.MaddowBlog: Targeting his local newspaper, Rep. Nunes files another unfortunate lawsuit.
Last month, for reasons that still don’t make a lot of sense, Rep. Devin Nunes filed a lawsuit against Twitter and some of the platform’s users, seeking more than $250 million, in part because the Republican saw tweets that hurt his feelings. The practical effects were immediate: a satirical Twitter feed called “Devin Nunes’ Cow” went from relative obscurity to over 600,000 followers thanks entirely to the congressman’s litigation.
The defamation lawsuit seeks $150 million and the deletion of an article in The Fresno Bee, a McClatchy newspaper, about Alpha Omega Winery, a company that Mr. Nunes partially owns. The article, published last May, described a lawsuit by a server who was aboard a San Francisco Bay cruise in 2015 attended by some of the winery’s top investors, which she said included drugs and prostitution.
Only the congressman and his lawyers know for sure, but as we discussed after he filed his first case a month ago, I suspect it’s part of a misguided political game: in the coming weeks and months, Nunes will be able to send out fundraising appeals, bragging about being the one member brave enough to take on a dastardly newspaper and Twitter at the same time. We’ll likely see him heralded in conservative media and applauded at far-right gatherings.
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