A federal judge Thursday ordered Secretary of State's Robin Carnahan's campaign team to turn over documents regarding the campaign's inner workings to lawyers for Fox News.
Judge Gary Fenner rejected a motion submitted by Carnahan attorney Mark Sableman of Thompson Coburn asking that the scope of the Fox discovery motion be limited due to First Amendment concerns.
In his motion, Sableman says, "The information sought to be protected relates to the internal strategy and messaging deliberations and internal procedures of a political campaign." He asked for a protective order barring the release of such information.
Included in his filing was a copy of the Fox subpoena, which among other things, asks for
-Documents relating to research for the Carnahan ad, including any footage that was recorded, but not aired
-Proposals, pitches, notes of conversations, scripts, storyboards, e-mails, alternate versions of the ad, drafts, and inquiries.
-All documentation on any discussions regarding whether the Fox footage could be aired under the Fair Use Doctrine.
Fox News and Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace are suing the Carnahan campaign over unauthorized use of footage of Wallace grilling Roy Blunt about his attempt to slip wording into the Homeland Security Bill that would benefit the tobacco industry. Wallace noted that Blunt was dating a tobacco industry lobbyist at the time. Of course, since that time Blunt has married that lobbyist.
The lawsuit indicates that the Carnahan campaign was leaving the misleading impression that Wallace was supporting Carnahan.
This is the stupidest thing I've seen.
ReplyDeleteIt's like Billy Long sicking the FBI on the blogger kid from Ozark.
What a bunch of pettiness.
Roy said what he said. Fox said what they said. Own it and get over it.
and Robin Carnahan lied about it
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