If there is one thing that Covington Catholic graduate Nick Sandmann proved Tuesday at the 2020 Republican National Convention, it is that liberals still really, really hate him.
And all he did was wear a Make America Great Again hat while attending the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
“My life changed forever in that one moment,” Sandmann said Tuesday as he recalled the news reports that claimed falsely in 2019 that he and his classmates had “swarmed” a Native American protester, Nathan Phillips, and harassed him with racist insults. “The full war machine of the mainstream media revved up into attack mode. They did so without ever researching the full video of the incident, without ever investigating … or without ever asking me for my side of the story.”
He added, “And do you know why? Because the truth wasn’t important. Advancing their anti-Christian, anti-conservative, anti-Donald Trump narrative was all that mattered. And if advancing their narrative ruined the reputation and future of a teenager from Covington, Kentucky … so be it. That will teach him not to wear a MAGA hat!”
As Sandmann spoke, liberal activists and members of the press reminded everyone of how the shameful Covington misreporting incident even happened in the first place. Pure, blinding rage.
CNN analyst and former Clinton White House staffer Joe Lockhart, for example, remarked during Sandmann’s address, “I’m watching tonight because it’s important. But i don’t have to watch this snot nose entitled kid from Kentucky.”
“That smug privileged teenage boy who wore a MAGA hat while he mocked an Indigenous man in front of the Lincoln Memorial a few years ago is speaking at the RNC,” said AJ+ staffer Dena Takruri. “His name is Nicholas Sandmann and I don’t give a flying f*** about hearing ‘his side of the story.’”
The Nation’s Elie Mystal said elsewhere, “I have things to say about Nick Sandman. I [bzzrt]. Look this kids needs to [bzzrt bzzrt] ow, OW. Okay, my lawyer shock collar is preventing me for Tweeting.”
Both the Washington Post and CNN have settled multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuits with Sandmann stemming from their faulty, slanderous coverage of his run-in with Phillips.
“Of course, they trotted out snotty, grievance poster child Nicholas Sandmann,” said HuffPost contributor Bryan Behar.
Northeastern School of Journalism professor Dan Kennedy meanwhile argued that news outlets were wrong to settle with the Covington graduate, writing, “Nick Sandmann is showing how harmful to the First Amendment it was for the Washington Post and other media to settle his frivolous lawsuit rather than fight.”
“Nicholas Sandmann said he was ‘cancelled’ while addressing the country on primetime TV in a coveted speaking slot during an event that only occurs every four years,” said Business Insider’s John Haltiwanger in an act of aggressively missing the point.
New York Times contributor Wajahat Ali meanwhile tried to portray Phillips, who lied to media in 2019 about the incident with Sandmann and intentionally mispresented his background as a veteran, as the real victim in this story.
The left-wing propaganda outlet NowThis News did likewise, playing up Phillips, a liar, as the true sympathetic figure in the 2019 Covington fiasco.
Kamala / Hillary / CNN alum tweets a “choose your fighter” meme pitting two sympathetic teenagers against each other. Classy. https://t.co/UpFORqQiMQ
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 26, 2020
During this deluge of hate, Sandmann continued his victory lap, raking national media over the coals on national television.
“I believe we must join with a president who will challenge the media to return to objective journalism,” he said. “And together, I believe we must all embrace our First Amendment rights and not hide in fear of the media or from the tech companies or the outrage mob, either. This is worth fighting for. This is worth voting for. This is what President Donald Trump stands for. Thank you all for listening to me tonight.”
“And one more thing,” he said, taking a MAGA hat from his pocket. “Let’s make America great again!”
