Posted on 11/03/2014 8:41:48 AM PST by jimbo123
Lena Dunham may not like our interpretation of her book, but unfortunately for her and her attorneys, she wrote that book.
On Saturday, HBO’s Lena Dunham sent a “cease and desist” letter to TruthRevolt demanding that we remove an article we posted last Wednesday on sections of her book, Not That Kind of Girl. The letter threatened legal action if we did not both remove that article, as well as print a note, the suggested language of which read as follows:
We recently published a story stating that Ms. Dunham engaged in sexual conduct with her sister. The story was false, and we deeply regret having printed it. We apologize to Ms. Dunham, her sister, and their parents, for this false story.
We refuse. We refuse to withdraw our story or apologize for running it, because quoting a woman’s book does not constitute a “false” story, even if she is a prominent actress and left-wing activist. Lena Dunham may not like our interpretation of her book, but unfortunately for her and her attorneys, she wrote that book – and the First Amendment covers a good deal of material she may not like.
In particular, the letter from Ms. Dunham’s lawyers labeled as “false and defamatory” our claims that she “experiment[ed] sexually with her younger sister Grace,” “experimented with her six-year younger sister’s vagina,” and “use[d] her little sister at times essentially as a sexual outlet.” In her desire to curb First Amendment freedoms, Dunham’s attorneys threatened legal action seeking “millions of dollars; punitive damages which can be a multiple of up to ten times actual damages; and injunctive relief.”
We assume that both Ms. Dunham and her attorneys are capable of reading Ms. Dunham’s book, which contains the following direct excerpts:
(Excerpt) Read more at truthrevolt.org ...
She’s got issues.
Wonder if she plans to run for democrat office in 2016?
After having lost her virginity to Obama in 2012, she’s gone super crazy
So that’s what, “ hoisted on your own petard” means.
I don’t know the law. But, if she published this in her book, and someone is quoting what she wrote in her own book, how can there be a violation of legal rights???
This article needs a legit barf alert. I literally threw up in my mouth a little when reading it.
I think she’s trying to demonstrate that she’s qualified to be the president of N.O.W.
Who slandered her with these allegations??
Lena Dunham!!!
It’s called “Streisand effect”
Look it up, Lena.
If any person in authority remains, she should be institutionalized. For blatantly obvious reasons.
But she won’t. She will be canonized as a patron saint of the oppressed along with Monica by the left.
Now she has it on her Twitter account profile “bedridden”. Boo frikkin’ hoo.
She should sue herself for slander/libel - I forget which
Would make legal history
Lena Dunham should be prosecuted for child molestation and be made to register as the sex offender she admits she is.
It reminds me of the time Daryl Strawberry claimed he was misquoted in his own autobiography.
Who is she?
Dunham tries to play the edgy, fashionable bisexual persona, then when an unsympathetic website quotes her verbatim, she squeals.
I’d check into the parents as well.
I can’t even get past the ‘a’ at the end of ‘Lena’ without tasting the vomit.
Copyright infringement?.................
She doesn’t have a legal leg to stand on since those are all her statements made by her in her own book.
Her own attorney should tell her to get lost before she embarrasses herself further or if he’s too much of a coward to stand up to her, a judge should throw out a lawsuit even before it gets heard.
There is no First Amendment right to suppress facts you don’t like, especially if they’re related by you. Don’t tell people things you don’t want them to hear.
We’ve learned three things: Lena Dunham is stupid, evil and a hypocrite. Quite a way to tell the public you’re upset what they learn doesn’t quite comport with your public image.
If you don’t like the fallout, suck up and deal with it. Its your bed and you made it.
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