Gloria Allred to West Palm Beach prosecutor: You really should go after Rush, you know
posted at 4:15 pm on March 9, 2012 by Tina Korbe
Go figure: Gotcha lawyer Gloria Allred has proved herself more than willing to embroil herself in the controversy that continues to plague radio host Rush Limbaugh. The president of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund sent a letter to the county prosecutor of West Palm Beach, Florida, to call for an investigation into whether Limbaugh violated Florida defamation law. From TPM:
Allred cites Section 836.04 of Florida Statute, which says that “whoever speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.”
“Mr. Limbaugh has publicly acknowledged that his reference to Ms. Fluke as a ‘slut’ and ‘prostitute’ were baseless and false,” Allred writes. “In view of the fact that Mr. Limbaugh resides in your county and allegedly made the false statements concerning Ms. Fluke in your county as well, this letter is directed to your office.”
Limbaugh might have spoken falsely — in case the question lingers, Sandra Fluke is not actually a prostitute — but whether he spoke maliciously is another matter. His apology could be construed to bolster the case either for or against him. For him, in that his apology states clearly that he had no intention to cause harm to Ms. Fluke. Against him, in that his apology might be taken as evidence that he thinks he did cause harm to her — and that might be used to suggest he originally spoke with the intention to harm her.
Limbaugh’s point in calling Fluke a “prostitute” was not to discredit Fluke herself or to imply that she actually takes money for sex, but to illustrate the grubbing nature of her argument for the administration’s contraception mandate. Limbaugh’s argument was not particularly refined, but it was also not malicious in either the normal or legal sense of the word.
No matter — that I’m parsing the legal definition of malice in this case indicates just how overblown it has become. Limbaugh has become — for the time being at least — a liberal whipping boy and Sandra Fluke has become a sainted martyr.
As further proof of the latter, the PR firm of former Obama adviser Anita Dunn on Monday
started to represent Fluke pro bono. The left is clearly invested in her as a campaign prop, as Bill O’Reilly
explained on his program last night.
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Yep. Unfortunately, many Repubs are praying for a messiah (e.g. Obama), instead of lifting their eys to the truth.
TitularHead on April 18, 2013 at 9:43 PM
Wow pappy. A comment that long I just skipped thinking it was ResistMuchWeeWee.
oldroy on April 18, 2013 at 9:44 PM
A merica is a terrible thing to waste.
That joke is from my former boss who fought in the South Pacific. He went to a college to tutor as a volunteer and was surprised that the kids never heard of Iwo Jima. But he was more upset by their denial of American exceptionalism and and lack of commitment.
He had stories to tell them — and me.
Don’t give up. Work with your state or local party. If it feels useless, just try to organize something.
Too few centrist and right people make friends and get involved.
Pray and ask God to lead you.
Great men suffered and died for the fragile thing we have left.
IlikedAUH2O on April 18, 2013 at 9:45 PM
Never have missed a vote. Never will vote again. Let it burn.
oldroy on April 18, 2013 at 9:48 PM
You’ll have to cut TerryE some slack. She’s a party-first kind of gal. Destroying the country is fine with her, as long as a republican wins as a result.
xblade on April 18, 2013 at 9:54 PM
“Because we are sooooo stupid” — The Rs in DC
Schadenfreude on April 18, 2013 at 9:56 PM
To hell with the Republicans.
Sarah Palin, we need you.
Zorro on April 18, 2013 at 10:40 PM
Rubio is a joke and he’s making the Tea Party look incompetent for dragging his phony azz out. He’s thinking he’ll get the Hispanic vote with this move and he’s trying to shore that base up…Mark my words he’ll leave the Republican Party and run as a demorat as soon as he gets this through, well, if he does.
Tbone McGraw on April 18, 2013 at 10:57 PM
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rickyricardo on April 18, 2013 at 11:02 PM
We have seen in the middle-East the negative effect of tribalism and loyalty to the tribe rather than to the country so perhaps Rubio’s support of what appears to be a Chuck Schumer orchestrated amnesty bill is just expressing his loyalty to the Hispanic tribe over loyalty to the USA.
Nomas on April 19, 2013 at 6:45 AM
Illegal immigration could be enforced, we just don’t have many like sheriff Joe who will stand up and try to do what is right. You see NY can put out a bounty on American citizens who own a firearm, but you cannot question the customer or cashier in Wall-mart that doesn’t know a single word of English. If we made employers criminally liable for those they hired and made it ever Americans responsibility to report those that are clearly not American, this problem would be nipped in the bud. But in this day and age, doing what is right will brand you as being a xenophobe or a racist.
SGinNC on April 19, 2013 at 10:23 AM
Question for Rubio: will there be any quota on Chechnyan Islamist immigration?
Do we have enough of their “diversity” yet?
virgo on April 20, 2013 at 9:47 AM
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