bripat9643
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- Apr 1, 2011
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The paper implied, moron. You knew what he meant, but you harp on a minor technical gaff because you know WAPO is going to get whacked big time.We do not listen to your excuses anymore. Unfortunatly to many others do. To watch someone go into CNN or MSNBC and do major damage or a McVeigh result would bring laughter throughout the land. They have gotten people hurt and killed. There is no sympathy for them.Here's the thing, Evelyn Wood.
In order to establish 'libel" you need evidence of somebody making assertions they know are not true. For instance the way you just did above:
"Phillips is a well known bum, a man who pretends to be a combat veteran and all around shady character."In this lawsuit however there is no such evidence of the WaPo (or anyone else) making ass-sertions about Smirk-Boi. The articles say there's video, and quotes several witnesses' comments. **ALL** of that is true. A clusterfuck of vague mythologies whined out by blogs and radio talking heads DOES NOT make some other entity "responsible" for it. Because it CAN'T.
Which means, that you're closer to "libel" here than the WaPo was.
More than anything else I believe the judicial community will be anxious to see some modern rulings that will focus the now archaic Libel laws into the new age media complex. They are fifty years behind and need to be updated. By focusing on Sandmann's Smirk and also inferring that they knew for sure that the high school kids were the instigators
There's your problem right there. A newspaper cannot "infer". The READER infers. That's not the paper's doing -- that's YOUR responsibility.
I know no such thing, because I know how the legal system works and what 'evidence' is.
You obviously don't know jack shit about how the legal system works.
Perhaps the poster in his ignorance meant "implied" but that's irrelevant. Journalism doesn't "imply" either. It simply reports what happened. And that's what every citation of the WaPo's articles does.
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You just utterly destroyed your credibility.
LITERALLY every one. "Video going viral". "Witness A said this". "Witness B said that". The fact that some butthurt blogparrot chose to plug in meanings of his own choosing is HIS problem, not the newspaper's. No newspaper can be responsible for the irresponsibility of a reader.
Except where the lawsuit says WAPO said this and WAPO said that. Then it's not an accurate quote and we have to refer to the article, which no one has access to.
Who do you think you're fooling?
That's why, a FULL FUCKING MONTH AGO, I put out the challenge for anyone to show anywhere ANYONE published libel. And to date I've still got Zero.
You did that only because you know no one on the right would pay for WAPO's shit so they don't have access to the evidence.