that CNN knew there was a more accurate side to this story .. and deliberately went with juicy and inflammatory. Thus deliberate negligence or malice.

[MichMan]

52. Not only that, they identified a minor by name and location

There is a reason that most all minors are never identified by name in news reports

[cwydro]

24. Source?

Link?

[Dr. Strange]

56. Here's something from a local station:

https://www.fox19.com/2020/01/07/cnn-settles-lawsuit-with-nick-sandmann/

[dustyscamp]

25. Asshole kid gets rewarded for being a asshole with a red hat

[TwilightZone]

26. Daily Wire is a right-wing site created by RW hack Ben Shapiro

I would suggest finding a better source.

[TidalWave46]

27. Not buying it without other confirmation.

Not even sure why this would be brought here at this stage.

[IcyPeas]

28. covington CATHOLIC school must be so proud.

raising privileged little impudent pricks like this. another example of jesus-like behavior?

hey, maybe he'll donate all the money to some charity............

[Phoenix61]

29. It says they settled. It doesn't say for what.

They could have agreed not to make him pay for their attorneys and they both walk away.

[musette_sf]

31. shameful!

This punk specifically went to an anti-American hate march, to specifically advocate for the sacred civil, human, and Constitutional rights of innocent women to be destroyed, and participated in MORE hate. And the punk gets paid off for it.

[lpbk2713]

32. Anyone/anything that doesn't always agree with the righties' point of view is far left.

And extremist.

[Hortensis]

33. As said, this is an extreme-right propaganda source.

Worse than the OP posting this garbage here are all those bouncing off the walls in ways that would greatly please the scummy owner, Ben Shapiro.

People should educate themselves first, THEN react. Did you know that RW brains send input by emotional centers FIRST? After that for cognitive analysis, if they bother by then. That's how they've turned themselves into what they've become.

Most Democratic brains process the other direction: Info gets sent for intelligent analysis first, including by our funds of knowledge, and then to the emotional center for reaction.

Learn, think, then react.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. Assholes like him were a deterrent to me becoming a pacifist in the sixties.

[Captain Stern]

36. They 'caved' because they were going to lose.

Maybe news networks should go back to putting a little more emphasis on putting out a correct story, rather than putting an incorrect story out fast.

Maybe my memory is failing me as I get older, but it seems to me that news sources used to pride themselves more on being correct, than being first.

[Sonny Mirviss]

37. Now the little bastard is gloating

Link to tweet

?s=19

[Alea]

39. "Yes, we settled with CNN" is gloating?

It sounds like people were asking if it was true so he said yes. CNN needs to get back to being a news org.

[rockfordfile]

40. He is still a un-American pos

[Kingofalldems]

42. Hmm. Interesting post.

[Sonny Mirviss]

45. Isn't it though

More folks questioning the source than the consequences of these lawsuits.

Maybe nobody really understands.

[NCProgressive]

41. It is probably a nuisance settlement

CNN probably paid what it would have cost them to defend the lawsuit in court.

These are the most common.

[Sonny Mirviss]

43. The shyster lawyer isn't going to quit either

CNN just set a precedent for these money grubbing racist assholes.

Link to tweet

[uponit7771]

44. I'll wait to hear from CNN

[Sonny Mirviss]

46. I'm sure CNN will be running a "BREAKING NEWS" banner

We fucking caved to a little smirking bastard right away for you.

[SidDithers]

49. Source?...nt

Sid

[BuffaloJackalope]

50. Being a smug little fascist pays well.

Fox Snooze is proof of that.

[Doodley]

51. He should pay us for having to see his smug, smirking face.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

53. What's the source for this story? It must be some reich wing one,

Given, “Far-left network, CNN”.

I hate that this undeserving, nasty little spawn wins this case. Disgusting little creep learns lawsuit revenge works if you’re privileged like him.

[Crunchy Frog]

54. "Far left"? I fucking wish.

Little punk looks like he's on his way to becoming a Supreme Court Justice.