Devin Nunes now suing the Fresno Bee for $150 million after story on 'cocaine and underage prostitut
Source: Raw Story
BOB BRIGHAM
08 APR 2019 AT 22:12 ET
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is suing the parent company of his hometown newspaper for $150 million, Fox News reported Monday.
The lawsuit targets The McClatchy Company, owners of the Fresno Bee, along with reporter MacKenzie Mays and Republican consultant Liz Mair.
The lawsuit complains about a May 23, 2018 article titled, A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes: Winery partly owned by Nunes sued after fundraiser event.
Link to tweet
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/devin-nunes-now-suing-fresno-bee-150-million-story-cocaine-underage-prostitutes-report/?utm_source=push_notifications
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Ya know, the exact kind of thing that reporters do all over the world, every single day.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)It is reporting information that came out in a 2016 trial.
Sounds like everything is factual or were statements presented in court so I don't see what he could sue about.
It even says that he was just an investor and had no connection to the running of the company.
But now the whole world will know.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... I knew I had read of this prior to May, 2018. Too lazy to check my bookmarks. Thanks for the reminder!
And as I recall, that holding company/winery only exports to Russia.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)I really needed it.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,005 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)all about this and much much more. This guy is as corrupt as they come. The thread began with this exact story.
Sidenote:Welch's grape juice company of all things, played a role in the whole crazy story.
kimbutgar
(21,162 posts)This was in the 60s. The John birchers are todays repukes on steroids.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)crazytown
(7,277 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)but probably true.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)See photo in post #3.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)My brain hurts
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)Suing is a true American pastime.
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defacto7
(13,485 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Go for it, tough guy!!
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)These Nunes lawsuits are ridiculous and meant to muzzle the press - a direct violation of the First Amendment. Sickening.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)BOB BRIGHAM
08 APR 2019 AT 23:57 ET
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was widely mocked on Monday after Fox News reported he was suing his hometown newspaper for $150 million over a story titled, A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes: Winery partly owned by Nunes sued after fundraiser event.
One particularly embarrassing error in the lawsuit was discovered by LA Times national correspondent Matt Pearce.
In a section of the lawsuit discussing a tweet by former Fresno Bee reporter Mackenzie Mays, the authors made a major mistake.
The lawsuit includes a picture of the tweet, showing three words bolded. The accompanying text reads, In her tweet, Mays chose to emphasize the words woman, Devin and cocaine.
The problem is, Twitter does not allow a user to emphasize words with bolding. It seems Nunes lawyers did a keyword search for those terms, then took a picture of the response with their keywords bolded.
More:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/devin-nunes-lawyers-just-stupid-republican-ridiculed-attorneys-ridiculously-funny-blunder/?utm_source=push_notifications
marble falls
(57,104 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)What he and his lawyers did was do a keyword search in her tweets. So of course, the "hits" showed up in bold. Then they filed a lawsuit claiming that she put those words in bold in her original tweet. The trouble is, Twitter doesn't allow bolded words.
Idiots.
Judi Lynn
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crazytown
(7,277 posts)(sorry, could not resist)
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Well, so much for the land of milk and honey.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)The Story of Ferdinand (1936) is the best known work written by American author Munro Leaf and illustrated by Robert Lawson. The children's book tells the story of a bull who would rather smell flowers than fight in bullfights. He sits in the middle of the bull ring failing to take heed of any of the provocations of the matador and others to fight.
Plot
Young Ferdinand does not enjoy butting heads with other young bulls, preferring instead to lie under a cork tree smelling the flowers. His mother is concerned that he might be lonely and tries to persuade him to play with the other calves, but when she sees that Ferdinand is content as he is, she leaves him alone.
When the calves grow up, Ferdinand turns out to be the largest and strongest of the young bulls. All the other bulls dream of being chosen to compete in the bullfight in Madrid, but Ferdinand still prefers smelling the flowers instead. One day, five men come to the pasture to choose a bull for the fights. Ferdinand is again on his own, sniffing flowers, when he accidentally sits on a bumblebee. Upon getting stung as a result, he runs wildly across the field, snorting and stamping. Mistaking Ferdinand for a mad and aggressive bull, the men rename him "Ferdinand the Fierce" and take him away to Madrid.
All the beautiful ladies of Madrid turn out to see the handsome matador fight "Ferdinand the Fierce". However, when Ferdinand is led into the ring, he is delighted by the flowers in the ladies' hair and lies down in the middle of the ring to enjoy them, upsetting and disappointing everyone. The Banderilleros were mad, the Picadores were madder, and the matador was so especially mad that he started crying because he could not show off with his cape and sword. Ferdinand is then taken back to his pasture, where to this day, he is still smelling flowers.
Publication
The book's first run by Viking Press in 1936 sold 14,000 copies at $1 each. The following year saw sales increase to 68,000 and by 1938, the book was selling at 3,000 per week. That year, it outsold Gone with the Wind to become the number one best seller in the United States.
The book has been translated into more than 60 foreign languages, and, at least as of 2002, has never been out of print. In 2000, a Latin version of the text was published by David R. Godine, Publisher as Ferdinandus Taurus.
A first-edition copy sold at auction for $16,500 in 2014.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Works as a song too.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Without his stupid lawsuits, I NEVER would have known about his cow or his winery's association with cocaine and child prostitution.
Opel_Justwax
(230 posts)Go ahead and sue me Nunes.
BlueFlorida
(1,532 posts)This will give the story several folds more exposure and will go viral.
The lawsuit will be thrown out on summary judgment.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)marble falls
(57,104 posts)he's one for Ripley's believe it or not, and then prison.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The defense to any story is truth. I hope it's true. The Fresno Bee has been involved in controversy before, if this is the same one I'm thinking of. It's where the Scott Petersen or his parents lived (Petersen murdered his pregnant wife, Lacy). The local "Bee" paper reported on it more than a few times, and didn't spare details.
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Interesting.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)Hassler
(3,379 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)someone's in a persnickety moo'd