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Dominion spokesman: 'Mike Lindell is begging to be sued, and at some point, we may well ob
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:01 pm
sorry/warning - this is on leftist tabloid yahoo news
https://news.yahoo.com/dominion-spokesman-mike-lindell-begging-104437200.html
before posting; two things
1). Has Sidney and Guiliani or anyone actually been sued? Can we get the fillings, court, etc?
2). There spokesman worked for Ryan and limp Boner?
Peter Weber
Mon, February 8, 2021, 4:44 AM
"In just a few weeks, lawsuits and legal threats from a pair of obscure election technology companies have achieved what years of advertising boycotts, public pressure campaigns, and liberal outrage could not: curbing the flow of misinformation in right-wing media," Michael Grynbaum writes at The New York Times. Dominion Voting Systems has sued Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell for defamation, seeking $1.3 billion in damages, and has threatened to sue Fox News and other conservative media outlets. Rival voting technology firm Smartmatic sued Fox News for $2.7 billion.
CNN's Brian Stelter asked Dominion spokesman Michael Steel about the lawsuits on Sunday, including if any new ones are imminent. "I'm not here to make news on that front, but let me say this: Mike Lindell is begging to be sued, and at some point, we may well oblige him," Steel said. Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, paid for three hours of airtime Friday on One America News Network to broadcast a show he produced about his voting conspiracy theories. OANN kicked it off with an extraordinary disclaimer. Lindell tweeted Saturday night that he might sue Dominion, a threat Steel laughed off on CNN.
Steel, a former spokesman for House Speakers Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and John Boehner (R-Ohio), also said Dominion suing Fox News is "definitely a possibility."
A media law professor, Lynn Oberlander, told Stelter that the disclaimers Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other outlets have been showing about vote fraud claims might actually protect them from the defamation lawsuits. They are "not the typical playbook for right-wing media, which prides itself on pugilism and delights in ignoring the liberals who have long complained about its content," Grynbaum writes. But like it or not, "litigation represents a new front in the war against misinformation, a scourge that has reshaped American politics, deprived citizens of common facts, and paved the way for the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol."
Defamation lawsuits "shouldn't be the way to govern speech in our country," attorney Roberta Kaplan told the Times. "It's not an efficient or productive way to promote truth-telling or quality journalistic standards through litigating in court. But I think it's gotten to the point where the problem is so bad right now there's virtually no other way to do it." Fox News said in a statement it's "proud of our 2020 election coverage and will vigorously defend" itself against Smartmatic's "meritless lawsuit."
https://news.yahoo.com/dominion-spokesman-mike-lindell-begging-104437200.html
before posting; two things
1). Has Sidney and Guiliani or anyone actually been sued? Can we get the fillings, court, etc?
2). There spokesman worked for Ryan and limp Boner?
Peter Weber
Mon, February 8, 2021, 4:44 AM
"In just a few weeks, lawsuits and legal threats from a pair of obscure election technology companies have achieved what years of advertising boycotts, public pressure campaigns, and liberal outrage could not: curbing the flow of misinformation in right-wing media," Michael Grynbaum writes at The New York Times. Dominion Voting Systems has sued Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell for defamation, seeking $1.3 billion in damages, and has threatened to sue Fox News and other conservative media outlets. Rival voting technology firm Smartmatic sued Fox News for $2.7 billion.
CNN's Brian Stelter asked Dominion spokesman Michael Steel about the lawsuits on Sunday, including if any new ones are imminent. "I'm not here to make news on that front, but let me say this: Mike Lindell is begging to be sued, and at some point, we may well oblige him," Steel said. Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, paid for three hours of airtime Friday on One America News Network to broadcast a show he produced about his voting conspiracy theories. OANN kicked it off with an extraordinary disclaimer. Lindell tweeted Saturday night that he might sue Dominion, a threat Steel laughed off on CNN.
Steel, a former spokesman for House Speakers Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and John Boehner (R-Ohio), also said Dominion suing Fox News is "definitely a possibility."
A media law professor, Lynn Oberlander, told Stelter that the disclaimers Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other outlets have been showing about vote fraud claims might actually protect them from the defamation lawsuits. They are "not the typical playbook for right-wing media, which prides itself on pugilism and delights in ignoring the liberals who have long complained about its content," Grynbaum writes. But like it or not, "litigation represents a new front in the war against misinformation, a scourge that has reshaped American politics, deprived citizens of common facts, and paved the way for the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol."
Defamation lawsuits "shouldn't be the way to govern speech in our country," attorney Roberta Kaplan told the Times. "It's not an efficient or productive way to promote truth-telling or quality journalistic standards through litigating in court. But I think it's gotten to the point where the problem is so bad right now there's virtually no other way to do it." Fox News said in a statement it's "proud of our 2020 election coverage and will vigorously defend" itself against Smartmatic's "meritless lawsuit."
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Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:02 pm to GhostOfFreedom
shite
Or
Get
Off
The
Pot
Or
Get
Off
The
Pot
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:03 pm to GhostOfFreedom
Why not? This is a country where John brennan walks free so it's not like justice is served by the justice system.
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:03 pm to GhostOfFreedom
Do it pussy.
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:04 pm to bamarep
Bingo.
Keep threatening and it is only a threat because discovery won’t be good for you.
And Lindell appears to have resources to get good representation who can counter most of the bullshite Dominion will throw at him.
Keep threatening and it is only a threat because discovery won’t be good for you.
And Lindell appears to have resources to get good representation who can counter most of the bullshite Dominion will throw at him.
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:05 pm to GhostOfFreedom
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Dominion spokesman Michael Steel
Is this the same a-hole that was head of the fricking Republican Party?
That Michael Steel?
Apparently not. Different Michael Steel a-hole.
I was thinking of this Michael Steele a-hole, former chair of the Republican Party now with the Lincoln Project pedos.
This post was edited on 2/9/21 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:05 pm to GhostOfFreedom
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A media law professor, Lynn Oberlander, told Stelter that the disclaimers Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and other outlets have been showing about vote fraud claims might actually protect them from the defamation lawsuits. They are "not the typical playbook for right-wing media, which prides itself on pugilism and delights in ignoring the liberals who have long complained about its content," Grynbaum writes. But like it or not, "litigation represents a new front in the war against misinformation, a scourge that has reshaped American politics, deprived citizens of common facts, and paved the way for the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol."
Ah...it's deprived the nation of "common facts." Facts like this?
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:07 pm to GhostOfFreedom
Who would've thought. My Pillow just might save this republic
This post was edited on 2/9/21 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:08 pm to teke184
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Keep threatening and it is only a threat because discovery won’t be good for you.
I don’t believe they intend to take it that far. The filing of lawsuits is just a way to temporarily keep a lid on things because the first thing that happens when a suit is filed is everyone circles the wagons and shuts up.
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:08 pm to GhostOfFreedom
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Steel, a former spokesman for House Speakers Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and John Boehner (R-Ohio), also said Dominion suing Fox News is "definitely a possibility."
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:11 pm to LuckyTiger
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Steel is a partner with Hamilton Places Strategies. His political history is crowned through his work with three of the most notorious Republican Establishment and Trump-hating men in America. He was Press Secretary for Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, Press Secretary for Speaker of the House John Boehner, and Senior Advisor for Policy and Communications for the 2016 Jeb Bush Presidential campaign.
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After nearly two decades working in journalism, on Capitol Hill and for political campaigns, Michael Steel joined Hamilton Place Strategies in 2016, where he advises a range of clients on strategic communications and public policy. Steel is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He is a former Rankin Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism and currently serves on their Board of Advisors. Steel is a frequent guest on MSNBC, NPR, and Bloomberg TV and radio. He has written op-ed columns that have appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Examiner, NBC’s ‘Think,’ and elsewhere. Steel is frequently quoted on Congressional and political issues, including in The Economist, Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, POLITICO, Roll Call, and The Washington Post. Before HPS, he was a senior policy and communications advisor for Governor Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign. Before that, Steel was the press secretary for Speaker of the House John Boehner. He was involved in debates over spending, taxes, health care, financial regulations, energy, and national security. During the 2012 Presidential election campaign, he served as Press Secretary to Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan and traveled with him throughout the campaign. Prior to working for Speaker Boehner, Steel was the Communications Director for Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee (which has jurisdiction over tax, trade, and health care policy) and the House Republican Policy Committee, in addition to serving as the Press Secretary for then-Reps. Jim McCrery of Louisiana and John Shaddegg of Arizona. He also assisted several political campaigns, including Governor Mitt Romney’s 2008 primary campaign and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn’s first senate race. Before working on Capitol Hill, Steel was a journalist at National Journal, a leading publication covering politics and policy in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Columbia University’ s Graduate School of Journalism.
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:16 pm to DingLeeBerry
Solid deep state lackey.
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:26 pm to LuckyTiger
So basically Dominion hired a PR firm with connected republicans to try to counter the accusations outside the courts. They don’t have inside knowledge of dominion but take talking points to the media.
Daily beast
Daily beast
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Trump-Targeted Voting Company Dominion Hires Top PR Firm to Help Against The Crazy
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A voting machine company baselessly accused by President Trump and pro-Trump conspiracy theorists of illegally tipping the 2020 presidential contest is working with one of Washington, D.C.’s most prominent public relations firms to beat back the allegations. Shortly after the election, Dominion Voting Systems hired the firm Hamilton Place Strategies to coordinate a public relations campaign responding to the outlandish claims by the president, his legal team, and their supporters, according to Michael Steel, a HPS partner and former spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.
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Steel has given media interviews in the weeks since pushing back on the allegations against the company, including that its software “switched” votes in key states from President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. “It is not physically possible for our machines to switch votes from one candidate to the other,” Steel told Fox News in an interview last month. Other senior HPS employees have also used their platforms to push back on those sorts of claims. “None of this is true about Dominion voting machines, not a single word. None of it,” tweeted Tony Fratto, a HPS partner and former George W. Bush spokesperson, earlier this month.
This post was edited on 2/9/21 at 12:27 pm
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:29 pm to DingLeeBerry
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Before founding HPS, Tony worked at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy Press Secretary. He worked directly with the President and the Administration’s senior economic policy, national security,and legal teams, communicating on international and domestic policy issues to national and foreign media. Prior to his time at the White House, Tony served at the U.S. Treasury Department, including as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. In this capacity, he led the Administration’s communications strategy for addressing major economic policy issues, including financial crises, tax policy, and international development programs. Tony served in senior roles with three U.S. Treasury secretaries,leading on activities including G7 and G20 finance ministers meetings, IMF and World Bank meetings, preparation for congressional testimony, media interviews,and speeches. Combining his work at the Treasury and the White House, Tony directed and participated in communications efforts in more than 60 countries around the world. Tony serves on the boards of World Food Program USA, Center for Global Development, CareAction!, and Fundção Dom Cabral.Tony is also a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and The Economic Club of Washington, D.C.
This post was edited on 2/9/21 at 12:35 pm
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:35 pm to DingLeeBerry
LINK
LINK
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en, Fratto offer food for thought By PATRICK GAVIN 05/03/2013 02:25 PM EDT Bipartisanship is a rare sighting around town these days, but Hunter Biden and Tony Fratto are coming together over the issue of food. Biden is the second son of Vice President Joe Biden, and Fratto served in the press shop of President George W. Bush’s administration. Together, they’ve participated in the World Food Program USA’s “Live Below the Line” challenge all week, in which they’re doing what 870 million people do every day: subsist on just $1.50 in food a day.
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Joe Biden's son Hunter served on the board of the World Food Program USA from 2009 to 2018, the organization confirmed to Lead Stories. He was the board chair from 2012 to 2017.
This post was edited on 2/9/21 at 12:36 pm
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:35 pm to GhostOfFreedom
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Dominion spokesman: 'Mike Lindell is begging to be sued"
I swear Dominion reminds me of Fred Sanford squaring off.
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:44 pm to GhostOfFreedom
If people can literally accuse Trump of things like rape, treason, election rigging, racketeering, etc.. with zero fear of repercussion - why should the company who puts these public figures in office be insulated from the shite slinging?
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:46 pm to GhostOfFreedom
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CNN's Brian Stelter
Mr. Potato Head needs his facial features rearranged.
SWIDT?
Posted on 2/9/21 at 3:04 pm to GhostOfFreedom
quote:lol. Dominion getting punked by the pillow guy. They just admitted he is daring them to sue and they have no plans to do so
and at some point, we may well oblige him
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