{"id":1367,"date":"2006-08-03T10:21:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T18:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_question_is_whether_a_reasonable_person_would_believe_that_your_momma_actually_was_a_prostitute.html"},"modified":"2006-08-03T10:21:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T18:21:36","slug":"the_question_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/the_question_is.html","title":{"rendered":"The Question Is Whether A Reasonable Person Would Believe That Your Momma Actually Was A Prostitute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a litigious society, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/dj_stars_ma_sues_hot_97_regionalnews_katie_cornell.htm\">even Yo Momma jokes are grounds for slander<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The mother of potty-mouthed hip-hop spinner DJ Star dived into a heated battle with her son&#8217;s radio rivals yesterday &#8212; hitting the owners of station Hot 97 with an $11 million lawsuit for letting one of their disc jockeys bad-mouth her on the air.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Hightower, a retired schoolteacher, claims she was defamed when Hot 97 personality Miss Jones called her &#8220;a prostitute&#8221; while taking a shot at Troi Torain, known as DJ Star on Power 105.1.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court against Emmis Radio, quotes Jones as saying, &#8220;Your white mom was nothing but a prostitute that your dad turned out,&#8221; and &#8220;got knocked up by the blackest, blackest, blackest n &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; r.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(You can say that on the radio?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a litigious society, even Yo Momma jokes are grounds for slander: The mother of potty-mouthed hip-hop spinner DJ Star dived into a heated battle with her son&#8217;s radio rivals yesterday &#8212; hitting the owners of station Hot 97 with an $11 million lawsuit for letting one of their disc jockeys bad-mouth her on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}