Brett

And I think even he's acknowledged that

He didn't believe that.

He just said that because she was one of the ones who did this horrible thing to him and terrorized his family and she deserved this and et cetera, et cetera.

But he has another defense, particularly to these really outrageous claims.

And that's that this was obviously satire.

So these videos are incredibly over the top.

If you're familiar with the movie The People vs. Larry Flint, you've probably heard of the case Hustler Magazine vs. Falwell.

In that case, Larry Flint, who's the publisher of Hustler, made some derogatory comments about Jerry Falwell, who was a famous sort of evangelical preacher.

They were obviously not true, but I knew they weren't true.

And in fact, in very small print at the bottom, it said this is obviously a parody.

Falwell sues on the basis that this is defamation in a unanimous Supreme Court.

It's actually an 8-0 decision held that.

When a statement is obviously parody and when it's obviously just satire and over the top, the fact that it's outrageous and the fact that it's outrageously insulting to the person who's targeted is not enough to overcome the protections of the First Amendment.

So you may recall there was this famous interaction in the Afro Man case where one of the officers, the one who he rapped about,

Having sex with his wife is asked, do you really think Afro man had sex with your wife?

And he answers in some sort of equivocal way.

Like, well, I mean, I don't think so, but I don't know.

How can I know when somebody puts that out there?

And so people are like, he can't even say that he doesn't think Afro man had sex with his wife.

Well, there's a reason for that.