What to Do If You Get Smeared Like Nick Sandmann

The Daily Signal Podcast

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Todd McMurtry was a lawyer, but he had never practiced defamation law before legacy media outlets demonized 16-year-old Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann for the crime of "smirking" while wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Now, McMurtry has published a book about defamation law—a book he recommends as a kind of "car insurance" for cancel culture. "I think that you should treat it like buying car insurance," McMurtry tells "The Daily Signal Podcast" of his new book, "Dismissed: How Media Agendas and Judicial Bias Conspire to Undermine Justice." He warns that most Americans with a traditional values approach to life should expect to face attempts to "cancel" them. He notes that smear campaigns happen to "everybody," from high school students to college athletes to professionals to housewives. "I've dealt with dozens and dozens of these people, and it happens all the time." McMurtry warns that Christians and others who support traditional values face an increasingly hostile culture, from the LGBTQ movement to the movement for "diversity, equity, and inclusion" or DEI. Enjoy the show!

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Wednesday, September 18th.
0:10.0	The Daily Signals, Tyler O'Neill, sat down with Todd McMurtry, a defamation lawyer best
0:15.3	known for representing Nick Sandman. Sandman who gained notoriety for standing with a maga hat
0:21.6	after the March for Life in 2019 and allegedly
0:24.4	smirked at a Native American man sued many companies for defamation after
0:29.0	they presented him as a villain. Mcmertree represented Sandman settling most cases out of court.
0:35.2	Mcurtry talks about his new book dismissed how media agendas in judicial bias
0:40.7	conspired to undermine justice.
0:43.3	One major lawsuit, including the New York Times, Rolling Stones,
0:46.4	and others was ultimately dismissed,
0:48.5	leading to the book's title.
0:50.5	His book explains what happened to Sandman, how he helped get justice for the MAGA hat wearing teen,
0:55.2	and what Americans should do if they find themselves in the crosshairs of cancel culture.
1:00.0	Listen to Tyler's interview with Todd McMurtry right after this.
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