This should be comical. Hollywood has-been James Woods has cobbled together a unique theory as to why he hasn’t worked since 2013: it’s the Democratic party’s fault — specifically the “Democratic Party-Big Tech alliance” for banning him from Twitter and all he did was post photos of Hunter Biden’s penis.
Woods is madder than hell and he plans to sue. He told Tucker Carlson Friday night, “I can guarantee you one thing more than anything else you’ll ever hear in your life: I will be getting a lawyer. I will be suing the Democratic National Committee no matter what.”
Go right ahead. Just know that the DNC will bring Twitter in and then you’ll be suing your right-wing hero Elon Musk.
The DNC would, of course, bring Twitter into this as a co-defendant, which would result in Woods suing Musk. pic.twitter.com/APtbVlijFf
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“Whether I win or lose, I am going to stand up for the rights that every American – not a so-called celebrity. I’m not a celebrity — I’m hardly recognizable anymore because my career has been destroyed by these very people.”
“And I will sue. And I’m hoping other people will sue,” Woods continued. “And if it turns out there are a lot of us on this list where the DNC targeted us, then I will quote the immortal words of Joseph Welch when he attacked [Wisconsin Senator] Joseph McCarthy for the enemies list he had – ‘At long last or have you no shame?””
Fox News Digital reached out to the DNC for a comment on James Woods’ intent to sue. The DNC had yet to respond as of late Friday night.
Woods also had a direct message for President Biden. He asked the same question Welch, a chief U.S. Army lawyer, posed to McCarthy amid hearings centered around his endeavor to root out alleged Communists and Soviet sympathizers – “Have you, Mr. President – Have all of you, at last, no shame?”
Now here’s the clincher: Joe Biden was not president when all this happened. Donald Trump was. What Elon Musk did yesterday was the quintessential making of a mountain out of a molehill. And what James Woods is doing is creating a conspiracy theory out of whole cloth, evidently believing that this will do him or his career some good. The Bulwark:
Yet Taibbi and Musk are trying to turn this mundane moderation matter into the story of the century by emphasizing a few misconceptions about how platforms work with political campaigns and what First Amendment obligations they do or do not have. To debunk a few of them:
1. Campaigns of all ideological stripes have direct lines into social media companies and make requests about offending content. There is nothing at all strange about what is shown in these emails. If Jeb’s kid’s grundle was posted by a Chinese troll, we surely would’ve flagged that for the company in the hopes they deleted it, and I suspect their internal correspondence on the matter would’ve been identical. This would not have been a “demand” or a “dictate” from our campaign, mind you. Companies can do what they want.
2. In this specific instance, the requests came from a campaign that has absolutely no government authority at all. At the time of the correspondence in question, Joe Biden was a private citizen running for office, while Donald Trump was the president. Taibbi acknowledges that Trump’s White House made requests that “were received and honored” and that “there’s no evidence—that I’ve seen—of any government involvement in the laptop story.” So if there are any First Amendment issues at play here—and I don’t believe there are since neither Musk nor Taibbi have demonstrated that the government made any mandates on Twitter—they would, in this case, only relate to the material that Trump wanted removed.
3. Why MAGA Republicans and Elon Musk are so adamant that people be able to post photos of Hunter’s johnson is something that should probably be explored with their respective preachers or psychiatrists, but it is certainly not a matter for constitutional scholars or litigators. While Mr. Lisbon from the Virgin Suicides may derive a depraved type of happiness from publishing pictures of other people’s genitals on a private company’s public bulletin board without the approval of those pictured, the First Amendment does not bestow upon him the right to prevent the company from taking down the offending material.
To sum up what we learned: Big penis, little news, First Amendment not under threat.
If awards are ever given for nothing burger stories, like a journalistic version of the Razzie Awards, this “exposé” of Musk’s will take it in a walk. I hope Woods does sue. He’ll be in a pissing contest with Elon Musk, ultimately, for whatever good that will do him.
Who knew that the sleazy, parasitic pimp he played in Casino was the real James Woods? Now I wish Joe pesci’s henchmen had continued the beat down. Oh well.
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Two thoughts. “Hunter Biden’s penis”? How is Woods in a position to have photos of that?
Second, how has the DNC even had the time or inclination to get involved in Twitter bans? The uses themselves got their asses banned. The DNC didn’t have to lift a pinkie.
I sincerely hope Woods draws a judge who slaps him with a huge fine for filing a frivolous lawsuit.
No wonder is isn’t a celebrity. He wasn’t much other than a mediocre actor, kind of like St Ronnie.
Hmm. One must be curious as to how James Woods would feel if someone decided to post pictures of *his* penis online without his approval? Some states, in fact, allow a person whose genitals have been put online without their knowledge or consent to SUE the person who posted the pictures (Woods might benefit from looking up the phrase “revenge porn”).
As to his assertion to the government that “I’m not afraid of you,” hate to break it to Woods but the DNC is NOT “the government.” As such, the DNC can probably do a lot more to Woods than “the government” could ever do. (The DNC can sue; “the government” can’t–at least, not directly.)
So he can’t get work?
Nothing to do with the fact that he is known as being notoriously ‘difficult’ to work with on set?
He posted pictures of genitals on a public forum. He should be labeled a sex offender and have to register wherever he lives, and be stopped from being around children. What a creep!