receipt of the actual facts. pushes and pushes and pushes their most watched anchor to make these disclaimers to walk away and they just can t quit the poisonous, what they view as sort of toxic disinformation. so, i think it is important to know what position fox is taking right now in court. in the light of this evidence, they have a two-pronged strategy. one is to say that a whole bucket of information that dominion is complaining about are just opinions. opinions that were given by anchors and by guests who were on. and the second bucket is not opinions, but if they said the second bucket is that fox news wat not endorsing what the speaker was saying. even though, just to be clear, rupert murdoch in his deposition said, yes, they were endorsing. that is the real problem.
over the truth. so when does the panic over the ratings turn to panic over the lawsuit because the other person that gets fired is lou dobbs. mm-hmm, that is right. and the clip that he showed is a few examples of really, really strong statements that lou dobbs and mary bartiromo made that dominion could make a strong case that these are defamatory. so not only do they get rid of the person who made the arizona call, they clean house of people like dobbs, who started this. fox knew that this lawsuit was coming. that is why they ve hired one of the best, most expensive trial lawyers in the country to defend them. and that is not their first legal team. it is not. because it was the case was going so poorly over the summer, they get rid of the first legal team and are now using another one. and you know, defamation cases
to provide the evidence in court and will bring it to viewers when they do. the next day shaw again offers this advice to trucker carlson suggesting this, we shouldn t engage the powell interview. this is an opportunity to discredit here since it is totally insane. it is just, in all caps, mind blowingly nuts. and yet, here is what happens on the air. when fox repeatedly aired clearly false allegations about dominion, shaw ignored the truth and sat on his ability to intervene. it erases a bunch of lines from understanding, one, that management wasn t intimately involved in editorial, and two that management wasn t trying to inject what they knew the facts to be and we knew from the lawsuit 3600 missives came from dominion, so from the top of the company, tony fratta who worked at the bush administration and had executives that he worked with, we west virginia worked with paul ryan. so many different points were in
and even as fox executives and hosts and staffers asked that very same question and came to the conclusion that there was no evidence to back up claims like that and other claims of massive voter fraud. they put people who were making those claims on the air over and over and over again. and here is why. this is what rupert murdoch had to say about the pillow guy and mike lindell in his deposition, according to dominion, the man is on every night, pays us a lot of money. first you think it is comic and then you get bored and irritated. rupert confirmed that he could tell fox to stop running lindell s advertisements, but i m not about to. and when asked why fox continues to give a platform to lindell who continues to this day to spout lies about dominion, murdoch agreed it is not red or blue, it is green. wow! in a statement fox news accused
it forced them to change not just who they are, but what they do. they started peddling knowingly lies on to the airwaves. and you can t blame a bunch of rogue actors, anchors. they knew at the top of the company, they knew at the board level, paul ryan and others, they knew from the top to the middle, to the anchors, they also were in receipt of 3600 communications from dominion, in case any of them were unclear on the facts. they received and acknowledged receiving information correcting what was being broadcast on that network. how did they get themselves in this legal position, which doesn t look very good. that is putting it mildly, nicolle. to say it is not looking good. i mean, it is inconceivable that the judge is going to grant summary judgment for them and in which case they will be facing a trial and they will have to decide whether they really are