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For the record, I'm not a fan of Clay Travis. His trolling and crudeness put me off. I've actually had him blocked on Twitter for a couple of years until recently.

Hats off to him on this though. Clay is extremely smart and if you get in his crosshairs you are not going to win if you are dumb enough to fight back.

This was a mortal Kombat style fatality article.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
For the record, I'm not a fan of Clay Travis. His trolling and crudeness put me off. I've actually had him blocked on Twitter for a couple of years until recently.

Hats off to him on this though. Clay is extremely smart and if you get in his crosshairs you are not going to win if you are dumb enough to fight back.

This was a mortal Kombat style fatality article.
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Same. He was so miserable during the Dooley years. I refused to click anything he wrote for a long time. In hindsight, he was probably right about a lot of what he said. But he has a way of rubbing me the wrong way regardless.

Glad somebody with an audience is exposing this garbage for what it is though.
 
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Lovesomebigorange said:
What I don't understand and maybe a lawyer can help with this question- Clay Travis is presenting a very good question here that NO ONE else is bothering to check- she signed the affidavit saying there was no contact and then several years later there was a completely different story. And those are the docs being presented now as fact in the media. Everyone keeps saying why doesn't Peyton address this but apparently he can't because she will sue him again for the umpteenth time. That doesn't seem fair to me- he is being potentially defamed in the most public way here and IF her version of the story is fabricated in the 03 version compared to the 96 version, can he not sue Her for defamation or purgery or something? Is he supposed to just stay quiet while his reputation is being ruined by the day? It's on people.com now for goodness sake.
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PM can't sue her for defamation because her allegations were made in documents in a lawsuit. Defamation is protected in litigation. The legal system hashes out the truth through testimony and cross-examination. Litigants shouldn't be afraid that the other side would accuse them of defamation.

Travis actually mentions that PM could have a case against Shaun King. That is just not an area of law that I am very familiar with, but I am sure it is something that may be discussed by PM's legal team.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
For the record, I'm not a fan of Clay Travis. His trolling and crudeness put me off. I've actually had him blocked on Twitter for a couple of years until recently.

Hats off to him on this though. Clay is extremely smart and if you get in his crosshairs you are not going to win if you are dumb enough to fight back.

This was a mortal Kombat style fatality article.
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I agree. Clay is a sensationalist and frankly, he is immature. But I just read his article, and it is very well done. Some journalism these days is simply horrific.

There was actually another complaint I had this week with USA Today. The allegations about Drae Bowles being assaulted was on their front page on their website. The title link read as a fact that Bowles was assaulted. Only if you clicked on the article did you see that they say that the lawsuit "alleged" that Bowles was assaulted. I have legal training and so does Clay Travis, so we pick up on those things. But people have to understand that it is not the same. I won't go so far as Clay and say people are stupid, but people do need to read things for themselves and not be led on by the media.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
For the record, I'm not a fan of Clay Travis. His trolling and crudeness put me off. I've actually had him blocked on Twitter for a couple of years until recently.

Hats off to him on this though. Clay is extremely smart and if you get in his crosshairs you are not going to win if you are dumb enough to fight back.

This was a mortal Kombat style fatality article.
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It was a great article. There are multiple asinine comments from people who read it who Clay was trying to preach to who still clearly do not get it. Clay presented EVIDENCE in an intelligent, structured, logical manner and people still ignore it because it does not fit their agenda.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
For the record, I'm not a fan of Clay Travis. His trolling and crudeness put me off. I've actually had him blocked on Twitter for a couple of years until recently.

Hats off to him on this though. Clay is extremely smart and if you get in his crosshairs you are not going to win if you are dumb enough to fight back.

This was a mortal Kombat style fatality article.
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As a writer (and lover of sports) I respect Clay Travis more than most, because he knows exactly who is market is and what generates likes and page views in this modern era, which is tantamount to having a machine that prints money. You can argue ethics or crudeness all you want, but the man is no idiot. You piss him off and he will use social media to destroy you and make himself money at the same time, this is not the first time he has done it, and I say it will not be the last.

Many don't like him because he liked James Franklin, which is fine, but most forget he hated the Dooley hire from the beginning. It's not that he ever "stopped loving" Tennessee, it's that his job came up to make more money to not support them, which is how ESPN and most sports outlets have been until very recently.
 
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VolGee4 said:
I agree. Clay is a sensationalist and frankly, he is immature. But I just read his article, and it is very well done. Some journalism these days is simply horrific.

There was actually another complaint I had this week with USA Today. The allegations about Drae Bowles being assaulted was on their front page on their website. The title link read as a fact that Bowles was assaulted. Only if you clicked on the article did you see that they say that the lawsuit "alleged" that Bowles was assaulted. I have legal training and so does Clay Travis, so we pick up on those things. But people have to understand that it is not the same. I won't go so far as Clay and say people are stupid, but people do need to read things for themselves and not be led on by the media.
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Believe I saw where someone did an experiment on that where they made some fake title and if you actually opened the article you'd realize very quickly it was fake. But people shared it without ever opening it.
 
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