Judge Says Devin Nunes Can't Sue Twitter Over Fake Cow That Hurt His Feelings

Republican Rep. Devin Nunes suffered a major setback in his lawsuit against Twitter and several parody accounts on the social networking site this week when a judge ruled that the thin-skinned Congressman can't sue Twitter for comments made on their site by other people. Social media outlets have immunity from such lawsuits if they are not the publisher of the content, but Devin's lawyer indicated in his arguments that this wasn't the real goal of the lawsuit anyway. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses the nefarious motives of Nunes.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Poor Devin Nunes just can't seem to catch a break. Not only does he have all of these parody accounts on Twitter, mocking him relentlessly, many of which actually have more followers than he does now on Twitter. But he also in his attempts to sue these parody accounts and hold them accountable, continues to get smacked down by every judge that gets their hands on this case. The most recent one was this past Friday, when a judge ruled that Devin Nunes cannot in fact, sue Twitter, the actual company, over the fact that there are people on that website, making fun of him, mocking him and being parodies of his cow and his mother. The judge said you can't do that because Twitter actually has immunity under section 230 for anything said on their website, as long as Twitter, the company did not play a role in crafting it.

It's very obvious in this particular instance, Twitter is not actively helping people write tweets to mock Devin Nunes. So the judge has now removed Nunes as a, or excuse me, removed Twitter as a defendant in this case. The lawsuit is still moving forward, apparently, against the parody Twitter account, Devin Nunes' cow. Devin Nunes' mom and against a political strategist, Liz Mair, I believe her name is. Those are the three people who are still technically being sued by Devin Nunes. Twitter itself cannot be sued and Devin Nunes' lawyers are not happy about this. They absolutely wanted to go after Twitter. And they said that in this particular instance, section 230 immunity does not apply to Twitter because they're engaging in political activity. You know, they're, they've got political bias. They're clearly, according to Devin Nunes' lawyer, Steven Biss, they are clearly in favor of liberals over conservatives.

They are silencing conservative voices, this idiotic lawyer tried to argue in court and therefore section 230 immunity does not apply. Judge said it wouldn't matter if they actually were engaging in political bias, section 230 does in fact still apply no matter what, because there is no political bias exemption to it. Now you would hope that your lawyer would know that and that they wouldn't resort to such petty and callous arguments in a court of law, trying to allow this suit to go forward. But what the lawyer did in that particular instance was he showed his cards. He showed Nunes' cards because that's what they wanted out of this. Devin Nunes isn't actually thinking he's been defamed. I know he's argued in court that the attacks from these groups have caused him to win his election by a smaller margin than he's used to.

You cannot prove one way or another that that is actually a direct result of these Twitter accounts and therefore the defamation suit against them should immediately be thrown out on its merits, by the way. He wanted the suit to continue and he wanted it to go against Twitter so that they could go through the discovery process and see if they could find any memos from within the company showing that they were silencing or shadow banning conservatives. That was their goal. That's what they wanted to do and now they don't get to do it. Not that there's probably going to be anything about that.

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