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
(48,778 posts)The content was true.
cstanleytech
(27,001 posts)no_hypocrisy
(48,778 posts)But certainly not defamation. Truth is a valid precedented defense.
cstanleytech
(27,001 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(6,339 posts)Almost as if he was awaiting news as to what exactly they had on him.
cstanleytech
(27,001 posts)Gore1FL
(21,884 posts)That sounds pretty public.
no_hypocrisy
(48,778 posts)Layzeebeaver
(1,866 posts)you say something publicly, its public. Especially if the board in question is not milking your post for money.
He's fucked.
CurtEastPoint
(19,178 posts)Think. Again.
(17,942 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
(8,202 posts)intended to protect us from predators like Robinson?
sboatcar
(557 posts)no_hypocrisy
(48,778 posts)quakerboy
(14,135 posts)This is trying to pretend innocence for any persuadable voter. Bet money, after election day this lawsuit disappears.
They have to prove those things weren't true, and given all the info that cnn posted, I doubt he'd be able to do that. I'm sure CNN is like "Yep, please do sue us, it will be hilarious"
DJ Synikus Makisimus
(670 posts)Keep digging that hole deeper, dude!
hadEnuf
(2,702 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.
Wiz Imp
(1,796 posts)It's a lawsuit completely without merit so the judge will toss it
It's a frivolous lawsuit.
moreland01
(834 posts)right after he loses in November. There is no merit to it. He just wants to look trump-tough before election day.
LymphocyteLover
(6,752 posts)Mz Pip
(27,891 posts)My thoughts exactly.
verargert
(141 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(4,500 posts)If he ever gets around to filing (IF!) then he'll withdraw it in short order.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)He'll go far
mdbl
(5,477 posts)none of the dumb magasphere will know the difference.
Martin68
(24,604 posts)Bolo Boffin
(23,872 posts)It's not just a Star Trek series.
Tarc
(10,575 posts)This was filed to fundraise. "Kamala and the are out to get me, we need your help!" will soon be pelting his donor lists. Once he's conned his sheep base, the lawsuit will be dismissed or withdrawn.
SunSeeker
(53,655 posts)johnnyfins
(1,396 posts)because Stephen Cheung is beating him in TSF's new Goering competition.
COL Mustard
(6,883 posts)I'm sure CNN didn't just randomly publish something like that.
rondawson
(11 posts)Someone needs to explain to him that truth is an absolute defense.
JT45242
(2,888 posts)This is of course, simply a political stunt.
No way that this gets to discovery stage. Cause real criming might come out.
But if it does somehow get to discovery before he drops this, it will be awesome to watch.
LisaL
(46,601 posts)I don't think he wants to go to discovery here.
JT45242
(2,888 posts)struggle4progress
(120,241 posts)with Robinsons personal history.
In his profile, minisoldr listed his full name as mark robinson and disclosed a private email address Robinson used elsewhere online. In 2012, a user responded to a comment by calling minisoldr Mark.
Minisoldr mentioned in 2008 being married for 18 years, which corresponds with Robinsons marriage to Yolanda Hill in 1990. In 2011, minisoldr wrote he had been married 21 years. Minisoldr wrote in a 2011 post that he lived in Greensboro, North Carolina, the same town where Robinson lived at the time and currently lives.
In a post in 2012, minisoldr said he served in the Army in the 1980s, during the same time period as Robinson. In his sexually graphic comments detailing watching women in the showers in 2011, minisoldr wrote that his mother worked at an Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Robinsons mother worked as a custodian at North Carolina A&T State University, an HBCU located in Greensboro ...
dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum
Andrew Kaczynski Em Steck
By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN
Published 3:21 PM EDT, Thu September 19, 2024
struggle4progress
(120,241 posts)who told news outlets that Robinson had been a regular customer in his store in the past. Money stands by his claims, but Robinson alleges in his suit that he merely stopped by the store occasionally to socialize ... At a press conference Tuesday, Robinson called the report a high-tech lynching, but neither he nor his lawyer provided any evidence that would appear to contradict CNNs reporting ...
Robinson sues CNN
Oct. 15, 2024, 3:16 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones
struggle4progress
(120,241 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(154,427 posts)This is a 16 page poorly done petition. Most defamation petitions done by real lawyers are much longer and have facts recited.
Link to tweet
https://www.rawstory.com/mark-robinson-cnn-lawsuit-2669402247/
But independent journalist Bryan Anderson, a former North Carolina Statehouse reporter for the Associated Press, posted a link to Robinson's entire 16-page lawsuit and found that it contains "no exhibits substantiating Robinsons denials" made by CNN in its report.
In fact, an examination of the entire lawsuit shows that Anderson's description is accurate.
It contains no evidence that CNN was incorrect about Robinson's history of making racist, sexist, homophobic, and overall offensive posts on the website NudeAfrica last decade.
This petition was evidently filed to try to draw attention away from Robinson