TWIT!
Posted on 12/05/2008 6:24:06 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Los Angeles (E! Online) – Another Dixie Chicks cause, another angry reaction.
A man whose 8-year-old stepson was killed in 1993 has sued all three members of the country-pop group for defamation, singling out frontwoman Natalie Maines for her comments suggesting that he played a role in the boy's death.
Maines, whose outspokenness has won her lifelong friends and mortal enemies alike, appeared last December at a rally in Little Rock, Ark., for the three men, tagged the "West Memphis Three" by their supporters, who were convicted as teenagers of killing the plaintiff's stepson, Steve Branch, and two other 8-year-old boys.
According to the six-page complaint filed Nov. 25 in Pulaski County Circuit Court, the "Not Ready to Make Nice" singer told the crowd that new DNA evidence from the crime scene implicated Steve's stepdad, Terry Hobbs, and that Hobbs' behavior following the boys' death was suspect.
Her comments resembled those written in a letter about the case that was posted on the Dixie Chicks' website and obtained by various media outlets, including People, the Huffington Post, FreeRepublic.com and ABC News.
Maines' statements were "so extreme in degree as to be beyond the pale of decency and to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society," Hobbs' lawsuit states, per the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
"Defendant's repeated libelous publications concerning the involvement of the plaintiff in the murders of Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore were not based on fact and, in fact, were false and reckless at the time of publication."
Hobbs is alleging defamation, libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress by outrageous conduct and false-light invasion of privacy. He is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, claiming the Chicks caused him embarrassment, humiliation,"severe" psychological and emotional trauma, loss of income and injury to his reputation.
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He may have a case for some of the charges.
TWIT!
From the text in the story, I say “Go Hobbs!” ... Is there more to the story or does it pretty much sum it up?
Free advice for ALL “famous” musicians/singers.
SHUT-UP and play/sing!
The killing was in 1993. When did she make the statement? Is there a statute of limitations on libel?
“When did she make the statement?”
First line: “..last December..”
Never mind; I re-read it and found the last December part!
From reading the article it looks like it was said Dec. 2007.
Correction: Fourth line!
Last December. You can learn things if you read stuff.
First time I have seen the word courted used in this sense.
Free speach, yes!!!!!
Free slander, no!!!!! (just be ready to pay)
Natalie Maines is an uneducated, ignorant, obnoxious b****h. She and the rest of the Dixie Brats need to just sing. That’s all. Just sing, ladies!
Interesting, horrific case. Odd I never heard of it till now.
Here’s a website on the case: http://www.jivepuppi.com/jivepuppi_the_crime.html
Would you feel the same way if he had a hand in the killings, and the boys are innocent? From what I have read (and everyone has an agenda, of course), those freaking hayseeds couldn’t properly investigate why their underwear has bacon strips in it.
Take every dollar that lard $ss has. Put her on Food Stamps
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