On Saturday, Fox News suspended Bolling — recently a host on the talk show Fox News Specialists and Cashin’ In and formerly of The Five — amid an investigation into the claims. He has worked at Fox News since 2008.
Ali wrote Wednesday on Twitter that he has received a summons from Bolling and says he stands by his reporting and will protect his sources. In the initial story, Ali says he spoke to 14 sources on the condition of anonymity because they either currently work at the networks, can’t speak to press without permission or signed confidentiality agreements.
The summons, which was filed Wednesday in New York state court, says Bolling is seeking both damages and injunctive relief arising from Ali’s efforts to injure his reputation through “intentional and/or highly reckless publication of actionable false and misleading statements” about his conduct and character.
HuffPost issued a statement in response to the summons: “Yashar Ali is a careful and meticulous reporter. We stand by his reporting.” Editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen also wrote on Twitter that Ali is a paid freelancer under contract with HuffPost and the outlet has “no hesitation about standing by him financially in this case.”
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I jumped to conclusions about Eric and the apparent moral swamp that allegedly defined the FN workplace in recent years. This lawsuit at least raises the possibility that he has been terribly wronged by the HuffPo articles. On the other hand, big-dollar suits are easy to file. Following them through to depositions and interrogatories is another thing entirely, let alone entering settlement talks or, eventually, going to civil trial. We’ll see where this leads.
Huffpo is nothing but a Left Wing NWO propaganda rag now with all its snowflake followers. Which basically means it will be dead soon…..just like CNN et al.