[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[A] public servant subject to any and all attacks.

I don't think you fully comprehend The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

You cannot knowingly print deliberate falsehoods. It is apparent from the posting on Breitbard, that the publish knew, or should reasonably known, that what it was printing about Palin contained unsubstantiated malicious rumors.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

PS: George Bush could own CBS, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, but who’d want them? He shudda sued, on principle.