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[benji]

I'm surprised he has no case at all because what Jennings said was fairly defamatory

To avoid dismissal, Hasan would have to demonstrate:
1. Jennings absolutely knew that part of the montage was sarcastic unlike the rest and decided to proceed anyway, rather than just being an idiot who rushed to condemn something he believed fit Hasan's pattern.
2. Damages, of which Hasan has none.

Because it's Jennings just posting his own nonsense on Twitter or whatever the fuck this is from, he doesn't have the burden as if he was doing it in his already pretty low capacity as a commentator at CNN or whatever. Which is why CNN employs factcheckers, lawyers, etc. "I'm an idiot posting shit on Twitter" is largely a good defense and why you rarely see any lawsuits at all over tweets, especially when it involves public figures. Millions of tweets a day are defamatory by the standard of merely what was said but they pretty much always fail the other two standards of defamation, duty to know the truth and damages. This is, coincidentally, why much of what Hasan says about others (that you can see brought up in the replies of all of these tweets) is also protected.

If Hasan filed in California he would potentially be risking a SLAPP requiring him to pay Jennings lawyer fees. California has one of the strongest SLAPP statutes.