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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    I wouldn't even bother watching to it.
    Agree . . . why add another 'viewed' tick to his blatherings . . . . kind of like reading OhWoe's posts here, no point

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    At one time I liked Tucker Carlson. I kind of thought he would be sort of a modern William F. Buckley. Then he turned into a fucking disgusting nutter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beachbound View Post
    Just proves there are at least 42 million of your imbecilic brethren, willing to listen to his drivel.
    That's a lot of ppl you would put in a gulag for the greater good if you ran the world right ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    I wouldn't even bother watching to it. He's a fat, racist, lying c u n t.
    Rich for someone who hates slavs and Chinese people.

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    Exclusive: Dominion Voting Systems tells its Fox News lawsuit story

    Fox News, one of America's most powerful media companies, earlier this month agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, related to false statements made about Dominion on Fox's air.

    Oral history: What follows is an edited transcript of an exclusive interview with three of Dominion's key players, including its CEO, private equity owner and outside attorney on the Fox case.


    • They discuss Dominion from founding to the 2020 election to now, including death threats, loss of customers and the post-settlement firing of Tucker Carlson.


    The beginning

    John Poulos, CEO of Dominion Voting Systems: We founded the company in 2003. The first check was from my sister for $50,000. We survived and grew in the following years, really relying on friends and family.

    By the time we got to 2017, heading into 2018, two things happened: One was the friends and family were looking for an exit. We hadn't distributed anything, not even a dollar to our investors, even though we had grown substantially.

    So we hired an investment bank in late 2017. They identified a number of interested parties, one of which was a strategic that wanted to buy 100% of the equity. We weren't interested. As part of that process, I met Hootan.

    Hootan Yaghoobzadeh, co-founder of Staple Street Capital: I remember the first dinner we had with John. It became very clear that he had a very clear road map to transform his company and take it to another level.

    Poulos: We executed the transaction in mid-2018. Me and my leadership staff kept our same stake in the company, but we replaced our friends and family.

    Yaghoobzadeh: Dominion had a phenomenal reputation in the marketplace. We did a survey and Dominion had double the net promoter score of its main competitor.

    The company was founded in Toronto, and relocated its headquarters to Denver in 2010 after some acquisitions.

    Poulos: One of the goals in 2018 was we wanted to have a U.S. buyer be the control interest of Dominion, which we accomplished with [New York-based] Staple Street.

    We had a phenomenal two and a half years, pretty much as soon as that transaction closed. The word of mouth from customers that had switched to Dominion and gone through implementation cycles was providing feedback to other jurisdictions, so not only were we able to refresh our existing customer base but we were also capturing new market share going into November 2020.

    Yaghoobzadeh: Management grew the business by 4.5 times. But once the defamation happened, the world collapsed for us.

    November 2020

    Poulos: We had obviously heard a lot of talk about the absentee ballots. But really it was Nov. 8 when we got the first view of, "Wow, they are really unfairly targeting Dominion."

    Yaghoobzadeh: It was the Maria Bartiromo show when she had Sidney Powell on. I was in absolute shock.

    I'm an immigrant to the country. I came here when I was five from Iran. My parents kind of just fled over a weekend, right around Iranian Revolution, because we were Jewish and fearful of persecution. They saw a revolution happen in that country and they decided to leave.

    So my parents showed up on my doorstep after watching Maria's show. They were just real fearful; they saw the first signs of seeds of that happening here, and somehow their son was responsible for it.

    They were pleading with me, "How do we get out of this country?" It took some conversations to calm them down, but it was sort of nostalgic and reminiscent of those of those days and I think that really gave us the backbone to stand up ... and make sure the record gets set straight.

    Poulos: We thought we were prepared and the fact is we were completely unprepared. Never in our wildest dreams did we anticipate this happening.

    We had an employee getting a noose thrown on their front lawn. We had very detailed death threats that would be called in with employees' specific addresses.

    Most of our employees were helping election officials. In a lot of cases that was in the field. That's a very difficult task in the best of times. In this case, it was just unbelievably difficult.

    We did speak with our employees fairly regularly. We did so with video verification Zoom calls to alert them of what we knew and what we didn't know and what we were doing about it. And part of what we were doing was hiring a third-party security company for monitoring active threats. It was very, very scary.

    Yaghoobzadeh: We were just in disbelief the entire period of time and it was impossible to anticipate what to expect the next day. The record was being set straight for them, but they continued to double down and triple down, we said OK, they're putting their head in the sand.

    There were so many egregious comments that were being made so vacantly, just so wrong that there was just no feasible way that any of this stuff could be true. Crazy claims like Hugo Chavez and computers in Spain.

    The lawsuit

    Stephen Shackelford, partner at Susman Godfrey LLP: We were involved in numerous different litigations after the election trying to fend off the false claims of fraud from people like Sidney Powell. So we were deep into all this and saw what was happening to Dominion.

    We connected a few days before [January 6, 2021] for the first time with John and Hootan and began discussions about coming on board to lead the legal challenge. The main thing we felt was these are really good people and they're going through hell.

    Poulos: January 6th didn't really impact [our decision to sue].

    Shackelford: At the point we started talking to Dominion, they were already in the process of filing cases. They had more cases they were considering, including the Fox case that ultimately they filed when we came on board in March. We saw it as an opportunity to do something that could be important more broadly, not just for our client, but for the country as a whole.

    The business impact

    Poulos: It was immediate. I had customers calling in the middle of procurement saying, "Boy, there's no way that I could buy from you." We saw customers that had initiated their renewals prior to the defamation and were in the last stages of the formal approval. After the defamation, as soon as December 2020, they had their funding pulled by their boards.

    Shackelford: They had longtime customers that wouldn't talk to them, wouldn't let them send people on site anymore.

    The momentum kept building and we've seen it all the way up until the eve of the Fox trial. Dominion has had people canceling contracts early in the contracts, in the middle of contracts, which had never happened before in this way.

    Yaghoobzadeh: We really had to worry about, and continue to worry about, employee retention. It's tough to convince someone to come and work in a company that's being accused of treason. The main asset of the company that we bought, its reputation, turned out to be the biggest liability. It was toxic and it was contagious.

    Poulos: When a significant portion of the population, regardless of whether they are in a red or blue state, believe what they saw on their trusted media stations, it’s almost impervious to objective truths.

    Inside Fox News

    Shackelford: There were a lot of smoking gun documents in the case. For instance, the Rupert Murdoch text about when he was watching the Nov. 19 press conference and saying that was terrible stuff. He knew the truth and yet his enormous asset, Fox News, kept broadcasting the lies. The Tucker Carlson texts where it took him no time at all to figure out that the software stuff was absurd.

    It was obvious to everybody that this was crazy and we expected to see internal acknowledgment that this was crazy and false. And that's what we ended up seeing in the end.

    Yaghoobzadeh: We made sure that all the attorneys understood that settlement was like a curse word. We didn't want to talk about it.

    Our strategy was to go to trial, get to a verdict and accomplish three goals, which were to make sure the truth got exposed, kept Fox accountable, and that we were compensated for the damages they inflicted.

    Shackelford: We had a court-ordered mediation in December, although I don't want to answer any questions that would put us crossways with the confidentiality of that process.

    The best thing they could have done, which they still could do, is to go on to all their shows where they broadcast these lies and, in a believable way that's not like a hostage video, tell their audience the truth. And maybe things might have been somewhat different had they done that at any point, let alone early on.

    Settlement talks

    Yaghoobzadeh: Even though we were kind of reluctantly brought to the table as a result of the judge's urging, we took the judge's urging very seriously, and made sure we were always acting in good faith.

    Shackelford: I knew a little bit of this about the discussions, but I was not involved and didn't think it was a realistic possibility. My focus was to do the opening statement.

    Poulos: I was more working with Shack on the opening. Hootan was really leading the settlement charge on the side. He had asked me early on what our company goals were, and we were 100% aligned. Honestly, that never changed from Day One.

    Yaghoobzadeh: It came down to the wire. The ingredients that we were looking for in terms of those three factors that we discussed, sort of lined up.

    Shackelford: As a way of proving that I never thought this case was going to settle, I had family in from all over to come watch the opening statement

    When I went back in the courtroom at 1:30 on Tuesday, I fully expected that they would bring the jury back in and start opening statements. I was sitting at my desk, council table or pacing around and I had a feeling that there were discussions going on, but I had no idea whether things were close until a couple of hours had passed. At least at that point I knew I wasn't gonna open today.

    Judge Eric Davis stunned the Delaware courtroom by announcing the two sides had reached a settlement. Soon, it was disclosed that Fox would pay Dominion $787.5 million, with Fox publicly acknowledging that the court had found it to have aired false statements. Fox did not make that acknowledgment on its air, nor did it apologize.
    Days later, Fox News fired its top-rated prime-time host, Tucker Carlson, many of whose private messages were redacted in pre-trial discovery.

    Yaghoobzadeh: I think the consequences of the entire strategy that we pursued are starting to reflect themselves.

    Shackelford: Dominion did not insist on them firing Tucker Carlson as part of the settlement. But the very fact that that's what resulted out of all of this, and it's traceable from the work that Dominion and Staple Street set in motion, that's the sort of stuff Hootan is talking about.

    Of course I know what’s in the redacted stuff and I can't say anything about it. ... I hope that it all gets un-redacted at some point.

    Yaghoobzadeh: These results are much more profound than some disingenuous apology or forced statement that would not have any credibility, or would have been disingenuous from actors that have had a track record for making statements that are disingenuous.

    For us to have a meaningful impact, we had to make sure that we got that rock moving. These other things, I guess we fundamentally disagree on what change they would have actually created.

    Maria Bartiromo continues to host a daily show and weekend show for Fox, often featuring top business executives.

    Yaghoobzadeh: I just don't know how informed every Fortune 500 CEO is to the lack of journalistic standards that were used in that initial broadcast. And if they're deciding to go on that show after understanding all that information, I'm not one to judge these things but I certainly wouldn't go on that show.

    Look ahead

    Dominion has pending defamation lawsuits against One America News, NewsMax, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell and Patrick Byrne. None is expected to reach trial before 2024.

    Poulos: As we said from the beginning, we're seeking accountability and we're not going to stop until we get it. We have six more cases and we are completely aligned as we have been from the beginning.

    Shackelford: [The Fox lawsuit] should send a big signal to the other defendants that we are serious about exposing the truth, and we are serious about accomplishing full compensation and justice for Dominion.

    We expected [Fox] to fight tooth and nail and to pull out all the stops, and they did. The scariest part of what they did trying to rewrite First Amendment law just to save Fox's hide in a way that was completely, in my view, disingenuous and dangerous.

    Poulos: We've been robbed of our ability to grow on the trajectory that we were on, so we've been focused [on] just trying to keep servicing our customers, making a safe place for employees to continue to work.

    There have been questions about if Dominion employees will get a cut of the settlement, in addition to the lawyers, private equity owners and management.

    Poulos: I think it's all of the above. Hootan and I have not really had a chance to discuss it, but we've both gone on record as saying this means something to everybody.

    We certainly hope that it provides longevity to us to be able to take away some of the short-term worry that our customers have about Dominion and our employees. It's a relief but, as I've said many times there have been a lot of emotions for me, but happy is not one of them.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    At one time I liked Tucker Carlson. I kind of thought he would be sort of a modern William F. Buckley. Then he turned into a fucking disgusting nutter.
    "When he launched The Daily Caller in 2010, he vowed that it would “primarily be a news site” with a straightforward approach to the news: “Find out what’s happening and tell you about it. We plan to be accurate, both in the facts we assert and in the conclusions we imply.”There wasn’t an audience. Within a few months, it was publishing fake news and outrage-driven commentary. The transformation of The Daily Caller is the Rosetta Stone moment of Carlson’s career, a period during which he learned his lesson. He never sought respectability again."

    'Nuff said.

    How Tucker Carlson Lost It | The New Republic

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    Fox News Channel

    Despite fierce competition from the NBA Playoffs on TNT and ESPN, the Stanley Cup Playoffs on ESPN and TBS, as well as Tucker Carlson‘s highly-publicized exit late last month, Fox News maintained its status as the most-watched basic cable network both in total day and in primetime.

    Despite dominating its competition from CNN and MSNBC, Fox News saw losses from March, though not as significant as one might have expected after this past week’s saga. The network dropped just -2% in total day viewers—and -1% in the total day A25-54 demo, -1% in average total primetime viewers and -2% in the A25-54 demo, with those month-to-month primetime losses–instead of gains–driven by the Carlson absence.

    The network’s year-over-year trend is poor. The network shed -15% in total day viewers, -35% in total day demo, -12% in total primetime viewers and -34% in the primetime demo vs. April 2022.

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    Tucker Carlson Text: 'It's Not How White Men Fight'

    Text shows Tucker Carlson describing how a 'group of Trump guys' jumped an 'Antifa kid,' saying, 'It's not how white men fight'

    A leaked text message from the settled Dominion defamation lawsuit shows Tucker Carlson describing a video of the violent assault of an "Antifa kid" being jumped by a "group of Trump guys," with the former Fox News superstar saying that "it's not how white men fight."

    The text, obtained by The New York Times from interviews with people who have knowledge of the suit, remains redacted from public court documents in Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Fox News that was settled last month for a record $787.5 million.

    According to the Times, Carlson sent the text to one of his producers the day after the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

    Though many messages between the former prime-time show host and his colleagues were made public during the Dominion lawsuit, several texts between Carlson and other Fox executives sent on the day of the riot remain redacted from public filings.

    The settlement — the largest ever in a defamation case — allowed Carlson and other Fox staff to avoid answering questions about those texts while under oath.

    However, Fox executives were made aware of the messages before the trial began last month and were concerned that it could come to light in the proceedings, according to the Times.

    The full message was published by the Times on Tuesday. In it, Carlson said the video he had watched showed at least three men against one. The race of the person who was being beaten is unclear.

    "Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It's not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they'd hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it," the text said, according to the Times.

    "Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn't good for me. I'm becoming something I don't want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I'm sure I'd hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed," Carlson continued, according to the Times. "If I don't care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?"

    Carlson, who critics have repeatedly accused of promoting white nationalist talking points — such as the racist "replacement theory" — and downplaying white-nationalist violence on his show, was abruptly ousted from the network last week.

    People familiar with Carlson's firing told The Los Angeles Times that Rupert Murdoch himself made the call to fire Carlson, partly due to the host's conspiracy theories about the 2021 riots at the Capitol, which he regularly amplified on his show.

    An attorney representing Carlson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider. Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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    Fox News is facing a defamation lawsuit from former Biden administration disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz, who accuses the network of telling "destructive" lies that harmed her career and threatened her safety.

    Driving the news: Jankowicz alleges in the suit that she resigned from the since-dissolved DHS unit, the Disinformation Governance Board, last year "due to harassment arising from Fox's defamation."


    • The dissolved unit monitored disinformation threats to national security.


    Details: Jankowicz also alleges in the suit that the board's "work was paused as a result of Fox’s false statements and the ensuing harassment" and that this continued after her resignation.


    • "Over the course of eight months in 2022, Fox talked about Jankowicz more than 300 times," states the complaint, filed in Delaware on Wednesday.
    • "Across its broadcast and online publications, Fox’s employee hosts and commentators derided and lied about Jankowicz on repeat — and continue to do so even today," it reads.


    Of note: The suit also references the lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which Fox settled in a Delaware court for over $787 million last month.


    • "This commitment to stay the course even as readily available information contradicted statements of fact made on Fox’s platforms is consistent with Fox’s practices in other contexts, including in its election denialism and the related defamation of Dominion Voting Systems," the suit states.


    Between the lines: Successfully suing for defamation in the U.S. is intentionally difficult.


    • If Dominion's case had gone to trial, it would've had to prove that not only had Fox News made false statements (which it did before the settlement), but also demonstrate malice — that the network knowingly spread false information or recklessly disregarded the truth.
    • Jankowicz would have to "meet the same threshold" at a trial as Dominion would, noted the New York Times, which first reported on her lawsuit.


    Zoom in: "To bolster its fabricated, bullying narrative of Jankowicz, Fox falsely claimed that: 1) Jankowicz intended to censor Americans' speech; 2) Jankowicz was fired from her position with the federal government; and 3) Jankowicz wanted to give verified Twitter users, including herself, the power to edit others’ tweets," the lawsuit alleges.


    • It says Fox's coverage of Jankowicz "was neither news nor political commentary; it was cheap, easy entertainment untethered from the facts, designed to make consumers believe that Jankowicz could and would suppress their speech. Fox chose to lie about Jankowicz deliberately. Its statements were false and calculated to cause harm, and they did."


    What they're saying: Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, a lawyer for Jankowicz, said in an emailed statement on Wednesday evening that "Fox's obsessive defamation of Nina's character and professionalism unleashed a torrent of abuse which has caused her irreparable harm both personally and professionally."


    • "We look forward to litigating this case in Delaware and to sending a strong message on behalf of millions of sane Americans that no one — not even Fox News — is shielded from the consequences of knowingly peddling lies."


    Zoom out: Fox News also faces a $2.7 billion lawsuit from election technology company Smartmatic and one former producer Abby Grossberg, who's accused the network of sexual discrimination.


    • Representatives for Fox News did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Oh dear, looks like I've upset a lurking trumpanzee.
    I received a similar one that simply said: 'No reason given' by whoever A10 is . . . an oddball for sure

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    I received a similar one that simply said: 'No reason given' by whoever A10 is . . . an oddball for sure
    Yeah, that shows the senility you'd usually associate with a trumpanzee.

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    Voting technology company Smartmatic subpoenas Trump campaign as part of $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News

    The voting technology company Smartmatic has subpoenaed Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign for a wide array of documents as part of its $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over its airing of election lies.

    The subpoena, which was issued in April and made public in a court filing on Tuesday, requires the Trump campaign to turn over documents related to Smartmatic, Fox News, and the allegations of fraud the campaign falsely made about the 2020 election.

    Although the subpoena does not need court approval, the potential for legal wrangling over it hasn’t yet begun. Once served, the Trump campaign can fight it in court. A judge could then quash it, narrow its scope or let it stand.

    CNN reached out to Trump’s 2024 campaign for comment and was directed to the 2020 campaign. It was unclear who, if anyone, was still affiliated with the 2020 campaign.

    Smartmatic, like Dominion Voting Systems, was swept up in baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. In early 2021, it filed a monster lawsuit against Fox News, alleging that the right-wing network worked in concert with Trump’s attorneys to wage a “disinformation campaign” that jeopardized its survival.

    A New York judge in 2022 rejected Fox News’ motion to dismiss Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit, allowing the case to move forward to discovery.

    As part of the ongoing legal process, Smartmatic has also issued other notable subpoenas, including former Attorney General Bill Barr, who served in the Trump administration, in July 2022.

    Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox Corporation, the parent company of the right-wing channel Fox News, said on Tuesday that the company will fight Smartmatic’s lawsuit.

    Fox Corporation last month settled its lawsuit with Dominion for $787.5 million, the largest publicly known defamation settlement in US history.

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    Sort of related I guess. Do people actually watch this shit, as in a large audience.

    This dick is a public embarrassment.


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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    Do people actually watch this shit, as in a large audience.
    Unfortunately, there are a large amount of complete morons in America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    Sort of related I guess. Do people actually watch this shit, as in a large audience.

    This dick is a public embarrassment.

    That shit show happens to be one of, if not the highest rated show in late night television.
    Yet another glaring example of American stupidity, and why we are truly fooked!

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    Quote Originally Posted by beachbound View Post
    ... and why we are truly fooked!
    I lived in the States for 6 months.

    Great people, amazing Country.

    You guys are much better than this ... balance will be restored one day, soon I hope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    I lived in the States for 6 months.

    Great people, amazing Country.
    .
    Some places are amazing. Some, not so much.



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    Scoop: Fox sends Tucker Carlson cease-and-desist letter

    Fox News has sent a "cease and desist" letter to Tucker Carlson as he ramps up a competing series on Twitter that drew a combined 169 million views for its first two episodes, Axios has learned.

    Why it matters: The contract battle between Fox and its former top host — who was taken off the air in April, after the network's historic Dominion settlement — has mighty repercussions for the conservative media ecosystem.


    • With "Tucker on Twitter," Carlson and his growing production team are working to elevate Elon Musk's social media site as a news platform.


    Details: The cease-and-desist letter has "NOT FOR PUBLICATION" in bold at the top.

    What's happening: Fox is continuing to pay Carlson, and maintains that his contract keeps his content exclusive to Fox through Dec. 31, 2024.


    • Carlson is making a First Amendment argument for posting on Twitter, and asserts that Fox has committed material breaches of his contract.


    Behind the scenes: Carlson's first two Twitter episodes were straight-to-camera monologues. He plans to keep iterating with longer, more varied episodes and the addition of guests, Axios is told.


    • We hear some big names have been lined up.
    • Justin Wells, Carlson's executive producer, tweeted yesterday: "Next Episode of Tucker on Twitter coming Tuesday: Tucker’s response to the indictment of President Donald Trump."


    What they're saying: Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who represents Carlson along with Bryan Freedman, said in a statement to Axios: "Fox News continues to ignore the interests of its viewers, not to mention its shareholder obligations."


    • "Doubling down on the most catastrophic programming decision in the history of the cable news industry, Fox is now demanding that Tucker Carlson be silent until after the 2024 election," the statement continued.
    • "Tucker will not be silenced by anyone ... He is a singularly important voice on matters of public interest in our country, and will remain so."
    • Fox News didn't comment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Yes, the scum that is Fox News actually ran this.
    You'd think they would have learned their lesson

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    I'm going to be fair here and congratulate Brett Baier for not taking any of that orange turd shit.

    Great interview!

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...ated-interview

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    ^ it was good, they held orangelock's feet to the fire

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    Fox News has settled out of court with a former top producer who sued the network earlier this year, alleging a toxic and hostile workplace at the conservative media giant.

    In a motion to dismiss filed Friday in the U.S. Southern District of New York, former Fox producer Abby Grossberg’s attorney said his client had voluntarily agreed to dismiss her lawsuit against Fox, and the talent at the network she worked under, including now-ousted pundit Tucker Carlson.

    Terms of the settlement were not listed in the court filing, but the New York Times reported the network had agreed to pay Grossberg $12 million to settle her claims.

    “We are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation,” a Fox News spokesperson told The Hill in a statement.

    Grossberg alleged Fox’s lawyers pressured her to provide misleading information about internal editorial procedures while it fought a blockbuster defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, which stemmed from its coverage of false claims of voter fraud being promoted by former President Trump and his allies.

    Fox denied Grossberg’s claim at the time and agreed to pay Dominion $787 million to settle the defamation claims brought by Dominion in April.

    In her lawsuit, and through a series of media interviews, Grossberg said she had been fired in retaliation and claimed a rampant culture of sexism at the network as she worked as a top producer for big name Fox personalities such as Carlson and Maria Bartiromo.

    “They destroy people,” she told NBC in March, as Fox was set to go to trial against Dominion. “I realized that the answers that they wanted me to say were putting me in a very vulnerable position to be the company scapegoat.”

    In a statement provided to the Times, Grossberg noted she was “heartened that Fox News has taken me and my legal claims seriously.”

    “I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace,” she said.

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    Fox News hit with another defamation lawsuit — this one over Jan. 6 allegations

    Fox News has been hit with yet another defamation lawsuit, this time by Ray Epps, a former U.S. Marine turned Arizona wedding venue operator who was in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.

    The suit centers on the statements of Fox's former primetime star, Tucker Carlson, who repeatedly placed Epps, a supporter of then-President Donald Trump who says he sought to stave off any bloodshed, at the center of the violent siege on the U.S. Capitol.

    Carlson's guests and his own remarks conveyed with seeming certitude that Epps helped instigate the violence unleashed that day and also that he must have been collaborating with a federal agency to do so. Yet Carlson never presented viewers with any concrete evidence of the claims.

    "In the aftermath of the events of January 6th, Fox News searched for a scapegoat to blame other than Donald Trump or the Republican Party," the lawsuit begins. "Eventually, they turned on one of their own, telling a fantastical story in which Ray Epps — who was a Trump supporter that participated in the protests on January 6th – was an undercover FBI agent and was responsible for the mob that violently broke into the Capitol and interfered with the peaceful transition of power for the first time in this country's history."

    Other Fox stars also picked up the call, including Laura Ingraham and Will Cain.

    Fox and Carlson did not respond to requests for comment on Wednesday. Carlson was not formally named as a defendant in the lawsuit.

    According to Epps' attorney, Michael Teter, Epps and his wife were Fox viewers and Carlson fans whose lives were turned upside down by the network.

    "Fox News and in particular Tucker Carlson spent a good part of two years lying about Mr. Epps's involvement in January 6th, creating a fictitious story and narrative about him that is wholly untrue," Teter tells NPR. "And because of that he has faced harassment and threats from Fox viewers and others that have ruined his life."

    Epps has said he and his wife had to sell their home — and give up their wedding business — and move to a mobile home in Utah.

    "He believed in Donald Trump and he believed the lies that Fox told," Teter says. "The fact that then Fox would take one of their viewers and turn him into the villain of one of their conspiracy theories demonstrates what we've known for a while, which is Fox News does not care [about its viewers]."

    "It cares about making money," Teter says. "And it will lie to them. It will discredit them. And ultimately it will ruin their lives if they see a profit for them to be made."

    Epps' suit is just the latest legal front against Fox, the result of its lurching embrace of Trump's false claims that he had been cheated of victory in the 2020 race.

    Fox was the first television network to project that Democratic nominee Joe Biden would win Arizona. The call outraged many of its core viewers, who defected to other right-wing outlets.

    As contemporaneous reporting and documents and testimony in a later court case would demonstrate, executives and stars amplified the increasingly outlandish claims in order to win back those viewers.

    That decision proved costly and fateful to its credibility, as Fox hosts and executives agreed to air claims they knew to be false, and to its bottom line.

    Fox News paid $787.5 million earlier this year to settle a defamation claim brought by a voting-technology company called Dominion Voting Systems, which was frequently placed at the center of those groundless conspiracy theories.

    Plaintiffs who sue media organizations for defamation face long odds. They must prove not only that the claims made about them were false and harmful, but that the people spreading those claims knew they were false, or should've known and recklessly disregarded the truth.

    Yet Fox's settlement with Dominion, just moments before opening statements in the trial were to begin, gives others reason to hope.

    "The Dominion settlement has emboldened other targets of Fox's coverage to sue, and that's not good news for Fox," says Tom Wienner, a retired corporate litigator who followed the Dominion case at NPR's request.

    Epps' suit is being heard in the same venue, Delaware Superior Court.

    Days after the Dominion settlement, Fox stripped Carlson of his primetime show, seeking to sideline him until his current contract ends, which is after the upcoming elections. According to Chadwick Moore, who has written a biography of Carlson, his show was to focus once more on Epps the evening that he was ousted.

    Carlson was one of the primary defendants in the Dominion suit, which showed him to be privately attacking the network's reporters for publicly contradicting Trump even though, as he acknowledged, they were correct.

    "The Dominion suit... demonstrates a pattern on Fox that they have engaged in lies about the 2020 election, seeking to placate their viewers," Teter says. "They wanted the frustration — the anger — that their viewers expected, to continue to have them watching Fox News."

    Late last month, Fox paid $12 million to settle a lawsuit from a former senior producer for Carlson who alleged his show's work environment was replete with bigotry and misogyny in her own civil suit. She had separately alleged that attorneys for the network and its parent company, Fox Corp., had pressured her to lie to defend Carlson and male executives in sworn testimony. Fox vigorously contested the allegation of misconduct by its legal team but backed down from its initial defenses of the work environment on Carlson's show.

    Meanwhile, Fox faces another lawsuit for $2.7 billion from a second voting tech company, Smartmatic. And investors have brought a pair of lawsuits, arguing that top officials and board members at Fox Corp. failed to exercise appropriate control over the network.

    Fox News and Fox Corp endured tough sledding in the Delaware Superior Court during the Dominion case. After months of being asked by Dominion, for example, Fox's attorneys belatedly acknowledged that Fox Corp. founder and chairman Rupert Murdoch also held the title of executive chairman of Fox News.

    Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis, who oversaw the Dominion case, chastised Fox's attorneys on that score and several others. And Davis has been assigned related cases. It is perhaps unsurprising that Fox's attorneys have filed a legal notice seeking to have the Epps case moved to federal court in Delaware.

    Other Fox hosts stoked the emotional fires that fueled the January 2021 protests to a greater degree than Carlson. Yet after the siege, Carlson quickly embraced a series of contradictory conspiracy theories. He argued that the brutal attack was essentially a rally that got a bit rowdy. And he also claimed that the federal government and antigovernmental protesters from Antifa instigated it.

    Epps became a touchstone in reconciling those so far baseless theories. Carlson's claims, presented on his show and in a three-part series called Patriot Purge on the Fox Nation streaming service, led to the resignations of two Fox commentators, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes. Anchor Bret Baier and then-Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace objected to top network officials. Wallace signed with CNN shortly after.

    As recently as this March, however, Carlson once more invoked the specter of federal involvement in the attack on the Capitol.

    "A lot of this was clearly influenced by federal agents or informants. It was. Ok?" Carlson told viewers. "But I did not want to suggest someone was a federal agent or informant unless I knew for a fact because you really could get someone in trouble."

    "It's very clear, something very strange is going on with Ray Epps," he said. "I mean, don't lie to my face. The Ray Epps thing isn't, isn't organic, sorry."

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