If I had any notoriety at all I would publicly call out Hannity and

[Toots]

Coulter to defend to the death their accusations that I am a traitor to America. I am sick and tired of these chicken hawks using such incendiary language against myself and like minded people. I would publicly challenge them both to a duel to the death because I won't any longer take it. They are cowards and hide behind their celebrity status. I will take them both on at the same time using any tactic or armament of their choice. They both wrote books calling Liberals Traitors. I say they need to be called on it and I wish to hell there was some way I could do that in a very public way. I consider what they have both said to be "fighting words" and I am quite willing to fight them or anyone who feels the same way over it.

[WinterStorm]

1. Can't we sue them over Defamation of Character?

I have been wondering this for a while now.

They keep saying things about us and our party that aren't true. Can we start a class action lawsuit against them and the networks that they work for and possibly KKK Rove.

:shrug:

[Toots]

2. I doubt you can sue over their opinion but you can challenge

them to defend themselves the old fashioned way.

[JuniperLea]

4. please elaborate!

i'm sick of the spin!

[JuniperLea]

3. just watched outfoxed

this bs is rampant!

[TexasProgresive]

7. I checked with a lawyer friend of mine

if we oould file a class action suit against coulter. His opinion is no. I think for it to be libel or slander she has to target individual targets by name. As a lawyer she skirts as close to this as her mini skirts. I wish that some of our well connected and wealthy friends, like Soros, would take a serious look at these people. They are dangerous to the fabric of America. The hate that they feed to the RW public can eventually erupt in a killing spree like Bosnia and Rowanda. Never think that it can't happen here, 4 airplanes attacking US symbols couldn't happen, could it?

[mahina]

9. Agreed immediate and sustained action is merited!

But I dont think libel or slander suits are the way to go. I'm not a lawyer but I recall that you have to be able to prove economic damage as a result of the specific words spoken (slander) or written (libel).

What else can we do to bring honor back to broadcasting? What do you do when people behave like assholes in person? You call them on it!

Today I turned on Fox for about three minutes and heard Hannity call Kerry a hypocritical liar. He was talking (out his ass as usual) about the interview in which Kerry told ONeill on the Cavett show that he unknowingly broke the rules of conduct in the Geneva Conventions.

I know Media Matters does a great job. What about all the people who are swallowing this propaganda whole? How did we let it get to this, that news broadcasts are so blatantly slanted?

What about making a law that opinion needs to be identified visually and verbally when inserted into a news show? (Flame suit on, let's hear other ideas! )

We used to accomplish honesty through social norms. Norms have changed and it seems that people feel a lie is ok if you can get away with it.

Just wondering WTF we can do about it since America seems fine with the horse waste and it's getting too deep to walk.

[colonel odis]

5. call his show and challenge him to a fistfight.

tell him you're tired of people like him saying things about people like us. see what kind of man he is.

[Toots]

6. I want more than a fistfight...He didn't knock my drink over

I want them to publically apologize or back up what they say with a weapon. I consider what they called us a deadly serious matter

[yardwork]

8. Let's back away slowly from the talk of weapons and killing

We're different from Hannity and Coulter, and one reason is that we admire and respect leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Jesus, and others who advocated non-violent protest.

The pen is stronger than the sword. Not that I don't share your frustration. I want to smack some of the self-righteous bigots I encounter who assert that their president is a great guy and won't even read or listen to anything to the contrary. They walk around in a cocoon of willful ignorance as our ship of state heads for the precipice.

That's ok. They're idiots. That's why we have to be better than them.

[colonel odis]

13. no weapons and killing. just an old fashioned, tennessee

ass-whupping is what smart-mouthed sean needs.

if he wants to call people treasonous and traitors, he needs to have the spine to defend himself when someone steps up to clean his clock.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. So, just who actually...

listens to either of them?

I find them incredibly irritating, but they have a tiny audience, and it is an audience that is ready-made for that kind of idiocy. Not much we can do about it.

I am fairly well convinced that most people who happen upon them don't fall for their crap. It's just too outlandish to be taken seriously. Notice that neither of them is getting much legitmate media time. Their books are subsidized and their audience is shrinking. Coulter being fired from USA Today for being an asshole is the good news.

Methinks their real job isn't to convince the masses, but just to piss us off. Don't fall into the trap.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. Didn't USA Today fire Coulter?

Wasn't she supposed to do commentary on the DNC and whoever her bosses were dropped her because of her lunatic rantings? It seems that the better route to go would be to contact those organizations (other than Fox, which is hopeless) who want to hire these bozos and point out that their rantings don't match with reality. Stay reasoned and on point, and say you'd rather read something written by another conservative commentator (name one that doesn't irritate you so much). Why do this? Because you don't come off as rabid yourself-could make them think that Coulter et al do have a following-and it gives them a choice of someone who is more sane.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. Coulter says she quit...

sort of, over "editorial diffrences" with USAToday. She submitted her first copy, and the editors made so many changes she claimed she didn't want "their" article under her byline.

Having read her article, I imagine the entire editorial staff passed it around and pissed themselves before calling her with the bad news. Even some of the Freepers thought it was dreadful. Just mean and spiteful and not funny at all.

[Moderator]

14. I'm locking this thread

Re: Advocating violence against a public figure.