Posted on 03/30/2021 3:18:10 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe
Gina Carano fired back at former U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp, who called the actress a Nazi while making an appearance on a late-night talk show. Heitkamp appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on March 19 where the topic of cancel culture was discussed. Heitkamp, who served as a U.S. senator from North Dakota from 2013 to 2019, suggested that Carano was fired from the Disney+ show "The Mandalorian" because "she was a Nazi... she does hang with white supremacists." Heitkamp continued, "I suppose I'm now subject to defamation now [...] but we have to be really careful. There's two things the Republicans think they're going to get Biden on: cancel culture and this whole Dr. Seuss stuff that's going on, where they're reading 'Green Eggs and Ham,' proving that some of these senators can actually read, and immigration." Carano responded on Twitter, "Here we have more of the dehumanizing phase of cancel culture." "Repeat lies over and over until the population takes them as 'truth'. False, disturbing & disgusting language coming from a former US Senator. @HeidiHeitkamp," the former MMA fighter continued. "You knew as soon as you said it you were liable." Carano was fired from the "Star Wars" spinoff series in February after drawing intense criticism for a post on social media in which she compared today's political divide to the events in Nazi Germany and conservatives to the Jewish people. She had previously caught backlash for other comments about the coronavirus, the use of gender pronouns, and election fraud.
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Defamation lawsuit should be filed fairly quickly. I am of the opinion that the force of law is the only thing that will get these people to stop.
Libs whine about wanting “strong women”, until one actually shows up, then they lose their minds.
How could someone like that ever get elected in a red state like North Dakota?
Who knew that beached whales could be gingers?
You’d be wrong.
Gina Carano is Not Guilty!
Fox News article never mentions party affiliation. Telling.
South Dakota had TWO Democrat Senators for years even though I can’t remember the last time they voted for a Dem President candidate. It’s been decades.
It reminds me a bit of Ohio in the 1980s. They voted overwhelmingly for Reagan (twice) and then Bush but that entire time, they had arguably two of the most liberal Senators in Metzenbaum and Glenn.
Gia Carano should sue Heitkamp for defamation.
Over the years, courts have carved out an ENORMOUS exception to defamation laws called ‘rhetorical hyperbole.’
I wouldn’t say it’s impossible for a person - particularly a public personality, like Carano - to prevail against this kind of slander. But, it’s about as close to impossible as anything can be in a legal context.
Faux News is part of the same problem.
You think so?
Without the force of law, what other legal options would be available?
The last democrat presidential candidate to carry south dakota was....LBJ
That is one fugly shemale.
I was thinking of Herman Goering in drag.
They don’t care about the law...
Only when these fools truly fear for their lives will they stop.
They have zero fear of anything which is why they behave this way
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