The tort of defamation has been around far longer than Alex Jones or any of us has even been alive. This is not a “precedent.” Any of us would have rightfully sued if Jones or anyone made such claims about us.
I’m sure Jones has been compensated quite handsomely for his role in this.
Trump did it with birtherism.
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“Birtherism” is the greatest Alinsky ever perpetrated. Those who use the term assist in the denigration of the Constitution
They have gotten the American people to reject one of the most valuable safeguards bequeathed to us by the founders.
The natural born citizen clause served us well until we allowed it to be ignored.
Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama should be proof enough of the wisdom of the founders when they tried to prevent him from being President by requiring someone who could only be a US citizen and nothing else.
Born here of citizen parents.
Naturally a US citizen because there is no other possibility.
One cannot be anything else and also be a natural born citizen.
It does not matter if he was born in Hawaii if his father was a foreign national.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality of their foreign national parent(s).
Natural born citizen means born here of citizen parents.
People born with divided loyalties, allegiance and citizenship are not naturally Americans.
The children of foreign nationals are precisely who the founders were excluding from the office.
Only when one cannot be anything else can one be a natural born citizen.
No foreign birth.
No foreign parent(s)
No foreign citizenship(s)
No foreign influence on the Presidency is what John Jay stated in a letter to George Washington as the reason for insisting on a natural born citizen.
Obama told us he was born a British subject.
Who believes Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Jay, Monroe, Madison, etc. would have found him to be a natural born citizen?
Who believes they would have thought the recently deceased King of Thailand was eligible to be President?
He was born in Cambridge MA.
Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009, happened with the complete cooperation of both parties.
They want the Constitution changed without the hassle of amending the Constitution.
Confuse people about the clear meaning of a three word phrase and voila, every anchor baby and Winston Churchill is eligible.
The bench was the reason the GOP went along with the fig leaf resolution for McCain that was used by the Democrats as cover for Obama.
Jindal, Rubio, Haley, George P. Bush and Cruz were all up and comers and the future of the party and ineligible.
The truth of the Kenyanesian Usurpation will never see the light of day because both parties cooperated in the violation of the Constitution
Well. Could not Trump sue the alphabet networks for the idiotic Russia “scandals” they were happy to perpetuate?
Alex was the canary in the coal mine. You will regret this. But not all of us.
What did it take them? 3 business days? LOL
And all these shortsighted neocon simps loved dogpiling on Jones.
For commies, ANYONE that disagrees with them are liars that need to be destroyed..they read Hitler’s playbook from front to back cover
Pot, meet kettle...
“”Corn said, “We’ve seen conspiracism take deep root within the Republican Party and the conservative movement over the last five, ten, fifteen years.””
Where on earth did they find him? I thought he disappeared from the scene years ago..
Any time conservatives don’t believe the lies of the MSM, they get labeled conspiracy theorists...Never heard of conspiracism but leave it to those scumbags to come up with something like that.
And the “Russia, Russia, Russia”?
David Corn.... noted.
These libtard sociopaths are so devoid of intelligence or ability to recognize reality beyond their vile, evil, and perverted political worldview. None of these dumbasses seem to realize that they are guilty of the very same activity... pushing the Russian Dossier fraud for five years.
Right b/c MSNBC is the shinning light of truth.
How do we make it stop????
Sorry, defamation is very hard to prove in court. If Jones had fought this from the beginning, he would have probably won in court, if not then there’s a good chance he could have won on appeal.
Jones ignored subpoenaes, didn’t show up for depositions, didn’t hand over evidence. Finally default judgements were entered against him in both Texas and Connecticut. He got to the penalty phase and then tried to argue first amendment issues, but way too late for that.
In a final blow, last week he got caught on the witness stand bare faced lying about his phone texts and emails, which he said didn’t exist. The the plaintiffs’ attorney diplayed them on a video screen in front of the entire court and jury. One of the last things the jury saw of Jones was him sitting with his mouth hanging open staring at the ‘non-existant’ texts and emails.
Russia Russia Russia
It’s still nonsense and absurd, like most everything leftists on MSNBC spout. They don’t suddenly start being truthful and making sense because their ranting happens to coincide with your persecution complex.
I guess we could use it as a precedent to go after ABCNNBCCBS
“... other liars and conspiracy theorists in our society and our politics,” the MSNBC host said...” He should be a tad skerred.
While I think Alex Jones is an absolute idiot and embarrassment, I don’t see how or why he should be sanctioned and fined for exercising his first amendment right to speak out. This was defaming a person by name, he didn’t yell fire, etc. It is just words, stupid words, stupid ideas. Nothing defensible about the content of what he’s said, but the first amendment gives him the right to say it. I think they appeals or supreme courts will and should throw this out.
Can MSNBC be sued? Isnt it defamatory to report a private citizen is a Russian asset to try and destroy him as a political candidate without any evidence?