John wrote about some small time local DC defamation court case… all to ignore the graveyards he whistles past, daily now.
Two of those monsters are front and center, starting tomorrow: the Supremes will hear argument on the Colorado DQ appeal, and Justice Engoron in NY may drop an up to $450 million fraud finding in Trump’s lap tomorrow or Friday. And ban his businesses in NY. For life.
Out.
Powerline Lies... 
John’s a piece of work. He’s incapable of writing about any subject — any subject — honestly. I love this line, from early in the post: “John Williams, an elderly lawyer who is Mann’s senior counsel, argued first. I didn’t hear any of it.” Of course he didn’t.
Still, he somehow concludes,”Mann presented a lousy case.” How does he know?
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Okay… I changed my mind. Made it a new post. See above.
I’ll leave this buried here because… we know it just isn’t important to the national issues Hinderaker bloviates about.“…The jury… found that the defendants had defamed Mann, but awarded only a token $1 in damages, since Mann had failed to prove any.
But it found that both Simberg and Steyn acted with actual malice — they didn’t actually believe what they said about Mann — and awarded punitive damages in the amount of $1,000 against Simberg, and $1 million against Steyn…”
That’s Hinderaker’s post tonight!
Just as I said — willful falsehoods (about being a child molester!)… broadcast around the world… cost his boys… $1 million!
Woot!
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And the part he leaves out of his discussion is that his guys called the climate scientist a “child molester”. They did so, because they don’t like his hockey stick graphic, on temperatures.
The man is a widely respected, learned man. He has some very healthy kids of his own. And they called him a child molester knowing full well he was no such thing.
That is why they will lose the defamation case. Hinderaker burps on and on… that in minor details, the academic’s hockey stick on temperatures has proved to be not 100% accurate. That is all they’ve got.
But he ignores that this defamation suit was brought because his guys called that man (entirely falsely!) a “child molester”.
Damn.
Great input… thanks, as ever!
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