[[Once you did something that indicated you WANTED the benefit of publicity, you’d be hard pressed to retract that.]]
Well that brings us back to the al sharpton brawley case too- I think she went public but still was able to win the case, or am i mistaken? and again, once he becomes public, that’s one thing, but the damage ahd already been doen to him as a private citizen as he was already livign in fear for his life and for his families life because of the slanderous hateful racist maLIcious ... let’s call them what they were... attacks by the msm
[[they aren’t always fathomable by the average duffer.]]
I’m a doofus, not a duffer
Which might either mean the lies were believed to be based in such egregious malice that being public didn’t matter, or the person was only hounded into becoming public and didn’t want to be. But like I said, it keeps lawyers in lobster. You can’t just show up at, say, a small claims court, make the claim, and walk out a few cool thousand richer in fifteen minutes.