
Originally Posted by
GeoFisher
If you slander someone, it is slander.....The bar is that you had to do it with malice intent.
I'm sorry, just because someone is in the public eye does NOT mean you can say whatever the crap you want. the NYT took a campaign poster from the palin team, painted targets on PEOPLE, and then said it came from teh palin campaign.
If that is NOT malicious intent, I'm not too sure what the eff it is.
Just take the sandman case.........Nick Sandman won his slander cases, because he's not in the public eye. I think the standard for libel should be equally met........public or private citizen.
Now, I understand that deep pockets could say whatever they wanted, and prob get away with it, because well.....deep pockets, but you know what. Maybe not. Deep pockets had to pay Sandman a **** ton of money.
Now, IMAGINE my public versus private slander standard. As it is, TRUMP has zero case against all the slander that has been thrown his way. Russia, golden showers, wanting to **** his daughter......all that crazy ****. If the slander rul was equally applied, NONE of that would have ever been said .......period..........PERIOD.
Remember, slander with malice is very hard to prove.
Later,
Geo