LOL: NYT's Lawyer response to Sean Hannity legal threat over (accurate) reporting of his coverage

[hlthe2b]

New York Times newsroom lawyer David McCraw delivers this response to @seanhannity
request for retraction and apology related to @nytimes
coverage: "No." Addressed to Hannity lawyer Charles Harder:

Link to tweet

Now that's a beautiful legal response.

[SoonerPride]

1. Brevity is the soul of wit.

[leftieNanner]

2. This is so wrong!

The answer should be Fuck No!

Oh. I'm sorry. Was that rude?

[DBoon]

6. I prefer "stick it where the sun don't shine"

just as rude, but more colorful

[lastlib]

16. Or,:

"Proceed with self-fornication. With a pitchfork."

[crickets]

3. I laughed so hard just now. Thank you, David McCraw!

[grumpyduck]

8. Yeah, me too.

[Takket]

4. One word is too short

I would have doubled it to two with “fuck you”.

[WheelWalker]

5. "No" is the short answer. The long answer... "No way".

[The Magistrate]

28. The Classic Answer, Sir, To The Sort Of Letter Hannity Sent

Runs something like this: 'You should know some ass-hole is using your stationary."

But of course, n one but an ass-hole would have that firm's stationary or send that letter, so it would fall a bit flat....

[underpants]

7. So.....

[niyad]

31. Umm. . You're. There's.

[Gothmog]

9. This is a great letter

[csziggy]

10. I love that he references the "12 page letter"

Was the letter longer than the three columns Hannity was whining about?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

35. Think of the poor paralegals who have to come up with all the precedents and nuances of "no".

I

[malaise]

11. Beautiful

Rec

[czarjak]

12. Bullshit Bandwagon Wagon Master goes down.

[Harker]

13. Brings Gen. Anthony McAuliffe to mind...

after having been called upon verbosely to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge... "To the German Commander: Nuts."

[bigtime]

23. that's the first thing I thought of

Nuts!

[Wednesdays]

14. Hannity probably won't understand it.

He'll ask his legal team to translate the "legalese."

[certainot]

15. media needs to investigate why hannity's name is redacted in the mueller report glossary

even tho it should be there between graf and hawker after being named a few times incidentally. other talk radio-connected operatives with partial redactions in glossary include stone, corsi, credico - not social media geniuses

the org 'free speech' petitioned FCC for investigation of COVID disinformation and quoted limbaugh. republican FCC said NO

media and dem leadrship has totally missed the boat in blaming hannity/fox, who basically merely rechew what limbaugh elevates to widespread acceptability through unchallenged repetition. if putin wanted to influence us politics he's figure out how to feed limbaugh, not hannity

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Good catch! I too would like to know why. . . nt

[lagomorph777]

18. Sorry, I can't read legalese. Can you simplify it for me?

[47of74]

19. I would have gone the Bill Baxley route with Hannity and his lawyer

[Silver1]

29. I had no idea who Bill Baxley was ...

so I looked him up. Thanks for posting this. What a pleasure to learn about him.

In case anyone else is interested: https://yellowhammernews.com/40-years-ago-alabamas-ag-sent-a-legendary-response-to-kkk-threats/

[spanone]

20. I would have preferred a FUCK NO, but I'm no lawyer.

[brooklynite]

21. Has his lawyer informed him that in a civil case you can be compelled to testify?

[progressoid]

22. Hannity's cult will love it. They thrive on their perceived persecution by the librul press.

[OnDoutside]

24. Wemple has spent the last year pushing the "Steele Dossier is made up" line.

[Warpy]

25. I'm sure the word "pipsqueak" was uttered many times

at the meeting that generated this letter. I admire McGraw's ultimate restraint.

[ehrnst]

26. There goes that "corporate owned" NYT bowing to their oligharchic masters...

[Karadeniz]

27. Trump encouraged Hannity because he himself was so successful at frivolous lawsuits and

Disrespecting the law. But Hannity is going against bigger fish than painters and electricians. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump pompously thinks the DoJ will help Hannity like it does him. Grifters all.

[TomSlick]

30. I might add:

With reference to your threat to file a defamation action, I request that you refer to Rule 11 before doing so.

[Blue Owl]

32. K&R

[napi21]

33. Excelent response. Short and to the point. There's no need to waste words and review time.

You can bet, their 12 page letter to the Times required several reviews & rewrites before all deemed it OK to send. the response required very limited time, 1 review, by the client. and poof! it's of! Capable lawyers don't need 12 pages to get their message across..

[MontanaMama]

34. Pound sand Hannity.

What a POS.

[Cha]

36. I like this David McCraw!

[The Wizard]

37. Let them ponder this:

Kindly translate your complaint into English. Jerklish has too many terms that are not acceptable in a Court of Law.

[ET Awful]

38. I would have gone the Barbosa/Pirates of the Carribean route . . .

"I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your proposal. . . . "