Mark Robinson Sues CNN Over Report Linking Him to Lewd Comments on Porn Site
Source: New York Times
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, the embattled Republican nominee for governor, filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday against CNN, which published an article last month linking him to lewd and offensive comments made years ago on a pornography website.
Mr. Robinson said at a news conference in Raleigh, N.C., that he had not made the comments that the CNN report attributed to him.
The report said that in posts on a porn site called Nude Africa, Mr. Robinson, who is running as a social conservative, described himself as a black Nazi, defended slavery and wrote that he enjoyed watching transgender porn.
When times of trouble come in this thing we call politics, it separates the strong folks from the weak, Mr. Robinson said at the news conference on Tuesday, standing with his lawyer, Jesse Binnall. The weak will turn and run, and the strong will stand and fight. And thats what were doing here today.
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no_hypocrisy
(48,326 posts)The content was true.
cstanleytech
(26,882 posts)no_hypocrisy
(48,326 posts)But certainly not defamation. Truth is a valid precedented defense.
cstanleytech
(26,882 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(6,057 posts)Almost as if he was awaiting news as to what exactly they had on him.
Gore1FL
(21,678 posts)That sounds pretty public.
no_hypocrisy
(48,326 posts)CurtEastPoint
(19,090 posts)Think. Again.
(16,536 posts)Streisand effect:
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. -Wikipedia
Ford_Prefect
(8,184 posts)intended to protect us from predators like Robinson?
sboatcar
(531 posts)no_hypocrisy
(48,326 posts)hadEnuf
(2,592 posts)He is also a member of a political party that is notorious and thrives on digging up mostly false information on political rivals and private citizens to ruin or taint them.
I think a jury will laugh his Nazi ass right out of a courtroom.
moreland01
(818 posts)right after he loses in November. There is no merit to it. He just wants to look trump-tough before election day.
Mz Pip
(27,788 posts)verargert
(6 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(4,283 posts)If he ever gets around to filing (IF!) then he'll withdraw it in short order.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(2,940 posts)He'll go far
mdbl
(5,314 posts)none of the dumb magasphere will know the difference.