Here is something for Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Right wing writer and wingnut apologist Ben Shapiro joins his lettered brethren to stick up for banned reporter Jim Acosta.
This is not what happened. You could have banned him simply for refusing to abide by any of the normal rules of the press room. No need to state something happened that didn’t. https://t.co/p9hgtVE8eZ
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 8, 2018
Shapiro’s most repeated bon mot to date is, “The left has run out of aggressors to target; instead, they’ve become the aggressors, self-righteous morality police dedicated to wiping out dissenting thought.”
This is interesting, Shapiro taking Acosta’s side, because the rest of right wingnuttia is excoriating Acosta.
Meanwhile, sages are tweeting that Huckabee Sanders libeled Jim Acosta, insofar as she told a lie about him with actual malice and an intent to ruin his reputation. Wouldn’t it be something if Acosta and CNN sue SHS and Trump? That will one for the casebooks.
Acosta needs to sue and refuse to settle. Have it go to trial before a jury of peers and expose all the tactics and evidence of the GOP-Nazi propaganda machine’s mouthpiece Sarah the Huckster at the top of the front page news for weeks for all the world to see. Make it a historical decision and case law for the record books in direct violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the USA.
I’m hoping that he will do that as well. You and I are not the only people thinking like this. What Hucky Boo Boo did was libel, because she showed actual malice and a desire to ruin the man’s reputation. So he’s got a case. The testimony of experts about how the tape was doctored is also compelling.
I think that lawsuits and calling Trump and his cabal of crooks on their doings is the only way we can maintain democracy.