re: Clay Travis is a real SOB

I dont think you call it "losing a defamation suit" when the media outlets settle with you.....like they did Nick Sandmann

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CNN CONFIRMS SETTLEMENT AFTER $275 MILLION LAWSUIT WITH NICK SANDMANN

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Washington Post settled for $250 million

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He sued for those amounts. They reached a settlement. You don't settle for the amount he originally sued for...you just don't. From the American Trial lawyers link you posted:

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Sandmann, who is represented by high-powered attorneys Todd McMurtry and Lin Wood, was seeking $275 million from CNN. Fox 19 reported that CNN agreed Tuesday to settle the lawsuit against Sandmann. “The amount of the settlement was not made public during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Covington,” Fox reported.

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He also sued ABC, CBS, Gannett (USA Today), the New York Times, and Rolling Stone. They all fought his lawsuits. They were all dismissed. CNN and the Washington Post were dumb for settling...they would have been dismissed too. I say there were dumb, but their settlements were speculated to be essentially a "nuisance fee" AKA his lawyers and CNN/WaPo's lawyers got together and said "It's going to cost us $xxx dollars to litigate and a judge is going to throw it out. How about we just give you $x and you just go away?" and Sandman took that settlement.

That settlement was $25,000. Thousand. Not million. Not hundreds of millions. He settled with Washington Post (and likely CNN) for $25,000. How do we know that? A lawyer on twitter posted a thread about the case and explained what a "nuisance fee" was and that usually those settlements were $25,000. A CNN reporter retweeted that and Sandman's lawyer (L. Lin Wood) lost his mind and threatened to sue CNN for violating the settlement agreement. Yes...he claimed a CNN employee retweeting a lawyer talking about the Washington Post's settlement violated the CNN settlement. By claiming that he essentially admitted the claim was true and it would mean CNN and WaPo had the same settlement. Spoiler alert: he didn't sue CNN and Sandman fired him as his lawyer too.

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Winning a defamation lawsuit is very difficult, especially when the media is involved. However, I think we can all agree that Clay Travis and his media company are being very dishonest when they say in their headline that the gun belonged to Miller. Even the most basic of google searches would prove that to be incorrect.

I know we are getting into the weeds here but I think there probably is a distinction also between the relatively anonymous Sandmann and Brandon Miller. I don't know if Miller would be considered a public figure but I'd wager a pretty good probability. That matters when you're trying to sue a media outlet.

Miller is future top 5 pick in the NBA with millions of dollars and his reputation hanging in the balance. He's absolutely a public figure. His NIL value is the highest of any current UA athlete, football included.

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Just got done listening to their show from today and they all said they were going to take clay to task for his comments. We shall see...

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They said that to get you to tune in.

I just download their segments I want to hear. One time, I accidentally downloaded (and immediately deleted) a Travis interview. I felt horrible.

If Bama fans would ignore him, he would shrink away. He loves the anger.

That's a fact!!

I'm too old now. But I'll gladly buy dinner at Sonic for anyone who does it.