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October 3, 2004
Wizbang blog authors may be sued for libel
Dave Neiwert has the full scoop over at his blog, but here's the reader's digest version.
The jackals over at the Wizbang blog have been attacking the work of Utah State professor David Hailey. They're about to get their butts spanked.
David needn't worry, actually. Because the folks at Wizbang are about to discover that there are consequences for leveling these charges.Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.While it's true that, as the Deseret News reported, Hailey himself is not considering legal action against the authors of the Wizbang posts that have openly libeled him, the same cannot be said of the officials at Utah State University.
Hailey, in fact, assured me that the university's attorneys consider the Wizbang posts "fully actionable" and are in the process of preparing legal remedy for the defamation of character that the blog has leveled both against Hailey and the university.
"This is a matter of academic freedom to them," Hailey said. "When you start attacking legitimate research just because you don't think it's something that should be explored, you're attacking the right of academics to work freely. That's an important battle for them."
The feeding frenzy the right wing has had over the whole CBS memos is about to result in some very nasty repercussions for them.
You want to play on the same playground as the big boys, then you'll find that the big boy's rules apply to you.
Welcome to the real world, members of the Fighting 101 keyboarders. Let's see how you handle it.
Posted by Azael at October 3, 2004 7:54 AM
