Defamation law is anachronistic in the sense that questioning a woman's chastity is considered so essentially damaging that damages don't have to be proven--defamatory per se
In our age of slut pride, however, it's not hard to see how being accused of racism is far more damaging from reputational point of view
You’re the typical American mid-career professional, a doctor or lawyer or college professor—if you already are one, no need to imagine. What do you fear more?
Being falsely accused of having monkeypox, or of being a “racist”?
Would it be worse to appear on your local newspaper’s front page under a headline suggesting you embezzled money, or one suggesting you are a white nationalist?
The answer, we suspect, is obvious.
This is why updating the law to make such smears as "racist" defamatory per se is an important and long overdue update to defamation law.
So what's wrong then with the Florida law?
The short answer is that the left simply has a far more sophisticated, robust, and aggressive lawfare infrastructure with a demonstrable record of using defamation law to punish and intimidate political enemies
For this reason any relaxation of defamation law, especially the change in "actual malice" standard entertained in florida law, is likely to redound to the net benefit of the left.
Just in past year we saw near billion dollar defamation cases against Fox and Alex Jones.
In the case of Alex Jones, it's clear the attack wasn't really about Sandy Hook, it was about silencing a powerful anti-establishment voice in the Trump era
Then of course there's the Ray Epps intimidation tour, in which Epps retained a notorious David Brock linked DNC lawyer to sue Fox over Tucker and my reporting on Epps
The Florida law would embolden such efforts.
Of course, Epps has no case and curiously a precedent involving rapper Tupac explains why
Below, courtesy of Thomas Massie, is the most damning and explosive J6 footage yet released.
In my view this will end up demolishing the Regime's J6 narrative and with it a major pillar of Dem's 2024 strategy.
You paying attention Kamala?
This footage shows the discovery of the pipe bomb at a bench outside the DNC headquarters.
This first clips shows that at approximately 1:05 a man in a backpack approaches a Metro PD SUV and a black Secret Service SUV informing them of the pipe bomb's presence
Interestingly, recent report from @TPC4USA reveals this man in the back pack is a plain clothes Capitol Police officer
Here's the first sign things are a bit out of the ordinary.
After being informed of a pipe bomb feet away, the metro PD authorities (who are technically on the secret service detail) take over a minute before they even bother getting out of their car!
Why did Kamala hide the fact she was at DNC? Why didn't Kamala mention on J6 anniversary that she was within hair's width of losing her life to MAGA pipe bomb?
Since our interview, the infamous diplomatic Cypher communicating the Biden Regime's demand that Pakistan overthrow its democratically elected leader has been LEAKED in a major journalistic coup (no pun) by The Intercept's @MazMHussain
This leak confirms the remarkable hypocrisy of Biden, who called putin a "killer" and constantly lamented Russia's alleged (and unproven) meddling in the 2016 election---only to be caught red handed demanding that Pakistan overthrow its leader or else!
I was one of the last two international journalists to interview Prime Minister Imran Khan before his arrest
In this critical section of the interview, we discuss the Biden regime's role in his ouster -- specifically, the wicked color revolution professional Victoria Nuland
Note that Trump personally and directly called out Victoria Nuland in what is perhaps the best of his excellent policy statements this campaign season
@nytimes The so-called journalists who authored this piece try to shrug off the fact Epps wasn't indicted as normal
@nytimes In fact, the DOJ had a layup tresspassing charge that it used in a number of cases, including against Mark Ibrahim, Jeremy Brown, and Owen Shroyer just to name a few
@nytimes By standards applied to other J6ers, the DOJ could have easily slapped a conspiracy charge against Epps for the following exchange
Note the person Epps is speaking to hear ended up going into the Capital and doing a lot of damag