Welcome back to the Dershow. A lot has happened since the last time we spoke, including

my cap and my tooth again falling out. So, sorry if I look like somebody who shouldn't

be on television, I'm sorry, I'm trying to get it fixed. In any event, today we're going

to talk about the Alex Jones case. We're going to analyze the First Amendment, punitive

damages, compensatory damages, malice, all of the issues that are floating around.

Let me start with what is protected. Alex Jones could have said that Sandy Hook never

happened. It was a figment of the imagination. It was just created by the media, just like

people have said that men didn't land on the moon, NASA created a film with men landing

on the moon. But let me tell you what you can't say. When you say that it's fake that

men landed on the moon, you can't then say that Neil Armstrong is a liar for claiming

that he set foot on the moon. That turns a general statement about events into a defamatory

statement about a person. And the same thing was true with Sandy Hook. He could have made

broad allegations about conspiracies, all of that. But once he began to focus on specific

parents, that's what became defamation. Now, interestingly enough, under the law of

most jurisdictions, you can't defame anybody who's no longer alive. And once a person dies

in general, they lose their right to bring a defamation case. That's why some people

on the opposite side of my case have essentially said, look, we can't beat Dershowitz in court,

but maybe we can outlive him. And so there have been all kinds of efforts to postpone

delay and try to outlive me. But that's the law in most jurisdictions. You can then

sue for other things, emotional distress, even when somebody's not alive. But the actual

tort of defamation generally ends with the death of the individual. It's an absurd rule.

Shakespeare said, you know, nothing is more important than reputation. And people care

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