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Mister Sandmann

I am going to assume that the vast majority of you do not remember the song, Mr. Sandman, by The Chordettes … after all it was recorded back in 1954. The first line of that song …

“Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream”

How many of you remember Nicholas Sandmann?

To refresh your memory, in 2019, Sandmann came under attack from the media after a video of him wearing a red Make America Great Again hat went viral, showing the teenager standing in front of a Native American elder on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the March For Life.

How many of you remember Kyle Rittenhouse?

Rittenhouse was charged with two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, and other charges after fatally shooting two men and injuring another during the Kenosha riots of 2020. He was ultimately acquitted of all charges in November of last year after testifying he acted in self-defense. 

The two are tangentially related because Sandmann  sued some of the various entities that defamed him, while Rittenhouse is now in the beginning of that same process. 

Sandmann said that Rittenhouse’s litigation decisions are ultimately up to him, but that he would sue the media outlets he believes defamed his character.

“It’s really a personal call,” he said, adding that 2022 will mark three years since his own experience with the press, and six cases remain in progress.

This week Mister Sandmann brought Kyle Rittenhouse a dream, as the lawyer who represented Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann during his defamation cases has joined Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal team. The newly added attorney says there will be “at least 10” defamation lawsuits against prominent figures and companies for comments against the teenager. 

“I’ve been hired to head the effort to determine whom to sue, when to sue, where to sue,” Todd McMurtry, who now represents Rittenhouse, told Fox News Digital in a phone interview on 6/2/22. “We’re going to look at everything that’s been said, determine which of those comments are legally actionable and proceed from there.”

McMurtry said it’s ” pretty much assured that there’s probably 10 to 15 solid” cases against “large defendants.” 

“Let’s just use for an example what Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg said about [Rittenhouse]. They said that he was involved in a mass murder incident,” McMurtry explained. “This was not a mass murder incident. It was clearly factually false.”

“To call somebody a mass murderer is seriously defamatory. And then to use the power of social media to basically … censor any views that would take opposition to that mass murderer statement is a serious effort to destroy his character. And it was seriously mistaken and seriously defamatory.”

McMurtry represented Nicholas Sandmann after the media lambasted him over a confrontation at the 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C., resulting in numerous settlements with media companies such as NBC-Universal, CNN and the Washington Post. 

Back in February I saw Rittenhouse’s interview on The Tucker Carlson Show. I must say that even though I was very skeptical of Rittenhouse before that interview, I was very impressed during and subsequently afterwards. 

I say, “Go Kyle! Sue their asses off. Make them pay for publicly demeaning your character.” 

6/8/22

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