Originally published at: Mark Meadows sued for lying
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Looking at what they publish, this is definitely a “lie down with dogs, get up with fleas” situation. I’m not so sure they have a reputation to damage.
Peter Navarro? Naomi Wolf? RFK Jr?
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This is a bit like O.J. Simpson’s publisher suing him after learning that he did, in fact, murder those people.
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I said this somewhere else on the bbs, I think, but they aren’t suing him for lying. I mean, not really. They knew his book was full of lies. They’re suing him because he failed to maintain those lies, and he is now cooperating with prosecutors, and presumably telling the truth.
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Trump was not a very good president (to put it mildly), he’s not even a very good person (and Meadows and lots of conservatives know this deep down.) The liberal media reported this fact. That’s not “rigging.”
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They’re probably worried about their reputation with MAGAts and conservatives who buy most of their books.
Their contracts with their authors must be quite something if they’re using one as the basis for a lawsuit. What’s legalese for “we know you’re a deliberate liar but if you put deliberate lies in one of the books we publish you can’t publicly renounce those lies.”?
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In the good old days it used to simply be called “errata”. And needed no legalese.
In this case, a simple classification change from non-fiction to fiction might work. 
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It sounds like All Seasons is “entering the find-out phase” as well.
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When I did a lot of freelance proofreading and copyediting, I did a lot of political books. It is one of the reasons I don’t freelance anymore. Pretty much without exception, they were full of lies, errors, sloppy logic, and general bullshit. They only varied in scale, not in kind. Sometime you can get things fixed (“No, there were no Mormons in Massachusetts in 1776”), sometimes you can’t.
Every contract for a nonfiction book has a CYA clause saying the author pinky-swears that everything in the book is true and it’s their fault if it isn’t. It’s rarely actually invoked. However, it’s unusualy for the bullshit to be revealed in such a spectacularly public fashion.
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