Reply #76: I think the problem with CHB is not so much that their stories are false,

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

(which I think they probably are), but that they traffic in the kind of stories that CAN'T BE PROVEN EITHER TRUE OR FALSE.

I.E. Bush ranting at staff, Bush having an affair etc.

So they traffic in salacious rumors that their audience would love to be true but can't be proven.

I assume they are somewhat safe from libel charges because their targets are public figures, and would just as soon not be seen tussling with a scandal rag, as the readership is small enough it probably doesn't hurt them much anyway.