The Associated Press and television networks NBC and HBO could be the next three entities sued over their handling of the viral video featuring Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, his co-counsel told Fox News on Tuesday.
Todd McMurtry revealed the potential upcoming legal targets during an interview with Fox News just one day after a massive $275 million suit was filed against CNN due to its coverage of the January confrontation between Sandmann — wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat — and Native American activist, Nathan Phillips.
“Our plan is to come out with an additional lawsuit every few weeks or months. We have to issue opportunities for these news organizations to provide retractions,” McMurtry told the “Todd Starnes Radio Show.” “But right now we’re looking very carefully at NBC, AP, HBO. And again, HBO is primarily because they carry Bill Maher’s disgusting comments about Nicholas Sandmann. So those probably are the next three defendants.”
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Maher referred to Sandmann as a “little pr—” during the Jan. 27 episode of his show, “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
“I don’t blame the kid, the smirk-face kid,” Maher said. “I blame lead poisoning and bad parenting. And, oh yeah, I blame the f—ing kid, what a little pr—. Smirk face, like that’s not a d— move at any age to stick your face in this elderly man.”
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Maher then made a crude joke about the abuse of children that has taken place in the Catholic Church, saying: “You know, I don’t spend a lot of time, I must tell you, around Catholic school children, but I do not get what Catholic priests see in these kids.” – READ MORE