Mother Jones stood up to a billionaire political donor who sued us—and we won.

[Disir]

Today we are happy to announce a monumental legal victory for Mother Jones: A judge in Idaho has ruled in our favor on all claims in a defamation case filed by a major Republican donor, Frank VanderSloot, and his company, Melaleuca Inc. In a decision issued Tuesday, the court found that Mother Jones did not defame VanderSloot or Melaleuca because "all of the statements at issue are non-actionable truth or substantial truth." The court also found that the statements were protected as fair comment under the First Amendment.

A billionaire political donor sued Mother Jones. We won. Here's what happened.

Now, if they could just back to writing quality news pieces instead of acting like a bunch of sell outs.

 

[RodISHI]

 

[Iceweasel]

Liberals have no problem with slander as long as it isn't against them. I'll bet the judge got a little extra something for his piggy bank.

 

[Disir]

Except it was truth.

 

[Iceweasel]

I'd need to see it from something other than the defendants.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Except it was truth.

They prefer fake wild fantasies. Benghazi, Obama's in the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama was born in Kenya, Obama introduced ebola to kill us all, Obama's a powerful tyrannical dictator, Obama is a limpwristed weakling, Obama is the anti-christ, war on Christianity, there's a white genocide happening, and on and on and on.

 

[Disir]

Except it was truth.

They prefer fake wild fantasies. Benghazi, Obama's in the Muslim Brotherhood, Obama was born in Kenya, Obama introduced ebola to kill us all, Obama's a powerful tyrannical dictator, Obama is a limpwristed weakling, Obama is the anti-christ, war on Christianity, there's a white genocide happening, and on and on and on.

You know, there is a reason that I don't read Salon and many other alleged "liberal" news sources. I have no problem calling out BS on either end. The problem, in this instance, is that even with the court order he isn't going to believe it.