Ok, setting aside the issue of defamation (which we agree is the lynchpin to it all), the Sullivan standard is such a high bar at this point that it’s difficult to imagine a scenario where a court would actually enforce it in favor of a national figure politician in a case of obvious satire and parody. If the Sullivan standard had any real application to political speech at this point, the Clintons would have been able to bankrupt Richard Mellon Scaife several times over
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