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Lou Dobbs Airs Segment Refuting Election Fraud Claims — Including His Own — In Wake Of Legal Threat
Yahoo!Entertainment ^ | December 19, 2020 | Ted Johnson

Posted on 12/19/2020 4:36:11 PM PST by goodn'mad

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs aired a segment on Friday that amounted to a fact-checking refutation of claims that he and guests have made about an election tech company Smartmatic and its role in the 2020 presidential election, after the company threatened legal action.

Other similar segments will be shown on Justice with Judge Jeanine on Saturday and Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News spokesperson said. Lisa Boothe will host Judge Jeanine, as Jeanine Pirro is off for the holidays

Earlier this week, Smartmatic announced that it had threatened legal action against Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network “for publishing false and defamatory statements,” after talking heads on the outlets have pushed claims of election fraud, including unfounded conspiracy theories of rigged voting machine companies.

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KEYWORDS: backtracks; dobbs; election; electionfraud; foxnews; joebiden; judgejeanine; lawsuit; lou; loudobbs; mariabartiromo; media; realitysettingin; smartmatic; trump
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To: newfreep

“ Dobbs, Judge Jeanine & Maria ”

Technically not Jeanine since she’s off, so Lisa Booths will be there to lick the boot. Which is telling. She is without a doubt the most outspoken Fox contributor on social media.


41 posted on 12/19/2020 5:08:35 PM PST by moehoward (.)
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To: newfreep

“Dobbs, Judge Jeanine & Maria have folded...to keep their paychecks coming?”

I stopped watching them the same time six weeks ago I stopped watching “Sucker” on Prime Time, You knew these Fox Business chumps were given a leash, and now it has been pulled in. They want their checks more than their dignity and freedom. FOAD all of them.


42 posted on 12/19/2020 5:12:01 PM PST by DAC21
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To: goodn'mad

I thought that the roadshow that Rudy Guiliani put on with his team developed evidence that could withstand scrutiny. If so, why not dig deeper, report on what you find, and if they don’t like it, then let them sue. I’m not surprised that Fox News and Smartmatic will lie through their teeth to protect their brands but for Lou Dobbs to backtrack is disappointing. Always so tough, self-assured, but when one shell lands a little too close for comfort, he backtracks with the best of them.


43 posted on 12/19/2020 5:12:47 PM PST by goodn'mad
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To: goodn'mad

Your post is sheer propaganda. If one actually watches the entire segment, a completely different interpretation will probably be taken. (Eddie Perez gets about 3 minutes at the end of a 34-minute segment. Some people may simply call offering a different viewpoint ‘being fair and balanced’.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T9VDichLPM


44 posted on 12/19/2020 5:16:23 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: goodn'mad

I thought Smartmatic had been banned from US elections like 10 years ago


45 posted on 12/19/2020 5:19:36 PM PST by joshua c (President Elect joshua_c. Hey if Joe can do it.)
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To: goodn'mad

I haven’t watched Fox News in years, and never will again. They can run whatever segments they want. They’re complicit in the election fraud as far as I’m concerned.


46 posted on 12/19/2020 5:22:56 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: goodn'mad

At the start of the Trump administration, Steve Bannon said that they (the deep state & friends) have stolen our country from us and they are not just going to just give it back.

Current events have proved him correct.


47 posted on 12/19/2020 5:31:25 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: gov_bean_ counter
"They haven’t come after Woods or Powell..."

True that, but as much as we want to believe, Woods and Powell have self inflicted credibility wounds. No need for Big Brother to go after them.

48 posted on 12/19/2020 5:38:45 PM PST by buckalfa
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To: LongWayHome

18 Dec: MediaIte: Lou Dobbs Airs Stunning Fact-Check of His Own Election Conspiracies After Company Threatens Legal Action
By Josh Feldman
Dobbs started the segment by saying, “There are lots of opinions about the integrity of the election, the irregularities of mail-in voting, of election voting machines and voting software. One of the companies is Smartmatic, and we reached out to one of the leading authorities on open source software for elections, Eddie Perez, for his insight and views.”...
He (Perez) also made it clear that Smartmatic and Dominion are completely separate companies, and even more tellingly, ***he pushed back on the idea that there is a DIRECT connection between Smartmatic and George Soros***...

As soon as the segment ended, the show went to break — sans commentary from Dobbs.
UPDATE — Mediaite has learned that the same fact check will be airing on Jeanine Pirro’s show Saturday night and Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News show on Sunday.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/lou-dobbs-airs-stunning-fact-check-of-his-own-election-conspiracies-after-company-threatens-legal-action/

***Wikipedia: Mark Malloch Brown - in 2014, he was appointed chairman of the board of directors of election technology manufacturer Smartmatic’s holding company.
In May 2007, George Soros’s Quantum Fund announced the appointment of Malloch Brown as vice-president. He was named vice-chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute, two other important Soros organisations...
In December 2020, Malloch Brown was announced as succeeding Patrick Gaspard as president of Open Society Foundations on 1 January 2021...
He is a close friend of billionaire speculator George Soros, with the two having worked together in their roles at the UN and Open Society Foundations, and he rented an apartment owned by Soros while living with his family in New York working on UN assignments...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Malloch_Brown,_Baron_Malloch-Brown


49 posted on 12/19/2020 5:39:15 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: goodn'mad
Sounds like the pig fornicators at that outfit are lawyering up. It could well be that Dobbs's lawyers advised this.If by chance the Rats fail to steal both Georgia seats there will be hearings...lots of hearings.

IF they succeed we're truly ****ed!

50 posted on 12/19/2020 5:39:33 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (STOLEN ELECTION 2020)
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To: buckalfa

Could you elaborate on these ‘self-inflicted credibility wounds?’


51 posted on 12/19/2020 5:40:57 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: goodn'mad
My opinion of Lou Dobbs and dropped several notched.

Posting under the influence?

52 posted on 12/19/2020 5:41:16 PM PST by fso301
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To: Nateman

Not with Fox attorneys wanting to keep the election fraud secret.


53 posted on 12/19/2020 5:41:18 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: joshua c

I thought Smartmatic had been banned from US elections like 10 years ago


I don’t have the answer to that, but a quick google will dredge up a lot of articles similar to this:

https://www.ptnewsnetwork.com/chairman-of-smartmatic-tied-to-dominion-a-biden-transition-team-member/

For those who will not bother to read....this is a story about several instances of US Government investigations of the company. Obviously to have a real understanding of what happened one would need to dig up the records describing the incidents, so I offer no judgement on the events.

Plus this headline:

Chairman of Smartmatic, tied to Dominion, a Biden Transition Team Member

There is a lot of difference in a threat to sue and actually going to the courthouse and filing. One can jump up and down and scream “I’ll sue” and the faint of heart dive for cover.

But once the wheels are put in motion and the depositions start the plaintiff can be in more trouble than the defendant.


54 posted on 12/19/2020 5:42:01 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: old curmudgeon

I don’t see that. Fox knows with real statistics they have lost some 40% of Their audience. Literally overnight. Over a few years, that has to be worth billions in advertising Revenue. Now, I will acknowledge that we enter a new era where the highest ideal is apparently fraud. And maybe that is their modus. I of course have not examined all the materials, nor have I performed the statistical analyses of the election results. But the smartmatic manual says that admins can change votes. Smartmatic claims their machines do not hook up to the Internet. But they do. CEO Coomer is on record as saying that he made sure that Trump would not win. These machines, may have been certified, but Coomer updated firmware in these machines shortly before the elections in the swing states. That means that cannot be certified any longer. Additionally, I do not think it would be difficult to demonstrate that Biden’s votes were stored as integers plus fractions while Trump’s votes were stored as integers minus fractions. In total, I don’t think this is an exceptionally difficult case to prove, and I do not see how smartmatic can prove that their machines were certified, when those updates performed by Coomer were performed literally hours before the swing state elections.


55 posted on 12/19/2020 5:44:32 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Jamestown1630
Your post is sheer propaganda. If one actually watches the entire segment, a completely different interpretation will probably be taken. (Eddie Perez gets about 3 minutes at the end of a 34-minute segment. Some people may simply call offering a different viewpoint ‘being fair and balanced’.):

How was that other freeper's original post "sheer propaganda?" I watched the video of Lou Dobbs' show that you helpfully linked. And I came away agreeing far more with the original poster's view than with your "interpretation." That wasn't Fox News being "fair and balanced" as you claim. Instead, it was Fox News washing Smartmatic's hands of any involvement whatsoever in any kind of election fraud or voter fraud in the 2020 U.S. elections. Basically, Fox News's 3-minute segment at the end of Dobbs' show says: Smartmatic did absolutely nothing wrong (and was barely even involved in the 2020 U.S. elections, except in Los Angeles).

56 posted on 12/19/2020 5:44:50 PM PST by gw-ington (The Office of the President-Elect gw-ington and Vice President-Elect Loch Ness Monster)
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To: Jamestown1630

The Kraken for one and Woods urging a Georgia special election boycott. I assume there intent was patriotic and in support of the President, but their actions seem to me to have been a distraction.


57 posted on 12/19/2020 5:46:35 PM PST by buckalfa
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To: Paladin2

Dobbs just missed a chance to get evidence. Called discovery. Should have let them sue


58 posted on 12/19/2020 5:48:35 PM PST by kjam22 ( )
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To: goodn'mad

Read later.


59 posted on 12/19/2020 5:48:45 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: gw-ington

It was not ‘washing hands’. It was allowing someone with an alternate viewpoint to express it. I didn’t see Dobbs agreeing with anything; he wasn’t even the one questioning.

This was probably something required by Fox, to show that they’re ‘fair and balanced’.

(Sometimes you have to fight so as to live another day. I’d like to see how YOU would handle running a news corporation facing a lawsuit.)


60 posted on 12/19/2020 5:49:31 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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