Could Rev Wright Hire an Attorney and Sue.....

[Lord Undies]

Skwmom (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-26-08 03:37 PM
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Could Rev Wright hire an attorney and sue for defamation/libel/slander?
   
While a politician might be fair game, destroying an individual to bring down a politician should not. Could Wright hire someone to shut up Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and all of the other talking heads? Aren't they pretty terrified of Lin Wood, the attorney that won truckloads of money from the media?

Taking clips and using them to trash one's reputation shouldn't be allowed.

He could try, but I haven't heard of too many people who were dumb enough to try to say using their own words was slander/libel/defamation.  Would not to try be a bit self incriminating? 

bow-tie  (82 posts)        Sat Apr-26-08 03:42 PM
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1. I listened to him last nite on PBS and he said "damned" verb, not "damn" adverb? He said that instead of blessing america he(God) damned america for the rotten things america has done. These facts are not refuted.

Gee!  One hundred million people have heard the "sermon" and bow-tie is the first one to hear "damned" instead if "damn".  Imagine that!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5696454

[Lord Undies]

sfexpat2000  (1000+ posts)         Sat Apr-26-08 03:46 PM
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3. If you have two minutes and want to do something,
   Edited on Sat Apr-26-08 03:47 PM by sfexpat2000
write a note to the New York Times editorial page -- who still has the mendacity to call his rhetoric racist TODAY.

Here is the column:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Here is the address: letters@nytimes.com

Keep your note to about 150 words.

Here is a sample, the one I wrote this morning:

Editor,

If this editorial page is persisting in calling Reverend Wright's rhetoric "racist", it is participating in a media lynching and owes him and Trinity Church an apology.

There is nothing racist about Wright's actual remarks in context. And I don't know which is worse -- that the Times continues to baselessly attack a decorated Marine, a learned historian and priceless community leader or that the Times is apparently using Fox News as a source.

Elizabeth Ferrari

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push BACK.

Beth, the eternal clear-thinker.   

[Chris_]

Skwmom (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-26-08 03:37 PM
Original message
Could Rev Wright hire an attorney and sue for defamation/libel/slander?
   
While a politician might be fair game, destroying an individual to bring down a politician should not. Could Wright hire someone to shut up Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and all of the other talking heads? Aren't they pretty terrified of Lin Wood, the attorney that won truckloads of money from the media?

Taking clips and using them to trash one's reputation shouldn't be allowed.

He could try, but I haven't heard of too many people who were dumb enough to try to say using their own words was slander/libel/defamation.  Would not to try be a bit self incriminating? 

bow-tie  (82 posts)        Sat Apr-26-08 03:42 PM
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1. I listened to him last nite on PBS and he said "damned" verb, not "damn" adverb? He said that instead of blessing america he(God) damned america for the rotten things america has done. These facts are not refuted.

Gee!  One hundred million people have heard the "sermon" and bow-tie is the first one to hear "damned" instead if "damn".  Imagine that!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5696454

It is simpler than that.  Truth is an absolute defense against libel and slander.  He is on film saying his words.  Whether they are clipped or not, it doesn't change the legal picture.

He said it, they repeated it, case closed.

[Bondai]

Elizabeth Ferrari

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push BACK.

Oh yea...I'm worried and I am sure the NYT is as well...Het Liz! you are a moran...just sayin'

[dandi]

There is nothing racist about Wright's actual remarks in context. And I don't know which is worse -- that the Times continues to baselessly attack a decorated Marine, a learned historian and priceless community leader or that the Times is apparently using Fox News as a source.

 Hey wow! They love troops now!

[DumbAss Tanker]

The "Damned" wouldn't make sense unless he had also said "Blessed" for the contrast in that statement, which he didn't.  And both forms are verbs, one is the past tense form and the other is in the second person imperative form.  Bow-tie, I hope to Christ you aren't a teacher.

 

[Wretched Excess]

THIS is funny as hell.  libel or slander?  he freaking SAID it.  it's on video.

[delilahmused]

Skwmom (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-26-08 03:37 PM
Original message
Could Rev Wright hire an attorney and sue for defamation/libel/slander?
   
While a politician might be fair game, destroying an individual to bring down a politician should not. Could Wright hire someone to shut up Fox News, MSNBC, CNN and all of the other talking heads? Aren't they pretty terrified of Lin Wood, the attorney that won truckloads of money from the media?

Taking clips and using them to trash one's reputation shouldn't be allowed.

Not unless and until the Haditha Marines are able to sue Murtha...and he DID slander them...doesn't even bother to deny it or apologize.

Cindie

[Airwolf]

And once again we see just how well the DUmpmonkies at DU paid attention in class when it comes to anything let alone legal matters

[Lacarnut]

I am glad that I have never encountered dump monkeys as retarded as these morons.

[Chris_]

Wright's got plenty of money now thanks to Obama's financial support.  I'm sure he could do whatever he wanted.

He probably won't.   

[DumbAss Tanker]

Wright's got plenty of money now thanks to Obama's financial support.  I'm sure he could do whatever he wanted.

He probably won't.   

He'd be crazy to sue, there might be people with actual brains on the jury.  No, he'll use the whole thing to raise mo' money for himself and his causes by milking the cultists.  I see guest sermons with "Special love offerings," and perhaps a book deal.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

He'd have as much luck as Dan Blather and his TX Air Nat'l Guard memos...which--BTW--was dismissed out-of-hand; meaning the judge called Blather's assertion the memos aren't BS a load of prima fascia BS. The only part of the case moving forward relies on contract law and his firing.

[jukin]

It is simpler than that.  Truth is an absolute defense against libel and slander.  He is on film saying his words.  Whether they are clipped or not, it doesn't change the legal picture.

That will change if the DUchebags have anything to do with it.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

It is simpler than that.  Truth is an absolute defense against libel and slander.  He is on film saying his words.  Whether they are clipped or not, it doesn't change the legal picture.

That will change if the DUchebags have anything to do with it.

Indeed.

lie = anything DUmmies don't like to hear

[BlueStateSaint]

I suppose he could, with some of the courts out there, but he'd have to sue whoever made those statements in the first place.  Which means that he'd have to look in a mirror, and go from there.

[delilahmused]

I suppose he could, with some of the courts out there, but he'd have to sue whoever made those statements in the first place.  Which means that he'd have to look in a mirror, and go from there.

OTOH, if he could manage to get the case heard by the 9th curcuit they'd twist themselves in knots looking for ways to find for the rev.

Cindie