Posted December 1, 2016 2:55 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

Director Stephanie Soechtig and Producer/Yahoo!News Anchor Katie Couric were caught red-handed fabricating gun owner responses in the anti-gun propaganda film, Under the Gun.

Director Stephanie Soechtig and Producer Katie Couric were caught red-handed fabricating gun owner responses in their anti-gun propaganda film, Under the Gun, leading member of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VDCL) to file a $12 million dollar defamation lawsuit.

Couric’s lawyers are now desperately attempting to have the case thrown out.

Lawyers for journalist Katie Couric have asked a federal judge to throw out a defamation suit filed by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, arguing that a brief span of misleading footage in a gun-control documentary didn’t damage the gun-rights group’s reputation.

The group filed a $12 million suit in September against Couric and an affiliated film production company, Atlas Films, claiming their reputations as gun advocates had been damaged by eight seconds of footage that falsely implied they had no answer to one of Couric’s questions on background checks. Participants in the group interview answered the question immediately, but the film, “Under the Gun,” was edited to insert the appearance of a long pause after Couric asked how guns could be kept away from terrorists and felons without universal background checks.

In a 34-page response filed Wednesday, Couric’s legal team said that even though the gun-rights advocates …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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