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Dominion Has The Receipts For Fox Election Lies!

Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on February 17, 2023 · Flag

Dominion Voting Systems has produced evidence that Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Rupert Murdoch and plenty more at Fox all knew the smears about Dominion Voting Systems were a lie but perpetuated them anyway.

A nearly 200-page legal brief from Dominion seeking summary judgment in its $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News is full of jaw-dropping information about how top people at the network knew that it was pushing lies about the 2020 election. 

From The New York Times:

Newly disclosed messages and testimony from some of the biggest stars and most senior executives at Fox News revealed that they privately expressed disbelief about President Donald J. Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, even though the network continued to promote many of those lies on the air.

The hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, as well as others at the company, repeatedly insulted and mocked Trump advisers, including Sidney Powell and Rudolph W. Giuliani, in text messages with each other in the weeks after the election, according to a legal filing on Thursday by Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion is suing Fox for defamation in a case that poses considerable financial and reputational risk for the country’s most-watched cable news network.

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The messages also show that such doubts extended to the highest levels of the Fox Corporation, with Rupert Murdoch, its chairman, calling Mr. Trump’s voter fraud claims “really crazy stuff.

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On Nov. 12, in a text chain with Ms. Ingraham and Mr. Hannity, Mr. Carlson pointed to a tweet in which a Fox reporter, Jacqui Heinrich, fact-checked a tweet from Mr. Trump referring to Fox broadcasts and said there was no evidence of voter fraud from Dominion.

“Please get her fired,” Mr. Carlson said. He added: “It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.” Ms. Heinrich had deleted her tweet by the next morning.

I plan to read the brief this morning and will post more as warranted.

Meanwhile, you can read the entire brief here, courtesy of The Times. There are many redactions in the brief which, The Times says, "contain more revelations about deliberations inside the network" that Fox wants to keep sealed. One can only imagine how much more damning those might be. The Times and National Public Radio are challenging those redactions in court.

2/17/23 update: I'm still reading and digesting the brief. Boy, does it have the receipts! I hope to post more tomorrow. 

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John McKee commented 2023-02-19 12:14:12 -0500 · Flag
I’m about 25% of the way through the brief and it is just red hot. I had no idea a legal document could be so easy to read and as compelling as any John le Carre!
Bemused commented 2023-02-19 02:14:17 -0500 · Flag
Thanx for reading the brief on our behalf, Ellen.

It’s increasingly believable that Dominion put all its ducks in a row before moving against FNC. Even if they eventually settle, it’s agonna hurt.
Ellen commented 2023-02-17 21:19:10 -0500 · Flag
I’m still reading through the brief. Will hope to post more tomorrow. It’s a shocker!
John McKee commented 2023-02-17 19:43:32 -0500 · Flag
There seems to be a widespread delusion amongst RWNJs and their media masters that any false claim or statement on their side of any matter is mysteriously disappeared, but ANYTHING, true or (more frequently) false, they can glom onto that could possibly make the left look bad is preserved FOREVER.

Compare Benghazi (Benghazi!, Benghazi!) with the ‘left behind’ cock-up in Niger.
scooter commented 2023-02-17 11:36:17 -0500 · Flag
We all know that FOX lied, and lies still about anything and everything. They do it for a purpose – to stoke white grievance outrage and generate ratings & $$$. And they have their “get-out-of-jail-free” card from prior court cases where it was legally established that FOX is an entertainment network, not news, therefore the public should know better than to believe them. And the beat goes on…..
Ellen commented 2023-02-17 11:04:59 -0500 · Flag
That is an excellent point!
Firefox commented 2023-02-17 09:29:29 -0500 · Flag
Of all the critical investigations House Republicans are eagerly contemplating, why isn’t the claim of ‘massive election fraud in 2020’ top of the list (or at least somewhere on the list)? And by the way, why isn’t Trump himself urging such a thing? This story about what people at Fox really thought is part of the answer.








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