…then you are really doing well.
Congratulations Charles you’ve managed to get your slanderous attack on Robert Stacy McCain actually repeated in a Newspaper in Charleston West Va.
Now Don Surber writes for a paper in the same city (Charleston daily mail) so far be it from me to deride the state but I suspect that this was based on the clip from Rachel Maddow via LGF now that’s sourcing for you!
So to try to score a cheap shot against Sarah Palin they have committed an actionable offense. Once they repeated that claim in print and online it became so. And since the paper is on the net so if it’s picked up by a paper or a blogger in the UK. Robert Stacy and co might even choose to sue under British Libel laws.
Robert Stacy has already taken the first step demanding a retraction:
Over the years, this malicious campaign against my reputation has metastasized spectacularly on the Internet, as individuals and organizations with various political or personal motives have elaborated and repeated them. Some of the original sources for these accusations (e.g., a column by Michelangelo Signorile) contained factual errors, which have been incorporated into the urban-legend mythology, producing a Gordian Knot of non-fact that is not worth the effort it would take to unravel it. Like ancient Alexander, however, I am prepared to swing the sword. Retract, please.
These charges have, as I say, taken on an Internet life of their own. However, never before have they been published in a print newspaper. Whatever malice against the former governor of Alaska inspired your publisher, editors and writers to undertake this false and dishonorable guilt-by-association smear, it was a most foolish blunder. Retract, please.
Congratulations Charles you now have a chance to make Robert Stacy a fair amount of change and to have your charges refuted in a court of law and it will likely not cost you a cent. Then again if he is already going to court one more person in the doc won’t make a difference will it? You will make a real great witness at the trial. I suggest deleting those Archives asap.
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There won’t be any lawsuit. Stacy’s original strategy was to scrub his Free Republic posts and clam up. He’s not going to invite the paper’s lawyers to grill him under oath about issues he’s spent years avoiding.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but we shall see.
Stacy’s own letter makes it clear he won’t sue: he says explicitly and repeatedly (“I cannot be compelled to deny” “my silence” “the appropriate time for explaining…expired”) that he still doesn’t want to answer any questions about his views on racial issues. You can’t sue for libel and then refuse to answer questions about the substance of the alleged libel. Well, you can sue, but the judge will dismiss your lawsuit as soon as you refuse to be deposed in the pre-trial discovery phase.
Stacy’s letter says nothing of the sort he was in fact referring to the previous internet rumors.
We shall see how Charleston Gazette reacts to the demand. If they refuse to retract then it will be very interesting.
Also remember the origin of all of this is Charles vendetta. The timelines of Charles sudden discovery of Stacy as evil has been well documented on this blog. If that is held up to scrutiny it won’t hold up.
And it will also perhaps give the origin of Charles miraculous transformation. If you are a disciple of him then it very much should be an interesting time. Of course since he wouldn’t be allowing any alternative opinions on his blog these days it is required for you to give your opinion here. (You are quite welcome by the way)
The next move is up to the Charleston Gazette, I’m perfectly willing to wait and see what happens.