A few months ago Dave Checketts (Chairman of the Blues hockey team) was trying to get a group together for a joint purchase of the Rams. Within the group was Rush Limbaugh. St. Louisians revolted and it was all over the media how fans did NOT want Limbaugh to be part owner of one of our sports teams. In the media spin, a long standing "rumor" became discussed again.
It is said that a topic came up about slavery once. "Slavery built the South," Limbaugh was reported to have said. "I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merit. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
Rush says he never said this. It's become so viral that people do seem to believe he said that. It was brought up again during the Rams negotiations and the negative media attentions he was receiving made Dave Checketts back out of having Rush in the finance group.
Lawyers say that Rush could have a libel case if he truly never said it.
As a public figure, Wiehl said, Limbaugh would have to prove actual malice and damages -- meaning he'd have to show that the media organizations knowingly and maliciously published that information without regard for the truth, and that he suffered because of it.
"It's a higher standard," she said. "If they actually made up a quote that cost him a deal that he would've otherwise gotten, then yeah, he's got a case."
For more, here's the whole article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,566983,00.html
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