"A controversial journalist and Republican activist has sued the left-wing
Media Matters for America and its founder, David Brock, for slander and invasion
of privacy, claiming the nonprofit is a, “hate machine organized and
orchestrated to smear conservatives and Republicans who dare to speak out
against the liberal orthodoxy and manipulation in the nation’s media.”
Anthony “Andy” Martin served Brock with the lawsuit on Thursday after Media
Matters wrote a piece calling Martin an “anti-Semite.” In a letter dated March
30, 2007, Martin demanded a retraction and an apology with a notice that he
would sue Brock and Media Matters for defamation/libel if the group did not
comply. "
This is crazy. When did expressing an opinion about a public personality become the foundation for a lawsuit. It is a simple part of understand privacy laws, that public officials, media personalities put themselves in the public spot light and in doing so give up their privacy. I can say that I think that Anderson Cooper is gay, because he is a public person. I can't say that about my neighbor because they are private people and that would be an invasion of privacy, and slander.
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