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Sep

27

Is it libel to call a bigfoot hunter crazy?

By Peter Bokulich

. . . especially if it’s another bigfoot hunter who’s hurling the insult?

Ken white, over at the Popehat blog, argues that calling bigfoot hunters crazy doesn’t count as libel, but is instead expressing an opinion, which, here in America at least, is protected speech under the First Amendment.

What I find fascinating is the fact that some bigfoot hunters have standards of rationality that lead them to label others as “crazy.” I’d like to find out what standards the bigfoot hunter has in mind.

Also, I was intrigued to learn about a Bigfoot Massacre, that I had never heard of.

(Santa Bigfoot is from a fun bigfoot news story here.)

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