October 28, 2004

Is Kos a public figure?

Christian Crumlish

House Majority Whip Tom DeLay notes that Daily Kos is supporting his opponent, Mr. Morrison (one of the Kos Dozen), asserting

"Mr. Morrison also has taken money and is working with the Daily Kos, which is an organization that raises money for fighters against the U.S. in Iraq."

Markos laughsthis off (Daily Kos :: TX-22: DeLay is losing it), but I wonder if he should be pursuing his legal options. It sounds like DeLay is accusing the popular left-wing blog site of treason without any basis for saying so.

This seems similar to Hasert's insinuations against Soros, but Soros is clearly a public figure (yet he himself sent a letter demanding a retraction). Is Moulitsas?

Posted by xian at October 28, 2004 1:48 PM
Comments

I would say yes he is. He has appeared on national media, has an international column.

Posted by: filchyboy at October 28, 2004 2:25 PM
Other incoming links (via Technorati)

Hosted by Mediajunkie.

Sponsors
On this day in 2003
Documenting DeanSpace: So much for downtime. My FrontPage book is in the can (but still needs a website), and the revision of my Dreamweaver book proceeds a pace, ably handled for the most part by my new coauthor, Lucinda Dykes. My next major project is more than a month a away. Mostly I've... (Politics)
On this day in 2002
The acceptable face of panhandling: I'm experimenting with the various forms of solicitations available to bloggers to seek support from their readers. I haven't put anything on the home page yet (except for the Amazon link to my Dreamweaver book that's been there for months). For now I'm just parking the various badges and come-on's in... (Weblog Concepts)
Still unpacking blogses. Having ceased: Still unpacking blogses. Having ceased posting new content to bodega, I haven't exactly been tearing it up over here at x-pollen yet (which...... (Miscellany)
Paid LJ users can add: Paid LJ users can add my new blog as a friend. markpasc set up a RSS channel at http://livejournal.com/users/xpollen/ that will mirror all my posts to my new blog. Now I just need to add the RSS feed for my friends page (if it exists) to my Radio Userland aggregator and... (Miscellany)
I document my failure: The fact that that metalinker stuff never worked and was causing error messages in IE6/Win browsers like a piece of toilet paper stuck to my shoe, and the fact that I still haven't been able to get a TrackBack ping-based metablog working, or RSS monkey installed, for that matter. I'm not... (Best Practices)
Envy: the great motivator. Capital: Envy: the great motivator. Capital Influx confesses her frustration with the success of Jonathan Safran Foer. When I first started hearing his name (of...... (Miscellany)
Javascript error on my page: Andrew Bayer pointed out that he was getting this message when trying to load RFB in IE 6 for Windows: Line: 508 Char: 76 Error: Expected ')' Code: 0 URL: http://radiofreeblogistan.com/ It turns out the culprit was my half-assed attempted to install ThinkBlank's metalinker code into this page. In so doing,... (Weblog Concepts)
Nevermind...: It appears that restarting Radio fixed the problem, whatever it was. Probably some overnight bug thang. Never underestimate the power of power-cycling! Inspirational lyric of the moment: A hypnotist A fancy talker Ruben Remus ain't no doctor –Bob Dylan & the Band... (Weblog Concepts)
Very strange Radio error: I was trying to post an entry about a Javascript error on the RFB home page when instead of Radio successfully posting the entry and returning the usual desktop weblog homepage, the ordinary text box was replaced with this error message: [Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name ""... (Weblog Concepts)