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Zimmerman's defense team closed by claiming GZ was the real victim,...of the media. (Original Post)
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2013
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russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)1. I caught that too.......
I thought I would mellow in my old age....This verdict, in the state I live, makes me ill.
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. Yes they played that RWing card like a seasoned vet.
Amazing.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)3. Big payday for lawyers ahead.
I think they are laying groundwork for suing "liberal" media outlets.
Rex
(65,616 posts)4. Read that, Zim has a defamation of character lawsuit
against one of the M$M stations. Probably is going to go sue happy.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)6. Tracked it down
How Will "Not Guilty" Verdict Affect George Zimmerman's Libel Suit Against NBC?
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/digitalunlimited/partners/sns-201307140023reedbusivarietyn1200562075-20130714,0,3978137.story
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/digitalunlimited/partners/sns-201307140023reedbusivarietyn1200562075-20130714,0,3978137.story
... In a defamation trial, however, NBC can say that the not guilty verdict "has limited probative value as far as establishing a claim that they acted with actual malice toward him, that they acted with actual indifference to the truth," Armour said. The point is that a defamation trial would have to do with the circumstances at the time the story aired. ...
CitizenLeft
(2,791 posts)5. I had the TV muted during that over-long self-serving smug press conference
...but I just heard on MSNBC some of the things they had said. That Zimmerman's prosecution was "disgraceful." Their petty jabs at Mr. Crump. I can accept defense lawyers doing everything they can to get their client off, but when they continue to display their nastiness, bigotry and pettiness AFTER the verdict, they show just what ugly people they really are.
spanone
(135,841 posts)7. what horseshit. zimmerman is breathing.
underpants
(182,823 posts)8. That is RW radio/Fox News in a nutshell