Paul Ryan Fourteeners Thread Deleted! Why?

Hmm, interesting. Unfortunately I'd imagine that most of these "we won't sue you if . . ." agreements also contain some sort of non-disclosure clause. I.e. you can't come out and say you took something down because they threatened to sue you, or they will sue you. We probably won't get much from CMac if that's the case. Unless it's after the election?

Main article: United States defamation law
The origins of US defamation law pre-date the American Revolution; one famous 1734 case involving John Peter Zenger sowed the seed for the later establishment of truth as an absolute defense against libel charges. The outcome of the case is one of jury nullification, and not a case where the defense acquitted itself as a matter of law. (Previous English defamation law had not provided the defense of truth.) Though the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was designed to protect freedom of the press, for most of the history of the United States, the Supreme Court neglected to use it to rule on libel cases. This left libel laws, based upon the traditional common law of defamation inherited from the English legal system, mixed across the states. The 1964 case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, however, dramatically altered the nature of libel law in the United States by elevating the fault element for public officials to actual malice—that is, . Later Supreme Court cases dismissed the claim for libel and forbade libel claims for statements that are so ridiculous to be clearly not true, or that involve opinionated subjects such as one's physical state of being. Recent cases have addressed defamation law and the internet.
Defamation law in the United States is much less plaintiff-friendly than its counterparts in European and the Commonwealth countries. In the United States, a comprehensive discussion of what is and is not libel or slander is difficult, because the definition differs between different states, and under federal law. Some states codify what constitutes slander and libel together into the same set of laws. Criminal libel is rare or nonexistent, depending on the state. Defenses to libel that can result in dismissal before trial include the statement being one of opinion rather than fact or being "fair comment and criticism". Truth is always a defense.

Isn't it only an assumption that something as suggested, took place???...

From Kalimon:

Seriously . . . from the first day of his being installed as Mittens running mate this guy proved himself to be full of sh#t. Whatever his connection with literature or music, be assured it is not authentic. Same with his 14er record . . . let's see the summit registers.