On Wednesday, Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann filed a lawsuit against NBC Universal for a whopping $275 million. The defamation suit was his third and largest he had filed against an unaccountable media giant (the others were against The Washington Post and CNN).

In an appearance on the Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight Thursday, Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway assessed that the reason Sandmann enjoyed such broad support was that “people sense the injustice” done to him by a vicious liberal media.

Hemingway noted that if someone were to analyze why the media pounced on Sandmann “it would not make the media look very good.” She explained:

They liked this story because it was the way to make a March for Life – an event they do not cover year after year despite, the fact, that hundreds of thousands of people attend it each year in Washington, D.C. It was a way to make the March for Life look bad. It was a way to make Donald Trump voters or supporters look bad. And so, it was convenient, it fit a narrative that they would like to perpetuate.

“And if they were to look at their own biases and how those biases can lead to really bad news, they might to start to think about other issues they have covered poorly,” she added. Her other examples were the “Russian collusion hoax that went on for years and caused real damage to the country” and the smearing of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

She further deduced that “currently, there aren't any repercussions really for getting stories completely wrong. And you’re seeing this where the media feels sort of empowered to snare people including, in this case, a child…”

After Carlson noted that the upside of the lawsuit was that “it really kind of offers a very clear explanation of a fraudulent story.” Hemingway decried how the media did this to Sandmann for “ratings” and “money.” “They said false things about this boy and his school that were demonstrably untrue and right now there's not a lot of accountability for this,” she said.

“People sense the injustice of that and they want to see some people finally take responsibility for it,” she concluded. “And I hope someone finally does,” Carlson agreed.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: