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Print this article Gov. Ralph Northam shocked Virginians in 2019 when he withstood calls for his resignation, a move that has paved the way for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to do the same in New York. At the beginning, Northam looked like he was doomed. Early in 2019, he seemingly endorsed late-term abortions on a local radio show, a blunder that snowballed into the unearthing of college yearbook photos featuring him dressed either in blackface or as a klansman. Democrats were outraged. Northam faced calls for his resignation from top Democrats ranging from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to former Virgi...

Published is private and of no interest to the public, not news worthy, then the publisher can be liebl for it. not criminal liable but civilly liable. that is called false light, a fancy phrase for nobody is interested and you shouldn't have published them. >> any time it comes to a celebrity, people love that stuff. >> if it involves a celebrity you lose. the public is always interested in it and the people that get this stuff are free to publish it. including our brothers and sisters in this building. >> it's juicy stuff and you read it and go that's really something. but it's just a matter...

He says the postings helped him deal with the situation and he never posed any true threat. the court will have to decide whether a reasonable person would feel threatened even if the man never intended actual violence. the answer is yes. right? >> right. >> wouldn't you? >> yeah. seriously this double standard that we are supposedly grappling with we need to stop grappling with it and start treating what is on websites the same way we treat things that are published in newspapers. and for these internet service providers like google and yahoo! and bing decide where to place things and take th...

Why can't you do it to little billy? >> then the cargo area will be -- here what you do. you drug them. you drug them to the point of -- >> oh -- >> they just, aaargh -- >> i want to get to andy. we're missing the point of the story. >> a few kids. we hit it. >> the point of the story, you could be sued for complaining on twitter. that is a big story. >> i don't actually -- i don't understand how the false light thing was allowed to continue. if the defamation charge gets thrown out. you're not defamed, then how are you being shown in a false light? isn't that defamation? i don't really get th...

Demons? it freaks me out tht i remember seeing that movie and i -- >> that's the problem with it, too. i was raised catholic. i remember, you watch something scary. your mom's like, you don't have to worry about has. i have specific memories going to my mom, like, mom, could that happen to me and her looking at me saying, yes, phil it could. i slept with the light on until i was 20. >> a great point. there's a belief in most christian faiths or whatever that you can open yourself up to be vulnerable to that. >> that's true. >> as a kid, seeing that movie -- >> i was thinking, i'm lying in bed,...