OT- Attorneys lawsuit question

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Can you sue a public figure (let's say Jimmy Kimmel) if they edit a video to make it look like you're a whore and air it on their show?

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I will answer this question for you at the rate of $350 an hour.

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In the case filed yesterday against Katie Couric, what essentially happened is this: Couric is the Executive Producer of a documentary on gun violence called Under the Gun. She invited members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a gun-rights organization, to be interviewed on camera. At one point in the film, she is shown asking the group this common question on the subject of background checks: “If there are no background checks for gun purchasers, how do you prevent felons or terrorists from purchasing a gun?” The various representatives of the VCDL sit in stunned silence and look away, as if they had never considered the question before. The camera then cuts away, leaving the viewer with the impression that none of the interviewees were able to come up with a single answer.

According to the allegations in VCDL’s complaint, this exchange never happened, at least not like this. In truth, they say, there was no awkward silence, and they responded to the question right away with a variety of answers. In fact, they allege, you can hear the unedited audio of the exchange here (and embedded below). The footage of the VCDL members twiddling their thumbs and looking silently around the room was taken at a different time, when Couric allegedly told them they needed to sit silently for ten seconds so that “recording equipment could be calibrated.”

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Courts have recognized the many ways in which creative video editing can lead to defamation liability:

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[T]elevision broadcasts add new and potentially significant variables to the defamation analysis. Courts must scrutinize the juxtaposition of the audio and video portions of a television program. In subtle ways, a television director can alter the tone of an otherwise innocuous broadcast. With the emerging popularity of self-styled “magazine” news programs, courts should be sensitive to the possibility that a transcript which appears relatively mild on its face may actually be, when the total mix of creative ingredients are considered, highly toxic. Indeed, a clever amalgamation of half-truths and opinion-like statements, adorned with orchestrated images and dramatic audio accompaniment, can be devastating when packaged in the powerful television medium.

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So what happened is my sister was apparently on Jimmy Kimmel last night where they edited a clip of her from Family Feud making it look like she said she "sucks a lot of d----". Can we sue Jimmy for millions or what?

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