The Federalist: Lawsuit: HuffPo Falsely Blamed Black Student For Killing A Kennedy, All To Smear Brett Kavanaugh.
Derrick Evans is suing the Huffington Post for a story they ran days after Christine Blasey Ford went public with her now-debunked claim that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her.
When Donald Trump entered the political arena, what remained of mainstream media and liberal outlets’ journalistic integrity crumbled. The most recent example came last week when a Georgetown Prep contemporary of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sued the Huffington Post and journalist Ashley Feinberg for defamation in a Mississippi federal court.
Derrick Evans sued the Huffington Post and Feinberg for a story they ran days after Christine Blasey Ford went public with her now-debunked claim that, while in high school, Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her.
In her September 20, 2018, article entitled, “Former Student: Brett Kavanaugh’s Prep School Party Scene Was a ‘Free-For-All,’” Feinberg (now at Slate), claimed an anonymous former Georgetown Preparatory School student had identified the overdose death of David Kennedy—the son of the late senator Robert Kennedy—as the “catalyst for changes in Georgetown Prep culture” and in the marking of “the end of the school’s free-for-all party scene” that dominated in the 1980s when Kavanaugh and Evans both attended the Bethesda, Maryland high school.
In her article, Feinberg specified that “two students – David’s brother Doug, and his friend Derrick Evans – had helped score the coke” that killed David. Not only was this statement false, as Evans explained, he had “actively assisted law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting the individuals who actually sold the illegal narcotics to David Kennedy.”
Yet, as Evans’s lawsuit details, the Huffington Post stuck with the story even after “an officer of Fox News, where Douglas Kennedy works as a reporter,” informed the online outlet “in no uncertain terms that its article was false and defamatory, and had obviously been published without any fact-checking whatsoever.” The Fox News officer, according to Evans’s complaint, told Huffington Post the article “was so deficient it should be removed in its entirety from HuffPost’s website.” keep reading
I hope the court awards him every dime that Feinberg has and is likely to make for the next 20 years and that HuffNPuff now with deep pockets what with being owned by Verizon is drained like an old radiator (CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW, ASSHOLES?).
What scr_north said……….
I’ve always wondered if Verizon (and even AOL) knew of Huffpo’s bad reputation in the Conservative world.
Sue those commie bastards into bankruptcy…and then some! I’d love to see some of this liberal “press/media” so down and out they have to live on the streets!
Of course that’s just my opinion, I could be wrong. – Dennis Miller
Hey Acosta. This is what “Enemy of the people” really looks like. Hope you end up on the business end of a lawsuit like this one.