Imus be an idiot . . .

[slingblade]

You would also have to show harm. Where is the harm? These women were given an hour press confrence and have been lauded by just about everyone.

Would they have received either if Imus had said nothing?

Seems you are citing the cure as evidence there was no harm....

 

[RandFan]

Would they have received either if Imus had said nothing?

Seems you are citing the cure as evidence there was no harm....

Harm is not an abstract concept and to prevail in a civil suit you have to show actual harm and not potential to afflict harm. Assuming that this was a "cure" it does demonstrate that there was no harm.

That said, I seriously doubt that the girls could have established harm absent the press conference anyway. Harm must be concrete and unambiguous. They would have to show that they could not gain employment or continue with their studies or have gotten bad grades or some other real and measurable harm because of this incident. What would that have been absent the press conference?

Add to that the press conference and the glowing (and deserved) press accounts. Now that the world knows that these are some exceptionally good students of excellent character as well as exceptional athletes how would one possibly demonstrate harm?

That's near impossible I'm afraid.

 

[slingblade]

Oh, legal harm. Okay. There's a difference.

 

[Katana]

Oh, legal harm. Okay. There's a difference.

Well, I question whether they would have suffered much harm even in a non-legal sense had certain people kept their heads.

Did they really give two craps what a washed-up radio talk show host said about them before the likes of Al Sharpton said that they should? When people like him are decrying Imus for his utter cruelty, for ruining what should have been the end of a wonderful Rutgers season, for his devastating their self-esteem, for insulting not only their race but their gender, what other reaction can they have?