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Nick Sandmann Has Perfect Response When Ex-Kamala Harris Staffer Attacks Him

 By Joe Saunders  August 26, 2020 at 2:08pm
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When it comes to Nick Sandmann, the left never learns.

The Covington, Kentucky, teenager became an unlikely national name last year after a confrontation following the January 2019 March for Life in Washington was picked up by liberal news outlets like The Washington Post and CNN as a vehicle for vitriol directed at President Donald Trump and any of his supporters.

Since Sandmann and some classmates were wearing “Make America Great Again” hats when a Native American “elder” started banging a drum in Sandmann’s face, the then-16-year-old seemed like a perfect target for leftist outrage. Later, the fuller story emerged that showed Sandmann and the other kids from Covington Catholic High School weren’t at fault at all.

Now, more than 18 months and two legal settlements later — after Sandmann sued The Post, CNN and other outlets for how they handled the story — another leftist decided that trying to smear Sandmann seemed like a good idea.

He quickly found out it wasn’t.

The liberal attacker this time, as The Daily Wire noted, was Brian McBride, a former social media strategist for California Sen. Kamala Harris — before her presidential primary campaign flopped in well-deserved failure. (Now, she’s on the Democratic ticket as vice president, which says a lot about how Democrats are looking at failures this election cycle.)

Because Sandmann’s unlooked-for celebrity from last year’s confrontation had earned him a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, McBride published a tweet of the teenager side by side with an image of 13-year-old named Brayden Harrington, a New Hampshire boy who spoke at last week’s Democratic convention to recount how Democratic nominee Joe Biden had counseled him on how to overcome a stutter.

Check out Sandmann’s 4-minute speech here. He was at the same Lincoln Memorial in D.C. where his confrontation with Nathan Phillips took place — and rocked American politics.

In the McBride tweet, Harrington’s photo had a Biden poster prominent in the background. The partially obscured chyron under Sandmann’s photo makes it clear it comes from the Republican National Convention.

“[T]he choice could not be more clear,” McBride wrote.

Now, it isn’t really all that clear exactly what McBride was trying to say here, other than he apparently preferred one teen’s politics over the other’s. There’s nothing intrinsically off-putting about either picture (unless maybe liberals don’t like well-dressed young men with short haircuts and ties).

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But McBride’s liberals can pick up cues like a pack of jackals, and plenty got the hint that was time to pile on the teenager again like a cyber “Lord of the Flies.”

There were juvenile insults about Sandmann’s appearance, senseless Nazi jibes, and the kind of assorted schoolyard cracks liberals make when they think they’re being clever. This is one of the less insulting ones, but gives an idea of the level of maturity involved.

Probably to McBride’s surprise, but to Sandmann’s eternal credit, the now-18-year-old responded to McBride’s post personally, with a maturity and class most Kamala Harris supporters can only dream of.

“I’d like to meet this boy. I’m sure there’s more that unites us than that divides us,” Sandmann wrote.

That answer is tough to top. In 17 words, a teenager who has had the unusual experience of being attacked by the mass forces of the mainstream media and coming out on top managed to school a leftist troll on not only manners but also a certain degree of politics. (“More that unites us than divides us,” has been the goal of most political campaigns since the Era of Good Feeling.)

And he had plenty of supporters.

The settlements that Sandmann’s attorneys reached with The Washington Post and CNN have not been disclosed.

Do you think Sandmann had the right response to this tweet?

He has also filed defamation lawsuits against ABC, CBS, NBC, Gannett, The New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine, according to USA Today.

All of which is to say that Sandmann is clearly a young man who doesn’t give up easily, or back down when challenged by the left.

And as his response to McBride showed, he could teach liberals lessons in class.

But when it comes to Nick Sandmann, clearly, leftists will never learn.

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Joe Saunders
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Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro desk editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015.
Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015. Largely a product of Catholic schools, who discovered Ayn Rand in college, Joe is a lifelong newspaperman who learned enough about the trade to be skeptical of every word ever written. He was also lucky enough to have a job that didn't need a printing press to do it.
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