A Question Mark Just Saved James Woods $3 Million
A single question mark saved one conservative celebrity from paying $3 million in defamation charges.
James Woods was sued in March 2017 by Portia Boulger for misidentifying her as a Nazi on Twitter, according to Hollywood Reporter.
A viral photo of a woman at a Chicago rally for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 giving a “Heil Hitler” salute was posted by one Twitter user next to a picture that had run in the Chicago Tribune of Boulger, a reported Bernie Sanders organizer.
Woods reposted the pictures on Twitter with the caption, “So called #Trump ‘Nazi’ is a #BernieSanders agitator/operative?”
The Tweet has since been deleted, but the two women in the pictures were not the same.
Boulger then sued the actor for defamation and sought $3 million in damages.
Woods’ defense was that he was just asking a question that invited
his followers to make their own conclusions, and he wasn’t stating a
fact.
The question mark in Woods’ tweet saved him from the charges, U.S. District Court Judge Geoge Smith wrote in the ruling, according to Hollywood Reporter.
So, while most of Hollywood may have been feting the participants in the second round of Women’s Marches, which took place this past weekend, Woods was pointing out just how ridiculous they really were.
Woods found one picture in particular and decided to make it the face of the kind of liberal that would have been in charge of America had Hillary Clinton won:
Yikes. That looks like a Ralph Steadman illustration from a hypothetical “Fear and Loathing at the 2018’s Women’s March.” Except it’s real. Ironically, Hillary never considered whether this is really “What Happened.”
James Woods was sued in March 2017 by Portia Boulger for misidentifying her as a Nazi on Twitter, according to Hollywood Reporter.
A viral photo of a woman at a Chicago rally for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 giving a “Heil Hitler” salute was posted by one Twitter user next to a picture that had run in the Chicago Tribune of Boulger, a reported Bernie Sanders organizer.
Woods reposted the pictures on Twitter with the caption, “So called #Trump ‘Nazi’ is a #BernieSanders agitator/operative?”
The Tweet has since been deleted, but the two women in the pictures were not the same.
Boulger then sued the actor for defamation and sought $3 million in damages.
The question mark in Woods’ tweet saved him from the charges, U.S. District Court Judge Geoge Smith wrote in the ruling, according to Hollywood Reporter.
So, while most of Hollywood may have been feting the participants in the second round of Women’s Marches, which took place this past weekend, Woods was pointing out just how ridiculous they really were.
Woods found one picture in particular and decided to make it the face of the kind of liberal that would have been in charge of America had Hillary Clinton won:
Yikes. That looks like a Ralph Steadman illustration from a hypothetical “Fear and Loathing at the 2018’s Women’s March.” Except it’s real. Ironically, Hillary never considered whether this is really “What Happened.”
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