Over the weekend, Redskins owner Dan Snyder's cronies announced that Snyder dropped his defamation lawsuit against the Washington City Paper and writer Dave McKenna.
From Snyder's PR whiz kid, Tony Wyllie: “The lawsuit was pursued as a means to correct the public record following several critical factual misstatements in the Washington City Paper article. In the course of the defendants’ recently filed pleadings and statements in this matter, the Washington City Paper and its writer have admitted that certain assertions contained in the article that are the subject of the lawsuit were, in fact, unintended by the defendants to be read literally as true. Therefore, we see nothing further to be gained at this time through continuing the lawsuit."
So Snyder kind of got what he wanted, which is the only negative here. It's worth noting that days before the suit was dropped, Snyder admitted he hadn't actually read the article that offended him so deeply. Everything about this lawsuit was stupid, and while it's a shame McKenna's camp had to admit some wrongdoing, at least this farce is over.
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