The 1965 Times v. Sullivan decision limiting libel suits by public figures by setting higher standards is long-settled case law.
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Another day of the Kavanaugh hearings:
The Democrats should walk out of there in response to Grassley's shameful antics yesterday.
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Well no shit, Sherlock why the Woodward book is so damaging. Hell's bells, CNN CREATED Donald Trump's candidacy by endlessly promoting it during the 2016 campaign to the exclusion of all other GOP candidates.
And now they talk about the failures of the White House AFTER the damage has been done. But hell, a dysfunctional White House is great for ratings.
But how could all -- and I mean all -- of the reporting on this White House reach a striking similar conclusion? The portraits of Trump drawn by Wolff, Omarosa and Woodward are all eerily similar to one another -- a man hopelessly out of his depth in the job, but entirely incapable of understanding how desperately out of depth he actually is. A man motivated almost entirely by personal grievance. A man willing to humiliate people who work for him, to play staffers against one another, to scapegoat underlings to keep blame off of himself. Someone who has so much self-belief that he rarely adequately prepares for situations involving international diplomacy and national security. Top aides who view that their jobs are primarily keeping Trump from causing serious harm, and grousing every step of the way about the man._____
Is a mutiny in the White House a possibility? Today the New York Times published an anonymous oped piece by somebody in the White House who says that everything is as bad or worse than what we have been told.
The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making._____
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But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.
From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims.
Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back.
Dumbass broad still is milking her dubious notoriety.
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Joyce Maynard is still milking her dubious relationship with J.D. Salinger, who was no doubt an abuser and a creep.
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Brett got caught today and tried to weasel his way out:
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