Covington graduate Nicholas Sandmann to speak at Republican convention

[dalton99a]

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/512479-covington-graduate-nicholas-sandmann-to-speak-at-republican-convention

Covington graduate Nicholas Sandmann to speak at Republican convention
By Joe Concha - 08/18/20 09:22 AM EDT



Covington Catholic High School graduate Nicholas Sandmann, whose interaction with Omaha Tribe elder Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial went viral, will speak at the Republican National Convention next week.

The teenager made the announcement in a tweet on Monday night.

[underpants]

1. Literally the worst

Ugh.

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. "apart"

Little snot-nose punk should pay attention in grammar and English class.

[Chellee]

33. Well, we know what kind of education he got at Covington. nt

[gratuitous]

3. If you too are a smug, overprivileged brat, the RNC is for YOU!

The Soft Hands Convention.

[Aristus]

4. "Apart".

What did he major in? Smirking? Because it wasn't English...

[badhair77]

5. Oh good grief. Just what I want to see, a smug kid who

is now a richer smug kid. They really have reached the bottom. I believe I must get my tonsils removed that hour.

[LastDemocratInSC]

6. This, plus the St Louis couple who drew their guns on protesters.

They are inviting all the roaches to the banquet.

[dalton99a]

7. It's meat for the base

[LastDemocratInSC]

15. Values Voters

[NurseJackie]

40. And the classy big breasted women with "Trump Can Grab My Pussy" t-shirts...

And the classy big breasted women with "Trump Can Grab My Pussy 🔽" t-shirts... with the arrow pointing at their crotch.

Ain't they sweet?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. I went to catholic school in another country. They taught us how to spell and the proper use

of apostrophes. What's his excuse?

[DonaldsRump]

9. Seriously, this smirking idiot can't even write, can he?

[Bleacher Creature]

10. The only thing that GOP stands for today is a bunch of petty grievances.

That's it. It's going to be a convention limited solely to perceived attacks on Trump and his supporters.

[Turbineguy]

11. Backpfeifengesicht

[tenderfoot]

17. genau

eom

[smirkymonkey]

19. Vollig!

Slimy little POS!

[demmiblue]

12. Jesus, who's next?! This woman?

Link to tweet

[NurseJackie]

39. OMG! Where is this? Funny and sad at the same time.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. How did he win that lawsuit?

It just doesn't make sense.

[bdjhawk]

20. That is what I want to know.

Entitled, spoiled white male in MAGAt hat puts his smug mug right in the man’s face and blocks him while fellow smug students laugh at the man. All bused there to participate in anti-abortion protests. Pathetic pricks!!

[Bonx]

21. Smirking should be illegal!!!

[Sympthsical]

22. Because there was other video proving the media defamed him

There's no doubt the kid's a Republican asshat. But the stories about him weren't true. Just read this thread. People still think he behaved in a way he did not.

That's why CNN and the Post settled with him.

It's like that North Carolina university rape case. Even after the kids were exonerated, you still had people saying, "Well, something must have happened . . ." They were too attached to the narrative.

Same here. The kid may be an anti-woman Republican, but he never did what he was widely accused of by the media. That's why he got a lot of money from them. But people never read beyond the viral video they saw, so they still believe what was written at the time. It's a shame.

[robbob]

26. Sorry, I should really know this...

It’s just there’s been so much crazy shit these last three years it’s hard to keep track. I don’t want to waste your time, but could you briefly elaborate on what the media accused him of doing vs. what actually happened? The misrepresentation that led to him winning his lawsuit? I too am dismayed at how often people on both sides are willing to accept a false narrative just because it conforms to their beliefs. The truth always should come first.

[Sympthsical]

29. In a nutshell, the media painted him as an aggressor

And they ran with a narrative that he and a bunch of his classmates were galloping racists going after a Native American elder.

It turned out they were just standing there, that they were approached by Black Israelites who were hurling racist language at them.

But he was wearing a MAGA hat, so that was enough for a lot of people.

I only remember it because I thought it was kind of a low point on our side that we were going after a minor child for something he didn't even do. Social media just isn't a great look on any of us much of the time.

[robbob]

38. Hmm...I went and found the Wikipedia article on the incident and aftermath

Of course, I could be simplifying it a bit (as could they), but it seems to me he won his case with the Washington Post on what amounts to a technicality. The first suit they brought against the Post was thrown out by the judge. They claimed the Post painted Sandmann as a racist, and the judge decided there was no basis for that claim.

So they refiled a suit on the basis of The Post claiming that the Covington boys had “blocked Nathan Phillips (the Native American elder) and would not allow him to retreat”. Actually that was one of the 33 claims the lawyers made (30 of which were thrown out by the judge) that were deemed worthy of further scrutiny, and I suppose the reason for The Post’s decision to settle out of court.

It’s all here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2019_Lincoln_Memorial_confrontation

Anyway, I do remember a lot of hatred being directed at a stupid kid for the stupid thing he did.

[JonLP24]

36. I don't have much faith in rape prosecutions in the justice system

I'm also against prosecutorial misconduct and he blew whatever case there may have been.

Less than 1% of all rapes result in felony convictions.

[StarfishSaver]

34. He didn't win the suit. The organizations paid him to go away

It was a "nuisance" settlement because this guy is nothing more than a nuisance to them.

[kacekwl]

14. Can't wait it's gonna be a

barn burner.

[maryellen99]

16. I wonder if they are trying to get Cannon Hinnant's parents to speak nt

[cwydro]

18. Another reason not to watch.

Not that I needed one lol.

[Azathoth]

23. I'll give them credit: they're turning the Breitbart twitter feed into a convention lineup

nt

[Cbus Girl]

24. I had an encounter

With an entitled little prick who smirked at me like that. It took him about 30 seconds to realize this overweight five foot nothing mama bear just might kick his ass. No one especially an entitled little republican asshole is going talk his way out of putting his hands on my daughter.

[irisblue]

27. Welcome to DU Cbus Girl

[RhodeIslandOne]

25. Punchable face n/m

[irisblue]

28. A Jugend. That Martin Shkreli level smirk is annoying

geez the bottom feeders the trumpers & RNC are dragging up...

[bluestarone]

30. He fits their mold soooo

I'm NOT surprised in the least!!!

[lettucebe]

31. Does he bring his own pointy white hat or is that provided?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

32. His is promoting the RNC agenda...

They are the victim and the martyr. What substance does Sandman bring ? What policy hope ? He is all fake news and hoax BS.

The News companies he sued. paid him nuisance money.

[HotTeaBag]

35. With each of these speakers it's becoming more and more obvious that the GOP convention

is only trying to speak to their shrinking base and no one else.

It doesn't seem that they understand they need to find more voters in order to win - Trump has pissed away a fair amount of his supporters from four years ago and he's mobilized a lot more of us to vote that may not have last time, or voted third party.

[Elwood P Dowd]

41. He thinks all he needs to do is get the base to turn out in record numbers, then

Putin and the republican cheating machine can manipulate enough votes to put him over the top.

[NurseJackie]

37. The embodiment of the WORST of everything about the GOP. Worse than Chachi.

[sarcasmo]

42. The RNC bringing out all the big hitters.