Alan Dershowitz is suing CNN because:
Alan Dershowitz, a retired Harvard Law professor, is seeking $300 million in a federal libel lawsuit against CNN, alleging that the news network attempted to damage his reputation by misrepresenting a statement he made during President Trump’s impeachment trial.
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Dershowitz was one of several attorneys who represented Trump during the Senate trial, which resulted in the president’s acquittal.
The lawsuit, filed in Florida Tuesday, alleges that CNN omitted a crucial part of a widely discussed argument Dershowitz made before the Senate, and then CNN hosts and guests “exploded into a one-sided and false narrative’’ criticizing Dershowitz.
Basically he’s claiming that they took a quote of his out of context, though “somewhat out of context” might be closer to the truth, to be charitable.
I would suggest that the folks at Fox must be shaking in their boots at the thought of Dershowitz prevailing. Taking things out of context is, after all, their business plan. Actually, I suppose it’s more accurate to say that in their more responsible moments they take things out of context, instead of merely lie or spread conspiracy theories. If Dershowitz wins it should be open season on folks like Hannity.
Of course there’s always the possibility that the federal courts (assuming that’s where he filed the case) will rule that libel laws are different when Fox is involved. We are, as is plain to see, rapidly becoming a country where there are two sets of laws: one for Republican politicians and enablers, and one for the rest of us. Republican judges are quite skilled at amplifying “distinctions without a difference”, a judicial dodge that was once looked down on, but is not very much in vogue. See, e.g., Bush v. Gore.
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