{"id":175545,"date":"2021-01-24T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/24\/today-in-schadenfreude\/"},"modified":"2021-01-24T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T01:10:00","slug":"today-in-schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/24\/today-in-schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court has       <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/high-profile\/texas-supreme-court-silently-denies-alex-jones-all-forms-of-relief-sandy-hook-families-and-others-can-now-sue-conspiracy-theorist-and-infowars-into-the-ground\/\">ruled that Alex Jones can be sued for libel by parents of the Sandy         Hook mass shooting victims<\/a>.&nbsp; (Also various other sundry people that he accused of being false       flag actors)<\/p>\n<p>    It was enough of a slam dunk that they did not even bother to write an       opinion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">An empire built on conjecture, conspiracy and a series of fake homeopathic     cures for various ailments stands to be sued into oblivion after a Friday     ruling by the Supreme Court of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Without comment, the Lone     Star State\u2019s highest civil court found that America\u2019s foremost conspiracy     theorist, Alex Jones, and his flagship media outlet, InfoWars, are subject     to liability in four separate defamation lawsuits filed over the past     two-plus years. Those lawsuits were filed by parents of children who were     killed during the Sandy Hook massacre and by a man Jones and his network     falsely identified as the perpetrator of the Parkland massacre at Marjory     Stoneman Douglas High School.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after     the 2012 shooting that left 20 children and six teachers dead in Newtown,     Connecticut, Jones used his by-then vast platform to spread the idea that     the murders were part of a \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation meant to scare the     population into giving up their guns and Second Amendment rights. Jones also     smeared the parents of the dead children, calling them \u201ccrisis actors.\u201d None     of those claims were true but the pernicious ideas gained traction among the     easily-influenced.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur clients have been     tormented for five years by Mr. Jones\u2019 ghoulish accusations that they are     actors who faked their children\u2019s deaths as part of a fraud on the American     people,\u201d Bankston said in a statement at the time, \u201cEnough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Marcel     Fontane, a Massachusetts resident who has never been to Florida, also sued     Jones and InfoWars during the spring of 2018 after being singled out by     Jones and InfoWars reporter Kit Daniels\u2013falsely accusing him of being the     Parkland shooter in a vain attempt to link the massacre to the political     far-left. The outlet also published a photograph of Fontaine wearing a     satirical t-shirt depicting several former Communist historical     figures.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Here&#8217;s hoping that they take him for all he has.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Billie Ray Velentine from the movie <i>Trading Places<\/i>, &#8220;You know, it occurs to me that the best way to hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  H\/t Ecop at the Stellar Parthenon BBS. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Alex Jones can be sued for libel by parents of the Sandy Hook mass shooting victims.&nbsp; (Also various other sundry people that he accused of being false flag actors) It was enough of a slam dunk that they did not even bother to write an opinion: An empire &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[490,387,407,385,486],"class_list":["post-175545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hack-journalism","tag-hypocrisy","tag-justice","tag-media","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}