Rush’s Law?
An unfortunate side effect of the Rush Limbaugh-St. Louis Rams debacle is that we have to suffer through another onslaught of conservative victimology. Michael Ledeen writes at National Review’s The Corner:
If we had serious libel laws, these attacks would be more difficult. It should be possible for a person to defend himself in court by proving that public attacks against him are false and damaging. As things stand, he has to show that his libeler deliberately and knowingly spread false and damaging stories.
Second, the attack on Rush is an attack on everyone, on all of us. Because it shows that the moment any of us becomes a forceful and credible voice for anything “they” don’t like, they will hunt us down. And yes, “they” come in different political colors, but at the moment “they” are massed on the left.
Yes, a multimillionaire broadcaster was victimized because the law doesn’t make it easy enough for him to deploy the state against his critics. Coming from Michael Ledeen — a man who said the U.S. government needs to “pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall” every ten years or so — that’s quite a lesson.
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