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Court rules Rachel Maddow not to be taken seriously
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Jun 23, 2021 15:26:44   #
debeda
 
eagleye13 wrote:
Yep!
HOLY MELTDOWN, BATMAN! Watch Rachel Maddow get that SMIRK wiped off her face Election Night 2016

https://youtu.be/WjN_4VTy-jk

What do you think? Are we still getting liberal BS "polls"?

"MSNBC's top-rated host Rachel Maddow devoted a segment in 2019 to accusing the right-wing cable outlet One America News (OAN) of being a paid propaganda outlet for the Kremlin. Discussing a Daily Beast article which noted that one OAN reporter was a "Russian national” who was simultaneously writing copy for the Russian-owned outlet Sputnik on a freelance contract, Maddow escalated the allegation greatly into a broad claim about OAN's real identity and purpose: “in this case,” she announced, “the most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America really literally is paid Russian propaganda."

In response, OAN sued Maddow, MSNBC, and its parent corporation Comcast, Inc. for defamation, alleging that it was demonstrably false that the network, in Maddow's words, “literally is paid Russian propaganda." In an oddly overlooked ruling, an Obama-appointed federal judge, Cynthia Bashant, dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that even Maddow's own audience understands that her show consists of exaggeration, hyperbole, and pure opinion, and therefore would not assume that such outlandish accusations are factually true even when she uses the language of certainty and truth when presenting them (“literally is paid Russian propaganda").

In concluding that Maddow's statement would be understood even by her own viewers as non-factual, the judge emphasized that what Maddow does in general is not present news but rather hyperbole and exploitation of actual news to serve her liberal activism:

On one hand, a viewer who watches news channels tunes in for facts and the goings-on of the world. MSNBC indeed produces news, but this point must be juxtaposed with the fact that Maddow made the allegedly defamatory statement on her own talk show news segment where she is invited and encouraged to share her opinions with her viewers. Maddow does not keep her political views a secret, and therefore, audiences could expect her to use subjective language that comports with her political opinions.

Thus, Maddow’s show is different than a typical news segment where anchors inform viewers about the daily news. The point of Maddow’s show is for her to provide the news but also to offer her opinions as to that news. Therefore, the Court finds that the medium of the alleged defamatory statement makes it more likely that a reasonable viewer would not conclude that the contested statement implies an assertion of objective fact.

The judge's observations about the specific segment at issue — in which Maddow accused a competitor of being “literally paid Russian propaganda" — was even more damning. Maddow's own viewers, ruled the court, not only expect but desire that she will not provide the news in factual form but will exaggerate and even distort reality in order to shape her opinion-driven analysis (emphasis added):

Viewers expect her to do so, as it is indeed her show, and viewers watch the segment with the understanding that it will contain Maddow’s “personal and subjective views” about the news.
Yep! br HOLY MELTDOWN, BATMAN! Watch Rachel Maddow... (show quote)


UGH

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Jun 23, 2021 17:47:16   #
moldyoldy
 
OAN parent company ordered to pay MSNBC, Rachel Maddow $250,000 after losing defamation lawsuit
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4447175001

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/may/23/san-diego-judge-dismisses-oans-10-million-defamati/

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Jun 23, 2021 17:49:33   #
debeda
 
moldyoldy wrote:
OAN parent company ordered to pay MSNBC, Rachel Maddow $250,000 after losing defamation lawsuit
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4447175001

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/may/23/san-diego-judge-dismisses-oans-10-million-defamati/


Interesting. And Rachel Maddow can't be sued for defamation because it is assumed by the Court that she isn't to be believed

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Jun 23, 2021 17:51:41   #
moldyoldy
 
debeda wrote:
Interesting. And Rachel Maddow can't be sued for defamation because it is assumed by the Court that she isn't to be believed


That story does not fit the results.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant dismissed Herring Networks' suit with prejudice, ruling "there is no set of facts that could support a claim for defamation based on Maddow's statement,'' which was made during a July 22, 2019, segment of her show.

In that segment, Maddow cited a Daily Beast article stating that an OAN on-air reporter was "on the payroll for the Kremlin."

She quoted a story from the daily beast.

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Jun 23, 2021 17:52:01   #
Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio
 
debeda wrote:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers?r

Lolololhahahaha Leftist judges will say or do anything to keep their compatriots out of trouble🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴


Aah!

2019 ?

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Jun 23, 2021 19:00:41   #
Mikeyavelli
 
debeda wrote:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/a-court-ruled-rachel-maddows-viewers?r

Lolololhahahaha Leftist judges will say or do anything to keep their compatriots out of trouble🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴


Plus, Bullcow Maddow just might kick their schumers if they say anything bad about him...or her...or whatever that is.

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Jun 23, 2021 19:07:54   #
debeda
 
Mikeyavelli wrote:
Plus, Bullcow Maddow just might kick their schumers if they say anything bad about him...or her...or whatever that is.


There is that😳🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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Jun 23, 2021 20:38:28   #
martsiva
 
PeterS wrote:
The judge knows that Maddow viewers can think for themselves and don't believe something simply because they hear it...unlike those on the right who believe every word that their demagogues tell them...


So what does your comment say about you who believes the communist agenda of the Democrats??If anyone believes demagogues, it is you!

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Jun 23, 2021 21:03:54   #
moldyoldy
 
Why was this BS written. Maddow had her costs paid by oan for their baseless lawsuit.

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Jun 23, 2021 21:17:18   #
debeda
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Why was this BS written. Maddow had her costs paid by oan for their baseless lawsuit.


Only baseless because Maddow is not to be believed...

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Jun 23, 2021 22:12:42   #
moldyoldy
 
debeda wrote:
Only baseless because Maddow is not to be believed...


The suit was thrown out because she was not the party who made the claim. Why did they not go after the daily beast, they made the claim.

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Jun 23, 2021 22:26:20   #
debeda
 
moldyoldy wrote:
The suit was thrown out because she was not the party who made the claim. Why did they not go after the daily beast, they made the claim.


Nope. Maddow said "literally" then the lie.

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Jun 23, 2021 23:04:46   #
moldyoldy
 
debeda wrote:
Nope. Maddow said "literally" then the lie.


You have someone’s transcript of what they say was said.

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Jun 24, 2021 08:44:16   #
AmericanEagle Loc: Indiana
 
Madcow isn’t worth the oxygen to talk about

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Jun 24, 2021 10:38:22   #
nonalien1 Loc: Mojave Desert
 
woodguru wrote:
This after the Kraken lady tells court nobody in their right mind would take her claims of election fraud seriously?


Your taking the quote out of context .

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