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National Inquirer Headline---This is Like Pouring Gasoline on a Fire (Original Post) McCamy Taylor Aug 2017 OP
More trash for trash to read dalton99a Aug 2017 #1
They can actually read? guillaumeb Aug 2017 #4
Why post this here? cwydro Aug 2017 #2
Why doesn't someone sue this shit rag out of existence? dawg Aug 2017 #3
We have no laws in this country prohibiting falsehoods, except marybourg Aug 2017 #5
Plenty of the stuff they print is defamatory. dawg Aug 2017 #7
If Hillary Clinton cares to sue for defamation, she can marybourg Aug 2017 #8
LOL Trump is so hated right now. Uh, Go Obama!! leftstreet Aug 2017 #6

dawg

(10,626 posts)
3. Why doesn't someone sue this shit rag out of existence?
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 12:23 PM
Aug 2017

They print things that are demonstrably false.

marybourg

(12,648 posts)
5. We have no laws in this country prohibiting falsehoods, except
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 12:28 PM
Aug 2017

where it's held to defame a person, or, since the advent of the right wing, possibly some businesses and farm produce in some states.

dawg

(10,626 posts)
7. Plenty of the stuff they print is defamatory.
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 12:31 PM
Aug 2017

Look at what Peter Thiel was able to do to Gawker on behalf of Hulk Hogan. Someone should do the same to the Enquirer.

Last year, before the election, they actually printed an article claiming Hillary Clinton was morbidly obese (and hiding it ... somehow).

marybourg

(12,648 posts)
8. If Hillary Clinton cares to sue for defamation, she can
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 02:17 PM
Aug 2017

do so. The bar is higher for a person who's put themselves into the public eye than it is for purely private persons. The example you cited might very well cross that bar.

But your complaint was about "falsehoods", and for that, without defamation, there's no remedy.

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