Enter Sandmann

Covington HS student Nick Sandmann and his high-powered legal team have begun filing defamation lawsuits.

Highlights of the claim:

The lawsuit claims The Post "ignored the truth" about the incident and says the paper "falsely accused Nicholas of ... 'accost[ing]' Phillips by 'suddenly swarm[ing]' him in a 'threaten[ing]' and 'physically intimidat[ing]' manner ... 'block[ing]' Phillips path, refusing to allow Phillips 'to retreat,' 'taunting the dispersing indigenous crowd,' [and] chanting, 'Build that wall,' 'Trump2020,' or 'Go back to Africa,' and otherwise engaging in racist and improper conduct. ..."Sandmann's attorneys accuse The Post of publishing seven "false and defamatory" articles about the incident between Jan. 19 and 21 and claim the paper "knew and intended that its false and defamatory accusations would be republished by others, including media outlets and others on social media."

Just comparing the initial WaPo account (ignore the Jan 22 dateline; the URL has a Jan 20 date) with the "It's More Complicated" walkback, one can see some problems for the defense.

AllahPundit is less optimistic that the WaPo is in trouble. DO let me add: I am a big fan of AllahP but I think he is misunderestimating the plaintiffs chances here. These are high-powered law firms that don't need the publicity and are clearly on a contingency fee. It won't be $250 million but they expect a payday. From the WaPo and others.

I LOVE A MYSTERY: The WaPo reports on the lawsuit but doesn't bother to link to any of the stories in question because democracy dies in darkness and they are all about transparency. Or something.

Comments

[MissMarple2]

Ralph L.,

I have no idea. Maybe clarice knows.

[Ralph L]

She was totally rattled when she was asked about Smollett!
From the way she turned around, I think her staff had tweeted behind her back. No Collusion!
Witch Hunt!

[henry]

@JarradKushner

New Deputy AG Jeff Rosen.
Half Sessions/Half Rosenstein ?
Is this a Billy Barr joke ?

[anonamom]

Agree, which is why I bring this over:

This is audio of Gorka interviewing Sara Carter. Worth the 11 minutes of your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=qf9VIZj2hNM

Among other things, at the end they talk about why the unmasking investigation has been stymied: Obama converted en masse political appointees into civil servants so that they couldn't be pushed out. They are the "fifth column that is countering, that is slow rolling the congressional oversight function that is required by law of the intelligence community," says Gorka. Carter is very determined to stay on them, and she seems convinced that this will blow up within the year. I hope so.

Posted by: jimmyk | February 20, 2019 at 12:29 AM

[hoyden]

keto happiness is never having to use half&half. The only half you need is heavy cream in half gallon containers. Go to the store when you are down to your last half gallon.

[Buckeye]

No doubt Sara Carter will stay on them if she doesn't catch early onset rigor mortis.

[anonamom]

janet's 7:59 is certainly thought provoking. Those resignations---caught Glenn Reynold's attention yesterday.

Willie's GF caught Professor Althouse's eye when she appeared totally blindsided when asked about Smollett the other day. Insty linked to this post of hers, which has the video so you can see for yourself how totally unprepared she was to be questioned (which I think in and of itself disqualifies her for POTUS. At a minimum, indicates what role she thinks the press should play in her campaign!)

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2019/02/kamala-harris-is-terribly-awkward-when.html

[hoyden]

Forecast to snow all day with 6" accumulation. My commute to sun room unaffected by slippery roads.

[Buckeye]

keto happiness is never having to use half&half. The only half you need is heavy cream in half gallon containers. Go to the store when you are down to your last half gallon.

Need it to make the sliced strawberries taste like "dessert":)

[James D.]

>i?At a minimum, indicates what role she thinks the press should play in her campaign

Well, when she's got MSM reporters giggling along with her on a shopping trip and picking outfits for her to try on, you can't really blame her for thinking the press' role is to be her lapdog.

[Narciso79]

Yes I thought, exactly that segment.

[MissMarple2]

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/19/jessie-smollett-letter-brothers-attack/

Local Chicago CBS station reporting that SMollett was involved in producing that hate mail letter. I believe that puts him in the feds' bullseye.

[MissMarple2]

Smollett's sisters campaigned for Kamela Harris. There are numerous pictures of him with Harris, too.

Janet's friend did a good job of connecting the dots. I think it is going to come out pretty soon.

[Jane]

John Solomon says he’s coming out with a blockbuster today. It doesn’t appear to be out yet.

Rich Lowry has been in the Trump camp for over a year. Maybe 2.

[hoyden]

Nothing wrong with a few strawberries to spice up your heavy cream.

[Buckeye]

Nothing wrong with a few strawberries to spice up your heavy cream.

Both are in the fridge:)

[MissMarple2]

Out Magazine
‏Verified account @outmagazine

"Rather than actually being about helping queer people around the world, Trump's campaign looks more like another instance of the right using queer people as a pawn to amass power and enact its own agenda," writes @mathewrodriguez.

https://www.out.com/news-opinion/2019/2/19/trumps-plan-decriminalize-homosexuality-old-racist-tactic?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news-opinion

[clarice]

Anonamom--I view anything here as a public posting free to be republished with credit to the author.

[MissMarple2]

Jane,

Thanks for the information on Lowry and I withdraw my snarky attitude. I obviously haven't kept up.

[Jim Eagle]

Today's sunrise, as the fog was lifting. Note the flag on the 18th green dissecting the sun:)

Glasater: Mrs JiB has been advised that her "Arsenal" is on its way. She wish she had it today for that sunrise. Much better photo tool then my iPhone.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/19/hayward-if-smollett-isnt-charged-with-a-hate-crime-no-one-should-be/

This is a really good article and one worth reading.

[Jim Eagle]

Sorry, but if you don't know what the Arsenal Camera Assistant is then you can read and see it here:

https://witharsenal.com/

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
4m4 minutes ago

The New York Times reporting is false. They are a true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!

=============================

I have a suspicion that the President has some stuff on the New York Times.

[Jane]

I’m so sick of the Smollett case. Throw him in jail and be done with it. Or torture him until he confesses it was Kamila’s idea.

Then string up McCabe until he reveals all the elected Dems in on the Russia scam.

Barr starts his job tomorrow. High hopes!

[Porchlight]

It is interesting that state's attorney Foxx, FOK (Friend Of Kamala), has recused herself from the Smollett (also FOK) case.

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/asi8a3/breaking_kamala_harris_is_involved_in_the/

It's Chicago, so Idk if any of this will see the light, BUT if Rahm or other powerful Chicago people decide to back someone other than Harris for 2020....

[Buckeye]

Now we know why Smollett didn't want to give up his phone.

[henry]

The real question is “did Moochelle set this up?”

[MissMarple2]

Porchlight,

A message from Chitown:

"The question that will go unasked is who was behind trying to create a Presidential Message at the expense of Chicago cops? With someone's full consent during the last few weeks of a mayoral race?

Who has that kind of clout in the African-American and Gay Community to try and pull that off?

Very short list."

[Marlene]

Good Morning! Speaking of slicing strawberries,the Florida strawberries should be arriving in your grocery stores up north. Of course,I can go to the farmers market and get them fresh from the field. The quart I just sliced had some strawberries as big as my fist. :)

[Captain Hate]

I’d also say that the Medicare rules are designed to limit care and choices, which won’t be a surprise to anyone here.

Maybe I've got a doctor that's really good at negotiating the ins and outs of the rules because I don't feel limited on anything.

[Captain Hate]

In case you're wondering who the enemy is:

https://spectator.org/republican-spenders-wheres-the-backbone/

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
3m3 minutes ago

California now wants to scale back their already failed “fast train” project by substantially shortening the distance so that it no longer goes from L.A. to San Francisco. A different deal and record cost overruns. Send the Federal Government back the Billions of Dollars WASTED!

[Porchlight]

MM, Chitown's message is interesting. Perhaps Barry might be calling in some favors for Slow Joe?

[Marlene]

Yesterday I was at the dentist (again) and while waiting,a guy came in and said to the receptionist,I need a tooth pulled now! She explained that he would need an x-ray and he said,I don't want an x-ray! The poor guy was frantic (a very verbal New Yorker). She talked him down,explained the insurance procedure,he called his dentist in NY to have files sent to FL and he's having his tooth extracted today. She was very calm and competent and my experience is that if a doctor's or dentist's office has an excellent front office,the insurance and other paperwork is easy.

[jimmyk]

I don't feel limited on anything.

CH, I hope you don't have to find out what happens if you have a serious and complicated health issue.

[GUS]

Gay and part black? Shitcago?? Bath houses???
RAT???? Turkey Baster?????

Hmmmmmmmm.

[jimmyk]

anonamom, from last night's discussion and "Undoctored." I haven't read it (just excerpts), but my issue with that is the extremism. Eliminate all grains, 100%. Forever. Even if you cut back 90% you're a failure. Even if you cut back 100% for 6 months and then you have one cookie, you'll gain back all the weight you lost. You can't go out to a restaurant because who know what's in the food.

Maybe that's necessary for people with serious health issues. I consider myself pretty healthy and would just like to stay that way. I can't see upending my life.

[peter]

I think if I polled most JOMers, especially those who have read Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis, most would say that her memoir was 100% ghost written. Here's a little letter from Moochelle explaining how important book clubs to her. What a phony industry the publishing world has become.

https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1498-an-exclusive-letter-from-michelle-obama-to-her-readers-on-goodreads?ref_=pe_3097180_392943170&rto=x_gr_e_nl_general&utm_campaign=Feb192019&utm_content=Michelle.Obama.Essay&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

[MissMarple2]

Porchlight,

Fascinating clues, for sure!

ChiTown says if things keep happening in the Smollett case, he wouldn't be surprised to see Harris suspend her campaign.

Another clue is that sudden appearance of Michelle Obama on the preferred candidate polling.

[MissMarple2]

peter,

She got a HUGE advance for her memoirs. I don't remember how much, but it seemed far in excess of what would be expected from sales, even if her book was a best-seller.

I don't know much about the publishing business, but it seems to me a high number are privately held, which means they don't have to file reports for shareholders.

[Captain Hate]

I think Kabbalah's toast already this week especially considering that if she overcomes everything to win the primaries, she wouldn't be facing a GOP doormat in the general; rather someone who would gleefully point these out multiple times.

jimmyk, I can only report on what I've experienced.

[MissMarple2]

Gov. Mike Huckabee
‏Verified account @GovMikeHuckabee
45s46 seconds ago

$250 million is what Jeff Bezos paid for WAPO, so just give the paper to Sandmann! If it’s going to keep running fake news that gets it sued I have no doubt a teen Catholic kid from KY could do better job of running honest paper than ppl currently in charge at WaPo.

[MissMarple2]

🚨Uncovered video🚨@BernieSanders in 1985 praising the Communist Castro regime in Cuba and admitting on camera that he traveled to Nicaragua to advise the Ortega regime on how to successfully fight the United States. pic.twitter.com/qYtpvbVvCS

— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 20, 2019

Video at link.

[jimmyk]

Cuomo is still whining like the guy who murdered his parents asking for mercy because he's an orphan.

https://www.wamc.org/post/cuomo-contends-rich-are-fleeing-new-york-over-salt

It's nothing to do with NY's high taxes and spending, and progressive income tax, it's all Trump's fault for taking the subsidy away.

[MissMarple2]

https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/1098231777653514240

Click on this to see the picture. Comments are amusing, too!

[Tom Maguire]

I trust Sandmann's attorneys to know what they're doing than AllahSoyBoy.

I am a big fan of AllahP but I think he is wrong-ish about this. $250MM won't happen but this is a high-powered law firm clearly working on contingency. They didn't need the publicity - they took this with a payday in mind.

[JimNorCal]

New.
Let the willowing begin!

The cool kids read to the end, though, so don't be too concerned ...

[Jim Eagle]

I would not normally link a Guardian story but this one is worth while since it is AI + Elon Musk + Reid Hoffman in re: GPT2 text generator. Mrs. JiB had a De Staandard interview on in Dutch where the guy was explaining how they fed 8K pages of text into the program and it spit out a single page of continuing dialogue.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction

[Buckeye]

CH and JimmyK

I think the biggest determining factor when on Medicare is the willingness of the Doc's to accept Medicare rates, which are crappy and getting crappier.

Since all my Docs are Ohio State Medical system guys, the decision is made, and I haven't had any issues, yet.

All of Mrs. Buckeye's Docs are private practice guys. I suspect we will have some issues when she goes Medicare in December.

[MissMarple2]

I believe I have mentioned here before that when I was in college the Big Scare was a coming Ice Age, and that somehow it changed until by the mid-80's it had become Global Warming, which mystified me as I hadn't been reading all of the professional ppaers during that time period.

This guy has cataloged a bunch of headlines and news articles about what was being said to scare people in the 70's and then into the 80's. This is a VERY good article if you have someone trying to argue with you about "settled science."

https://realclimatescience.com/2019/02/fifty-years-of-failed-apocalyptic-forecasts/

[clarice]

I thought Undoctored was extremist, too.,jimmyk.

[Captain Hate]

Btw, I owe TK a partial apology for not adequately noting what he reported; the urine tinged comments from the glorified paralegal did in fact take happyfeet to task for not defending the inarticulate dunce in the comments at PJM and Instapundit. I somehow overlooked that howler among his rationalizing his traffic dropping like his IQ because happyfeet was driving his few remaining "friends" away. It also revealed that his deadenders send him messages complaining about other commenters like junior high school girls having their first periods.

I also sent an email to PJM telling them they were dumber than Red State for adding that oaf to their lineup. Another "smart online conservative site" repeating the same mistakes.

[Tom Maguire]

In case you weren't aware, Someone dug up an old John Wayne Playboy interview from 1971 and the SJW's on Twitter got all outraged:

I'm stealing the observation that the outrage was so great that John Wayne will never find work in Hollywood again.

[clarice]

Fun and true:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/leftists_arent_religious_ask_them_about_food.html

[Rocco]

Good morning and prayers for James D, his Mom and family.

The surgeon who did my fil's bypass said everything went perfectly. He's in ICU today so they can monitor his progress and I'm told he'll be sitting up in a chair and maybe even up and walking for a bit. Thanks all for your well wishes.

[hoyden]

Too bad for anyone wanting to fly in or out MSP; all runways closed.

[Tom Maguire]

On Cuomo and fleeing New Yorkers:

It's nothing to do with NY's high taxes and spending, and progressive income tax, it's all Trump's fault for taking the subsidy away.

Whingy camels always blame the last straw.

[Captain Hate]

Yes, Buckeye, my doctors are part of the University Hospitals system with a fleet of bean counters scrutizing all regs to create navigation charts.

Good morning, TM.

[Narciso79]

I think that's kind of extreme. A diet protocol should be flexible otherwise its unworkable.

[Jim Eagle]

Great news, Rocco. I think my Pater Noster put him over the top:)

Clarice's 10:18 is a howler. When I lived in San Franciso, you'd run into everyone of the article's stereotypes at Whole Food. They are literally batshit crazy people.

[Old Lurker]

A-mom via James:

"Anonamom losted last night that doctors have to spend too much time following government and third party regs to actually read, and based on our experience with my mom this last week and the Medicare rules the hospital has cited for most of their decisions, that’s totally true.

I’d also say that the Medicare rules are designed to limit care and choices, which won’t be a surprise to anyone here."

Adding to everything A-mom says, as the father of a daughter in the midst of it all, I was not surprised, but was nonetheless deeply concerned when I read the story below, yesterday. Bottom line is that doctors have the highest suicide rate of all professions and not the least of contributing factors is the huge quantity of time docs have to spend fighting the computerized records monster. My daughter confirms the "typical 100 hours per week at the hospital" and says that does not count the prep time for presentations etc that are also expected. ("rules" limiting their weeks are a joke they all say, and complaining is the fastest way to the bottom of the barrel.) Her mother and I have both noted with concern how close to the surface are her tears these days.

And she's a rock star so imagine the others.

https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-lifestyle-burnout-depression-6011056

[Buckeye]

OL, Jr. says he spends lots of time doing the same.

He has a good "take" on life, and has learned how to let the crap roll off his back.

[Old Lurker]

Guys are better at that than girls, Buckeye.

[Jim Eagle]

I heard that some universities are now offering degrees in "Medical Management and Accounting". You watch, those skills will out earn the Doctors' practicing medicine or surgery. That is topsy-turvy our whole legislative, regulatory, and reporting actions have become.

I am surprised kids still want to become doctors.

[lurkersusie]

We moved from the Hudson Valley to Hilton Head.
Our monthly disposable income increased by
$2500.00.

[Account Deleted]

((Yesterday I was at the dentist (again) and while waiting,a guy came in and said to the receptionist,I need a tooth pulled now! She explained that he would need an x-ray and he said,I don't want an x-ray! The poor guy was frantic (a very verbal New Yorker). She talked him down,explained the insurance procedure,he called his dentist in NY to have files sent to FL and he's having his tooth extracted today.))

THat guy coulda been me! I did that same thing not long ago.
Just pull the tooth! I want the tooth pulled...here's the money....pull it.

I went for a teeth cleaning appt. & now there were forms for medical history, habits, personal info, etc.....
It bothers me.
Just clean my teeth....here's the money....do it.

All I should have to give them is the money for the service. There really isn't a reason for them to even know my name.

[Buckeye]

We moved from the Hudson Valley to Hilton Head.
Our monthly disposable income increased by
$2500.00.

No such thing as an increase in disposable income in the Buckeye family, just an increase in visits to clothing stores, online retail sites, dining establishments.....you get the picture.

[Old Lurker]

I do the Income part and my ladies handle the Disposable task.

[Jim Eagle]

The pictures are great, but the words of wisdom with each one are even better, proven with age, and indisputable.

If you like military aviation, you can't beat these.

http://www.doyletics.com/tidbits/militaryadvice.pdf

Funny, how I remember a lot those quotes:-)

[Jim Eagle]

lurkersusie,

Saw a comment the other day that the top real estate agent in Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Georgia is Andrew Coumo:)