Rachel Maddow, MSNBC sued for defamation

[MarcATL]

Even unexpectedly, with no makeup...Rachel exudes beauty:

I've always found Rachel to be a beautiful woman. Can't beat natural beauty...and she's tall too.

 

[Full-Auto]

Even unexpectedly, with no makeup...Rachel exudes beauty:

I've always found Rachel to be a beautiful woman. Can't beat natural beauty...and she's tall too.

Hold on, let get my beer goggles.............


Hey not bad. BARKEEP ANOTHER ROUND.

 

[Salt Jones]

Rachel Maddow

That dude creeps me out.

What dude? She'd have fit right in in the Navy.

 

[rightwinger]

Any a-hole can sue for defamation

But since this jerk is everything she says and more, he is wasting his time

 

[Full-Auto]

Any a-hole can sue for defamation

But since this jerk is everything she says and more, he is wasting his time

All the way to the bank.

 

[rightwinger]

Any a-hole can sue for defamation

But since this jerk is everything she says and more, he is wasting his time

All the way to the bank.

He won't even make it to trial

I applaud Maddow for calling attention to this gay hating jerk

 

[St.Blues]

Hey guys.. I can't stand the bitch. Does she pee while standing?

Blues

 

[jillian]

must be that whole hating smart women thing that the rightwingnuts do so well.

i think they call it misogyny... it's endemic among the right

 

[Full-Auto]

Any a-hole can sue for defamation

But since this jerk is everything she says and more, he is wasting his time

All the way to the bank.

He won't even make it to trial

I applaud Maddow for calling attention to this gay hating jerk

Wrong again.

 

[St.Blues]

must be that whole hating smart women thing that the rightwingnuts do so well.

i think they call it misogyny... it's endemic among the right

I don't think she's stupid at all......... She just doesn't understand what's right and wrong.
The dumb fucking moronic socialist twat. Does she pee standing up?
Go Tea Party!

Blues

 

[frazzledgear]

'Left-wing television commentators must be made to respect ... the law'

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC sued for defamation

Oh well, maybe it'll help her ratings, which are currently in the tank.

She has a responsibleand bright team. If we must take World Nut Daily's account of things, we must be getting desperate for potential wingnut wins, wouldn't you say?

Lame.

WTF are you talking about not taking their word for it? Do you nutjobs ever bother to look anything up for yourself or do you wait for your handlers to tell you what to think and believe? (Rhetorical question.) The lawsuit was filed, the reason for it was given -Maddow claimed this guy as leader of this group supported the execution of gays which is blatantly not true and in addition he also claims she also ridiculed him, his name and his appearance and this took me all of FIVE SECONDS to research -including researching whether or not this guy has on his website what he said it does -disavowing the exact thing Maddow said this group supported. It only took a few seconds of research to find out this group really doesn't support the execution of gays after all -which Maddow's "excellent team" should have done before letting her open her mouth and make that lying ass claim. Nothing else to discuss. But since when did truth matter to the left which believes any lying ass smear and character assassination is always justified when it comes to anyone who isn't a far leftwing extremist.

There are many sources for this story including MSNBC itself -so take your pick of them if you don't like the one given. And the notion that anything is "excellent" about MSNBC is a really bad joke in itself.

 

[MarcATL]

The Right is AFRAID of Rachel Maddow.

 

[Article 15]

must be that whole hating smart women thing that the rightwingnuts do so well.

i think they call it misogyny... it's endemic among the right

I don't think she's stupid at all......... She just doesn't understand what's right and wrong.
The dumb fucking moronic socialist twat. Does she pee standing up?
Go Tea Party!

Blues

In one breath you say you don't think she's stupid and in the next you call her dumb.

Are you a liberal running a false flag operation against the right?

 

[Sallow]

The Right is AFRAID of Rachel Maddow.

Well yes and no.

Yes because she calls them on their shit.

And no because they can rile up some nutty gunner to take her out just like Palin did on Giffords or O'Reily did on Dr. Tiller.

 

[St.Blues]

must be that whole hating smart women thing that the rightwingnuts do so well.

i think they call it misogyny... it's endemic among the right

I don't think she's stupid at all......... She just doesn't understand what's right and wrong.
The dumb fucking moronic socialist twat. Does she pee standing up?
Go Tea Party!

Blues

In one breath you say you don't think she's stupid and in the next you call her dumb.

Are you a liberal running a false flag operation against the right?

Shes not stupid.. That doesn't mean she isn't a dumb fucking moronic socialist twat.
Her wires were crossed at birth.. the fucking despicable bitch pees standing up.

Blues

 

[Mr_Rockhead]

'Left-wing television commentators must be made to respect ... the law'

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC sued for defamation

Oh well, maybe it'll help her ratings, which are currently in the tank.

<snip> The ministry announcement said, "In an interview earlier this year, MSNBC's president Phil Griffin admitted that the network, to boost its ratings, caters to the so-called 'progressive left.' This explains the malicious attacks on Bradlee Dean and his ministry,…<snip>


I agree that she is being sued and I haven’t a clue as to whether she will win or lose the suit.

But I really got a kick out the the fact that MSNBC felt it had to cater to the left wing to “boost its ratings”.

Are you fucking kidding me.

 

[gslack]

'Left-wing television commentators must be made to respect ... the law'

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC sued for defamation

Oh well, maybe it'll help her ratings, which are currently in the tank.

Okay here is what Maddow said, and what Dean DID say according to the article linked to in the OP.

Maddow said:

"The Muslims are calling for the execution of homosexuals in America. This was just released yesterday and it shows you that they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the Judeo-Christian God. But they seem to be more moral than even the American Christians do because these people are livid about enforcing their laws. They know homosexuality's an abomination. If America won't enforce the laws, God will raise up a foreign enemy to do just that."

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Dean's Ministry said he said:

Muslims are calling for the execution for homosexuals in America, this was just released yesterday and it shows you that they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible, the Judeo Christian God. They seem to be more moral than even the American Christians do. Because these people are livid about enforcing their laws, they know homosexuality is an abomination. And I continually reach out to the homosexual communities on this radio show, and I warn them, which ones love? Here you have Obama condemning it behind the backs of the homosexuals but to their faces he's promoting it. I say this to my gay friends out there the ones that continuously nitpick everything I say. Hollywood is promoting immorality and the God of the Heavens in Jesus names is warning you to flee from the wrath to come, yet you have Muslims calling for your execution. If America won't enforce the laws, God will raise up a foreign enemy to do just that's what you're seeing in America today. Read Leviticus 26 America.

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Seems he has a valid argument.. She cut the quote up to look like a abbreviation, but in reality she (or her writers) made it seem an entirely different thing.

Dean is a christian who doesn't agree with homosexuality, and muslims do not in general agree with it either even to a more severe degree. He shouldn't have said that muslims were calling for the deaths of homosexuals and what Obama is doing has no point at all. I think he's an idiot but Maddow screwed up in my opinion. You walk a fine line when you edit a quote, and she did that..

The suit will not amount to anything because she didn't alter what he said but just left a false impression of his implications by editing it where she did. The fact still remains he DID say what she claimed he said in exactly that wording, its just what he said after that point that changes the statements meaning or intent.

IMHO; they are both idiots... He's a gay-hating, holier-than-thou bible thumper, and she's a liberal biased journalist playing the progressive on the liberal network..

 

[IndependntLogic]

'Left-wing television commentators must be made to respect ... the law'

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC sued for defamation

Oh well, maybe it'll help her ratings, which are currently in the tank.

While anyone in America can sue anyone else for almost anything, I don't see a case here. It's weak on both facts and precedent. Although Maddow may have deleted portions of the quote, she did not willfully or intentionally alter publicized statements.
MSNBC, FOX, World News Daily, DailyKos and especially AmericanThinker (who has in fact willfully misrepresented facts) would all be out of business if this case had a snowballs chance in hell.

Like you said, it may increase the ratings of Maddow though.

 

[skookerasbil]

Anybody been watching those k00ks over there? I make sure to tune in for a few minutes every night. If you're a conservative, this is cant miss TV. The best part is trying to figure out which of those four hosts on there is the most miserable on any given night!!!!!!!!! Some guy named Lawrence O'Donnell has this show called "The Last Word". This guy is always hyper-angry.......but all of those hosts are: Maddow........Matthews........and there is this other show with a guy named Ed Schultz. I have loved watching the nightly meltdowns as their ideology falls deeper and deeper into the shitter. They try in a very cool fashion to spin shit, but you watch closely and it is very apparent that they are seething, the shows displaying the same sort of dynamic you see on the threads in the POLITICS forum here on the USMESSAGE Board: this distraction bs presentation as if the sentiment is mainstream. As a conservative, you sit there and fully realize that this little sliver of American lefties is watching this shit every night and buying it hook, line and stinker. This Rachael Maddow, in particular, asks her hosts alot of questions but every single one of them is a rhetorical question and when the response is given by the guest, Maddow displays this subtle surprise affect as if she didnt know what the response would be by the guest. Its classic TV to watch as all of them, for example, try to spin the 2009 Stimulus as if it was this historical succcess as seen by all Americans...........and meanwhile, as a conservative, you take another sip of your beer and laugh your balls off because you know the reality out in the real world.


Anyway.........who cant tell that Maddow is this hyper-feminist bulldog desperately trying to prop up this failed ideology and deep down knowing that only about 179 people are watching her show..........

 

[The Rabbi]

'Left-wing television commentators must be made to respect ... the law'

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC sued for defamation

Oh well, maybe it'll help her ratings, which are currently in the tank.

Well, sponge bob's ratings are through the roof, i'm sure.

so some rightwing group brings a suit to try to shut up people they disagree with and, of course, worldnutdaily runs with it.

i hope they get sanctioned for bringing a frivolous suit.

Nothing frivolous here, "counselor".

"In an interview earlier this year, MSNBC's president Phil Griffin admitted that the network, to boost its ratings, caters to the so-called 'progressive left.' This explains the malicious attacks on Bradlee Dean and his ministry, which are being used to harm the presidential campaign of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who is a conservative Christian."

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Why anyone cares what that ugly dyke says is beyond me.