Posted on 07/05/2009 1:14:08 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
As Gov. Sarah Palin blasted the media Saturday in a tough Facebook post, her attorney delivered a strong warning to news outlets that they should not report any stories that allege the Alaska governor is leaving office because she is under any kind of federal investigation.
CNN has not reported these allegations were in any way connected to the governor's decision to leave office early.
"To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as 'fact' that Governor Palin resigned because she is 'under federal investigation' for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation," said lawyer Thomas Van Flein in a letter (pdf) sent to reporters Saturday.
"This is to provide notice to Ms. Moore, and those who re-publish the defamation… that the Palins will not allow them to propagate defamatory material without answering to this in a court of law."
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Heh heh heh. As the Oprahans love to say, “You go girl!”
Good!!!
Is this all it takes to stop the ankle biters?
Shannyn Moore, I am reaching for my barf bucket.
The MSM must keep in mind that Palin has the First Amendment Right to say that she will file suite against any media outlet that reports rumors regarding the governor.
You must have “actual malice” to win, if you are a “public figure” -— meaning if you are a celebrity or public official of any type.
“Actual Malice” must mean that you knew it was false before you said it or printed it.
Notice has been given.
Now, every time it pops up, it is “actual malice”!
The Palins will strip her life open like an over ripe banana and expose where her finances are coming from. I'm guessing the name "Soros" is somewhere to be found.
And we all know how lawyers love deep pockets.
Don’t know but I’ve got a feeling we’re about to find out. Time for Sarah’s lawyers to start lightening up some of these loudmouths’ bank accounts.
This is a half truth intended to make Palin look like an authoritarian, anti-1st Amendment censorship queen. They can print all they want about the dimwad Moore's allegations. What they can't do is plunge feet first into the malice party, representing this garbage as truth without any substantiation beyond Moore's sayso.
Shannyn Moore...... This POS blogger and a few others pretty much drove Sarah Palin out of office. Hard to believe, eh?
They filed all these BS ethics complaints against Sarah Palin. Filing an ethics complaint is super easy in Alaska
Palin has spent 4600,000 on legal bills and owes money on them
We could probably do some investigation of this Moore person right here on FR.
Soros is too deep but you got the right idea. This POS blogger is paid by some Soros type of 527. My speculation anyway
Found it interesting about Spenard’s in Alaska. When I lived there in the 80s, Spenard’s was it if you wanted construction materials. Hadn’t heard the name in a long while.
Alaska needs to tighten up the process against abuse.
unless the person who posts it can come up with a source which she heard it from...and so on and so on....
Good for her its a typical tactic for leftists to repeat and repeat and repeat their accusations even after they’ve been disproven.
OMG Scaaaary!
This nasty conservative woman would sue the nice,innocent,fair,...and smart MSM? Oh no!
Hope that Sarah have good lawyers and...bodyguards!
SOROS and hese kinds are such scums
She was a bait they couldn’t resist. She is being a mensch about it with this warning — she could have simply let them do it and then slammed them with multi million $ lawsuits.
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