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Judge dismisses One America News defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow
The Hill ^ | 05-23-20 | JOE CONCHA

Posted on 05/23/2020 9:45:58 AM PDT by Salman

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To: Salman
Basically, case dismissed on the grounds that no reasonable person would believe anything Rachel Maddow says.

Thousands and thousands of people on Twitter and Facebook, including famous bluecheck names and Media types, take Maddow's word as gospel truth.

This "judge" is a partisan Democrat 0bama hack.

21 posted on 05/23/2020 10:17:54 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: Salman

Judge Cynthia Bashant is a democratic appointee of Barack Obama.


22 posted on 05/23/2020 10:19:17 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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“Judge Cynthia Bashant is a democratic appointee of Barack Obama.”

Do Republican-appointed judges ever get to decide anything?

23 posted on 05/23/2020 10:26:19 AM PDT by daler
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To: Salman

When fiction becomes “news.”


24 posted on 05/23/2020 10:43:55 AM PDT by fwdude (Poverty is nearly always a mindset, which canÂ’t be cured by cash)
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To: oh8eleven

Gosg, how else could I have been surprised that this judge was anointed (er, appointed ) by Obola?


25 posted on 05/23/2020 10:46:09 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but ABCNNBCBS donates every hour, every night, every day of the year.)
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Gosg, how else could I have been surprised that this judge was anointed (er, appointed ) by Obola?

and that dumbarse Judge Roberts doesn't see any politics at the SC.

26 posted on 05/23/2020 10:51:38 AM PDT by Digger
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To: Salman

Proving once again that in this post-reason world feelings are more important than facts.


27 posted on 05/23/2020 10:58:18 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Salman

Appeal it. Hack Judge.


28 posted on 05/23/2020 11:03:47 AM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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29 posted on 05/23/2020 11:09:54 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: oh8eleven

Just another activist judge following the agenda.


30 posted on 05/23/2020 11:10:23 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Salman
Maddow said:

OAN “really literally is paid Russian propaganda.

The grammar police told us it would be the end of civilization if we let "literally" mean "not literally," and they may have had a point after all.

Basically, case dismissed on the grounds that no reasonable person would believe anything Rachel Maddow says.

If the judge had made that explicit, rather than just implicit, and downgraded her to just another unfunny tv satirist, I might go along.

As it is, though Maddow is going to go on making stuff up and her fans are going to go on believing her.

31 posted on 05/23/2020 11:23:17 AM PDT by x
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The Spring Valley-based church had asked District Court Judge Cynthia Bashant to prohibit the San Diego County Public Health and Sheriff’s departments from stopping its Easter Sunday service. . .: San Diego Judge Denies Church’s Request for In-Person Easter Service

She served as deputy chief of narcotics from 1995 to 1997 and chief of border crimes from 1997 to 1998.[1] In these positions, Bashant prosecuted crimes involving Mexican drug cartels and methamphetamine labs. Cynthia Ann Bashant

Judge Bashant should be disbarred for violating the Constitution and then investigated for bribes from Mexican drug cartels. A reasonable reader should recognize that this is my opinion.

32 posted on 05/23/2020 11:25:11 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: oh8eleven

Cynthia Bashant is the judge who in 2002 approved the search warrants for David Westerfield, based on an affidavit which was riddled with errors. And the only question she asked was about his polygraph exam. So she just acted as a rubber stamp. Guilty until proven innocent. Actually, the whole of law enforcement treated him as just “guilty”, right from the start.


33 posted on 05/23/2020 11:43:13 AM PDT by Mr Information
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To: Salman

OAN should appeal, obama judges have a real habit of getting overturned on appeal.


34 posted on 05/23/2020 11:58:11 AM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: Salman

>>t a “reasonable viewer” would know the MSNBC prime-time host was only offering her opinion when she called the right-leaning network “paid Russian propaganda.”

BullshT

Stalinists lie. Always

Knowing this doesn’t protect them from legal response to their lies.


35 posted on 05/23/2020 12:05:41 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: Kickass Conservative

The MSM has been caught airing ChiCom and Iranian state propaganda (lies).

They are un-American.


36 posted on 05/23/2020 12:06:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: Salman
she called the right-leaning network "paid Russian propaganda."

That is a statement of fact, not of opinion. If she had said "sounds like paid Russian propaganda" while acknowledging it was false, that could be construed as an opinion...possibly.

37 posted on 05/23/2020 12:06:48 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

IIRC the case hinged on the fact that one person working for OAN also worked for a Russian news agency.


38 posted on 05/23/2020 12:36:08 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: Salman; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ...

Demonrat Zero black-robed tyrant protects Demonrat Stalinazi network. Film at 11.


39 posted on 05/23/2020 1:56:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: Salman

Most important factor: Bashant is an Obama appointee.


40 posted on 05/23/2020 2:40:46 PM PDT by nd76
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