'Media ‘Defamation?’ Fine. How ‘Bout
The New York Times?
Posted By: Imright, 4/29/2023 7:35:03 PM
Among the many media gloaters over the Fox News-Dominion defamation settlement, The New York Times seems to be gloating the loudest. But this gloating strikes some history buffs as highly hypocritical.Can Cubans who – back in 1959 – went blue in the face warning the U.S. State Department and CIA that Castro was a closet-Soviet-asset and communist sue The New York Times for defaming them as crooks and liars? Surely their case (the Cuban blue-in-the-faces) has been vindicated much more starkly than Dominion’s.
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“Cringe” somehow doesn’t suffice here. This is supra-cringe, trans-cringe.
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But even that mission was too much for the alleged President to complete.
Via Military Times:
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