Was there any news on DU about this?

[yuiyoshida]

Link to tweet

[Wounded Bear]

1. First I've heard of it, but FreedomWatch?

Sketchy source.

[yuiyoshida]

2. I suppose that photo could be from anywhere..

SO are you saying this is fake news? or... is this something that's happening to her. I can't seem to find any news about this on the internet..

[Wounded Bear]

3. I'm saying I don't know, but I don't trust the source...

If more comes out on more mainstream sources, I'd trust it better. It's actually hard to prove "defamation" against a newsperson.

Usually, things like this are not much more than publicity stunts.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Actually, since Freedom Watch is Klayman's organization I'd say it is a very good source

in this case.

Klayman actually sued Maddow once before (for a client) but lost the case.

See:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/bradlee-dean-rachel-maddow-judge_n_1663020.html

Edited to add:
Apparently the picture is from the 2011 lawsuit Klayman filed and lost, not a new lawsuit.

[Wounded Bear]

8. All the more reason to ignore it/him...

why give him clicks? He has a history, and it isn't very reality based.

[Tanuki]

4. Oh, ffs, Larry Krayman is a litigious right wing loon who tried to sue Obama

and the Clintons numerous time for ridiculous trumped up offenses. Why would you be quoting Freedom Watch here? If you are not familar, read this:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/freedom-watch/

[yuiyoshida]

5. I saw this come across on my twitter feed...

I do happen to like Rachael Maddow and would hate to see her sued for something..anyway I was curious if this was even news or not...

[Blue_Tires]

7. Klayman is a far right nutbar who sues everyone

http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/hillary-clinton-sued-for-alleged-wrongful-death-defamation

And like all the rest of his suits, this will be tossed out by a judge

[lagomorph777]

10. An opportunity for her to display his idiocy on Teevee.

And she will do a lovely 15-minute intro about his organization's history, no doubt.

[yuiyoshida]

11. oh gosh I certainly hope so ...

I would hate to see Rachel screwed by this law suit.

[bathroommonkey76]

12. The deplorables are good at spreading fake news on the Twitter.

Question:

Why would you follow anyone who spreads this junk on there?

[yuiyoshida]

14. It was probably retweeted

by one of the people on my follow list. There is no way to scan who follows you, and you can only guess why they want to. In any case if they are proven to be right wingers, they get deleted very quickly.

[bathroommonkey76]

18. I've made sure that my follower list is only from sane people

During the election I had one GOP follower-- I ended up going off on her for the lies she was spreading-- Her name is Elizabeth Imus. lol

Before that she used to flirt with me all the time in direct messages. haha

[yuiyoshida]

20. You said you make sure you only follow sane people...

That's not exactly an App that Twitter has, there is no way to tell, what a person's state of mind is when they follow you. I do go and look at their postings, just to see what is happening and again, if they prove out to be right wingers, love Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, they get removed and blocked.

But there is NO SCREENING process on twitter. You get what you see..and you can choose to follow someone or not. I am glad most of my followers love Japanese music, cause most of them enjoy the posts of videos...especially the new Japanese music I find on my streams.

[bathroommonkey76]

21. Well, if they retweet @freedomwatchweb & Larry Klayman

then I know they're not sane. lol

[yuiyoshida]

23. Truthfully I don't even know who Larry Klayman is as I have

never heard about him either way on DU. Freedomwatch rings a bell, but again I didn't know but I know now. If it comes up again, on twitter those who retweet it will be deleted.

[oberliner]

9. That photo is from 2011

She was sued in August of that year by Larry Klayman.

The suit was unsuccessful and his client was ordered to pay her legal fees.

[yuiyoshida]

13. Thanks for the info...

The way they used that photo on Twitter, seemed like it was taken this morning or today...I was concerned and couldn't believe they would go this far to shut up a progressive on air news personality.

[oberliner]

16. If you're willing to visit a crazy RW site, you can see the original article that went with the pic

Here it is:

http://www.wnd.com/2011/08/332101/

(Provided for informational purposes only)

[yuiyoshida]

19. okay thanks...

I wish Twitter had a screening process, most of the time I get these businesses that want to sell me crap, and I just block and delete them. Most of my followers are people who like my posts but like I said above, if they prove out to be right wingers, I dump them pretty quickly.

[PoliticAverse]

15. Ah so that picture is from the unsucessfull Bradlee Dean 2011 defamation lawsuit.

See:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/bradlee-dean-rachel-maddow-judge_n_1663020.html

[ailsagirl]

22. Thanks for that info

[Dem2]

29. lol

freaking internet

[JHan]

17. If true, typical of Klayman. He treats the courts system like a roll of TP.

[msanthrope]

24. OH LOOK.....The True Progressives of DU lauding Larry Klayman.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024184960

To the jury... The admin has provided a handy search box in the upper right hand corner and posting old threads on du is not prohibited.

[yuiyoshida]

25. did you flag it?

ya did right?

[msanthrope]

26. Aw... hell's no. That thread is comedy gold, from the OP banned for racism

To the individual posters who provided their adept legal analysis.

No way I'm alerting on that and losing its usefulness.

[yuiyoshida]

27. It said his posting privileges were revoked....so

Why is the thread not locked? I don't understand this stuff sometimes.

[spanone]

28. bet she's proud to piss off that idiot