Mark Robinson Sues CNN Over Report Linking Him to Lewd Comments on Porn Site

[Zorro]

Source: New York Times

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, the embattled Republican nominee for governor, filed a defamation lawsuit on Tuesday against CNN, which published an article last month linking him to lewd and offensive comments made years ago on a pornography website.

Mr. Robinson said at a news conference in Raleigh, N.C., that he had not made the comments that the CNN report attributed to him.

The report said that in posts on a porn site called Nude Africa, Mr. Robinson, who is running as a social conservative, described himself as a “black Nazi,” defended slavery and wrote that he enjoyed watching transgender porn.

“When times of trouble come in this thing we call politics, it separates the strong folks from the weak,” Mr. Robinson said at the news conference on Tuesday, standing with his lawyer, Jesse Binnall. “The weak will turn and run, and the strong will stand and fight. And that’s what we’re doing here today.”

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Perhaps Invasion of Privacy, but not Defamation.

The content was true.

[cstanleytech]

5. I don't see a case for invasion of privacy.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Depends how they got the information and whether it was private or public.

But certainly not defamation. Truth is a valid precedented defense.

[cstanleytech]

10. Plus it's extremely telling that he didn't immediately file suit.

[OldBaldy1701E]

17. Extremely telling, I'd say!

Almost as if he was awaiting news as to what exactly they had on him.

[Gore1FL]

11. He posted on a message board.

That sounds pretty public.

[no_hypocrisy]

19. OK, any lawsuit will be tossed at this point.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. He just needs to fuck all the way off, now, and forever

[Think. Again.]

3. Be careful now, l'il Markie...

Streisand effect:

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information. -Wikipedia

[Ford_Prefect]

4. The only thing he'll prove by this is that they told the truth. Isn't a free press is one of our constitutional rights

intended to protect us from predators like Robinson?

[sboatcar]

6. That's gonna get ugly under discovery

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Gee, I hope so!

[hadEnuf]

9. He's a scumbag, a Nazi and he supports the reintroduction of making human beings slaves again in this country.

He is also a member of a political party that is notorious and thrives on digging up mostly false information on political rivals and private citizens to ruin or taint them.

I think a jury will laugh his Nazi ass right out of a courtroom.

[moreland01]

12. He'll drop the lawsuit

right after he loses in November. There is no merit to it. He just wants to look trump-tough before election day.

[Mz Pip]

13. Discovery should be entertaining!

[verargert]

14. idiots keep forgetting about - discovery - all that garbage that is not part of comes out also

[Oopsie Daisy]

15. This is a tactic from Trump's playbook. It's bravado. It's temporary.

If he ever gets around to filing (IF!) then he'll withdraw it in short order.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

16. Evil, Preverted and a fool with $$

He'll go far

[mdbl]

18. So typical. Start a lawsuit to make it look like you're innocent

none of the dumb magasphere will know the difference.