"...Nicholas Sandmann, the kid from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky. He suffered the same kind of agony and humiliation.
It was only a year ago that Sandmann was all over the news, branded as a hateful racist in a MAGA hat.
...Look at any newspaper or TV network news show, and you’ll see a few who can only write and talk about Trump.
And when they’re not talking Trump, they’re insulting his supporters and vowing revenge — perhaps hoping for another French Reign of Terror? — against any American who doesn’t hate Trump as much as they do.
...But Sandmann wasn’t a hater.
The haters were a group of angry Black Hebrew Israelites screaming horrible racist and homophobic taunts at the Covington kids and at Native Americans.
Sandmann wasn’t doing any of that.
He was just a white kid in a MAGA cap, confronted by the old man with the drum, and he smiled, nervously.
And for that, he was flayed by the media..
All of it could have been avoided by the application of another terribly old-fashioned word: reporting.
...But after the Sandmann story was straightened out, Whoopi Goldberg wondered why the media keeps making the same mistake.
“Because we’re desperate to get Trump out of office,” said co-host Joy Behar. “That’s why.”
And the studio audience laughed."
