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Breitbart News planning lawsuit against 'major media company'
The Hill ^ | 11/15/2016 | JOE CONCHA

Posted on 11/15/2016 10:59:46 AM PST by GilGil

Breitbart News is preparing a lawsuit against a "major media company" over claims that it is a white nationalist website, it said in an exclusive statement to The Hill.

The website has been under intense scrutiny since President-elect Donald Trump named Stephen Bannon as a senior White House counselor and strategist. Bannon is the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, and the site has become associated with the “alt-right” movement that helped propel Trump’s candidacy.

"Breitbart News Network, a pro-America, conservative website, is preparing a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a major media company for its baseless and defamatory claim that Breitbart News is a ‘white nationalist website,’” the statement reads.

"Breitbart News cannot allow such vicious racial lies to go unchallenged, especially by cynical, politically-motivated competitors seeking to diminish its 42 million monthly readers and its number one in the world political Facebook page. Breitbart News rejects racism in all its varied and ugly forms. Always has, always will," the statement continues.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; antisemitism; bannon; breitbart; lawsuit; libel; slander; trump
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To: Rumierules

Blaze is nearly out of business.


21 posted on 11/15/2016 11:11:22 AM PST by GilGil (E. Deplorabus Unum)
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To: GilGil

22 posted on 11/15/2016 11:13:05 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: be-baw

“CNN must be the target of the suit.”
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Just going by episodes like the one below, that’s my guess.

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/11/14/breitbarts-pollak-takes-on-three-cnn-talking-heads-most-offensive-thing-bannon-has-done-is-win-the-white-house


23 posted on 11/15/2016 11:14:27 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: GilGil

Kurt Bardella was disgraced and had to end his working relationship with congressman David Issa. He was then tied with Breitbart but Breitbart ended that too. He was a two time loser.

His next opportunity to enter stage was attacking Bannon and Breitbart. CNN eats it up. They don’t disclose how Bardella has been a train wreck most of his career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhFgRnMxQsM


24 posted on 11/15/2016 11:15:42 AM PST by boycott (S)
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To: GilGil

Yes! Fight back because this is just the beginning and we must not get tired or complacent.


25 posted on 11/15/2016 11:16:19 AM PST by donna (This is more fun than I ever imagined!)
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To: GilGil

“Blaze is nearly out of business.”
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And Beck is irrelevant, though he’d probably love the publicity. But he’s simply just not worth spending any time in smacking him down.


26 posted on 11/15/2016 11:17:14 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

CNN sucks Lemon’s (see what I did there?)


27 posted on 11/15/2016 11:17:43 AM PST by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: PeteePie
"CNN sucks Lemon’s (see what I did there?)"
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28 posted on 11/15/2016 11:20:06 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

To kill a snake,you cut it’s head off. That would be the New York Times.


29 posted on 11/15/2016 11:20:09 AM PST by SanchoP
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To: SanchoP

“To kill a snake,you cut it’s head off. That would be the New York Times.”
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I dunno, aside from the fact print media is dying anyway, I think CNN reaches more people than the NYT.


30 posted on 11/15/2016 11:24:40 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

Print media is far from dying. Sick, yes, bed ridden and dying no

We fought them hard with no practical results. They are worse than ever


31 posted on 11/15/2016 11:27:13 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Does America still have lots of safe closet?)
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To: GilGil

What does “White Nationist” mean?


32 posted on 11/15/2016 11:27:21 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: GilGil

CNN


33 posted on 11/15/2016 11:27:42 AM PST by tiki
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To: GilGil; All

Hearst Television. It’s Des Moines, Iowa, television station KCCI, 10 pm newscast, November 14, 2016, had anchorette Shaina Humphries announce that Breitbart News was a site that “promotes white nationalism” as the lead story at about 10:04 pm.

Obvious slander, not to mention proving the porn actress-looking reporterette has no idea what she talks about.

Likely it was a script distributed to Hearst Television stations. Check last night’s newscast if you have a Hearst station in your market.


34 posted on 11/15/2016 11:27:57 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: GilGil

Good. Sue them and every member of their families.

Sue every “news” affiliate that repeats the lie.


35 posted on 11/15/2016 11:28:53 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: bert

“The New York Times Company posted a net loss for the second consecutive quarter, in part because of severance costs related to the closing of the company’s editing and prepress operations in Paris.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/business/media/new-york-times-co-q2-earnings.html
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The future for print media is in niche publishing.


36 posted on 11/15/2016 11:30:25 AM PST by LouieFisk
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To: Little Pig

I hope they clean them out and shut them up with their lies.


37 posted on 11/15/2016 11:31:57 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: GilGil

More good news!!


38 posted on 11/15/2016 11:33:24 AM PST by bryan999
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To: GilGil; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; ExTexasRedhead; Bushbacker1; entropy12; danamco; Bob Ireland; ...
It may be CNN, then again it could be that other bastion of BS, MSNBC whose parent company NBC is certainly also "major".

My own personal strategery would be to sue the weakest target on Breitbart's list first and, if successful, pop more law suits against the others. (This comes from the "Art of War" by that ancient Chinese general-ette, Len-I).

This is all so delicious I can hardly contain myself.

I also see the fine hand of hardball-player Bannon behind this....what a great, ballsy choice he is for the Trump administration!

Leni

39 posted on 11/15/2016 11:35:57 AM PST by MinuteGal (GO, TRUMP !.......GO, PENCE !)
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To: GilGil

Paging CNN, please pick up the white nationalist courtesy phone.


40 posted on 11/15/2016 11:40:14 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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