CNN Moves Superstar Jim Acosta to a Hot New Time Slot More Worthy of His Towering Stature BREAKING: JURY FINDS CNN LIABLE

CNN Moves Superstar Jim Acosta to a Hot New Time Slot More Worthy of His Towering Stature
BREAKING: JURY FINDS CNN LIABLE

Having a show at midnight is a high-status thing, right?

CNN is apparently plotting to exile star anchor Jim Acosta -- a longtime antagonist of President-elect Donald Trump -- to the "Siberia of television news" in a bid to "throw a bone" to the incoming commander-in-chief, according to a former colleague.
The network's boss, Mark Thompson, this week called in Acosta to propose shifting his show, "CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta," from 10 a.m. to the graveyard midnight slot, ex-CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy reported in his Status News newsletter.
"The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news," Darcy wrote.

It's like the hospice of television. CNN will just try to "make Jim comfortable" as he prepares for his departure.

Acosta was caught "off guard," Darcy said -- with the anchor later using his airtime for some self-promotion to send a message to Trump to go easier on journalists.
"He had no reason to believe that his current show would be on the chopping block. In fact, his ratings have historically been some of the network's strongest," Darcy pointed out.

LOL, sure.

The spin is that this move is necessary so that... Wolf Blitzer can be moved to mornings.

That makes no sense. Blitzer is on in the afternoon. Why do they have to move Acosta's ten p.m. show to move Blitzer from 5pm to 8am?

Acosta was told his possible move was to accommodate moving veteran anchor Wolf Blitzer from primetime evenings to a morning show -- and nothing to do with his ratings or editorial style, Darcy said.
...
"They want to get rid of Acosta to throw a bone to Trump," an unnamed media executive told the newsletter.
"Midnight is not a serious offer when his ratings are among the best on the network."

UPDATE: The Jury reached a verdict -- CNN is liable for defamation.

They are now Convicted Defamers. I think that's what we say now, right?

Even better -- They requested a calculator for determining damages.

You'll have so much winning you'll be tired of winning.

Update: The jury awarded five million in compensatory (that is, real) damages. But it's the punitive damages where the big money can come in.

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
JUST NOW: A jury has found CNN liable for defamation against Zachary Young for lying about his efforts to rescue people from Afghanistan. The jury has awarded Zachary Young $5 million in compensatory damages. The jury will next decide how much CNN must pay in punitive damages.

I think that there's probably some limit to how much a jury can award in punitive damages, limited by compensatory damages. Maybe 10-to-1? So the five million in real damages may point to a much-smaller-than-we'd-hope punitive damages award.

Punitive damages are damages intended to punish the wrongdoer, not compensate the victim.

Yeah, if you are defense counsel and the jury asks for a calculator that is Not Good. https://t.co/4n7Sob2Gph
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) January 17, 2025

WATCH LIVE: Day Ten of the $1 billion defamation trial against CNN - Jury is in deliberations https://t.co/hMN1z9ZgI7
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 17, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 12:09 PM

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1 At this point, if talent isn't trying to find work at another organization, they're unemployable.

CNN's days are obviously numbered.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

2 That clown is not worthy of our attention

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at January 17, 2025 12:11 PM (IORSH)

3 "The network's boss, Mark Thompson, this week called in Acosta to propose shifting his show, "CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta," from 10 a.m. to the graveyard midnight slot, ex-CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy reported in his Status News newsletter."

I didn't know he had a "show".

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 12:11 PM (Yj6Os)

4 I wonder if Trump is going to let him have a white house press pass?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 17, 2025 12:11 PM (Rcnd3)

5 "Talent"? rofl

Posted by: Long night... at January 17, 2025 12:12 PM (2NXcZ)

6 Is there anyone even in the airport waiting rooms at midnight?

Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2025 12:13 PM (pMi6S)

7 “We are not the enemies of the people, we are the defenders of the people.”

Where you get this "we" s***, white man.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:13 PM (xCA6C)

8 Afternoon Ace. Acosta having some of the best ratings at CNN is like being the shiniest turd in the punch bowl

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2025 12:13 PM (pqMwI)

9 Hail Trump.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 17, 2025 12:13 PM (aD39U)

10 MSNBC is being renamed and sold. CNN probably isn't far behind. One would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (xCA6C)

11 It's the Midnight Special
Coming on TV

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (vFG9F)

12 I'm surprised that mincing little shit still has a job there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)

13 >>8 Afternoon Ace. Acosta having some of the best ratings at CNN is like being the shiniest turd in the punch bowl

right, and also, he's a liar and I don't believe him anyway. "Among the best ratings?" I think "among" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, as they say on the internet.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (KRtlO)

14
Watching the real-time collapse of CNN is having the same effect on Ace as what the doctors used to warn about using Viagra.

Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (j4U/Z)

15
Puppet Show

And

Jim Acosta

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (2UnvF)

16 Hi Ace
Think he needs to banish a few more.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (t/2Uw)

17 Jm J Acosta

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (LMyYC)

18 The tallest midget in Oz.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (NUdiI)

19 "His ratings are among the best on the network" = "She's the hottest chick at Fat Camp"

Posted by: Wally at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (T3oT4)

20

Jim Acosta:
This place gotta pool?

Ty Webb:
Pool and a pond... Pond be good for you.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (et1vG)

21 I'm surprised that mincing little shit still has a job there.

I think he's more of a prancing sashayer.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:15 PM (xCA6C)

22 Having a show at midnight is a high-status thing, right?

He'll dominate prime-time in Hawaii!

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:15 PM (B46kE)

23 "we are the defenders of the people." ....

Sure, defenders of the people from being given unbiased and accurate information.

Posted by: Ravenmother at January 17, 2025 12:15 PM (oiHdz)

24 "The Truth Is Out THERE."

Posted by: CNN at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (LS72h)

25 TJM sorry to read about your poor doggeh.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (LMyYC)

26 I think CNN is increasingly worried about the Young lawsuit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (wyMQY)

27 Anybody else think that Acosta looks like Clooney, or is that just me?

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)

28 It's like the hospice of television. CNN will just try to "make Jim comfortable" as he prepares for his departure.

Perceptive, as well as hilarious.

Posted by: Paco at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (mADJX)

29 25 TJM sorry to read about your poor doggeh.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (LMyYC)

=======

Thanks.

I'm sure she'll be fine.

Our weekend is probably ruined, though. Le sigh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

30 It's like the hospice of television. CNN will just try to "make Jim comfortable" as he prepares for his departure.

This is a great line. You should post it on X

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (t/2Uw)

31 Seriously, who cares as no one watched the shit shows anyhow.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (qZdIZ)

32 Bart Simpson: "Dad, who's watching TV at this hour?"

Homer Simpson: "Alcoholics, the unemployable, angry loners..."

Posted by: Josephistan at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (y9ksN)

33 All the octogenerians who still watch CNN will be riveted to his midnight reports.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (fV+MH)

34 CNN Audience Demographics

Nursing home activity rooms - 37%
Airport seating areas - 26%
Hospitals and doctors' offices waiting rooms - 17%
Shut-ins and cat-ladies - 9%
Hate-watchers - 6%
Retail showrooms just to demonstrate the TV works -- 5%

Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (pMi6S)

35
Acosta's career shuffled into G*d's Waiting Room

Hasta la bye-bye, Jim!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (xG4kz)

36 Maybe you can call in to Rachel's show every damned day.

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (B46kE)

37 It's a bit early for it, but it's apropos.

‘Deeply alarmed’: Washington Post staff request meeting with Jeff Bezos

Journalists say in letter ‘trust has been lost’ and seek in-person meeting with billionaire owner over paper’s future

Translation: You're going to keep paying us for our phony-baloney jobs, right?

https://is.gd/TunAaD

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (xCA6C)

38 Scientists say when it comes to the brain, nothing good happens after midnight

https://tinyurl.com/28mz2v7a

Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (NpAcC)

39 He could co host a show with Al Sharpton..pitch that.

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (Yj6Os)

40 That makes no sense. Blitzer is on in the afternoon. Why do they have to move Acosta's ten p.m. show to move Blitzer from 5pm to 8am?
--

Same reason we're moving these chairs from port to starboard.

Posted by: RMS Titanic Entertainment Manager at January 17, 2025 12:18 PM (zaW1R)

41
Take advantage of this great opportunity to practice card tricks, Jimbo!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2025 12:18 PM (xG4kz)

42 Any truth to the rumor that the jury foreman in the CNN defamation case sent a note to the judge asking "how many zeros in eleventy-billion"?

Heh.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 12:18 PM (T6JQY)

43 Rachel Maddow and Bob Costas are the same person.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 12:18 PM (NUdiI)

44 Now I have to set Beta Max so I can see Russia Collusion story when I wake up with 1st cup of Irish coffee...hic

Posted by: SENATOR HIRONO at January 17, 2025 12:18 PM (QxEBj)

45 Anybody else think that Acosta looks like Clooney, or is that just me?

Maybe after Clooney transitions and mainlines soy for a year.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:18 PM (xCA6C)

46 Watching the latest Shawn Ryan show this AM.

Spooky and infuriating stuff.

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:19 PM (snN/i)

47 47th !

Posted by: crabgrass farmer at January 17, 2025 12:19 PM (CTUih)

48 Avatar

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

January 20th cannot come fast enough! Everybody, even those that initially opposed a Victory by President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Administration, just want it to happen.

Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather. The various Dignitaries and Guests will be brought into the Capitol. This will be a very beautiful experience for all, and especially for the large TV audience!

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:19 PM (RHGPo)

49
Scientists say when it comes to the brain, nothing good happens after midnight

Well, it don't let it all hang down

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2025 12:19 PM (xG4kz)

50 Scientists say when it comes to the brain, nothing good happens after midnight

https://tinyurl.com/28mz2v7a
Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (NpAcC)
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Same rule applies to assholes.

Like Jim Acosta.

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at January 17, 2025 12:19 PM (zaW1R)

51 "The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news," Darcy wrote.

What did we do to deserve this?

Posted by: Siberia! at January 17, 2025 12:20 PM (uxCna)

52 Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather. The various Dignitaries and Guests will be brought into the Capitol. This will be a very beautiful experience for all, and especially for the large TV audience!

... of course, Jack 'ass' Smith will arrest all of them for interrupting an official proceeding

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:20 PM (RHGPo)

53 BREAKING (For those attending):

"Trump’s swearing-in will move inside the Capitol Rotunda because of intense cold."

https://wtop.com/inauguration /2025/01/trumps-swearing-in-will-move-inside -the-capitol-rotunda-because-of-intense-cold/

Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:20 PM (exHjb)

54 right, and also, he's a liar and I don't believe him anyway. "Among the best ratings?" I think "among" is doing a lot of work in that sentence, as they say on the internet.
Posted by: ace at January 17, 2025 12:14 PM (KRtlO)
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He's among the top 1000 shows on television right now! (or whatever).

Which means he's around the bottom 990 or so.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:20 PM (7fElN)

55 Strongest man in the Parkinsons Ward

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 17, 2025 12:20 PM (1FWWQ)

56 Where will Vance be during the Inauguration? I would hate to have Grassley as President.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 17, 2025 12:20 PM (aD39U)

57 They should replace him with a Ouija board channeling Oscar Z. Acosta, who's probably pissed off that this waterhead is using his name anyway.

Just saw a video clip on Twatter of a White House maintenance guy taking down a portrait of Dopey Joe.

Warmed the cockles of my heart, it did.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2025 12:20 PM (W5ArC)

58 "The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news," Darcy wrote.

What did we do to deserve this?

Posted by: Siberia!

Phew!

Posted by: Antarctica at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (xCA6C)

59 39 He could co host a show with Al Sharpton..pitch that.
Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (Yj6Os)

He ain't one of them Greek homos that stole our idea for the pyramids, is he?

Posted by: Reverend Al at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (y9ksN)

60 Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

http://tiny.cc/f586001

Posted by: bonhomme at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (Odg76)

61 Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda

Dang.

Posted by: FBI Assassination Squad! at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (uxCna)

62 Swear him over Mr. Peanut's corpse.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (NUdiI)

63 Man, I'm worried about how the other late-night network shows are going handle the Acosta Phenomenon.

What will happen to the ratings for that guy at ABC?

Or for the guy at CBS?

Is there still a guy at NBC?

Posted by: mrp at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (rj6Yv)

64 I knew there was a reason that I didn't try to get tickets

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (RHGPo)

65 58 "The move would effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news," Darcy wrote.

What did we do to deserve this?

Posted by: Siberia!

Phew!
Posted by: Antarctica at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (xCA6C)

Could be worse.

Posted by: The shitter at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (OA79/)

66 38 Scientists say when it comes to the brain, nothing good happens after midnight

https://tinyurl.com/28mz2v7a
Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2025 12:17 PM (NpAcC)

=======

What if they're in an airplane and they cross a time zone? It's always midnight somewhere.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)

67
Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather. The various Dignitaries and Guests will be brought into the Capitol. This will be a very beautiful experience for all, and especially for the large TV audience!
Posted by: SMOD

Smart move if there are, as has been reported, concerns that the SS isn't robustly prepared to handle drone attacks on PDJT are true.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2025 12:22 PM (xG4kz)

68 "Midnight is not a serious offer when his ratings are among the best on the network."

Scum does float to the top of the lagoon....

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 17, 2025 12:22 PM (wtvvX)

69 Strongest man in the Parkinsons Ward

Most digits in the leprosy ward.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:22 PM (xCA6C)

70 I think CNN is increasingly worried about the Young lawsuit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (wyMQY)

If Young winds up owning CNN, can he make all the anchors wrestle naked in a pool of pig shit to see who gets to keep their job?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 12:22 PM (8zz6B)

71 Was the inauguration moved indoors because:

A. The extremely cold temperatures
B. Better to live stream viewing
C. Chance of significant harm to Trump and Vance.
D. All of the above

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (t/2Uw)

72 Between Acosta's arrogance and the arrogance seen by Tapper and the other CNN employees at the $1B defamation trial you have to wonder what the fuck is in the water over there?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)

73 If Bottom Obama doesn't show up at the now-indoors Inauguration on Monday, watch out for "shenanigans," including "truck bomb shenanigans" and "bomb-laden drone shenanigans."

Posted by: Orange Skies Bad! at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (qUkBO)

74 Swear him over Mr. Peanut's corpse.
Posted by: Boss Moss

That guy hogs all the glory. Everyone forgets about me.

Posted by: Zombie Fred the Raccoon at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (77rzZ)

75 70 I think CNN is increasingly worried about the Young lawsuit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2025 12:16 PM (wyMQY)

If Young winds up owning CNN, can he make all the anchors wrestle naked in a pool of pig shit to see who gets to keep their job?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 12:22 PM (8zz6B)

======

I'm just hoping that the FL appeals system doesn't completely undo the whole thing because mega corporations should be allowed to lie about nobodies with impunity, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

76 My job is to annoy Trump, why do you ask?

Posted by: Jim Accosted him at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (c6hLR)

77 He ain't one of them Greek homos that stole our idea for the pyramids, is he?

Posted by: Reverend Al at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (y9ksN)

If I were you....I'd check.

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (Yj6Os)

78 Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

Just imagine all the other crap Biden is going to do over the next couple of days.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (uxCna)

79 Hottest chick in the Burn Unit

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (1FWWQ)

80 I've been fully expecting the Trump White House to NOT issue press passes for the corporate propaganda organizations like CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, PBS, MSCCP, etc

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:24 PM (RHGPo)

81 'ROUND MIDNIGHT

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=-yg7aZpIXRI

Posted by: MONK at January 17, 2025 12:24 PM (snN/i)

82 78 Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

Just imagine all the other crap Biden is going to do over the next couple of days.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2025 12:23 PM (uxCna)

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I need evidence that Biden did any of this.

The only time he's been seen signing something over the past few weeks, he didn't know what to do.

Who thinks he's actually signing hundreds of pardons, EOs, and other things like this?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

83 Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

That's about as meaningful and legally binding as my declaration that I'm not going to sleep with Michelle Obama.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (xCA6C)

84 Folks are talking the 95 corridor may get 5 inches of snow all through Sunday before the bitter freeze hits turning it to ice (b/c no one will plow it that fast, especially in VA on a holiday weekend with state plowing, not county plowing)...so if you are coming, arrive by Saturday night. Snow starts at 9am Sunday...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (exHjb)

85 That makes no sense. Blitzer is on in the afternoon. Why do they have to move Acosta's ten p.m. show to move Blitzer from 5pm to 8am?
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Serpentine! Serpentine! Serpentine!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (5LoD7)

86 Who needs any of these dumb shows? This is a model so far past it's sell-by date it stinks. Once boomers (and I mean that with no ill will) are gone they won't have any audience. Their time has passed.

Posted by: Tanz der Lemmings at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (Ofj4q)

87 They're probably trying to goad him into quitting.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (2ocoG)

88 The DNA evidence proves the Irish built the Pyramids.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (NUdiI)

89 >>Strongest man in the Parkinsons Ward

Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum!

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (snN/i)

90 Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

.. turns out that this call has already been made by the Archivist at the Nation Archives months ago.

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (RHGPo)

91 " Rachel Maddow and Bob Costas are the same person.
Posted by: Boss Moss "

Holy shit. A Bob Costas reference.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (fV+MH)

92 Late Night with the Devil

Posted by: bicentennialguy at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (+K1xO)

93 61 Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda

Dang.
Posted by: FBI Assassination Squad!

This move is definitely due to credible assassination threats. Guaranteed.

Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (pMi6S)

94 Saying you have the best ratings on CNN is like saying you have the best vision at the Helen Keller School of the Blind.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (PzXaK)

95 Sounds like Jim was Accosted...

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (vHYKO)

96 85 That makes no sense. Blitzer is on in the afternoon. Why do they have to move Acosta's ten p.m. show to move Blitzer from 5pm to 8am?
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Serpentine! Serpentine! Serpentine!
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (5LoD7)

Because the put the underpants gnomes in charge of scheduling?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (OA79/)

97 The only time he's been seen signing something over the past few weeks, he didn't know what to do.

Who thinks he's actually signing hundreds of pardons, EOs, and other things like this?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
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As I said earlier today, I doubt FJB can name just ONE of the 2,500 people whose sentences he commuted. Just one. That's all I ask.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (7fElN)

98 Yeah, I'm glad they are moving the swearing-in ceremony inside the Capitol.

Much better security.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (uxCna)

99 It's like the hospice of television.

--

LOL

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (qBdHI)

100 Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

Let's take a look at the 14th while we're at it.

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (iDNwP)

101 BREAKING: CNN verdict is in. Should have a verdict soon.

Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (exHjb)

102 You know Pam, in Spain, they don't even start eating until midnight....

Posted by: Baldy at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (FtRGR)

103 Just saw a video clip on Twatter of a White House maintenance guy taking down a portrait of Dopey Joe.

Warmed the cockles of my heart, it did.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2025 12:20 PM (W5ArC)

They should throw it in the trash and laugh at it like they did for the Burgermeister Meisterburger that outlawed toys.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (k9OZB)

104 >> Saying you have the best ratings on CNN is like saying you have the best vision at the Helen Keller School of the Blind.

Hottest Chick in the Campground award.

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (snN/i)

105 97 As I said earlier today, I doubt FJB can name just ONE of the 2,500 people whose sentences he commuted. Just one. That's all I ask.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (7fElN)

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It's regular commentary on the right to say that Biden is just a figurehead, but not to question who's signing anything with his name on it.

Why?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

106 As I said earlier today, I doubt FJB can name just ONE of the 2,500 people whose sentences he commuted. Just one. That's all I ask.

He might remember Hunter.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:27 PM (xCA6C)

107 Smartest kid in Special Ed

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 17, 2025 12:27 PM (1FWWQ)

108 >>Rachel Maddow and Bob Costas are the same person.

They both have a Pink Eye that it is painful to look at.

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:27 PM (snN/i)

109 This move is definitely due to credible assassination threats. Guaranteed.

It's good that the weather is so cold, to provide a credible excuse.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2025 12:27 PM (uxCna)

110 ... of course, Jack 'ass' Smith will arrest all of them for interrupting an official proceeding

Smith already turned in his resignation so Trump couldn't fire him.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 12:27 PM (2ocoG)

111 Holy shit. A Bob Costas reference.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM
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YESSSSSSSSS!!!

Posted by: Marv Albert at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (vHYKO)

112 They're probably trying to goad him into quitting.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 12:25 PM (2ocoG)

I've found not paying someone usually works.

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (Yj6Os)

113 Bob Costas and Dick Cavett interviewing each other for an hour.

Posted by: mrp at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (rj6Yv)

114 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (KQk9m)

115 >Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (exHjb)

I'm hoping they asked for one that can handle scientific notation.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (W5ArC)

116
Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

http://tiny.cc/f586001
Posted by: bonhomme

In the absence of legally convincing evidence that Joseph R Biden, Jr. did indeed win a sufficient number of electoral votes to have been declared President on January 6, 2021, all acts, proclamations, orders, and other instruments signed by him are deemed null and void. As such they are not the law of this land and they are to be stricken from the Federal Register and other official records immediately and with extreme prejudice.

Piss off, you disgusting old fook.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (xG4kz)

117 Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (exHjb)
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I hope they get one that supports scientific notation...They're gonna need it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (7fElN)

118 LOL double get fucked

Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (KQk9m)

119 The Jury asked for a quantum physicist. That can't be good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (NUdiI)

120 115 >Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (exHjb)

I'm hoping they asked for one that can handle scientific notation.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (W5ArC)

========

It was a graphing calculator. One guy remembered how to program snake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

121 Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will...

Oh, oh.

Punitive damages calculation time.

Posted by: Bankrupt CNN! at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (uxCna)

122 Readers added context
The Archivist of the United States, charged with officially publishing ratified amendments, has confirmed that the ERA was not ratified and based that analysis on binding legal precedent.

There is no 28th Amendment.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (t/2Uw)

123 I hope that check that CNN has to write has more Zeros than the first wave at Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: The 2 Bobs at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (ttRVV)

124 CNN found liable, jury says "yes" to punitive damages

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (KRtlO)

125 I've found not paying someone usually works.

Yes, but that constitutes a firing. They WANT him to quit. That way, he can go work with the other ratings juggernaut, Don Lemon, without them having to pay severance.

They're angling for a flounce.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (xCA6C)

126 "Bob Costas and Dick Cavett interviewing each other for an hour.
Posted by: mrp"

fkg lol

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (fV+MH)

127 It's like the hospice of television. CNN will just try to "make Jim comfortable" as he prepares for his departure.

MAID: Media Assistance in Dying

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (wtvvX)

128 It's cheering to see winter forced into retreat for a day or two.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (7fVdQ)

129 115, 117 Horde mind

Posted by: Zombie Fred the Raccoon at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

130 I couldn't pick Acosta out of a line-up. If not for lurking here, I'd never have heard of him.

Posted by: Cosda at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (TT7c5)

131 "Perfessor" Squirrel: snap!

Horde Mind: a mysterious and wonderful thing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (W5ArC)

132 Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather. The various Dignitaries and Guests will be brought into the Capitol. This will be a very beautiful experience for all, and especially for the large TV audience!
Posted by: SMOD

See, he can't handle being outside, he's not fit to be president! REEEEE!

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (NMT5x)

133 >>> Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

http://tiny.cc/f586001
Posted by: bonhomme at January 17, 2025 12:21 PM (Odg76)

Honestly, why does anyone have to do anything? He could have declared, "The sugarplum fairies that live in my anus are now the 4th branch of government jack...".

Just nod as you kick the dirty bum out the door.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (Y6IkP)

134 115 >Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (exHjb)

I'm hoping they asked for one that can handle scientific notation.
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117 Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (exHjb)
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I hope they get one that supports scientific notation...They're gonna need it.
++++
Hordemind is real and it's spectacular!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (7fElN)

135 125 I've found not paying someone usually works.

Yes, but that constitutes a firing. They WANT him to quit. That way, he can go work with the other ratings juggernaut, Don Lemon, without them having to pay severance.

They're angling for a flounce.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (xCA6C)

======

He probably has a contract that prevents him from getting fired for anything other than criminal conduct.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

136 79
‘ Hottest chick in the Burn Unit’

Ha! I think they’re all hot.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (jbnUc)

137 I wonder if that's a regular 8 number hand calculator they wanted, or a scientific one that can cube numbers.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (PzXaK)

138 Convicted felons CNN?

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (iDNwP)

139 And now CNN is found liable?

You need to stop with this mein fuhrer.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (fV+MH)

140 115 >Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:26 PM (exHjb)

I'm hoping they asked for one that can handle scientific notation.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2025 12:28 PM (W5ArC)

And 100,00 pillow cases with dollar signs drawn on them

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (OA79/)

141 Smart move if there are, as has been reported, concerns that the SS isn't robustly prepared to handle drone attacks on PDJT are true.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:

Drone capabiltiies are pretty amazing these days. You could have someone a mile or even two miles away hidden inside a room controlling a drone, rigged tp drop some toxic nerve gas or carfentanil canister. It'd be VERY hard to stop. I think it is very wise to move the inauguration indoors. The amunt of vicious hate out there and the number of crazies and enemies is off the charts.

Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (pMi6S)

142 138 Convicted felons CNN?
Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:30 PM (iDNwP)

=====

Civil trial. No felonies.

Unfortunately.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

143 MIDNIGHT AT THE OASIS

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=3gKnnb24Eso

Posted by: MARIA MULDAUR at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (snN/i)

144 The 2 Bobs is me. I used that name yesterday in a 'fixed the glitch' comment.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (ttRVV)

145 I'm hoping they asked for one that can handle scientific notation.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

We beg pardon your honor, but this calculator only has 10 digits. We need more.

Posted by: Kratwurst at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (nIRE6)

146 Scott Jennings's star is about to rise. He's going to get his own show in prime time.

Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (dIske)

147 Yay that CNN is liable! Terrible thing to do to that man!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (MQJVv)

148 The judge says you can't award an amount so large as to destroy the defendant. Why? How on earth would a jury know what that is?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (xCA6C)

149 Oweeeeeee my ass.

Posted by: CNN at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (OA79/)

150 Even better -- They requested a calculator for determining damages.

NEEDS MOAR ZEROES

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (iDNwP)

151 It's regular commentary on the right to say that Biden is just a figurehead, but not to question who's signing anything with his name on it.

Why?

Because everyone has firmly settled on the answer to "who's actually in charge" and you're not going to sway them now. The most likely answer is "everybody", wherein each "Biden" action is from a different staffer or Cabinet member or Kalorama.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

152 I've found not paying someone usually works.

Yes, but that constitutes a firing. They WANT him to quit. That way, he can go work with the other ratings juggernaut, Don Lemon, without them having to pay severance.

They're angling for a flounce.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (xCA6C)
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Making someone miserable enough so that they quit on their own is a standard management technique.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (7fElN)

153 82 78 Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

Just imagine all the other crap Biden is going to do over the next couple of days.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Already settled law. Brief rehash of earlier comment in other thread. Scotus in the 30's, Coleman v. Miller upheld Congress setting time limits on amendments (the 27th had no limit as it was part of the original Bill of Rights package of amendments). Congress did so regarding the ERA putting a seven year limit, then extending it for several years. A federal judge in Idaho ruled that states could actually de ratify amendments and that actually happened with the ERA in several states. It was on its way to Scotus but time ran out for the ERA ratification and thus the case became moot.

Biden can sign as a witness to certification of an amendment but no actual power to recognize. Even the National Archives lacks that power btw to overcome specific congressional legislation on time limits and said just that in 2021. So, it will require a new amendment altogether.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (ctrM5)

154 That boring Indian movie* will beat his ratings.

*old time test pattern.

Posted by: Uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (gxokI)

155 Where will Vance be during the Inauguration?

Holding the dead-man switch to the Running Man style exploding collars fitted to all senior Democrats.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (ExV1e)

156 BREAKING: JURY FINDS CNN LIABLE

I sense a nood soon Ace's wet dream just came true.

Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (pMi6S)

157 56 Where will Vance be during the Inauguration? I would hate to have Grassley as President.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 17, 2025 12:20 PM (aD39U)
*****
Rumor has it that he'll be at the Ohio State tailgate party in Atlanta.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (NpAcC)

158 148 The judge says you can't award an amount so large as to destroy the defendant. Why? How on earth would a jury know what that is?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (xCA6C)

They watched Austin Powers?

Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (exHjb)

159 Scum does float to the top of the lagoon....
Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 17, 2025 12:22 PM (wtvvX)

I don't want that asshoe in my lagoon.

Just Julie Adams.

Posted by: Black Lagoon Creature at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (ufFY8)

160 Saw the Update:

Suck it, CNN.

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (snN/i)

161 One BILLION dollars.

You have to hold your pinky to the corner of your mouth as you say it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (lTGtQ)

162 calculator, water, tissues, and...hand lotion.

This thing ain't going down, may as well do something with it.

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (NMT5x)

163 The judge says you can't award an amount so large as to destroy the defendant. Why? How on earth would a jury know what that is?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (xCA6C)
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Rudy Giuliani would like a word with this judge...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (7fElN)

164 Will Jimmy Acosta still be able to attend Trump's press briefings and manhandle female staffers? That was fun.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (4tmpE)

165 Waiting in punitive damages. $6m son far in lost earnings and emotional distress.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (pqMwI)

166 The judge says you can't award an amount so large as to destroy the defendant. Why?

This is a new interpretation that would interest a lot of people!

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (4Nep/)

167 148 The judge says you can't award an amount so large as to destroy the defendant. Why? How on earth would a jury know what that is?
Posted by: Archimedes at

Wait what?

Posted by: That guy what got abillion dollar judgement against him from his pod cast at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (OA79/)

168 Welcome to the 21st century. Where the jury needs a calculator to do long addition. Good Grief!

Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (dIske)

169 updated with compensatory damages award -- $5 million

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (KRtlO)

170 CNN deserves to pay through the nose. Glad they were found liable, now comes the penalty phase. Undoubtedly, if the sum is high, they'll try to appeal as long as possible.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

171 Making someone miserable enough so that they quit on their own is a standard management technique.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (7fElN)

Make him hand wash jocks...on air.

Posted by: BignJames at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (Yj6Os)

172 Odds that Acosta's ratings at midnight will beat out a test pattern?

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (wtvvX)

173 Should have requested an abacus and a slide rule,

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (EOKFz)

174 LOL

Convicted Defamer CNN.

Fuck you, CNN.

Bring out that checkbook.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 17, 2025 12:33 PM (ufFY8)

175 Seems to me it's OK for CNN to destroy someone, but a plaintiff can't destroy them???

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (PzXaK)

176 Long Division!

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (g47mK)

177 A billion six.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (NUdiI)

178 Making someone miserable enough so that they quit on their own is a standard management technique.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (7fElN)

I believe you have my stapler.

Posted by: Milton Waddams at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (PiwSw)

179 Best football player at the yeshiva.

Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (G5+As)

180 They're angling for a flounce.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:29 PM (xCA6C)
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Making someone miserable enough so that they quit on their own is a standard management technique.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

As has been suggested here many times, with regard to Federal barnacles.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (xCA6C)

181
Tissues?

For what?

Because if I were on that jury, I'd be asking for a Calculator & Tissues, too...

because I'd be jerking off as I calculate "damages," lololololol!

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (MsCOV)

182 Glad also to hear that the inauguration will be inside!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (+2i6Z)

183 148 The judge says you can't award an amount so large as to destroy the defendant. Why? How on earth would a jury know what that is?
Posted by: Archimedes
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It could be Florida law that the judge is required to tell the jury. The trial occurred under Florida state's laws regarding defamation. Federal court rulings also apply in how the jury and the state of Florida must address these cases---e.g. clear and convincing std of evidence, public figure doctrine, and so on.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (ctrM5)

184 Online says CNN has to pay $5 million in damages with punitive damages also owed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (ynpvh)

185 Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will..

------

5318008

Posted by: Josephistan at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (y9ksN)

186 They WANT him to quit. That way, he can go work with the other ratings juggernaut, Don Lemon, without them having to pay severance.

They're angling for a flounce.

Exactly. And Acosta is definitely capable of a flounce. Not as much as Don LeMon, but up there.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (2ocoG)

187 What's CNN's next play to avoid paying?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (Q4IgG)

188 The judge says you can't award an amount so large as to destroy the defendant. Why? How on earth would a jury know what that is?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (xCA6C)
________

"Really? That's news to me."

-- Rudy Giuliani

"Me too!"

-- Alex Jones

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

189 Have they found the plane yet?

Posted by: Evergreen at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (dg+HA)

190 Just Julie Adams.
Posted by: Black Lagoon Creature at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (ufFY

Would you settle for Adrienne Barbeau?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (8zz6B)

191 156 BREAKING: JURY FINDS CNN LIABLE

I sense a nood soon Ace's wet dream just came true.

Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (pMi6S)

THE BURNING SKULL OF JAKE TAPPER, STAT!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (wtvvX)

192
Breaking Now:

CNN Defamation Jury Reaches Decision: 3.75 Ejaculations!

Posted by: Breaking Fake News! at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (MsCOV)

193 " A billion six.
Posted by: Boss Moss "

You're a rounder upper.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (fV+MH)

194 Worse news for CNN--the jury requested a scientific calculator, just to make sure the exponents were correct.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (XMwZJ)

195 >>>Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will..
------
5318008

the punitive damages are real and they're spectacular

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (KRtlO)

196 Then again, what's CNN worth these days? LOL.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

197 Does Acosta still have that Twitter banner where it's Acosta looking in the mirror at Acosta? That's some Ron Burgandy shit.

Posted by: Ktgreat at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (33LJY)

198 >>Long Division!

If you insist.

FUGAZI : LONG DIVISION

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=jKlDiCq3Fu0

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (snN/i)

199 can I sue you people then?

Posted by: Sol Rosenberg at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (KRtlO)

200 Probably be $100m or less.
Sadly.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (ufFY8)

201 Sean Davis
@seanmdav
JUST NOW: A jury has found CNN liable for defamation against Zachary Young for lying about his efforts to rescue people from Afghanistan. The jury has awarded Zachary Young $5 million in compensatory damages. The jury will next decide how much CNN must pay in punitive damages.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)

202 Rudy Giuliani would like a word with this judge...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (7fElN)

I'm filled with a red-hot rage when I think about those two beasts Ruby and Shay-Shay getting away with helping to steal GA from Trump, and being rewarded with Rudy's possessions. 🤬

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (4tmpE)

203 Because if I were on that jury, I'd be asking for a Calculator & Tissues, too...

because I'd be jerking off as I calculate "damages," lololololol!
Posted by: Soothsayer

We have a jury of Morons with aching schadenboners? Pudding cups requested next?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (ycI94)

204 CNN should have made a deal the second the calculator was asked for...but I guess it was only an hour before the verdict...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (exHjb)

205 I don't want that asshoe in my lagoon.

Just Julie Adams.
Posted by: Black Lagoon Creature at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (ufFY

Julie Adams. Mmmmm. I believe Oregon Muse had her in his "Who Dis?" queue at my suggestion.

She's in the pretty-decent Jimmy Stewart western "Bend of the River".

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (LxER7)

206 CNN declares bankruptcy and Elon buys them for $1.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (EOKFz)

207 195 >>>Jury asked for a calculator today...make of that what you will..
------
5318008

the punitive damages are real and they're spectacular

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2025 12:35 PM (KRtlO)

I was hoping more like
531800008

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

208 He ain't one of them Greek homos that stole our idea for the pyramids, is he?
Posted by: Reverend Al

Don Lemon doesn't know how to respond to that statement.

Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (j4U/Z)

209 What's CNN's next play to avoid paying?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (Q4IgG)
________

CNN can bond the award pending appeal. Same as Trump did on the bullshit bank fraud case. It will cost CNN plenty in bond fees, but it will stay execution of the award/judgment pending appeal. As I mentioned yesterday, I think CNN was always playing for the appeal. The trial looked clearly lost.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

210 I would settle for Adrienne Barbeau's little sister at this point.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:37 PM (fV+MH)

211 We have a jury of Morons with aching schadenboners? Pudding cups requested next?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (ycI94)
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That would be the most disturbingly epic jury ever!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:37 PM (7fElN)

212 Father of the Year in the Projects

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 17, 2025 12:37 PM (1FWWQ)

213 I'm kinda thinking there is no limit to the amount of punitive here.

Since it's calculated on "deter future wrongs against any one else" theory.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2025 12:37 PM (fPmNY)

214 Methinks something somewhat more than a suppository is coming CNN's way.

Posted by: Uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not kill at January 17, 2025 12:37 PM (gxokI)

215

"This WAS CNN"

Posted by: mrp at January 17, 2025 12:37 PM (rj6Yv)

216 209 CNN can bond the award pending appeal. Same as Trump did on the bullshit bank fraud case. It will cost CNN plenty in bond fees, but it will stay execution of the award/judgment pending appeal. As I mentioned yesterday, I think CNN was always playing for the appeal. The trial looked clearly lost.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

========

Don't fail us now, FL court system.

*Narrator*: TJM does not actually believe the FL court system will do right, that they will fail us. Because Sullivan mandates that multinational corporations have the First Amendment right to destroy nobodies based entirely on lies, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

217 Where will Vance be during the Inauguration?

==

Where will Vance be during his own inauguration, that will take place moments before Trump's? Let me think...

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (g47mK)

218 CNN's finances are in a subtle decline? Mt. St. Helens was subtle by comparison.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (xCA6C)

219
Did Young's attorney's play the recent CNN HOAX video of fake-rescuing a fake "prisoner" from a Syrian jail cell??

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (MsCOV)

220 Glad also to hear that the inauguration will be inside!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (+2i6Z)

I agree, Fen. I've been so worried about Trump's safety.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (4tmpE)

221 209 What's CNN's next play to avoid paying?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (Q4IgG)
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CNN can bond the award pending appeal. Same as Trump did on the bullshit bank fraud case. It will cost CNN plenty in bond fees, but it will stay execution of the award/judgment pending appeal. As I mentioned yesterday, I think CNN was always playing for the appeal. The trial looked clearly lost.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

They can also try to resettle the case during the appeal, and just accept they are gonna pay through the nose, but not bankrupt themselves...

Plaintiff would still be willing, b/c that means guaranteed and quick paycheck...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (exHjb)

222 I wonder what type of calculator they got. A basic, $5 one, a printing calculator, or a powerful one that can calculate the federal budget?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (VNX3d)

223 Federal court rulings also apply in how the jury and the state of Florida must address these cases---e.g. clear and convincing std of evidence, public figure doctrine, and so on.
Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 12:34 PM (ctrM5)

I seem to recall the 'not enough to kill the company' restriction in the Children's Hospital case where they took the child away. They had testimony concerning the hospital's financials.

The jury essentially took all their cash on hand.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (ufFY8)

224 What's a CNN?

Posted by: Most people at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (dg+HA)

225 Just hand him the company.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (NUdiI)

226 Gosh, Trump got $17m towards his presidential library.

Looks like this case is going to cost CNN a lot more. They should of settled.

Posted by: WisRich at January 17, 2025 12:39 PM (G0vdT)

227 226 Gosh, Trump got $17m towards his presidential library.

Looks like this case is going to cost CNN a lot more. They should of settled.
Posted by: WisRich at January 17, 2025 12:39 PM (G0vdT)

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Reportedly, Young refused all efforts to settle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

228 194 Worse news for CNN--the jury requested a scientific calculator, just to make sure the exponents were correct.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent
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Hah! Probably a better choice than an HP. Would have to remember RPN - Reverse Polish Notation

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (2ra/T)

229 I wonder what type of calculator they got. A basic, $5 one, a printing calculator, or a powerful one that can calculate the federal budget?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (VNX3d)

Elon Musk's calculator.

Posted by: mrp at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (rj6Yv)

230
Breaking Now:

CN Defamation Jury Asks Judge for Cigarettes and "Something To Snack On" Developing...

Posted by: Breaking Fake News! at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (MsCOV)

231 Just hand him the company.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (NUdiI

And move CNN's headquarters to some town in the FL panhandle. Winning.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (4tmpE)

232 Did CNN have Oberlin's defense team?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (EOKFz)

233

I love how Deniro laughs here.

It's perfect in this case, to laugh at CNN.

https://tinyurl.com/yd7nscad

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (et1vG)

234 You know who else had a subtle decline?

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (fV+MH)

235 I think the judge is concerned that CNN won't be around for even more fun cases.

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (GCKiK)

236 227 226 Gosh, Trump got $17m towards his presidential library.

Looks like this case is going to cost CNN a lot more. They should of settled.
Posted by: WisRich at January 17, 2025 12:39 PM (G0vdT)

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Reportedly, Young refused all efforts to settle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

That's b/c CNN never offered enough...I'm sure he wanted some public mea culpas and firings with the money, and CNN wouldn't do that...now, maybe they will...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (exHjb)

237 Please at least some ky.

Posted by: CNN at January 17, 2025 12:40 PM (OA79/)

238 If I told them once I told them a hundred times:
First CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta
THEN Puppet Show.

Posted by: Jenine Pettibone at January 17, 2025 12:41 PM (PiwSw)

239 Trump's Inauguration moved indoors due to Global Cooling !

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2025 12:41 PM (g47mK)

240 Are you tired of winning?

Posted by: Because I'm not tired of winning at January 17, 2025 12:41 PM (dg+HA)

241 I believe in a civil trial it's "ADJUDICATED DEFAMERS" haha

Posted by: McCool at January 17, 2025 12:41 PM (Vm5ir)

242 170 CNN deserves to pay through the nose. Glad they were found liable, now comes the penalty phase. Undoubtedly, if the sum is high, they'll try to appeal as long as possible.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

CNN will probably settle-dunno about insurance that CNN has but often the insurance company insists on settling whether the principal (CNN) wants to or not.

Oberlin College was involved in a legal fracas with its insurance company which demanded Oberlin settle with the bakery or lose insurance coverage. Oberlin refused and the insurance companies then claimed they would not pay damages and so on.

Oberlin and its insurers ended up settling out of court this year.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

243 CNN to Jim Acosta: we're moving you to midnight. Oh and because of the recent jury verdict we can't pay you. You can however have a daily meal at the cafeteria. Good for you?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2025 12:41 PM (pqMwI)

244 Wonder what Tapper and the other little shits who arrogantly told the jury they did nothing wrong, would do it again and, oh yea, fuck off... are discussing in one of the C-Suites today?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (Q4IgG)

245 243 CNN to Jim Acosta: we're moving you to midnight. Oh and because of the recent jury verdict we can't pay you. You can however have a daily meal at the cafeteria. Good for you?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2025 12:41 PM (pqMwI)

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"Please, sir, I'd like some more."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

246 CNN

Criminal Numb Nuts

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (NMT5x)

247 213 I'm kinda thinking there is no limit to the amount of punitive here.

Since it's calculated on "deter future wrongs against any one else" theory.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Hmmm. A consequence of the SCOTUS not fixing this earlier in the Sullivan v NYT?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (2ra/T)

248 Reportedly, Young refused all efforts to settle.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)
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I suspect Young is not interested in any monetary settlement at this point. So no amount of money will make him go away.

He wants to SEND A MESSAGE to anyone else that wants to ruin a man's good name. He seems to have the courage to match his convictions.

I don't expect him to back down until he gets a pound of flesh (literally) from everyone who defamed him.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (7fElN)

249 I hope that check that CNN has to write has more Zeros than the first wave at Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: The 2 Bobs

A one, followed by 43 zeros?

That's allotta moolah.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (T6JQY)

250 Chuck Martel--all my calculators are RPN. There's no other way...once you've gone RPN, you never go back.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (XMwZJ)

251 "Are you tired of winning?"

Exhausted. In a good way.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (fV+MH)

252
Inauguration infuckingdoors?!?!

That sucks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (MsCOV)

253 Jake Tapper: convicted defamer

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (4tmpE)

254 Generally, in a situation where the plaintiff wants to make a point by taking it to a verdict; they'll consider this the win (which it is, of course) and settle for a portion of the amount to avoid the drawn out appeal process. After all, it's about reputation so this guy can continue his business provided he can get another security clearance.

$5,000,000 + punitive (which I'm guessing will come in at about $15,000,000). Don't ask me why, but juries have a tendency to use the rule of 3....and just triple the verdict for punies.

Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (dIske)

255 CNN to Jim Acosta: we're moving you to midnight. Oh and because of the recent jury verdict we can't pay you. You can however have a daily meal at the cafeteria. Good for you?

By the way, the cafeteria's only open at noon.

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (GCKiK)

256 The judge sounds like a good old boy.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (xCA6C)

257 I yearn for the days when this was a real country and juries asked for an abacus.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - resident squatch expert at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (wKJf5)

258 Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
1h
The President of the United States just got a community note for trying to act like a dictator.
3 more days.

President Biden
@POTUS
Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:

The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.

https://tinyurl.com/3uwus45m

Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (NpAcC)

259 244 Wonder what Tapper and the other little shits who arrogantly told the jury they did nothing wrong, would do it again and, oh yea, fuck off... are discussing in one of the C-Suites today?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (Q4IgG)

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WB/Discovery, already with financial problems since the merger that brought all the WB properties (including CNN) under Discovery's control, is probably not at all pissy with several high profile legal losses by CNN.

Not at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

260 Media Alert · Tuesday, December 17, 2024
“As Archivist and Deputy Archivist of the United States, it is our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and ensure that changes to the Constitution are carried out in accordance with the law. At this time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions.
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-004

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (RHGPo)

261 260 Media Alert · Tuesday, December 17, 2024
“As Archivist and Deputy Archivist of the United States, it is our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and ensure that changes to the Constitution are carried out in accordance with the law. At this time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions.
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-004
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (RHGPo)

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So, Biden is doing an insurrection.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

262 “As Archivist and Deputy Archivist of the United States, it is our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and ensure that changes to the Constitution are carried out in accordance with the law. At this time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions.

well, good!

damn I cannot wait until these children are out of the Capitol!!

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (Pv3Rg)

263 Rudy Giuliani would like a word with this judge...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:32 PM (7fElN)

I'm filled with a red-hot rage when I think about those two beasts Ruby and Shay-Shay getting away with helping to steal GA from Trump, and being rewarded with Rudy's possessions. 🤬

Posted by: Jane D'oh
Settlement announced yesterday that Rudy will keep his homes and personal possessions. The idiots are getting some monetary compensation which was not disclosed but neither party hada to admit guilt. It is still infuriating but Guiliani gets to keep all his stuff.
there was going to be a trial and both parties did not want to chance the outcome.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

264 Hopefully everyone at CNN is having a massive involuntary bowel movement.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (EOKFz)

265 >>Don't ask me why, but juries have a tendency to use the rule of 3

It's usually part of the Code/Law.

Intentional / Malicious actions are allowed a Magnifier for Penalties.

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (snN/i)

266 If I recall, Trump was judged liable by a NY judge for a nine-figure amount in regards to a loan.

CNN, being a corporation, with layers of people inbetween that not only saw the issue, but acted with depraved indifference and malice, should easily shoulder at least 10x that amount, if not 100x.

Posted by: Another Anon at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (QNMaY)

267 I don't mean to harsh your mellow ya'll but Chicken Noodle News collects almost a billion dollars a year just for being a news channel on Cable Networks. You pay for it whether you want to or not. My public service announcement is now concluded.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (1FWWQ)

268 h
The President of the United States just got a community note for trying to act like a dictator.

==

LOL, go away asshoe, you is done

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (g47mK)

269 Also he has to change his name to Baghdad Bob.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (J8LnB)

270 Jake Tapper loves veterans though!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (i7Q7S)

271
Incidentally, doesn't Daniel Penny have lots of LAWSUITS to file against Fake News outlets and "personalities" for defamation?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (MsCOV)

272 252
Inauguration infuckingdoors?!?!

That sucks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (MsCOV)

That's a real disappointment.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)

273 CNN are a bunch of defecators as well.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (mlg/3)

274 I don’t know what’s usual for punitive damages in Georgia. In a lot of places it would be limited to triple damages, which could make the overall award $20 million. And that’s a nice chunk of change.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (0fHLt)

275 267 I don't mean to harsh your mellow ya'll but Chicken Noodle News collects almost a billion dollars a year just for being a news channel on Cable Networks. You pay for it whether you want to or not. My public service announcement is now concluded.
Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (1FWWQ)

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"Losing more than 100% of its chief revenue source for a year will have no negative impact."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

276 There's no limit on punitive damages in Florida if the defendant is found to have acted intentionally, which a finding of liability for defamation would seem to include.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (T6JQY)

277 CNN shoulda tapped out.

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (wtvvX)

278
btw, a fake "reporter" employed by Amazon Fake News (wapo) was caught with, you guessed it, kiddie pron.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (MsCOV)

279
Make them pay the lawyers too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (2E+2e)

280 Jim Acosta's time slot is equal to Siberia, call CNN/WarnerBros and let them know how you feel!

Why? They are continuing to show you who they are, believe them this time and don’t give traitors eyeballs.

Like I give a shit about any enabling talking head on cable news? fuck that. He doesn't matter because CNN is a fascist enabling entity.

He spoke the truth when it came to Trump. You should care that anyone that speaks the truth will be silenced. CNN falling in line for trump.

I love that phrase “legacy media.” No one under 40 I know watches cable/TV news. It is going the way of print newspapers and magazines. Maybe that’s not a bad thing.

I'd like to see Acosta move to MSNBC. Give Scarborough and his whole lot to CNN and let Acosta take MSNBC in the morning. These are some good moves that could be made during Comcast’s spin off of MSNBC to strengthen MSNBC’s liberal/progressive messaging. Scarborough needs to be dumped.

Trump won't give them a damn thing for this concession, he'll still attack them as fake news and treat their employees with contempt. Absolutely pathetic.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (ycI94)

281 Even better -- They requested a calculator for determining damages.
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A 25-digit scientific one!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (5LoD7)

282 Posted by: Jane D'oh
Settlement announced yesterday that Rudy will keep his homes and personal possessions. The idiots are getting some monetary compensation which was not disclosed but neither party hada to admit guilt. It is still infuriating but Guiliani gets to keep all his stuff.
there was going to be a trial and both parties did not want to chance the outcome.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

Thank goodness. I hadn't heard. Those two grifters had better never be allowed to work a polling place again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (4tmpE)

283 Don't ask me why, but juries have a tendency to use the rule of 3

And they need a calculator, these days.

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (QHWjA)

284
He wants to SEND A MESSAGE to anyone else that wants to ruin a man's good name. He seems to have the courage to match his convictions.

I don't expect him to back down until he gets a pound of flesh (literally) from everyone who defamed him.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:42 PM (7fElN)

This. If he settles there is usually a non disclosure agreement around the hush money (see what I did there). Young wants a public admission of guilt by cnn and huge buckets of their money and the freedom to tell the story of how he porked cnn hard for the rest of his life.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (OA79/)

285 Cue Steam
na na na na na na na na hey hey goodbye

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (RHGPo)

286 damn I cannot wait until these malignant children are out of the Capitol!!

FIFY

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (xCA6C)

287 There is also a 400M defamation suit against Blake Lively, by the guy she tried to bully with meetoo antics.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (g47mK)

288 "Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?"

You know why the Dems wanted this?

"The New York Times reported that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has also been lobbying Biden to affirm the ERA, arguing it would be a way to enshrine abortion rights after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in 2022."

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (vFG9F)

289 Chuck Martel--all my calculators are RPN. There's no other way...once you've gone RPN, you never go back.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent

How many calculators do you need?

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ)

290 Inauguration indoors is fine with me.

Not seeing the problem.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (fV+MH)

291 I seem to recall the 'not enough to kill the company' restriction in the Children's Hospital case where they took the child away. They had testimony concerning the hospital's financials.

The jury essentially took all their cash on hand.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Dunno, we have some attorneys here with litigation experience but I am too lazy to look up Florida code. Only applicable federal constitutional requirements under BMW v. Gore is taht the awarded punitive damages have to be proportional to the actual damages awarded in the case. 500-1 ratio of punitive to actual damages was regarded as violating due process protections.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 12:47 PM (ctrM5)

292 I don't mean to harsh your mellow ya'll but Chicken Noodle News collects almost a billion dollars a year just for being a news channel on Cable Networks. You pay for it whether you want to or not. My public service announcement is now concluded.
Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (1FWWQ)

No, I don't pay for it. No TV, no cable. No streaming shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 12:47 PM (8zz6B)

293 Forensic Accountant up for the Defense.

Posted by: WisRich at January 17, 2025 12:47 PM (G0vdT)

294 So much winning. Score another on for the TRUMP!!! curse!

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2025 12:47 PM (vFG9F)

295 290 Inauguration indoors is fine with me.

Not seeing the problem.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (fV+MH)

I wanted to see all the pageantry and huge crowds....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 12:47 PM (VE6XX)

296 The Southern California wildfires started on Jan. 7, and as of a week later, more than 12,300 structures had been destroyed, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Replacing 12,000 structures would require an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 truckloads of lumber, Goodman said. A 48-foot flatbed truck can haul 45,500 to 52,000 pounds of lumber, according to Union Pacific. The number of pounds per 1,000 board feet varies by tree species, but the Global Trade Network has figures ranging from 2,250 to 5,350 pounds per 1,000 board feet of freshly cut lumber.

On the CME, lumber for March delivery settled Tuesday at $585 per 1,000 board feet.

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (RHGPo)

297 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (ycI94)

Wow.
Just wow.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (ufFY8)

298 287 There is also a 400M defamation suit against Blake Lively, by the guy she tried to bully with meetoo antics.
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2025 12:46 PM (g47mK)

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Ryan Reynolds has been brought into the suit. If what's alleged is true, would it surprise you to discover that Reynolds' public persona of a nice guy is actually bullshit and he's a controlling asshole?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

299
Trump won't give them a damn thing for this concession, he'll still attack them as fake news and treat their employees with contempt. Absolutely pathetic.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaiso

Lol who seriously thinks banishing Acosta to the dark realm has anything to do with a sophisticated to Trump? They are nutz.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (OA79/)

300 That's a real disappointment.....
Posted by: It's me donna
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It's safer and keeps the noodleheads outside.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (2E+2e)

301 Next up,the 400+ million NY wants trump to pay for not defrauding anyone.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (t/2Uw)

302 So I guess CNN's plastic surgery bennie is getting red-lined, right?

Posted by: mrp at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (rj6Yv)

303 There's something to be said for an indoor innaugural.

Posted by: Zombie William Henry Harrison at January 17, 2025 12:49 PM (NUdiI)

304 Ah DU, still thinking CNN stands for Corporate News Network.

Don't evah change dahlinks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 12:49 PM (EOKFz)

305
Who Else Can Say the Following:

I Have Never Heard of this "Joy Taylor" person until her "huge" sex-scandal Lawsuit was Reported.

Am I the only one?

btw, why are ALL the worst people today named "joy?
"

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 17, 2025 12:49 PM (MsCOV)

306 From late last night...

Jessica Costescu @JessicaCostescu
The jurors have agreed to stay another hour but have asked for a 5 minute break so they can contact their loved ones.

alexandriabrown @alexthechick
I'm not reading anything into what this means verdict wise, I'm just commenting on how the judge is handling it. Asking jurors to stay until 8 pm in a civil case is a major ask. That the jury agreed shows that they are taking it seriously and that they respect the judge.

Michael Scott @flaresandchaff Replying to @alexthechick
They’re close

alexandriabrown @alexthechick
I would read into that that they haven't said no defamation.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 17, 2025 12:49 PM (5LoD7)

307 299
Trump won't give them a damn thing for this concession, he'll still attack them as fake news and treat their employees with contempt. Absolutely pathetic.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaiso

Lol who seriously thinks banishing Acosta to the dark realm has anything to do with a sophisticated to Trump? They are nutz.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (OA79/)

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We make fun of legacy media because it's diminished and powerless.

They worry about it because they think it's immensely powerful. They also think that CNN (freaking CNN) is not at all secretly on Trump's side. Why? Because they don't highlight the most deranged narratives that DU digs up (like Trump and Epstein being best friends).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

308 Sadly, the US Supreme Court has sad that punitives have to be somewhat in relation to the amount of compensatory damages.

Utah's Supreme Court had upheld something like 100 million in punitives against State Farm for deliberately hosing some poor homeowner, but the compensatory was only about 90,000 in direct damages to the home. US Supreme Court said nope, can't hammer them so wildly out of proportion. So on a 5 million award, about as high as will legally stand is 50 million in punitives.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (yf7Pm)

309 I wanted to see all the pageantry and huge crowds....

Right? I was so looking forward to watching the Antifa idiots trying again to light a wooden bench on fire with a match.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (xCA6C)

310
Also, and this has Nothing to do with Anything...

isn't it odd that "Curious George" has within a character named "Victoria Plushbottom?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (MsCOV)

311 I feel like the j6ers will be pardoned at 12:01

Like the pardons are already written and done.

And the Wardens are on fucking notice.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (fV+MH)

312 All of this happening to CNN seems very weird.

I was living in Atlanta and had a number of friends who worked for TBS. One of the guys in our crowd was a guy named Bob Gillies, who wrote "I Was Cable Before Cable Was Cool" when Ted Turner created CNN, and I went to one of the celebratory parties. Those were fun times.

And now this.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (4tmpE)

313 Trump won't give them a damn thing for this concession, he'll still attack them as fake news and treat their employees with contempt. Absolutely pathetic.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison

Lol who seriously thinks banishing Acosta to the dark realm has anything to do with a sophisticated to Trump? They are nutz.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

They've been adjudicated AS lying propagandists...of course he'll continue to hammer them. This post would've made more sense if it said Trump will continue to call them fake news if they were found "not guilty".

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (ycI94)

314 312 I feel like the j6ers will be pardoned at 12:01

Like the pardons are already written and done.

And the Wardens are on fucking notice.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (fV+MH)

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Contrast the public way these pardons will be signed with the secret ways Biden's been signing pardons over the past few weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

315 275 267 I don't mean to harsh your mellow ya'll but Chicken Noodle News collects almost a billion dollars a year just for being a news channel on Cable Networks. You pay for it whether you want to or not. My public service announcement is now concluded.
Posted by: Life of Wryly at January 17, 2025 12:44 PM (1FWWQ)

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"Losing more than 100% of its chief revenue source for a year will have no negative impact."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

Chicken Noodle Soup >>> Chicken Noodle News

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (ynpvh)

316 4 calculators--one at home, two at work, one on my phone.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 17, 2025 12:51 PM (XMwZJ)

317 288 "Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

"Biden did that ? I saw he commuted a bunch of Druggies sentences.. Says they were "Non-violent" Of course most of those sentences were plea bargained down and have plenty of violence

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 12:51 PM (VE6XX)

318

Ryan Reynolds has been brought into the suit. If what's alleged is true, would it surprise you to discover that Reynolds' public persona of a nice guy is actually bullshit and he's a controlling asshole?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

nein

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2025 12:51 PM (g47mK)

319 315 312 I feel like the j6ers will be pardoned at 12:01

Like the pardons are already written and done.

And the Wardens are on fucking notice.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (fV+MH)

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Contrast the public way these pardons will be signed with the secret ways Biden's been signing pardons over the past few weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

"Joey, sign this for some ice cream!"--his handlers

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

320 320 Contrast the public way these pardons will be signed with the secret ways Biden's been signing pardons over the past few weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

"Joey, sign this for some ice cream!"--his handlers
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

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*wanders off*
-Biden

"Fine, we'll use the autopen again."
-the staffers

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

321 Ryan Reynolds has been brought into the suit. If what's alleged is true, would it surprise you to discover that Reynolds' public persona of a nice guy is actually bullshit and he's a controlling asshole?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

He's married to Blake Lively, and has insanely deep pockets. The dude suing has to name him to get at the community property.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (T6JQY)

322 CNN can bond the award pending appeal. Same as Trump did on the bullshit bank fraud case. It will cost CNN plenty in bond fees, but it will stay execution of the award/judgment pending appeal. As I mentioned yesterday, I think CNN was always playing for the appeal. The trial looked clearly lost.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

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Don't fail us now, FL court system.

*Narrator*: TJM does not actually believe the FL court system will do right, that they will fail us. Because Sullivan mandates that multinational corporations have the First Amendment right to destroy nobodies based entirely on lies, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
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Yup, that was my point yesterday: the appellate judges are more susceptible to reversing defamation awards because of Sullivan. Although, I'm not sure how Young is a "public figure" as Sullivan requires. So the appellate court could sidestep the whole issue by just saying Young isn't a public figure.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

323 Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

"Biden did that ? I saw he commuted a bunch of Druggies sentences.. Says they were "Non-violent" Of course most of those sentences were plea bargained down and have plenty of violence

He also said "I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (xCA6C)

324 As this is a civil trial I think the correct made up technical term is "adjudicated defamers."

Posted by: f2000 at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (etEyp)

325 309 Sadly, the US Supreme Court has sad that punitives have to be somewhat in relation to the amount of compensatory damages.

Utah's Supreme Court had upheld something like 100 million in punitives against State Farm for deliberately hosing some poor homeowner, but the compensatory was only about 90,000 in direct damages to the home. US Supreme Court said nope, can't hammer them so wildly out of proportion. So on a 5 million award, about as high as will legally stand is 50 million in punitives.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (yf7Pm)

Only the State can destroy you...

Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (wtvvX)

326 Here's hoping the punitive damages are....

1 Google dollars!

(1, followed by 100 zeroes).

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (VNX3d)

327 322 He's married to Blake Lively, and has insanely deep pockets. The dude suing has to name him to get at the community property.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (T6JQY)

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The suit alleges that Reynolds helped Lively take the film from him (the dude is the costar and director of the film).

Reynolds is being brought into the suit because it's apparently a pattern on his part.

Tim Miller, the director of Deadpool 2, was brought in with the same motion. Miller quit the production of Deadpool 2 because of Reynolds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

328 Thank goodness. I hadn't heard. Those two grifters had better never be allowed to work a polling place again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

I did read somewhere that they could still be charged for election fraud. That some new proof had been uncovered. That would be Justice.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (t/2Uw)

329 On the CME, lumber for March delivery settled Tuesday at $585 per 1,000 board feet.
Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2025 12:48 PM (RHGPo)

Now I need a calculator.

About $1 billion?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (ufFY8)

330 Don't ask me why, but juries have a tendency to use the rule of 3....and just triple the verdict for punies.
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (dIske)

Treble damages is a pretty ingrained concept. And a lot of courts are unhappy when punitive damages get much larger than that. Going for a lot more than that might grab a headline, but wil probably get easily reduced on appeal.

Posted by: Sjg at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (aqZN1)

331 The world’s largest Lithium-Ion battery storage farm is on fire, uncontrolled and uncontrollable, tonight in Moss Landing.
Evacuations were ordered in northern Monterey County Thursday afternoon. Santa Cruz County officials recommended people close windows and doors Thursday night.
This is only 9 miles from my office.

Posted by: wth at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (v0R5T)

332 Readers added context

You just know that community notes are the thing leftists hate more than anything else except for GOD, normalcy, happy people, and their parents.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (ExV1e)

333 Sadly, the US Supreme Court has sad that punitives have to be somewhat in relation to the amount of compensatory damages.

That's utterly meaningless. A million to one is still a relation.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (xCA6C)

334 323 Yup, that was my point yesterday: the appellate judges are more susceptible to reversing defamation awards because of Sullivan. Although, I'm not sure how Young is a "public figure" as Sullivan requires. So the appellate court could sidestep the whole issue by just saying Young isn't a public figure.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

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I remember news organizations arguing that Covington kid was a public figure because the news organizations made him one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

335 Oops, I forgot the "OT" warning

Posted by: wth at January 17, 2025 12:54 PM (v0R5T)

336 The DUmmies think the NYT and WaPo, even before this election, are right-wing!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 17, 2025 12:54 PM (5LoD7)

337 CNN can bond the award pending appeal. Same as Trump did on the bullshit bank fraud case. It will cost CNN plenty in bond fees, but it will stay execution of the award/judgment pending appeal. As I mentioned yesterday, I think CNN was always playing for the appeal. The trial looked clearly lost.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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The bad news for CNN, all those appeals will be in Florida State courts. Then they get their shot at a writ of cert to Scotus after Florida Supreme Court decides.

They'll probably settle because CNN itself is becoming a drag on WB/Discovery and important earnings/risk assessment issues in corporate reports. I think Comcast is spinning off MSNBC in part because of legal liabilities and risk assessment along with declining revenues.

Courts aren't ruling on defamation for the defendants like they were in the 70's-00's. Several big decisions like Oberlin, multiple settlements like the Covington decisions, and so on.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 12:54 PM (ctrM5)

338 Anyone married to Blake Lively HAS to be an asshole.

Have you ever heard her speak?

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:54 PM (fV+MH)

339 Utah's Supreme Court had upheld something like 100 million in punitives against State Farm for deliberately hosing some poor homeowner, but the compensatory was only about 90,000 in direct damages to the home. US Supreme Court said nope, can't hammer them so wildly out of proportion. So on a 5 million award, about as high as will legally stand is 50 million in punitives.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 17, 2025 12:50 PM (yf7Pm)

Only the State can destroy you...
Posted by: Tex Lovra at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (wtvvX)

Wait wut?

Posted by: Alex jones at January 17, 2025 12:54 PM (OA79/)

340 >>Contrast the public way these pardons will be signed with the secret ways Biden's been signing pardons over the past few weeks.

He's not done yet.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2025 12:54 PM (LkLld)

341 Yup, that was my point yesterday: the appellate judges are more susceptible to reversing defamation awards because of Sullivan. Although, I'm not sure how Young is a "public figure" as Sullivan requires. So the appellate court could sidestep the whole issue by just saying Young isn't a public figure.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 12:52 PM (iFTx/)
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If anything, he is a very private person as his job was sneaking people out of a war-torn country.

Being stealthy and silent was advantageous, rather than announcing to the world, "Hey, I'm going to Afghanistan to rescue people! Who wants to come watch me on livestream?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2025 12:54 PM (7fElN)

342 Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.

Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (KQk9m)

343 >>Santa Cruz County officials recommended people close windows and doors

Get out your Duct Tape, Santa Cruz.

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (snN/i)

344 Thank goodness. I hadn't heard. Those two grifters had better never be allowed to work a polling place again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh

I did read somewhere that they could still be charged for election fraud. That some new proof had been uncovered. That would be Justice.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (t/2Uw)

We all saw what they did on the security cameras, which were installed in State Farm Arena by one of the vendors who works for my company. It was clear as day!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (4tmpE)

345 309 Sadly, the US Supreme Court has sad that punitives have to be somewhat in relation to the amount of compensatory damages.
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If they weren't limited the FedGov would bankrupt/raid everyone.
As it is it's another tax.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (2E+2e)

346 Joey tried to sign the Earned Runs Average into law?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (EOKFz)

347 >>Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.

He looks like he follows Tulsi Gabbard's skincare regimen.

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (snN/i)

348 Any settlement that does not require every CNN anchor to close each on-air appearance by stating " I am xxxx xxxx, and I am a worthless, lying piece of shit," for an entire year is fatally flawed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (8zz6B)

349 Bigfoot sighted in Santa Cruz?

Posted by: Zombie William Henry Harrison at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (NUdiI)

350 So far, Warner Bros. Stock is pretty tame. Although, it did dip as the CNN trial progressed. I guess investors weren't impressed with the "I'd do it again" stance. Let's see where it goes after the punies come in.

Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (dIske)

351 The CNN court case now is playing out on live tv like they're carving it up to butcher. It's glorious.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (Y6IkP)

352 Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.

It seems that there are plenty of people who approve. I can't stand the guy.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (xCA6C)

353 THIS is CNN

Posted by: Darth Vayder at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (P+C1l)

354 Sounds tasty:

@NickFondacaro 10m
Plaintiff's punitive damages expert witness, forensic economist Robert W. Johnson is testifying.
Giving his background in forensic economist.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (mlg/3)

355 355 THIS is CNN
Posted by: Darth Vayder at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (P+C1l)

This Was CNN

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (VE6XX)

356 "Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.
Posted by: steevy"

They all have. Let's face it.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (fV+MH)

357 Billionaires may want that video destroyed, but I'm rather taken with the advertisement. It is more attractive than King Harv.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (MLHNM)

358 331 Don't ask me why, but juries have a tendency to use the rule of 3....and just triple the verdict for punies.
Posted by: Orson at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (dIske)

Treble damages is a pretty ingrained concept. And a lot of courts are unhappy when punitive damages get much larger than that. Going for a lot more than that might grab a headline, but wil probably get easily reduced on appeal.

Posted by: Sjg at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (aqZN1)

Punitive damages are not punitive if they don't hurt...
If CNN is worth over a billion, at least 10% should feel punitive...
There's a need to see the real books to see what CNN is valued at.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

359 Yes, Archimedes, the Utah Supreme Court was NOT happy getting slapped by the US Supremes over that one. They made their opinion of State Farm very, very clear when they upheld the original punitive damages award.

But the US Supremes said something like a 10-1 ratio is good, unless you can justify something bigger... but it had better be a really, really good justification, like they murdered you or something.

Posted by: SimoHayha at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (yf7Pm)

360 344 Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.
Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (KQk9m)

(Looks at camera)

NOOOOOOOO!

Posted by: Ryan Reynolds at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (OA79/)

361 The suit alleges Reynolds helped Lively take the film from him (the dude is the costar and director of the film).

Reynolds is being brought into the suit because it's apparently a pattern on his part.

Tim Miller, the director of Deadpool 2, was brought in with the same motion. Miller quit the production of Deadpool 2 because of Reynolds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Ahh, so Reynolds is a rich Hollywood asshole after all.

So, what does that mean that the movie was taken from the guy?

Isn't the movie in theaters, or at least out on streaming?

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (T6JQY)

362 When did Jimbo become a superstar??

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (Ky/ZI)

363 The judge says you can't award an amount so large as to destroy the defendant...
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:31 PM (xCA6C)

That's utter horseshit. The award is supposed to be enough to "make things square" and the added amount is for "now don't do it again".

If they can't survive the consequences of their actions it will be a lesson to the other sniveling shits in the media. Don't lie. If you must lie, don't make it provable that you lied.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (ExV1e)

364 Santa Cruz County officials recommended people close windows and doors

Also to tie their shoes so they don't trip over the laces. What would we do without government.

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (abcTK)

365 THIS is CNN
Posted by: Darth Vayder at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (P+C1l)

This Was CNN
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (VE6XX)

Here lies CNN. Dead by Hubris.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (VNX3d)

366 Sorry, TJM.

I'm too lazy to look it up.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (T6JQY)

367 358
They all have. Let's face it.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (fV+MH)

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Real actors who become stars don't remain stars for long because their propensity for finding new roles limits their marketability.

Think Colin Farrel. He was a star for a few years 20 years ago, but he's kept acting and has completely lost his cache as a huge name.

Stars are a persona that sell movie tickets. Sometimes there's intersection, but ultimately stars are more a part of marketing than cinematic art.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (GBKbO)

368 334 Sadly, the US Supreme Court has sad that punitives have to be somewhat in relation to the amount of compensatory damages.

That's utterly meaningless. A million to one is still a relation.
Posted by: Archimedes
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BMW v. Gore opinion held that a 500-1 ratio of punitive to actual damages found by the jury violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Actual damages were about 4k found by the jury but then they awarded Gore 4 million in punitive damages. Alabama Sup. Ct. reduced it to 2 million. BMW appealed and Scotus reversed Alabama Sup. Ct. and remanded the case to Alabama state courts to rectify.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 12:59 PM (ctrM5)

369 That's utter horseshit. The award is supposed to be enough to "make things square" and the added amount is for "now don't do it again".

If they can't survive the consequences of their actions it will be a lesson to the other sniveling shits in the media. Don't lie. If you must lie, don't make it provable that you lied.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:59 PM (xCA6C)

370 People in Santa Cruz should not run with scissors.

Posted by: Zombie William Henry Harrison at January 17, 2025 12:59 PM (NUdiI)

371 Now I need a calculator.

About $1 billion?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 17, 2025 12:53 PM (ufFY

The amount collected for federal, state, and local permit fees will likely be higher than that.

Posted by: mrp at January 17, 2025 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)

372 Funny.

Even in a Thread about Acosta getting bumped from the lineup...

Acosta gets bumped.

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 12:59 PM (snN/i)

373 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (OujRN)

374 Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.

It seems that there are plenty of people who approve. I can't stand the guy.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (xCA6C)
_______

OK in small doses, like Kevin Hart. But the nervous-motormouth-wisecracking thing gets old fast. It's also pretty old in general, as Eddie Murphy was doing this gag in the 1980s (Beverly Hills Cop, etc).

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (iFTx/)

375 371 334 Sadly, the US Supreme Court has sad that punitives have to be somewhat in relation to the amount of compensatory damages.

That's utterly meaningless. A million to one is still a relation.
Posted by: Archimedes
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BMW v. Gore opinion held that a 500-1 ratio of punitive to actual damages found by the jury violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Actual damages were about 4k found by the jury but then they awarded Gore 4 million in punitive damages. Alabama Sup. Ct. reduced it to 2 million. BMW appealed and Scotus reversed Alabama Sup. Ct. and remanded the case to Alabama state courts to rectify.

IOW, it's totally made up, and depends on whether the judge got laid last night.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (xCA6C)

376 Posted by: Zombie William Henry Harrison at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (NUdiI)

You know that you're TJM's favorite President, right?

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (77rzZ)

377 364 Ahh, so Reynolds is a rich Hollywood asshole after all.

So, what does that mean that the movie was taken from the guy?

Isn't the movie in theaters, or at least out on streaming?
Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (T6JQY)

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There were dueling cuts of the film, one from the director and one from Lively. Director's cut scored better with test audiences. Lively's cut got released.

And since, Lively has tried to remove the director from any ownership of the film (the MeToo stuff is a subset of that fight).

It was a big enough success that sequels are guaranteed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

378 Tim Miller, the director of Deadpool 2, was brought in with the same motion. Miller quit the production of Deadpool 2 because of Reynolds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And, as I recall, T.J. Miller also said Reynolds is an asshole, and that's why he wasn't in Deadpool and Wolverine/Deadpool 3.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (ycI94)

379 368 THIS is CNN
Posted by: Darth Vayder at January 17, 2025 12:56 PM (P+C1l)

This Was CNN
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (VE6XX)

Here lies CNN. Dead by Hubris.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (VNX3d)

Owe my ass.

Posted by: Cnnn at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (OA79/)

380 CNN's Accountant on the stand:
Attorney: What assets does the network possess?
Accountant: Well, Acosta's an asshole, Tater's an asshole, and...
Attorney: No, assets. I said assets.
Accountant: Oh, i wouldn't consider any of those guys as assets.

Posted by: Wally at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (T3oT4)

381 He looks like he follows Tulsi Gabbard's skincare regimen.

Posted by: garrett

"Like two avocados fucked and had a baby."

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 01:01 PM (T6JQY)

382 I don't know who this guy Blake Lively is. Why should I care?

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2025 01:01 PM (vFG9F)

383 Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.
Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (KQk9m)

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Not seeing the problem.

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum at January 17, 2025 01:01 PM (2UnvF)

384 >>I don't know who this guy Blake Lively is.

Blake Lively sounds like a Tranny name.

Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 01:02 PM (snN/i)

385 unpopular opinion: I am not a fan of defamation lawfare

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 17, 2025 01:02 PM (V6W16)

386 There were dueling cuts of the film, one from the director and one from Lively. Director's cut scored better with test audiences. Lively's cut got released.

And since, Lively has tried to remove the director from any ownership of the film (the MeToo stuff is a subset of that fight).

It was a big enough success that sequels are guaranteed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Got it. Thanks for the info.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 01:02 PM (T6JQY)

387 Just think, we will be more widely known and vastly more respected than... uh, what's his face.

Posted by: The Bay City Rollers at January 17, 2025 01:02 PM (Ybyk2)

388 Here lies CNN. Dead by Hubris.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (VNX3d)

Owe my ass.
Posted by: Cnnn at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (OA79/)

That's their on-air talking heads.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 17, 2025 01:02 PM (VNX3d)

389 Tapioca or butterscotch.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 01:02 PM (NUdiI)

390 Even in a Thread about Acosta getting bumped from the lineup...

Acosta gets bumped.

Maybe he can get another mention in the Daily Tech News. His listeners will still be up.

Posted by: t-bird at January 17, 2025 01:02 PM (abcTK)

391 386 Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.
Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (KQk9m)

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Not seeing the problem.
Posted by: Jeff Goldblum at January 17, 2025 01:01 PM (2UnvF)

Hahahaha!

Posted by: Robert Dinero at January 17, 2025 01:03 PM (OA79/)

392 381 And, as I recall, T.J. Miller also said Reynolds is an asshole, and that's why he wasn't in Deadpool and Wolverine/Deadpool 3.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (ycI94)

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TJ Miller is kind of deranged himself. He got canceled because of something to do with underaged girls, or something. I can't remember specifics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

393 358 "Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.
Posted by: steevy"

They all have. Let's face it.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:57 PM (fV+MH)
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This.

Posted by: WisRich at January 17, 2025 01:03 PM (G0vdT)

394
Blake Lively sounds like a Tranny name.

She's getting a bit older but uh, definitely not a tranny.

Looks like something of an Amber Heard situation with her though

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 17, 2025 01:03 PM (t0Rmr)

395 OK in small doses, like Kevin Hart. But the nervous-motormouth-wisecracking thing gets old fast. It's also pretty old in general, as Eddie Murphy was doing this gag in the 1980s (Beverly Hills Cop, etc).
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I think he's great as Deadpool, but they have a very varied cast around him for him to play off of in different ways. He's the same wisecracking asshole, but is in scenes with characters with 8-10 very different, strong personalities to keep things fresh DESPITE Reynolds' unchanging, otherwise abrasive personality.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 17, 2025 01:04 PM (ycI94)

396
Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.
Posted by: steevy

Mint Mobile, mofos!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2025 01:04 PM (xG4kz)

397 You're that guy. An "explainer". The guy, as the group is getting marched into the camp, point by pointing how all the laws require the march.

Posted by: I Like This

Hi, Scogg.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 01:04 PM (xCA6C)

398 It should at least be as big as the awards against Trump and Giuliani.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 17, 2025 01:05 PM (D6PGr)

399 People in Santa Cruz should not run with scissors.
Posted by: Zombie William Henry Harrison
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I live 11 miles south and I wish they all would.

Posted by: wth at January 17, 2025 01:05 PM (v0R5T)

400 Blake Lively sounds like a Tranny name.
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2025 01:02 PM (snN/i)
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I promise you she's no tranny but will have to reference the crazy/hot matrix to see where she falls.

Posted by: WisRich at January 17, 2025 01:05 PM (G0vdT)

401 Looks like something of an Amber Heard situation with her though
Posted by: Barack Obama at January 17, 2025 01:03 PM (t0Rmr)

You can't roller skate in an Amber turd.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 01:05 PM (8zz6B)

402 She's getting a bit older but uh, definitely not a tranny.

She's very hot. More than that, I cannot say.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 17, 2025 01:05 PM (xCA6C)

403 Where were the Supremes with the Alex Jones case?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 17, 2025 01:06 PM (NUdiI)

404 Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.

Think of the range that takes, to play a character.

Posted by: George Clooney at January 17, 2025 01:06 PM (HG3pl)

405 President Biden
@POTUS
Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:

The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.

https://tinyurl.com/3uwus45m

Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (NpAcC)

Robert Gates should have said another truth: Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major domestic policy and legal question over the past four decades.

Posted by: Gref at January 17, 2025 01:06 PM (aBgBM)

406 FWIW,
Did a little digging,

"It’s important to note that Florida law generally limits punitive damages to the higher of three times your compensatory damages (combined economic and noneconomic damages) or $500,000 (Fla. Stat. § 768.73(1)(a) (2023).)"

That is probably why CNN went to trial rather than settle. Risk to them in damages is relatively minimal in financial terms. Reputational hit though is probably greater and it will continue if they try to appeal it by keeping it in the news.

FWIW, Florida law follows US courts caselaw in defining public figure, evidence std., etc.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 01:06 PM (ctrM5)

407 Isn't the movie in theaters, or at least out on streaming?
Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 12:58 PM (T6JQY)

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There were dueling cuts of the film, one from the director and one from Lively. Director's cut scored better with test audiences. Lively's cut got released.

And since, Lively has tried to remove the director from any ownership of the film (the MeToo stuff is a subset of that fight).

It was a big enough success that sequels are guaranteed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)
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The movie itself is the most cliched, cheezy, generic, by-the-numbers rom-com that AI could generate, yet it made 100s of millions of dollars. I don't get it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

408 unpopular opinion: I am not a fan of defamation lawfare
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything

So dueling then?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2025 01:07 PM (mlg/3)

409 Acosta Snags CNN’s Creature Features News Hour.

Posted by: 13times at January 17, 2025 01:07 PM (PfqgC)

410 412 The movie itself is the most cliched, cheezy, generic, by-the-numbers rom-com that AI could generate, yet it made 100s of millions of dollars. I don't get it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

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People like formula.

It's why NCIS was the biggest show for a decade.

This is just the chick-focused version of that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

411 359 Billionaires may want that video destroyed, but I'm rather taken with the advertisement. It is more attractive than King Harv.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat
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Since the kids took over the artwork is the pits.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2025 01:07 PM (2E+2e)

412 402 It should at least be as big as the awards against Trump and Giuliani.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 17, 2025 01:05 PM (D6PGr)

And Jones. Nobody cared when the left was destroying the right for political reasons. Now CNN got bagged doing it and it's all don't be too hard on them, they were trying to do good.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 17, 2025 01:07 PM (OA79/)

413 288 "Are ACB and Roberts going to have the balls to strike down Biden's illegal act of declaring the 28th Amendment ratified?

It isn't going to court. The national archivist said that all of this is irrelevant. The time expired long ago, and so it cannot be added as an amendment.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2025 01:08 PM (lTGtQ)

414 With Biden trying to enact a dead amendment via tweet, the average white leftist woman will be even more insufferable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2025 01:09 PM (pqMwI)

415 Convict News Network.

Posted by: 13times at January 17, 2025 01:09 PM (PfqgC)

416 So this is now a movie thread?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 01:09 PM (t/2Uw)

417 >>>BREAKING: JURY FINDS CNN LIABLE

LFG! Now to punitive damages. Nail those fuckers to the wall.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 17, 2025 01:09 PM (i24o9)

418 "In fact, his ratings have historically been some of the network's strongest"

That's like saying someone's deckchair on the Titanic is furthest from the bow.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 17, 2025 01:09 PM (CwhoI)

419
Say, J. D. Vance is Ohio's senior U. S. Senator after the (R) defeated whoever was the (D) in November. So the (R) is the junior U. S. Senator for Ohio.

Once J. D. resigns upon becoming Vice President, the newly elected (R) immediately becomes the senior Senator, after serving in Congress for a mere seventeen days.

Guy's a rocket man, baby!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2025 01:09 PM (xG4kz)

420 It isn't going to court. The national archivist said that all of this is irrelevant. The time expired long ago, and so it cannot be added as an amendment.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2025 01:08 PM (lTGtQ)

Biden was smoking his soiled Depends.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2025 01:09 PM (8zz6B)

421
Acostas new Midnight-2 am show should be like Svengoolie, where he starts the show coming out of a coffin with a fog machine and organ music.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 17, 2025 01:10 PM (+oR7L)

422 Interesting - there's no formal definition of WHEN/HOW the state's vote on an amendment is official. If the state voted in favor 150 years ago, does it still count...?

Biden (or more properly, his puppeteer) is stealing quite a few bases in that sentence. It's just as easy to say it wasn't properly ratified.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 17, 2025 01:10 PM (PzXaK)

423 Commie News Network

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2025 01:10 PM (2E+2e)

424 Regarding Ryan Reynolds, I have met only a couple of people whom I would consider "genuinely nice." I've met plenty who were gregarious and fun to be around, but there was always that air of "trying to get something for their own benefit" thing, like a politician.

but in high school I knew a guy who was simply a good person. Period. No agenda. He would have gone far in politics, but instead he ran a construction company until he passed away a couple years ago.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Day 4 of Funemployment at January 17, 2025 01:10 PM (Ad8y9)

425
Campus radicals throwing Molotov cocktails around with a presidential signature justifying it.

Yes, there's reason to be scared of dying Joey.

Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2025 01:10 PM (j4U/Z)

426 The thing that has me leaning with Blake Lively is that prior to any lawsuit they had a meeting with all the parties where the issues she has raised in the suit were discussed and an agreement was reached on those points .

According to Lively , much of what they agreed to subsequently happened thus the lawsuit. I believe Ryan Reynolds was at that meeting.

Bottom line is I don’t give a crap but my brain retains useless information.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 17, 2025 01:10 PM (D6PGr)

427 Oh, and Colin Farrell is awesome.

Penguin. Damn.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 17, 2025 01:11 PM (PzXaK)

428 The dude suing Lively was also paying internet trolls to defame her across multiple sites prior to him bringing suit. She sued him, he counter sued. It may help to stop falling for the "man good, girl bad" framing on every one of these cases.

Posted by: Tanz der Lemmings at January 17, 2025 01:11 PM (Ofj4q)

429 The movie itself is the most cliched, cheezy, generic, by-the-numbers rom-com that AI could generate, yet it made 100s of millions of dollars. I don't get it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

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People like formula.

It's why NCIS was the biggest show for a decade.

This is just the chick-focused version of that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 17, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)
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True, but NCIS at least had a different story every week, and enough variety to keep it somewhat fresh. Rom-coms are literally the same movie cut-and-pasted over and over again. Although that's probably true about any genre in today's Hollywood ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 17, 2025 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

430 28th amendment surely means women will be drafted right?

Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2025 01:11 PM (KQk9m)

431 President Biden
@POTUS
Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:

The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.

https://tinyurl.com/3uwus45m
Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2025 12:43 PM (NpAcC)

wait wait wait

If three-quarters of the states have ratified the 28th Amendment, wouldn't it have already been part of the Constitution?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 17, 2025 01:11 PM (MBKe7)

432 So this is now a movie thread?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

All threads here turn into movie threads eventually.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

433 Acosta is still at CNN? LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2025 01:11 PM (2VST1)

434 I may actually not be able to handle all the winning!

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at January 17, 2025 01:11 PM (th/4a)

435 Commie News Network starring your favorite pinko faggot news caster co-hosted by Butch our best lesbian ever.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2025 01:12 PM (2E+2e)

436 btw, a fake "reporter" employed by Amazon Fake News (wapo) was caught with, you guessed it, kiddie pron.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 17, 2025 12:45 PM (MsCOV)

Is this the editorial artist or someone new?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 17, 2025 01:12 PM (ExV1e)

437 386 Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.
Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (KQk9m)

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Not seeing the problem.
Posted by: Jeff Goldblum at January 17, 2025 01:01 PM (2UnvF)

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It’s literally 90% of actors.

The only one that comes to the top of my mind who played different characters is Dustin Hoffman.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2025 01:13 PM (Qw2uS)

438 Interesting - there's no formal definition of WHEN/HOW the state's vote on an amendment is official. If the state voted in favor 150 years ago, does it still count...?

Biden (or more properly, his puppeteer) is stealing quite a few bases in that sentence. It's just as easy to say it wasn't properly ratified.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

That was how the 27th (pay raises only apply after an election) was added. After that, a time limit was imposed on all future amendments, and this one failed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2025 01:13 PM (lTGtQ)

439
The movie itself is the most cliched, cheezy, generic, by-the-numbers rom-com that AI could generate, yet it made 100s of millions of dollars. I don't get it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Gather up all, and I mean ALL, copies of the movie, no matter whose cut, bundle them into a spaceship and have Daddy Elon fire them into the Sun.

Just taking out the trash!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2025 01:13 PM (xG4kz)

440 414 With Biden trying to enact a dead amendment via tweet, the average white leftist woman will be even more insufferable

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2025 01:09 PM (pqMwI)

Joe's un-elected POTUS replacement team are out of control trying to burnish Joe's Super-Leftist Legacy - meaning theirs - as Joe sleazes out of the White House.

What's next? I don't want to think about it.

Posted by: Gref at January 17, 2025 01:13 PM (aBgBM)

441 Lively was her hottest play a slut in The Town.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 17, 2025 01:13 PM (D6PGr)

442 Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified

They have not. The time period for the ERA has expired anyway, even if they had. Congress would have to ratify it, even if they had. Which they have not, this isstating that the radicals running the white house are trying to ram it down our throats, but its just their opinion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2025 01:14 PM (2VST1)

443
The Capitol dome is made of cast iron.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 17, 2025 01:14 PM (7xqnr)

444
If three-quarters of the states have ratified the 28th Amendment, wouldn't it have already been part of the Constitution?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 17, 2025 01:11 PM (MBKe7)

Forget about it, he's rollin.

Posted by: Jake Elwood at January 17, 2025 01:14 PM (OA79/)

445 Aww cmon guys:
Obama, Clinton, Bush not attending Trump’s inaugural luncheon: Report

NBC News reported that Obama and Clinton were reportedly invited but declined while Bush’s office said the former president didn’t receive a formal invitation.

Ha Ha -Nelson from the Simpsons

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at January 17, 2025 01:14 PM (jQ+5q)

446 IOW, it's totally made up, and depends on whether the judge got laid last night.
Posted by: Archimedes
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There has always been a concept of excessive punishment via punitive damages grossly exceeding actual damages. BMW v. Gore simply marked the outer limits of this. Guy is found by a jury to suffer 4K in damages but they award him $4 million in punitive damages. Alabama Sup. Ct. agreed and reduced damages to $2 million. Scotus told Alabama that was still too excessive.

Punitive damages are used in the case of 'don't do it again' as a ways of public punishment of a company or individual and it induces settlements by defendants that might have deep enough pockets to simply win by dragging out legal proceedings. Same as pleading guilty to a charge gives a definite sentence rather than risking a judge/jury giving a higher one. Both, though, can be abused in practice and it was an issue in common law torts long ago before the US became a nation. Same with common law criminal punishment--death sentences were often awarded that were never actually carried out via means like benefit of clergy and other such devices.

There is a rationale behind such rulings--basic fairness.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 01:14 PM (ctrM5)

447 I think this is appropriate.

https://youtu.be/2q35PgSXhKg

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 17, 2025 01:14 PM (Wnv9h)

448 10 to 1 is the presumptive constitutional limit but it is NOT a bright-line rule. Ability to pay without bankrupting/destroying the defendant is the primary consideration. Punis bump up against 8th amendment concerns.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 17, 2025 01:14 PM (KAi1n)

449 Vivek to run for Ohio Governor.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 17, 2025 01:14 PM (t/2Uw)

450 Acosta Snags CNN’s Creature Features News Hour.

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When I grew up in Cincinnati, there used to be a show on called Creature Feature. Maybe every city had one! Then there was the Cool Ghoul. Fun kid days.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 17, 2025 01:15 PM (qBdHI)

451 The only one that comes to the top of my mind who played different characters is Dustin Hoffman.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

He played an endive salad that knocked the critics on their ass.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

452 Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2025 01:13 PM (Qw2uS)

Gary Oldman

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 17, 2025 01:15 PM (D6PGr)

453 Why did those idiots at Fox settle for 3/4 of a billion dollars?

Posted by: anon2020 at January 17, 2025 01:15 PM (RqMDa)

454 Ryan Reynolds has made a whole career of playing the same character in every movie.

Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2025 12:55 PM (KQk9m)

Eh, he's tried some different characters like in "The Voices".

But, Reynolds has learned what the public wants and has become a bankable, brand name making lot's o' cash cuz of it.

I see nothing wrong with being successful.

No one ever complained that John Wayne was always John Wayne...even when he was Genghis Khan.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2025 01:15 PM (iJfKG)

455 Nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 17, 2025 01:15 PM (kgE5c)

456 Duelling cuts of a film reminds me that both versions of Mel Gibson's "Payback" are available on Prime, and that both are excellent.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2025 01:15 PM (T6JQY)

457 If the ERA was constitutional back in the 60s, like it should have been, I would have been able to go shower with Hunter when he was 12, just like I did with Ashley. No joke!

Posted by: Creepy Joe Biden at January 17, 2025 01:16 PM (fs1hN)

458 When I grew up in Cincinnati, there used to be a show on called Creature Feature.
Posted by: Lady in Black

We had that in the South Bend area as well. Musta been nationally syndicated.

Posted by: Bulg at January 17, 2025 01:16 PM (77rzZ)

459 452 Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2025 01:13 PM (Qw2uS)

Gary Oldman
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 17, 2025 01:15 PM (D6PGr)

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Agree.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2025 01:16 PM (Qw2uS)

460 No one ever complained that John Wayne was always John Wayne...even when he was Genghis Khan.
Posted by: naturalfake

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God that movie sucked.

"I see her, jehmooooogah and I say take her!"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 17, 2025 01:16 PM (PzXaK)

461 Is there an Alex Jones button on that calculator used for calculating damages? .... use it!

Posted by: Wardo at January 17, 2025 01:16 PM (qTDvI)

462 I seriously doubt Acosta's exile was due to CNN 'throwing a bone' to Trump. More like Acosta is an arrogant, insufferable asshole that everyone there hates, and this is a way to make him leave without having to fire him.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 17, 2025 01:17 PM (CwhoI)

463 The only one that comes to the top of my mind who played different characters is Dustin Hoffman.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Tom Hanks

Posted by: SFGoth at January 17, 2025 01:17 PM (KAi1n)

464 >>> Gary Oldman
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 17, 2025 01:15 PM (D6PGr)

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Sam Rockwell

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 17, 2025 01:18 PM (NbP1V)

465 Tom Hanks
Posted by: SFGoth at January 17, 2025 01:17 PM (KAi1n)

He should just play Tom Hanks. I liked Road to Perdition but I would have never cast him .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 17, 2025 01:19 PM (D6PGr)

466 438 Interesting - there's no formal definition of WHEN/HOW the state's vote on an amendment is official. If the state voted in favor 150 years ago, does it still count...?

Biden (or more properly, his puppeteer) is stealing quite a few bases in that sentence. It's just as easy to say it wasn't properly ratified.

Posted by: WitchDoktor
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Want an explanation, see upthread for the court case. Basically, Scotus gave the power to Congress for setting time limits (also the means of ratification--convention or legislature). The 27th, was adopted because Congress had not yet got around to adding time limits to ratification which they rectified shortly afterwards. 27th was in the original Bill of Rights along with one other proposal, "The original First Amendment stated a formula for determining the size of the House of Representatives based on the population of the United States in 1789" from US Constitution Center. It never received the necessary state ratifications unlike the 27th did. Technically still live according to that precedent.

Posted by: whig at January 17, 2025 01:19 PM (ctrM5)

467 I seriously doubt Acosta's exile was due to CNN 'throwing a bone' to Trump. More like Acosta is an arrogant, insufferable asshole that everyone there hates, and this is a way to make him leave without having to fire him.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 17, 2025 01:17 PM (CwhoI)

Take his red Swingline stapler, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 17, 2025 01:20 PM (i24o9)

468 The Florida panhandle comes through.

Posted by: Good people at January 17, 2025 01:24 PM (dg+HA)

469 WHEN and IF they ever get to pose a q in the WH press room, Caroline Leavitt will be reminding them of their NOT WITHOUT EVIDENCE on-air lies for which they were found guilty by a jury.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 17, 2025 01:26 PM (KiBMU)

470 They can join ABC in the dunce's corner.

What about NBC, MSNBC, CBS? What about the NYT and the WaPo? Refresh my memory. Have any of those mastheads been found liable of defamation?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 17, 2025 01:29 PM (KiBMU)

471 Has any thought been given to what this switch will do to Jim Acosta's body clock? It is hell on short, fat bodies.

Posted by: Jerry Jay Carroll at January 17, 2025 01:36 PM (5uZK2)

472 "Bob Costas and Dick Cavett interviewing each other for an hour.
Posted by: mrp"

Dick Clark and Kirk Douglas interviewing each other. I denounce myself.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 17, 2025 01:39 PM (iODuv)

473 I don't know who this guy Blake Lively is. Why should I care?
Posted by: fd at January 17, 2025 01:01 PM (vFG9F)

Not a guy.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 17, 2025 01:57 PM (iODuv)

474 We have other Conservative News Sources we don't need the Crumby News Network, Period.

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