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.”

“I think people need to understand how the cancellation process works and how it relates to press, the judiciary, and defamation law,” the lawyer says.

“You should prepare for it and you should expect that it is a real possibility because, I mean, literally one word—the wrong word, the wrong phrase, the wrong hat, the wrong drawing—all types of things can lead to your........

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