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Whether he had the entire tape or just a portion of it will be a huge issue here.
Originally posted by Alxandro
Careful what you wish for.
If Sherrod sues Breitbart, this will finally open the door for others that have been victimized by the likes of Jackson and Sharpton.
Maybe that's what Andrew Breitbart has been counting on all along?
Originally posted by Hudson
His website clip included the part where she talks about redemption and her change of heart. So, she has no ground to sue Breitbart.
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
The problem is, that she was already having it out for FOX, BEFORE they even aired the TAPE, which was AFTER she got fired........so i fail to see how any of this can come to fruition on her part....
Originally posted by Adevoc Satanae
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
The problem is, that she was already having it out for FOX, BEFORE they even aired the TAPE, which was AFTER she got fired........so i fail to see how any of this can come to fruition on her part....
You better check that. I watched Bill Oreally play the tape and then ask her to step down. To be fair he has even come back and said he was wrong for asking her to lose her job for what he aired. So FOX does not agree with you.
Originally posted by SeaWind
Adevoc Satanae, ManBehindTheMask is right.
If Sherrod sues anyone, it should be whoever it was in the White House who jumped the gun. This WH person pressed to have Sherrod fired as a pre-emptive move.
Said person was afraid the video would end up on Glenn Beck! (If that shouldn't have us roaring with laughter!)
Fact of the matter is, NO ONE on Fox showed this video until AFTER Sherrod was fired.
Ironically, Glenn Beck (after seeing the EDITED video) said he did NOT believe that Sherrod should have been fired.
Have any of the Obama-ites acknowledged this? Of course not!
When the entire video was shown, O'Reilly was one of the first to apologize publicly.
But he had an excellent excuse for jumping to conclusions. As he said, he ASSUMED that the White House had vetted the video before firing Sherrod and they actually knew what they were doing. NOT! (Always a bad assumption with this regime.)
SeaWind
Originally posted by ManBehindTheMask
Actually no he wasnt on the radio that day saying she was a racist, I know because i listen to his show daily while at my desk and seeing my clients......nice try tho.....
Originally posted by Gorman91
reply to post by ~Lucidity
He lied. It's libel.
We shall see what happens.
Public figure doctrine (absence of malice)
Special rules apply in the case of statements made in the press concerning public figures, which can be used as a defense. A series of court rulings led by New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) established that for a public official (or other legitimate public figure) to win a libel case, the statement must have been published knowing it to be false or with reckless disregard to its truth, (also known as actual malice).[18]
Under United States law, libel generally requires five key elements. The plaintiff must prove that the information was published, the plaintiff was directly or indirectly identified, the remarks were defamatory towards the plaintiff's reputation, the published information is false, and that the defendant is at fault.
Obama has acknowledged that people in his administration overreacted without having full information, and says part of the blame lies with a media culture that seeks conflict but not all the facts.
Sherrod said her faulty firing should not be blamed on all media.