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thorne1435 · 2 years ago
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TUCKER CARLSON HAS BEEN FIRED FROM FOX NEWS
SOMEBODY GET THE FUCKIN CRAB RAVE!
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z34l0t · 2 years ago
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"A voting machine company’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News has rocked the conservative media giant, exposing rifts between its journalists and the star hosts, and executives more concerned with mollifying pro-Trump viewers than accurately reporting that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen."
"But the strangest revelation so far from the Dominion Voting Systems case against the cable channel may be the alleged source of the voter-fraud claims that sparked the lawsuit: a single email from a previously unknown woman who was convinced, among other things, that late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered while being hunted for sport."
"That unhinged email to Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell has now become a centerpiece of Dominion’s case, raising questions about how Fox could allow obviously fake claims from a total stranger with no credentials to make it on the air."
"Even Maria Bartiromo, the Fox host whose show first aired the claims, admitted in a deposition that the email was ridiculous."
“It’s kooky, absolutely, Bartiromo said.”
"But the idea’s origin is even more “kooky” than Bartiromo might realize. In an interview with The Daily Beast, the woman behind that email—a Minnesota artist named Marlene Bourne—said that she based her now nationally prominent ideas about election fraud on a wide variety of sources, including hidden messages she detects in films, song lyrics she hears on the radio, and overheard conversations she hears while in line at the supermarket checkout."
“Yeah, I’m crazy, Bourne told The Daily Beast. Crazy like a fox.”
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"Bourne, who makes what she calls “cactus art” using glitter and Swarovski crystals, might seem like an unlikely person to plunge the most-watched cable network in the country into an embarrassing, expensive lawsuit."
"Bourne said she has never met Powell, or communicated with her beyond that one email. She doesn’t even watch Fox News, because she considers the network and all other major media outlets to be “psyops”—short for psychological operations carried out by nefarious forces as part of what she called a “mass global unconventional warfare” plot to divide Americans."
"But on the afternoon of Nov. 7, 2020, just hours after Fox and other major media outlets called the election for Joe Biden, Bourne sent Powell, Fox host Lou Dobbs, and conservative activist Tom Fitton an email laying out the case against Dominion as she saw it. In Bourne’s telling, Dominion machines used software to convert 3 percent of all votes for Donald Trump into votes for Biden."
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"Bourne admitted in her email to Powell that her ideas were pretty wackadoodle.”
"But less than an hour after receiving the email, Powell had ignored the many red flags the email contained about Bourne’s credibility and forwarded it to Bartiromo."
"Three minutes later, Bartiromo forwarded Bourne’s theories to her producer and replied to Powell, saying the lawyer had provided Fox with very imp[ortant] info.”
"The next day, Fox aired a pre-taped interview with Bartiromo and Powell on Bartiromo’s show, Sunday Morning Futures. The segment appears to be based in large part on Bourne’s email—in Bartiromo’s deposition, she was unable to point to another source for Powell’s ideas."
"During the deposition process, a lawyer for Dominion said the discovery process didn’t turn up any other documents used by Bartiromo’s staff before the segment aired that mentioned Dominion."
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"Bartiromo referenced false claims that she would have read a day earlier in Bourne’s email. At times, Bartiromo even used identical phrasing to Bourne’s email."
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"In a discursive 40-minute interview with The Daily Beast, Bourne threw out a jumble of ideas that centered on ties between telepaths, the Bank of the Vatican, the NXIVM sex cult, and the 1970 film Beneath the Planet of the Apes."
"And she explained where she got the conspiracy theories like the one that Fox somehow allowed to reach its airwaves, prompting the threat of a $1.6 billion judgment. Essentially, in Bourne’s telling, she conjures her theories out of nothing."
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mysharona1987 · 2 years ago
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kelpeigh · 7 days ago
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One of the most annoying things my conservative father does is routinely complain about the Mainstream Media™ being biased
Because every time I’ll say, “my brother in christ, Fox News is (unfortunately) very mainstream, and you cannot deny they are biased, yet you watch it with gusto every night”
And he’ll say, “Well. I’m not talking about Fox News. Fox News isn’t news. It’s all opinion talk.”
And I’ll ask him, “Then why is it called Fox News?”
And he has no answer. Yet it does not make him reconsider a damn thing. We’ve had this conversation many times and it’s changed nothing.
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reasonandempathy · 2 years ago
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Tucker Carlson out at Fox News
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Final show is tonight, April 21st, 2023.
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I'll accept not having him testify if it means he's out from cable news. Still a good thing.
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justinspoliticalcorner · 6 months ago
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Andrew Perez at Rolling Stone:
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband is currently representing Fox Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, in a defamation lawsuit, according to court records reviewed by Rolling Stone. The lawsuit relates to reports by one of Fox’s local stations.
Jesse Barrett is a trial lawyer and managing partner at SouthBank Legal. He heads the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court. While the SouthBank Legal website says that Jesse Barrett “focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation,” it notes, in a recent addition, that he has “represented a prominent media company in a lawsuit alleging defamation.”  That prominent media company is Fox Corporation, which owns the conservative cable news channel Fox News. Fox News regularly covers matters at the Supreme Court and will surely continue to do so as the high court nears the end of its term. It is set to issue rulings soon on a slate of controversial topics, such as abortion, guns, public corruption, and whether Donald Trump is entitled to immunity for life for acts he committed as president. 
Jesse Barrett’s work for Fox Corporation highlights one of ethics experts’ biggest complaints about the Supreme Court: Justices are not required to disclose their spouses’ clients, so the public has no way to track who is paying money directly to their families. In her 2021 financial disclosure, Justice Barrett even redacted the name of her husband’s firm, despite it being common knowledge that he works there. [...]
It is no secret that Jesse Barrett represents corporate interests: His firm bio says his “clients have included multiple Fortune 500 companies and corporate executives.” The Southbank Legal website says that the firm has represented 26 Fortune 500 companies.  The public has no way to identify Barrett’s clients, for the most part. However, federal court records show that Barrett is serving as Fox Corporation’s lead counsel in an ongoing defamation case. He had the case moved from Cook County, Illinois, to federal court late last month.
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The defamation case was filed by Lavell Redmond, an Illinois man who was convicted of aggravated sexual assault as a minor and served 24 years in prison. Redmond was hired as a code enforcement officer by the mayor of Dolton in 2021, the original complaint says. He is suing Fox over a series of reports that scandalized his hiring — the first of which claimed he had been hired for “a job in which he goes into Dolton homes and businesses to inspect them.” The complaint says that “as a code enforcement officer, Redmond was never responsible for entering village resident’s homes to do his job, nor did he ever enter village resident’s homes. Redmond only had the ability to observe home exteriors to write code violations.” Redmond alleges that “FOX 32’s reporting directly led to Redmond being arrested and wrongfully charged with violating the reporting requirements of the sex offender registry,” as well as his subsequent termination.
Jesse Barrett, the husband of right-wing SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett, is representing Fox Corporation (the parent company of right-wing propaganda outlet Fox “News”) in a defamation lawsuit regarding its Chicago O&O station WFLD (Fox 32), per a report from Rolling Stone.
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backtonormallife · 4 months ago
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Just a reminder ~ Fox News settled a lawsuit because going to court would have exposed the lies it told about the 2020 election.
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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 years ago
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Dominion lawsuit against Fox News.
         After our brief foray into lovely Northern Ireland, let's return to the meltdown at the center of Trump's world, a.k.a. the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News lawsuit in Delaware. Going into a major trial is like entering a blast furnace—weak points melt, debris incinerates, and all that is left is the unalloyed truth. It can be a painful process—and usually is. Unfortunately for Fox, in the lawsuit brought by Dominion, the truth is stacked on the Dominion side of the ledger, meaning that Fox News's case is going up in flames.
         Fox News and its attorneys have lost all credibility with the judge. On the eve of trial, Dominion continues to produce information from third parties that is in the possession of Fox News and should have been produced in discovery by Fox—but was not. See The Hill, Judge sanctions Fox News for withholding evidence in Dominion lawsuit.
         That is a very bad development for Fox on the eve of trial. The judge has appointed a special master to determine if Fox or its attorneys made deliberate misrepresentations to the court. And the Court has issued sanctions against Fox, requiring it to pay for additional depositions and discovery demanded by Dominion.
         Here's the point: Like Trump, Fox News assumed that it could get away with bending the truth because no one would hold it accountable. It now finds itself in a trial where truth matters, and representations to the judge cannot be treated like fact-free commentary from Tucker Carlson.
         It is a healthy process for the leadership of Fox to see that their disregard for truth and journalistic standards can affect the bottom line. Shareholders have now filed a lawsuit in Delaware against the Fox Board of Directors for breaching their fiduciary duty in failing to prevent the dissemination of false information. NBC News, Rupert Murdoch and Fox Corp. board members sued by investor over 'stolen election claims'.
         Whatever else happens, there is an internal reckoning occurring at Fox that will remove editorial control from the hands of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and put it in the hands of oversight committees, editors, and compliance officers. The Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit should have a positive effect on journalism in America, no matter the outcome.
[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]
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mypov86 · 1 year ago
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I do hope OceanGate learns from this. They cared more about being inspirational then actually doing the job the right way.
In my opinion, OceanGate is responsible for their deaths and no signatures on waivers will cover it. I do hope the families do sue the company for building the sub completely wrong. No signature will save their asses due to the incapability of doing the job right.
They didnt hire the 50 year old who has experience of doing the job. Through my eyes they probably hired newly graduated engineers who are probably more experienced with Tiktok and Social Media.
So I am not surprised America doesn't have empathy for stupidity.
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yamimichi · 2 years ago
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Holy Poop!
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tomorrowusa · 2 years ago
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In fact, Fox paid out $787,500,000.00 just so it wouldn’t have to reveal in open court how mendacious and duplicitous it is.
Though most Fox viewers probably wouldn’t really care anyway. It’s a lot easier to indoctrinate people than it is to deprogram them.
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mysharona1987 · 2 years ago
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When you’re so obnoxious and abhorrent even the people at Fox News hate you.
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demdelis · 2 years ago
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muddypolitics · 2 years ago
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(via Dominion Lawsuit: Undoing Fox News Damage to GOP 'Could Take Decade')
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ivovynckier · 2 years ago
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Tucker Carlson this week on Fox News.
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filosofablogger · 2 years ago
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Jaw-Dropping News
At exactly 11:39 EDT this morning came the breaking news that caused my jaw to drop: Tucker Carlson Leaves Fox News The company gave no reason, only this brief statement: “FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.” I expected some heads to roll in the wake of the $787.5 million settlement…
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