[dervish]

Being the second mistress to a man whose wife was pregnant, consumating their affair in a post 9/11 apartment designated for emergency workers wasn’t enough to damage the rep of a woman who published a murderer’s memoirs?

If she wins they should give her a penny.

[nathanbedford]

We do not ladle out justice according to the morals of the supplicant but upon the principle itself. We should hope that Regan is awarded the full $100m if she climbs the two steep mountains she alleges: proving actual malice (she must prove she did not say it, they know it, and alleged the lie for material gain anyway), and proving actual damages.

We should hope she prevails because the conservative principle she invokes is resistance to playing the bigotry card. False allegations of anti-semitism are nearly as damning as charges of racism, especially in New York and especially in the publishing world.

More, the racism/bigotry card has been played by the left all too often, in fact, it is in my estimation the main justification for an otherwise played out philosophy. Racism/bigotry hypocrisy is the last trump of leftist scoundrels.

We are in a situation in which Jesse Jackson can extort millions from corporations for racial insensitivity. If we allow these corporations the race/bigotry card without consequences, they will take the safe course and promulgate explicit policies and implicit cultural pressure which will make speech for conservatives immeasurably more risky. Ask Imus(not a conservative) Lott and Limbaugh.

From our tagline, one could infer you are a Jew. If so, it seems to me that you might have an interest in saving the opprobrium of anti-semitism from trivialization.