Chronic Lying Nigger Democrat Joy Reid Again Faces Defamation Claim Over Social Media Posts

An appellate court has ruled that Joy Reid, the new host of 
MSNBC’s 7 PM weeknight hour, should again face a defamation 
lawsuit over a woman’s claim that, in Reid’s social media posts, 
she falsely accused her of making racist remarks at a 2018 Simi 
Valley, CA city council meeting.

The plaintiff in the case, Roslyn La Liberte, contends that in 
one of Reid’s social media posts on Instagram, she defamed her 
by attributing racist remarks to her. Then in another post on 
Facebook and Instagram, La Liberte claims, Reid juxtaposed a 
photo from the council meeting with the 1957 image of a white 
woman in Little Rock screaming execrations at a Black child 
trying to go to school.

The appellate ruling overturns a district judge’s decision that 
the case should be dismissed.

The judges overturned a lower court ruling that La Liberte is a 
limited purpose public figure, something that would require a 
higher threshold to prove defamation.

“Accordingly, she was not required to allege that Reid acted 
with actual malice as to either post,” the three-judge panel 
wrote. “Moreover, the court erred by characterizing Reid’s 
second post as nonactionable opinion … That post could be 
interpreted as accusing La Liberte of engaging in specific 
racist conduct, which is a provable assertion of fact and 
therefore actionable.”

The appellate court also ruled that the case could not be 
dismissed under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, designed to 
prevent plaintiffs from stifling free speech via litigation. The 
judges found that the California law was “inapplicable” in 
federal court because “it increases a plaintiff’s burden to 
overcome pretrial dismissal.”

The appellate court agreed with another aspect of the district 
judge’s ruling — that Reid is not protected by Section 230 of 
the Communications Decency Act. That provides immunity to sites 
for content posted by third parties. “To the contrary, she is 
the sole author of both allegedly defamatory posts,” the judges 
wrote.

MSNBC declined comment. Her attorney, John Reichman, said in a 
statement, “We are disappointed that the case was not dismissed, 
but that doesn’t change the fact that the case is completely 
without merit and we will vigorously contest it.”

In their opinion (read it here), the judges laid out the 
sequence of events.

In June, 2018, La Liberte spoke at the council meeting to speak 
out against a state law that limits cooperation between law 
enforcement and federal immigration authorities.

Photographed with a 14-year-old Hispanic teenager near her, La 
Liberte was shown with her hand to her throat and making a 
gagging gesture.

One activist, Alan Vargas, tweeted the photo on June 28 with the 
caption, “You are going to be the first deported” [and] “dirty 
Mexican” [w]ere some of the things they yelled they yelled [sic] 
at this 14 year old boy. He was defending immigrants at a rally 
and was shouted down. Spread this far and wide this woman needs 
to be put on blast.

Reid retweeted Vargas’s tweet the next day.

La Liberte, though, takes issue with Reid’s further posts. On 
June 29, she posted the photo on Instagram with the caption, He 
showed up to a rally to defend immigrants . . . . She showed up 
too, in her MAGA hat, and screamed, “You are going to be the 
first deported” . . . “dirty Mexican!” He is 14 years old. She 
is an adult. Make the picture black and white and it could be 
the 1950s and the desegregation of a school. Hate is real, 
y’all. It hasn’t even really gone away.

The teenager gave an interview to Fox 11 in Los Angeles and told 
the station that La Liberte did not yell racial slurs and that 
the discussion was “civil.”

On July 1, Reid posted in Instagram and Facebook a post that 
juxtoposed the photo with one from 1957, during the 
desegregation of Little Rock High School.

The caption read, It was inevitable that this [juxtaposition] 
would be made. It’s also easy to look at old black and white 
photos and think: I can’t believe that person screaming at a 
child, with their face twisted in rage, is real. By [sic] every 
one of them were. History sometimes repeats. And it is full of 
rage. Hat tip to @joseiswriting. #regram #history #chooselove.

La Liberte hired a lawyer, who contacted Reid to take down the 
posts and apologize. She did, and said in a statement that “it 
appears that I got this wrong.”

La Liberte, though, pursued a defamation claim, accusing Reid of 
falsely claiming that she yelled racial slurs at the teenager.

The judges wrote that Reid, in her June 29 post,  “went way 
beyond her earlier retweet of Vargas in ways that intensified 
and specified the vile conduct that she was attributing to La 
Liberte. She accordingly stands liable for any defamatory 
content.”

The judges rejected the notion that plaintiffs can only sue “the 
first defamer,” or the original source of the material. In that 
case, they noted that Vargas’ tweet did not specifically 
attribute remarks to La Liberte, but Reid did.

The judges wrote, “Reid is arguing that a plaintiff can sue only 
the first defamer. If that were so, a post by an obscure social 
media user with few followers, blogging in the recesses of the 
internet, would allow everyone else to pile on without 
consequence. No one’s reputation would be worth a thing.”

In rejecting the claim that La Liberte was a limited purpose 
public figure, the judges wrote that even though she did a 
television interview after Vargas’s tweet but before Reid’s 
posts, she “did not use the interview to inject herself to the 
forefront of the sanctuary-state controversy; she was pulled 
into a spotlight.” That sets the standard lower for La Liberte 
to pursue her claim, that Reid was merely negligent in her posts.

The whore is a repeated lying nigger.

MSNBC promotes a repeatedly demonstrated lying nigger.

https://deadline.com/2020/07/joy-reid-defamation-lawsuit-
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