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Corruption. So prevalent now that hardly anyone notices. Mr. Trump is suing for $20 billion, claiming that CBS deceptively edited a 2024 campaign interview with Kamala Harris. The version that aired, his lawyers recently argued, “led to widespread confusion and mental anguish of consumers,” including Mr. Trump. CBS has released the full tape, and it shows that these claims are concocted. Yet the President has leverage over Paramount, because its merger with Skydance Media requires approval from the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC. Mr. Trump has reportedly turned down a $15 million settlement offer, and the Journal reported Wednesday that a mediator has proposed that the two sides settle the lawsuit for $20 million. The business logic for settling Mr. Trump’s grievance is easy to grasp: What’s $20 million in grease money, if it might save an $8 billion merger? Unless, that is, a big payout to the President could be viewed as a bribe. It’s obvious that Mr. Trump is relying on the threat of regulatory disapproval as leverage in the lawsuit. Does this really fit the federal bribery statute? What level of legal frivolousness is required before settling a civil suit becomes pretextual? https://www.wsj.com/opinion/paramount-donald-trump-lawsuit-cbs-fcc-first-amendment-23c10b02?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAgf43_7HI3WPOUFzOoFFnkHLlGoyR-Zstcmf5vLWRfstyqWTSkI7q00o4yjtD0%3D&gaa_ts=68657009&gaa_sig=PsZe2KxQMmKnhDX6V6Rljhwc-qRpfSqnP5aH2_9QHmxhkilDH8qjycxHHjA_cjxmLPEAgolLAHqWw6i73dOy3g%3D%3D

If Hairston comes down with 20+ charges of sexual assault, then I will throw stones. These situations aren't comparable.

sigh even the stodgy yet excitable Frankish has declared no harm, no foul on this one. Don’t let that stop you.

I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but the Bills have played a 1st place schedule the last 5 seasons. Division wins aren't the overall factor when it comes to division titles....it's overall wins. You keep bringing up Jones, Newton, Wilson etc.... We do face a lot of franchise QB's every season. In fact, McDermott has faced Mahomes in the regular season more than he's faced all the above QB's. Winning 5 straight division titles isn't hard. Sean Payton couldn't do it with Brees, Dungy couldn't do it with Manning, Bill Walsh didn't do it with Montana.....

Exactly. Lots of stones thrown around here at KC, CLE. But now since it's a Bills player, there's nothing to see.

If he was a punter, the local Buffalo would be calling for his head. What changed?

The “joke” is Haitians eat dogs. Lovely racist stereotype you write off as a “wisecrack” because you’re incapable of criticizing your fellow MAGAs here

From people I heard from Hairston was actually very open and front footed about it with teams pre-draft. That doesn't mean he didn't do anything wrong but I think teams felt like they did at least have his full side of the story.

We may be reading different Books. Corinthians: Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

He was on his school visit in March. I believe he was 17 and had graduated high school early. At least that is what I remember from the victims story. When she tried to bring charges against him she didn’t even know he was a football player and not even a student yet. The school squashed it and then she saw him on the football team in the fall and felt betrayed by the university.

Angry? You're my favorite Maga. I love Ya buddy.

Legally it might not have succeeded at trial as you say but we all know what happened here. A media company got busted for purposely changing a candidate's (they favored) answer to put them in a positive light. Whether that had a quantitative impact on votes is hard to say. But the damage is done. Nobody should trust CBS news ever again. What else are they spinning?

I don't think so. Terrell Pryor was suspended 5 games for the heinous crime of selling his gold pants😆 Well well, looks like Beane knew & drafted him anyway. Are the Bills following Cleveland's model?

Dave Parker, Bo, Dwight Evans, and Ichiro had the best arms I’ve ever seen in baseball https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE28oXOStFf/?igsh=OWN0aGIzMW5lZ3cx

Yeah, sorry. There's at least 10 coaches in the NFL right now that I think are able to clown Mac Jones and old broken Cam Newton and Zach Wilson and Mike White and Skylar Thompson and Bailey Zappe with Josh Allen at QB for 5 straight seasons. It's really just not that impressive. My old take is that if you have to debate if a player is good all the time, they probably aren't. We used to debate Tyrod and Fitzy all day every day. The moral of the story was that they weren't good. We don't debate Josh Allen, because there is no reason to. We debate McD every day. I'm leaning toward he's in the Tyrod Taylor tier of HCs.

I’ve said my peace on this during the draft weekend. everyone got mad at me for what I said then So I won’t go into it anymore but I will state that this is just another bad move in an offseason filled with them from Brandon beane. also, I believe in the victims social media posts from the time period of this happening she said other girls came forward to her that he did the same to them. If that ends up being true and the team knew this potential risk, why on earth was he drafted? When you take players like this in the first round when you had other options that is on the GM. If Donovan Ezeriaku is as good as the DFW media has been saying he has looked and Hairston washes out because of off the field stuff…I mean these are why GM’s get fired. but again oh well, as fans we have to sit back and wait for the conclusion to this. I know I am more than tired of hearing guys like McDermott talk about his imaginary friend every time he opens his mouth but then is perfectly okay with Von miller beating up his girlfriend. hopefully Hairston did not rape this young woman or anyone else and if he did he should be off the roster ten minutes after finding out. I am trying to not get too involved in this thread but why on earth would the schools findings be of any concern. not a single one of these big athletic schools should ever be trusted on any of these matters. For decades schools have been intimidating witnesses, threatening victims, hiding evidence and colluding with local police and judges. go watch the Ohio state documentary on hbo and get back to me on how much the school cares about these types of issues.

When this alledgely happened, was Hairston an adult or a juvenile in Kentucky ?

It isn't even close to the same situation. Completely different in every way.

If the glove doesn't fit, you must acq... sorry, wrong Bill

You are on record as claiming the very lame wisecrack is racist. You have also expressed that you believe one in every two people you encounter on a daily basis is a racist. Those two things mesh nicely. Just run with it.

Again Frank, you're an attorney and considering the legal ramifications, I'm a guy who looks at common sense and the job a journalist should reasonably be expected to do. I don't position myself as a trusted source with impeccable credentials, that's what they do. It strikes me as dishonest and duplicitous, and that's more of a job for politicians and lobbyists. As a result, they should probably expect that when the tide turns, they are treated like politicians and lobbyists. As for success at trial, seems to me they decided the risk was not worth the potential for an adverse outcome. With respect to the FCC, I'm no more or less concerned or offended (as a citizen) by that than Letitia James determination to reinvent that which we know to be true, Alvin Bragg creating a novel approach to imprison a political enemy, or the Special Prosecutor inadvertently scoffing off with attorney/client (and other) documents and pinky-swearing not to look at 'em. Actually, I'm much more concerned about the latter, the former just represents a large corporation settling with the government over some injustice. That's pretty run of the mill.

I know the 2015 Broncos lost their QB. So they won the Super Bowl without a franchise level QB. You stated that if Fox or Del Rio would have gotten them to 8 wins. Why? Then why aren't they HC's in the NFL?