steve: Thank you. I will digest and likely post an update essay later this week.

steve: Is there a public link? And if so, can you provide please?

Steve: You misunderstand. I don’t doubt you, I simply want some links that I could use in an update.

What is their “Brand”? There has been a lot of talk about politics and Brands lately.

Every white person is racist and so they must be compensated for that bias. This is but one method of wealth redistribution and developing “equity” and reparations for slavery. Of course, for people who never were slaves.

Here is another “Brand” that is beginning to also crack and be revealed for what it is.

https://youtu.be/LXmCll0sxHw

Even these Liberal CBS talking heads are being forced to say, hmmmmm.

Some things in time you just cannot not not see.

As disturbing as that may be to some “Journalists”.

steve: Can you provide a source for the judge’s decision?

They were eager to go on national TV and lie, because this is Obama’s fundamentally transformed America, and that is the fashionable thing to do, now. If you see a garage-door pull, call it a noose and get your own fifteen minutes of fame as you help move the narrative along the right direction.

Truth and facts do not matter. Only what people feel, and only what certain, select people feel, especially the elite. If you are not one of the selected ones, then your feelings do not count at all, and you are fair game in this witch hunt. This is what it means to be “woke.” They didn’t wake up and smell the coffee, they woke up and smelled the fundamental transformation of America. Only the woke are free, and they are not as free as they believe, because if they do not keep up with the wokelly correct (“politically correct”) narrative of the day, they, too, can be blacklisted or cancelled, as happened to poor Roseanne Barr.

The woke are allowed to demand that we use their made-up pronouns, no matter what anyone else feels about them, and several governments back up this demand, no matter what the First Amendment says about our right to not use them. The rule of law does not apply, anymore, only the woke feelings of the day. Keep up with them, because today’s are different from yesterday’s.

Welcome to Obama’s fundamentally transformed America, land of the formerly free.

Keep in mind that you have made several comments here, and each one leaves us with an impression.

“I’m one type of conservative and you seem to me to be another. And that’s okay.”

You may think it is OK, but it is the left-leaning type who thinks he is a conservative that is responsible for the Republican Party electing a lifelong Democrat for president yet still thinks he is the second coming of Reagan when the reality is that he is just the same as Bill Clinton.

Too many young Americans do not know what freedom looks like, and they accept this fundamentally transformed America as being free. Fabian Socialism did its job, and you are part of the result. It is why DC Comics’s Superman now stands for “truth, justice, and all that stuff,” instead of standing for truth, justice, and the American way.

This country is moving to the left, because so many people who think that they are conservative are, in actuality, leftists. They have come to accept the “new normal” as normal. It is why a new dark age is coming and why people are not available to stop it. The frog is in hot water but does not realize it, and the water is approaching the boiling point.

It did take them seven months to “whiten” the house. It also depends upon what they think is different about a “white” house than was the condition of their own house. This is one of the problems with their poorly designed experiment. Not describing the experiment when discussing it to nationwide news media can very easily fail to give an indication of how a confirmation bias could have been introduced during the design phase of the experiment, even unconsciously introduced. As noted in Robert’s post, a month after the appraisal under question, the comparable house next door sold for less than the disputed appraisal. This was not disclosed during the interviews in which the victim had been called a racist, and had it been disclosed, the news reports would have lost credibility. This is a major flaw in the experiment and the reporting of the experiment. It shows that not only had the appraisal not been unfair but also that the second appraisal was wildly inaccurate and possibly biased or manipulated to be phony.

Being PhDs, they had to present and defend dissertations, and they should know how to design a well done study, including preventing much of the biases that can creep into a study. Since their jobs are literally to teach students that racism in America is an active and disrupting issue, it is all too easy for this bias to find its way into any and all of their experiments and studies. Because they have this built-in bias, they have a moral and professional responsibility to be extra careful in the designs of their studies and experiments. To not do so can result in inaccurate results and reporting. I have to wonder how well designed any of their other studies have been and how much other researchers have depended upon their studies in their own work. Connolly and Mott could be scary, causing further bias in other studies and causing additional inaccurate results and reporting.

I do think that after Obama made race relations so much worse that there are now people looking for excuses to blame ordinary occurrences on racism. This is another form of confirmation bias. It doesn’t happen only in science, it happens everywhere. As the song The Boxer, by Simon & Garfunkel, said “still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” This is another loss to the public for the change in the way fact checking is now done. Facts in news reports are no longer being checked in order to prevent bias and assure accuracy, but the reports are only checked to assure they are properly biased, even at the expense of accuracy.

Had the news reporters done their own due diligence and investigated the phony claims, they would have realized that they were being used by Connolly and Mott in a nefarious way. It does not take much to do due diligence, they begin by asking the couple’s victim to present his own side of the disagreement. Instead, they assumed guilt merely due to the accusation. Their own bias crept into their reporting, and they didn’t mind.

Since the victim was not a public figure before the news falsely smeared him, he can sue the media that so gleefully participated. He need not prove that they acted maliciously, and he can show that they failed to present his side, that they were biased in the report.

People may say that they no longer trust the news media, but the damage to Mr. Lanham’s reputation and business shows otherwise. If they didn’t believe the reports on the news, Mr. Lanham would not have been damaged and would have no need to countersue. However, careless, biased people such as Connolly and Mott are still able to wreak havoc throughout American society with their false and phony claims.

The video embedded into the linked The College Fix article shows just how biased the news media was in reporting the original lawsuit. The attitude, tone, and words used showed a bias. “this just happens to be a spectacular case of it where you can actually at least identify with it, I mean if you have any bone in your body that allows you to empathize with other human beings. In other words if you’re not a right-winger.” They were eager, even giddy, to present only one side of the dispute. That they didn’t bother to ask the plaintiffs for their side(s) of the story shows that they didn’t care about truth or justice. Guilt by accusation. It isn’t American. It isn’t even British. It is French.

J’accuse!

I feel your impressions of me really miss the mark. I think I addressed the slander liability the couple should and deserve to face in a subsequent reply to GWB who made a correct observation about my focus on the filings and not also on the public declarations the couple made over and above their lawsuit filing.

Still have to wait and see how the case turns out.

On Obama and all the big points you lay out… I really don’t have much to add right now. We don’t see eye to eye. I’m one type of conservative and you seem to me to be another. And that’s okay.

Agree or not, I wouldn’t waste your time or mine if I didn’t appreciate your efforts here on your site. I get frustrated sometimes and am no artist with the written word, but hope that’s okay. And like so many, I have more to do than time but just try to struggle through the best I can!

They often just go into the homes and clean them out of all the clutter.
Could the white washing have done exactly this? Just cleaned up the place for the second appraiser?

…not only to slander him, but every white person in America, now.
Ooooooh, can we make it a class action slander lawsuit? (No, I know we can’t, but it would be fun to throw on to every slander lawsuit over “racism” just to see the media and the woke parts of the justice system collapse into shrieking, hysterical ninnies.)

Let’s see if you can figure this one out.

It’s a puzzle, it’s a mystery :)

“A 70-year-old woman has shared on UK television that her husband of almost 50 years “keeps disappearing” to Thailand and sending “hundreds of pounds there monthly”.”

https://nypost.com/2023/02/22/my-husband-disappears-to-thailand-weekly-spends-100s/

Sometimes things are just what they are.

Cotour: I said this before to you: If your comment does not immediately appear, assume it has gone to moderation. Don’t post it again and again and again, as you did here, all of which never appeared because all went to moderation.

I don’t know why this comment went to moderation, but it did. Be patient, and I will get to it.

This is a good case to pursue and PROVE that RACE had NOTHING to do with it – it’s ECONOMIC! Now the REAL DAMAGE that they might be suffering is due to the turnip in the White House and his merry band of bunglers who have destroyed so much of our economy and cause significant rises in interest rates and DEVALUATIONS of real estate! Just a hint – your house is worth LESS if no one can afford to get a loan to buy it!

You’d think TWO COLLEGE PROFESSORS would be intelligent enough to KNOW basic economics and follow loan procedures, but since they are probably of the “elite”, everything detrimental to them is due to their skin tone!

Good luck 20/20! I hope you clean their clocks and they HAVE to sign over their home to you to cover damages due to you! THEN you should go after the MEDIA and demand to see THEIR investigation material into the matter!! DEEPER POCKETS THERE!!!

David: By focusing on the appraisals, you are avoiding the main point of my post, expressed in these sentences:

Putting aside the simple fact that home real estate values can often change drastically over short time periods, and that the art of appraisal is an imperfect science that carries an enormous amount of uncertainty no matter what the circumstances, to accuse someone of racism based on this flimsy data is certainly mean-spirited and vicious. To do so in such a public way is plainly defamatory and a slander. Lanham has a strong case.

This story also illustrates once again the legacy of hate given to us by Barack Obama. He made it acceptable for the left to spread false lies about its opponents, without evidence, and worse, he made it acceptable to accept those lies without any fact-checking.

Connolly and Mott could have gone to arbitration. They could have requested another appraisal, immediately. They could have done a lot of things that two well-established and financially secure college professors have in their power to do to correct a bad appraisal.

Instead, they manipulated the situation to slander Lanham, based on incredibly weak information, and did so with the willful intent not only to slander him, but every white person in America, now. They deserve to lose big in court for defamation.

That you avoid this point speaks volumes about where you stand on this issue. My impression is that you are cool with nonchalant accusations of racism. To you, I get the sense that because these vicious and baseless attacks can advance the cause of social justice, they are generally acceptable.

No longer any Savage, no Oreily (on corporate controlled media) now no Project Veritas.

Are you noticing a theme here?

How much does truth cost in America today, David?

$44 billion dollars.

You make an excellent point! I didn’t think about that facet before (or during) my musings above. Bad mark for me.

If the single white-washed appraisal is indeed all they’ve got, then I think it was a poor decision to go on tv and make racist allegations against the appraiser. If they cannot back it up then it’s slander and they should have to compensate accordingly.

The discovery process might be something to behold… both ways…

The allegations against Mr. Okeefe regarding his handling of money in certain instances also seem to be interesting. If true of course.

Regarding your “snowflake” opinion of the employees whom registered complaints, if they’re accurate, some of those reported hardly seem to just be trivial. Demands to take lie detector tests? Yuck!

Someone complained about him? Oh my, that is terrible.

I have seldom heard of people complaining about an *A* type personality who founded a unique company of consequence, especially in politics that stands as a great threat to the established corrupted powers that be, and he insists that his original possibly contentious work ethic in the pursuit of their supposed common goals are paramount.

I am sure he is no Gandi like management angle, but there appears to be a whole lot going on here and the timing is lets say convenient.

(*A* type founders of successful companies are often removed from control after their founding because the founding of a company does not necessarily comport with the continuing operation of said company. Especially when just a week or so before they have possibly revealed a MAJOR multinational company embroiled in a planet wide potential scandal.)

When I was young, I used to drink things that were not exactly good for me, I was naive, they tasted good. And being a grown man now who has seen things I seldom drink what someone tells me I should drink. I have forced myself to learn and step back and see things through a better and more realistic lens that more closely relates to reality.

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.rXAVDRaSBI70TbV0K4bnmQHaEK?pid=ImgDet&rs=1

Why would I drink what an interested party tells me I should be drinking? Why would you?

That would be the unproven allegations by over sensitive snowflakes, yes.

Next company shouldn’t have a board to take over. Personally, I’d love to see him sue them just for the fun of discovery, starting with forensic level audits of them and their acquaintances. Yuan’s in their wallets?

Just goes to show how dumb some so-called professors are.

BTW, I’m a registered valuer in NZ.

You certainly offer a spirited defense of Mr. Okeefe, recently of Project Veritas fame. Interesting you failed to note the little part about multiple complaints offered up by several of his employees. You know the allegations of repeated workplace abuse, his theatrical flings, etc.

I think I read there was a review process he was subject to in there somewhere along the way of him being shown the door…

But as you noted, fear not. There certainly is a market for the type of product he excels at. (Sarcasm)