A bizarre story from Michigan illustrates the idea
that “self-libel” is possible and can become significant.
A conservative state legislator in Michigan, Todd
Courser, fabricated a false story about his own supposed liaison with a male prostitute,
in order to hide a heterosexual extra-marital relationship with another
conservative lawmaker, Cindy Gamrat.
There is an investigation into the possibility that both misused public
funds in hiding the relationship, according to a CBS News story here.
The concept of “self-libel” or self-defamation entered my own life with a
bizarre incident when I was substitute teaching in 2005, as I have explained
here before, on July 27, 2007. But it
has the potential to become significant and bring in the “implicit content”
problem.
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