Almost make me feel …dirty …
relishing in someone else’s misfortune …
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Hell, they are different for candidates and people with extremely high profiles. The j-law term is “libel proof.”
“Statements made about a public person (political candidates, governmental officeholder, movie star, author, celebrity, sports hero, etc.) are usually exempt, even if they are untrue and harmful. However, if they were made with malice – with hate, dislike, intent and/or desire to harm and with reckless disregard for the truth – the public person may have a cause of action. This was determined by the U.S. Supreme Court and has been re-interpreted various times.”
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HA!
Almost, but it’s trump so, not quite.
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That’s a missed opportunity. He probably wouldn’t have gotten any closer to the presidency than that.
Sad.
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Answer … absolute arrogance —
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Yea … I’ll edit that
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Here is one I like:
edit to correct a spelling oops
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I am with you on this. No question.
My argument here is that there is this and then there will be more as is being alluded to here.
How did none of these other stories come out until now? Look at previous journalistic successes - Watergate being the first one. By now, someone should have discovered the income taxes and the other stuff that is still lurking out here. I am not just referring to these women but all that is yet to come.
I blame the media for doing a crappy job and (not so much us here) but the American people for letting the media get away with this crap.
I don’t know what is coming next out of this next three weeks, but it cannot be good for the country. This story by itself is awful enough and I do applaud the women for coming forward. The litigation Trump is about to start is going to be a nightmare for him and he is going to lose.
But what more can there be?
So it’s perfectly legal for me to point and laugh at trump since it would be hard to interpret that as hatred.
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Thank YOU for my next FB profile pic. Replacing Ken Bone.
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The Cosby Effect is underway. Predicting a NY magazine cover with all the women’s faces on it.
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A serial liar claims that people are creating lies involving nefarious acts which match the modus operandi he previously described while being unknowingly recorded. Yes, he’s a serial groper. He sees all others as objects.
Note that he and his campaign frequently accuse opponents of the very acts he performs in order to lessen the impact of those acts upon himself. The serial liar accuses others of lying. The serial adulterer accuses his opponent’s spouse of adultery. The known racist accuses his opponent’s campaign of racism. The grandfather of birtherism accuses his opponent of starting birtherism. The self-admitted political corrupter accuses his opponent of political corruption.
Heir Orange Anus is an extremely emotionally unhealthy inDUHvidual and may be mentally ill.
TRUMP: A HUCKSTER IN SEARCH OF RUBES
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Where are the political cartoons of Trump negotiating with Angela Merkel, left hand on her breast and a cupped right hand coming at her below the waist?
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Naw, these are more believable.
Becca, how exactly would you expect the American people to force the media to modify their behavior? What is the forcing function that does this? For-profit businesses have behaviors that are modified by profit. The media used to do “their job”. For example, Murrow on McCarthy, the Washington Post on Watergate…but Murrow, Cronkite and Sevareid were products of a time when their news organizations weren’t expected to be profitable, and their networks knew this. The media today is expected to produce profit, so there tends to be much less investigative journalism (because of the cost). Media sells more advertising time by making a horse race. Hence the profit motive has driven their behavior.
Now, if we could somehow make detection of unethical behavior by politicians more profitable for the media, then there would be a forcing function that would be beneficial to society.
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He will threaten…he may even file suit to get through till Nov 8, to give the appearance of fighting back. But he will drop the suits within days of the election for precisely that reason. Discovery would be beyond brutal. Plus…any suit against the Times(and now the Palm Beach newspaper! Yes, there is a third woman coming forward already tonight) would be dismissed out of hand. He is running for President, creating the highest need for the public to know, he is on record making statements he does this, and he said during the debate that he never does this. The paper clearly has a right (indeed a responsibility) to report this information, which puts them so far beyond malice its laughable.
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Beautiful.
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Two snaps up girl!
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No place for this so I’ll put it here:
Washington (CNN)
Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway complained Wednesday his remarks about
how Hillary Clinton “has to go to jail” are being taken “literally”
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In other word Kellyanne thinks trump is joking when he repeats this every chance he gets?? Every rally and in front of 80 million viewers at the 2nd debate? His rabid followers believe it. It’s not a joke to them.
Yes Kellyanne, millions of people do take it literally and will be really pissed off if it’s just a joke.
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Good analysis.
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