re: #299 avanti

Good point, when did Obama fight back by threatening to sue as Palin is doing ? link ?

Obama didn’t have to personally sue, because he had thousands of lawyers, supporters, advisors etc. who jumped on each issue and fought back in all sorts of other ways — either through the politics of personal destruction against the persons spreading the rumors, or by having a sympathetic media complex go to extreme lengths to try to debunk the rumors, or to spend a lot of money, time and effort setting up anti-rumor information sites, etc. Palin has none of those resources available.

Imagine for a moment if someone publicly and very loudly accused you, by your real name, of committing a serious felony crime, with no evidence to back up the claim — and the media happily repeated that accusation, repeatedly. What would you do? What would anybody do?

Again, I agree with Charles that threatenting to sue is probably not the most media-savvy thing for Palin to do, but I can’t bring myself to blame her for taking extreme measures against extreme defamation.