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Fox News analyst: NBC News ‘on the hook’ in Zimmerman lawsuit
Washington Post ^ | July 17, 2013 | Erik Wemple

Posted on 07/18/2013 7:04:25 AM PDT by kevcol

Lis Wiehl, a Fox News analyst, said, “That’s absolutely not enough. NBC is on the hook here for a big defamation, intentional infliction with emotional stress lawsuit here. They doctored that tape. It went out there. It started the whole narrative of Zimmerman being this hardened racist, this profiling racist that started everything.”
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Accordingly, NBC will have to pay out a “countless amount of money and probably millions of dollars,” argued Wiehl. All agreed that it would cost big bucks for NBC to make this case go away. That sounds about right.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackrage; corruption; fox; georgezimmerman; holder; lsm; nbc; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

NBC is about to become ZBC.


41 posted on 07/18/2013 7:34:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MestaMachine

42 posted on 07/18/2013 7:35:09 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: kevcol
Wonder if Blacks would be less angry and more accepting of the verdict if the audio hadn't been doctored? I say yes. So, NBC is, at least in part, responsible for the post trial rioting and damage, death threats, and general frustration with the verdict.

The whole racial issue is gasoline looking for a match. And like gasoline, once it ignites, it is difficult to put it out.

Heck, the doctored tape might have even motivated the prosecutors to be more aggressive and go for 2nd Degree murder versus manslaughter.

NBC has some explainin’ to do.

43 posted on 07/18/2013 7:35:12 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: kevcol

And of course NBC turned up the heat this week with guest appearances of Al Sharptongue and Ben Crump and the Martins this morning with lame talk of the DOJ getting involved and their own civil suit.

I think as the Beasley’s would say — bring it on — we’ll just add all of that to the damages.


44 posted on 07/18/2013 7:35:20 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: kevcol

As I’ve posted before, I’d love to see Zimmerman bankrupt and elicit public apologies from Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the rest of the cast of characters, but in the case of NBC, I would make a non-cash settlement requiring them to produce and air during prime time a documentary laying out exactly what they and the others did to gin up sentiment against Zimmerman; and also present all of the information about TM’s background and thuggish tendencies and aspirations that was kept from the jury.


45 posted on 07/18/2013 7:36:03 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: kevcol

I feel like Flounder in Animal House saying “Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy,” during the chaos.


46 posted on 07/18/2013 7:36:16 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Gamecock

Thanks Doc, but under Obamacare that will not be allowed because you may save more lives which costs the government money. Better to let them die and let Obamabots live.


47 posted on 07/18/2013 7:37:06 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Vigilanteman
Rachel Madcow can be kept to clean the toilets.

Is there promotion involved?

Oh, yeah. After five years, they give you a brush!

Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1970


48 posted on 07/18/2013 7:38:04 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Macoozie
If this becomes a trial in NYC, there is no way in hell GZ gets a penny.

Are you from New York? Look at it this way: If it comes to trial with the litigation firm that made GZ the offer, it's not exactly their first rodeo. They know how to pick a jury. Ever been to Staten Island? Most of Queens? A lot of Brooklyn? Parts of the Bronx? There are a lot of conservatives and a lot of ticked-off white folks and Hispanics, and NBC is a big corporation.

Also, for their own reasons of class envy and redistribution, corporate-hating liberals in a suit like this can make great jurors for the plaintiff. I think George will do fine wherever he goes.

49 posted on 07/18/2013 7:38:08 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: cdcdawg

“Actual damages” might include the need to keep moving around from hotel to hotel, private security for him and his parents, plenty of items there for the clever lawyer.


50 posted on 07/18/2013 7:38:51 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: rawhide

July 18, 2013 4:00 AM
Politics and Justice in Florida
State GOP leaders politicized the Trayvon Martin case.
By Ian Tuttle

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/353734/politics-and-justice-florida-ian-tuttle


51 posted on 07/18/2013 7:39:24 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: SamuraiScot

they can pick anywhere that nbc “publishes”.

Prefereably a state with punative damages.


52 posted on 07/18/2013 7:39:56 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Macoozie
If this becomes a trial in NYC, there is no way in hell GZ gets a penny.

The offending reporters were all in FL. They have a facility near the incident. Charges will be brought in FL. I read the .pdf of the plaintiff's document a couple of days ago.

53 posted on 07/18/2013 7:41:59 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Vigilanteman

“Rachel Madcow can be kept to clean the toilets.”

“Do you honestly think she can ever do any job which doesn’t involve the use of her mouth? “

So,,,, she can use her mouth for that job.


54 posted on 07/18/2013 7:42:42 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Vigilanteman

Clean the toilets ....
....Use her mouth

She can eat Sh.... As far as I’m concerned


55 posted on 07/18/2013 7:42:57 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: Rennes Templar
Maybe I missed it, but I would think they would have made a big deal out of the fact that Martin had no signs of injury on his body, other than the gunshot

You forget, poor little Trayvon had bloodied knuckles too, from Zimmerman hitting them with his face.

56 posted on 07/18/2013 7:43:30 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Rennes Templar
...Martin had no signs of injury on his body, other than the gunshot.

Actually that's not quite true. Martin had scraped knuckles, consistent with having bashed someone's face in bare-handed.

57 posted on 07/18/2013 7:45:16 AM PDT by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I hope George offers reasonably-priced Olympics packages to “cord cutters” when he owns NBC.


58 posted on 07/18/2013 7:45:43 AM PDT by kevkrom (It's not "immigration reform", it's an "amnesty bill". Take back the language!)
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To: kevcol

can they change judges?? this is the last thing GZ needs.


59 posted on 07/18/2013 7:46:15 AM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: jiggyboy

What they did might be “slander/libel per se”, meaning that it wouldn’t matter. I haven’t read any case law on that sort of thing in well over a decade, and probably never any that was specific to Florida. I assume in this day and age that painting somebody as a racist would qualify. Of course the real red meat to this is getting to drag NBC through the mud.


60 posted on 07/18/2013 7:47:16 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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