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To: the OlLine Rebel
Contrary to popular opinion, fact checking is a necessary societal function. However, fact checking is ultimately up to the courts.

A libel lawsuit is a plea to a court to fact check published material which, the plaintiff claims, is false and damages the plaintiff’s reputation.

We need more of that kind of fact checking - a half-century after the Sullivan decision which inhibits libel suits by Republican (Democrats don’t get libeled) officials, the MSM (which existed even back then) has completely gone ballistic.


16 posted on 11/03/2020 5:50:59 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Exactly.

They posted USAToday.

And they write it up as if it’s FACT that Biden’s bus was “terrified” and “maybe run off the road”.

THAT is what really ticks me off!

How do they know these leftists aren’t liars or overreactive lily-livered wimps?


18 posted on 11/03/2020 5:56:08 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
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