Arwa Mahdawi @ArwaM goat jokes and @guardian columns / debut novel The Joy of Procrastination to be published when i get around to writing it New York, NY
Posted on 03/26/2020 7:16:04 AM PDT by conservative98
The fight is over, but it is not entirely clear who won: Hulk Hogan has finally settled a sex-tape lawsuit that has been dragging on for years. The former pro wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, had been seeking $110m (£94m) from talkshow hosts at Florida-based Cox Radio, who he accused of leaking a video showing him having sex and using racist language. The case was supposed to go to a jury trial next January but a confidential settlement reached on Thursday means that will now be avoided.
I don’t want to think about Hogan naked any more than you do, so let’s skip over the sordid details of the case. The most important thing about this sleazy saga is the trail of destruction it has left in its wake. Hogan’s sex tape wasn’t just a private legal battle; it morphed into a proxy war between a billionaire and the media. The wrestler’s personal affairs have ended up having serious public ramifications.
In 2015, Hogan sued the gossip website Gawker for posting a video of the wrestler having sex with a friend’s estranged wife. The billionaire Facebook board member Peter Thiel quickly seized on the case as an opportunity to settle his own grudge with Gawker, which had outed him as gay in 2007 and criticised his business dealings. Thiel spent millions secretly bankrolling Hogan’s case – apparently the wrestler himself had no idea who was funding him – and Gawker was driven to bankruptcy. Hogan got $31m from the site but still wasn’t satisfied; he went after Cox Radio as well.
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Arwa Mahdawi @ArwaM goat jokes and @guardian columns / debut novel The Joy of Procrastination to be published when i get around to writing it New York, NY
Gawker was a corrupt, leftist, cesspool. It performed no useful service whatsoever. It ruined everything it ever touched. Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
That’s what I liked about Gawker. Anyone with questionable behavior was fair game. Anyone. I respect that.
Bingo!
“Gawker was a corrupt, leftist, cesspool.”
That’s my take
Thiel and Hogan didn’t just take down Gawker, they dealt free speech a worrying blow.
What they were doing wasn’t free speech. Thiel and Hogan didn’t take down Gawker. Gawker took itself down. A judge said they had to remove the video. They refused to comply with the judge’s order. Now they are bankrupt. No one to blame with themselves.
Also, what’s pro-Trump got to do with it?
“You go out there committing adultery and only bad things are going to happen, BRROOOOTHER!!”
Being verbally and emotionally abused by your wife is also bad, brother.
Heck, it wasn’t like they even stood their ground on a good sex tape, like the Pamela Anderson one or something.
Nobody wanted to see Hulk Hogan’s sextape!
I dunno, seems like the old Hulkster made $31 million off that act of adultery...
I see that you come from the “Two Wrongs Make A Right” philosophy of life.
“Well ya know Mean Gene, the Hulkster and his Hulkamaniacs are always talkin’ about my 24 inch pythons but I’m packin’ the Anaconda also brother and whatcha gonna do when I unfold it and it runs wild on youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?”
Anabolic steroid use has likely turned his Anaconda into an earth worm.
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