Hickenlooper never said that. Are you really that much of a nitwit?
Obviously.
There are plenty around like me.
If I were him I'd sue.
(a) There are plenty around like you. Almost all of them support Trump.
(b) Yes, I believe you would sue. You'd probably spend a ton of money on it.
You would lose. You would lose every time in every court in America. This is a form of protected speech - and given that it is explicitly labeled as satire, the only reason there are people like you out there is because either you cannot read or you will not read and you do not check your assumptions or your sources.
This is why I labeled you a fool, Bambi. The information was there for you to read and you chose not to.
You say.
I say otherwise.
I believe good lawyers could argue successfully that "a reasonable person could think it was true".
If I were him I'd still sue.
You're a fool.
"John Hickenlooper Announces Support For Nuking Australia Just To See If Anyone Paying Attention" - no, no reasonable person would think that was true and even if they did the headline and content would convince any reasonable person who thought the headline real that the article was not.
As for suing, Michael Cohen already threatened to sue The Onion over an article they ran about Trump:
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/388740-cohen-threatened-the-onion-in-2013-over-satirical-trump-articleSome other Onion headlines visible on the Hickenlooper article page:
"Embarrassed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Can Only Afford American Flag Pin With 19 Stars"
"Fox News Debuts Premium Channel For 24-Hour Coverage Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez"
"Trump Administration Denies President Was Behind Jared Kushner’s Promotion To 4-Star General"
"Jared Kushner Assures Reporters He Never Revealed State Secrets Without Turning Huge Profit"
"Kushner Assures Worried Ivanka They’d Definitely Be Last Jews To Go"
"Offended Mark Meadows Reminds Colleagues He Never Once Complained About Capitol’s Integrated Drinking Fountains"
"House Votes Against Trump’s National Emergency On Grounds That Only Congress Allowed To Misappropriate Funds"
No reasonable man.
But then again, you have no basis for judgment about what a reasonable man would think.
Good luck finding a case in which a satirist was found guilty in an American court for their piece about a major public figure. Unlike
one of our SCOTUS justices' preference, a public figure has a higher standard to meet with regard to libel or defamation, even before you toss in satire's relative protection.
I suggest you never read either The Onion or the Borowitz Report again, given that you cannot tell the difference. (Your desire to quash such things aligns with lots of other dictatorial types, like the Saudi government.)