Sarah Palin Will Sue the Internets
The First Amendment protects free speech, and subsequent Supreme Court decisions have set a very high threshold for defaming a public person. But that is all “politics as usual,” and Alaska Governor-for-Life Sarah Palin does not care for it because she is a maverick. Also. That is why ex-Gov. Palin is going to sue frickin’ everyone for all the mean things people said about her.
Ratcheting up her offensive against the news media, Gov. Sarah Palin’s attorney threatened Saturday to sue mainstream news organizations if they publish “defamatory” stories relating to whether Palin is under federal investigation.
In an extraordinary four-page letter, Alaska-based attorney Thomas Van Flein warns of severe consequences should speculation that until now has largely been confined to blogs about whether Palin embezzled funds in the construction of a Wasilla, Alaska, sports arena find its way into print.
“This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation, such as Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post, that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law,” Van Flein warned, citing Alaska liberal blogger Shannyn Moore.
Much like Palin did in her Facebook statement Saturday, Van Flein savages the news media in his letter.“Just as power abhors a vacuum, modern journalism apparently abhors any type of due diligence and fact checking before scurrilous allegations are repeated as fact,” the Anchorage attorney wrote.
Neither the Times or the Post made any mention of the embezzlement rumors in their Saturday editions, but sources close to Palin consider the letter a warning shot to stay away from the topic.
Yes, you liberal media scoundrels, you watch out about… um… continuing… to not say anything… about something you already weren’t saying anything about. Um, right. If this is “crazy like a fox,” then I’m going to be staying the hell away from foxes.
MEANWHILE, part of me hopes that Palin really does start suing people for saying things about her without having concrete evidence because this would be excellent news for Barack Obama, who could win millions off of anyone who ever said he is a Muslim, isn’t American, doesn’t have a birth certificate, pals around with terrorists, etc.
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