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2016 Postmortem

Cha

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23. Eeeek! Hubris thy name is Mark Steyn..

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 05:04 AM

Jan 2014

"Most remarkable, however, has been the behavior of Steyn — the one who got National Review into this mess in the first place. Rather than keep quiet and keep his head down, Steyn at one point wrote a caustic blog post which described one of the judges reviewing the case as stupid and incompetent. The predictable result of this brazen act of self-destruction was Steyn’s being dumped by the law firm tasked with defending him. And it looks like the firm is soon to show National Review the door, too."

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A defamation lawsuit may kill National Review [View all] DonViejo Jan 2014 OP

This case survived the motion to dismiss Gothmog Jan 2014 #1

Thanks G~ Cha Jan 2014 #24

Republicans never know when to fucking shut up. They imagine themselves badasses TwilightGardener Jan 2014 #2

Actually, they imagine that they own EVERYTHING including the courts.... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2014 #10

DNA coding bpj62 Jan 2014 #20

How sad. truebluegreen Jan 2014 #3

Mark Steyn is a lunatic. stopbush Jan 2014 #4

He's also BobbyBoring Jan 2014 #7

Defamation hard to prove but not impossible. Publicly accusing a research scientist of fraud yellowcanine Jan 2014 #5

Mann is refusing to settle. He wants this to go to court and be heard. I think he wants case law and okaawhatever Jan 2014 #22

The Koch Brothers will bail them out. PeoViejo Jan 2014 #6

them or Shelly Adelson nt geek tragedy Jan 2014 #8

lol at your sig line. rofl Cha Jan 2014 #25

The Kochs are 73 and 78. Sheldon Adelson is 80. tclambert Jan 2014 #13

Weeping not in the vocabulary saidsimplesimon Jan 2014 #16

I think that is a decent question davidpdx Jan 2014 #26

They almost certainly have staffs who will carry on their troglodyte traditions jmowreader Feb 2014 #29

I have high hopes for Mann's case. Aldo Leopold Jan 2014 #9

I agree, and I hope Mann doesn't settle out of court. I hope he takes it all Nay Jan 2014 #11

National Review is still around? Warpy Jan 2014 #12

My dim recollection is that the Review has been on life support for a long time... Orsino Jan 2014 #14

Oh, dear struggle4progress Jan 2014 #15

I hope he wins all of the "intellectual" property, copyrights and trademarks eggplant Jan 2014 #17

Sounds like the Koch brothers are going to have to provide a bunch more money . . . another_liberal Jan 2014 #18

I believe Mr. Buckley is turning over in his grave Jack Rabbit Jan 2014 #19

The individual defendant fired his legal counsel and is defending this case pro se Gothmog Jan 2014 #21

Eeeek! Hubris thy name is Mark Steyn.. Cha Jan 2014 #23

Darn - I'll have to go back to buying regular toilet paper lame54 Feb 2014 #27

Here is another article on this lawsuit Gothmog Feb 2014 #28

Possible Reason for attacking judge hobie Feb 2014 #30