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| UPDATE: 'Atlanta Journal-Constitution' Not Sued by McKinney |
| 2006-08-02 |
| By E&P Staff Published: August 02, 2006 11:20 AM ET NEW YORK A Democratic congresswoman from Georgia is not suing The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for libel, contrary to a report in E&P yesterday. U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney has not in fact filed suit against the Journal-Constitution, according to attorney Tom Clyde, who is representing the paper. Yesterday, it was incorrectly reported that McKinney filed charges against AJC Editorial Page Editor Cynthia Tucker and Publisher John Mellott for an editorial column that ran in its July 30 edition about the congresswoman's alleged altercation with police. Rather, McKinney's lawyer, J.M. Raffauf, sent a letter to the newspaper on July 31 saying that the July 30 column by AJC Editorial Page Editor Cynthia Tucker contained material that Raffauf says was "untrue, defamatory and libelous." Raffauf and McKinney have also demanded a retraction, as well as an editorial in which the attorney says the paper should "repudiate its libelous statements." The letter, obtained by E&P today, details the segments of the AJC column with which McKinney takes issue. In one part, Raffauf says Tucker's suggestion that "When he stopped [McKinney], the officer said, she slugged him with her cellphone" is "a false allegation not supported by any witness or any other evidence," and that Tucker is "maliciously attempting to spin this into a felony by falsely alleging that she assaulted the officer with a deadly weapon." The letter also refutes the part of Tucker's column that said the congresswoman "suggested that President Bush had known in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks but did nothing to stop them so his friends could profit from the ensuing war." Raffauf states that "The award-winning documentary film 'American Blackout' definitively exposed this statement by Tucker as false, as the Congresswoman never made this statement even though Tucker continues to assert that she did." |
| Posted by:mcsegeek1 |
| #3 They print Cynthia Tucker here in Mobile's paper, after reading two of her articles I'm convinced she's an idiot. Seems the truism is holding, like doesn't sue like. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2006-08-02 18:58 |
| #2 Raffauf and McKinney have also demanded a retraction, as well as an editorial in which the attorney says the paper should "repudiate its libelous statements." ..... and send Cindy a 2007 X5 from Hank Aaron's BMW at your earliest. Don't ya just love a quick-fix! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-08-02 16:54 |
| #1 ...and then his tongue fell off.. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2006-08-02 16:47 |