posted March 13, 2023 09:11 PM            

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Dominion’s lawsuit isn’t just a threat to Fox. If it succeeds, it’s a blueprint for destroying conservative media and independent media as we know it. It’s a gift to every green energy company lobbying for corrupt funding, every tech company censoring accounts, and every woke corporate actor engaged in preposterous diversity, equity, and inclusion policies that will use it to silence investigative journalists, criticism, and debate.

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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/dominions-fox-news-lawsuit-is-not-what-the-media-are-making-it-out-to-be

posted March 13, 2023 09:14 PM            

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Dominion’s theory is doubly dangerous because it goes beyond arguing about defamation by an individual host or journalist and argues that if any person within a news organization or its corporate leadership doesn’t believe an allegation aired, the entire company is liable to the tune of billions.

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posted March 19, 2023 02:00 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
Dominion is in the right. Fox News are ******** who lie to their viewers every single day.

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posted March 19, 2023 10:09 PM            

The central allegation of Dominion's lawsuit against Fox News is that Fox news hosts, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity were endorsing and promoting President Trump's accusation that he lost the election through widespread fraud, at the same time these hosts in private ridiculed these claims and thought them baseless. In other words, that they were promoting President Trump's claims in public that they did not believe in private.

Yet, nobody can point to a single segment of these hosts between late 2020 and early 2021 where they endorsed this election fraud claim. As a matter of fact, during this same time frame, CNN was making the exact opposite claim,
"namely they were gloating about the fact that Fox was losing their audience to Newsman and OAN due to their refusal of late night hosts to endorse Trump’s election fraud claim."

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The news reports that are implicitly asserting or explicitly claiming that Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham endorsed and supported and told their viewers was valid Trump’s election fraud claims cannot point to a single instance in which they did that because at the heart of this theory is a fabrication. The fabrication being that these Fox hosts were endorsing a theory of voter fraud that they secretly repudiated.

In the case of Tucker Carlson, he didn’t just secretly repudiate the election fraud claims, he went on the air and publicly did so. This segment caused enormous amounts of rage against Tucker Carlson from the Fox audience. In other words, Tucker Carlson went on the air and did a segment that he knew would anger his own audience and he did it anyway, something which not a single host of CNN or MSNBC can ever point to themselves doing.

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Tucker Carlson went on the air on November 19, 2020 and refuted the central allegation of the Dominion lawsuit. Here's a link to the clip of the show's video. His remarks begin at 25:24.

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(inaudible)...brings us to the bombshell at the center of today’s press conference that was delivered by former prosecutor Sidney Powell, who also served as General Mike Flynn’s lawyer. For more than a week, Powell has been all over conservative media with the following story: this election was stolen by a collection of International leftists who manipulated vote tabulating software in order to flip millions of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The other day on television Powell said of Trump when the fraud is finally uncovered I think we’ll find he had at least 80 million votes. In other words, rigged software stole about seven million votes in this election. Here’s some of what Powell said today about the software [Powell remarks]. That was a few hours ago but Sidney Powell has been saying similar things for days. On Sunday night, we texted her after watching one of her segments. What Powell was describing would amount to the single greatest crime in American history, millions of votes stolen in a day, democracy destroyed, the end of centuries old system of government, not a small thing.

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Carlson is saying Sidney Powell is making these claims. What he's not doing is endorsing these claims himself.

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Now to be perfectly clear we did not dismiss any of it. We don’t dismiss anything anymore, particularly when it’s related to technology. We’ve talked to too many Silicon Valley whistleblowers. We’ve seen too much. After four years, this may be the single most open minded show on television. We literally do UFO segments, not because we’re crazy or even a bit interested in the subject, but because there is evidence that UFOs are real and everyone lies about it. There’s evidence that a lot of responsible people used to dismiss out of hand as ridiculous are in fact real. We don’t care who mocks it. The louder the Yale political science department and the staff at the Atlantic magazine scream “conspiracy theory!” the more interested we tend to be. That’s usually a sign you’re over the target. A lot of people with impressive sounding credentials in this country are frauds. They’ve no idea what they’re doing. They’re children posing as authorities and when they’re caught they lie and blame you for it. We see that every day. It’s the central theme of this show and will continue to be.

So that’s a long way of saying we took Sidney Powell seriously. We’ve no intention of fighting with her, we’ve always respected her work. We simply wanted to see the details. How could you not want to see them. So we invited Sidney Powell on the show. We would have given her the whole hour. We would have given her the entire week actually and listened quietly the whole time at rapt attention. That’s a big story. But she never sent us any evidence, despite a lot of requests, polite requests, not a page. When we kept pressing she got angry and told us to stop contacting her. When we checked with others around the Trump campaign, people in positions of authority, they told us Powell has never given them any evidence either, nor did she provide any today at the press conference. Powell did say that electronic voting is dangerous and she’s right, we’re with her there. But she never demonstrated that a single actual vote was moved illegitimately by software from one candidate to another.

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http://rumble.com/v2blt70-system-update-show-50.html