There were a hundred ways that this could have gone, without uttering pedophile. Cohen really screwed up. Even to get some negotiation going on and lesser money in the discussion, Cohen probably will have to cough up $20-million as a minimum. Pretty marginal joke for that much of a cost factor.
I’m no fan of Moore but I hope he wins big. Republicans/conservatives normally face all sorts of defamation.
If only ANYONE thought that Cohen was actually funny, he could have claimed that people knew that it was comedy and get the suit summarily dismissed.