Ginsberg says Exley offered to sell the rights to gwbush.com for $300,000 before lowering his demand to $80,000--a price the Bush campaign still won't pay. Exley does not deny that, but insists it was the Bush campaign that contacted him and asked his price. "I was just having fun with them," he said. "But I mean, obviously, I would have sold them the domain name."
Trying to extort someone to comply with your demands is not legal nor protected. As far as the "Austin Chronicle" I've never heard of it and I live in Texas.
This is exactly what you did with the GHWB proof: demand evidence, get evidence, then dismiss it. It's useless giving you evidence.
rying to extort someone to comply with your demands is not legal
You put an interesting, yet incorrect, twist on it. He bought the domain (now his property) to parody candidate Bush, used it, Bush then wanted it, so he named a price. That's capitalism. Of course Bush didn't want to have to pay fair market value for the property of another (there is precedent with him for that), so he went to court.
In any case, all of that is irrelevant, since the issue is the site owner's freedom to say what he did, not the ownership of the site.
As far as the "Austin Chronicle" I've never heard of it and I live in Texas.
You may not know this, but Texas is a really big place, and it is possible that you may not have heard of a publication local to another city. They apparently run 90,000 copies a week.