Posted on 02/16/2023 5:36:29 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Fox News hosts and executives, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, did not believe Donald Trump’s election fraud claims in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, but the network nevertheless amplified the conspiracy theories as it worried about losing viewers to Newsmax, according to filings from Dominion Voting Systems made public on Thursday.
In its motion for summary judgment in its $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox, with a redacted version made public on Thursday, Dominion makes heavy use of text messages and emails from the Fox personalities and staff
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(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
Link to filing here with Tucker Carlson’s comments on President Trump:
https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-16-Redacted-Dominion-Opening-SJ-Brief.pdf
I don’t believe a word of the current FOX claptrap.
Tucker is a fraud.
Read the filing. Fox felt massive viewer pressure for slow-walking their reporting on The Steal and their Arizona Call.
I’m presently reading Anne Applebaum’s book ‘Twilight’. She doesn’t think much of Trump either. Still she’s an anti communist/whatever. McCainac. To me there’s no ‘evenhanded’ criticism of the left. They’ll never go away. You squish them like a bug whenever they stick their heads out.
I don’t think any of those three “personalities” are still with FoxNews.
I wonder if Sean Hannity really didn’t believe the claims.
From the filing:
“[T]hat whole narrative that Sidney was pushing. I did not believe it for one
second.” Sean Hannity (Ex.122, Hannity 322:19-21)
Bovine excrement.
More:
cf. id. 321:15-21 (Hannity texted that
Powell was a “F’ing lunatic”).
That's how they lost me as a viewer
ping
Ex.166 (11/21/20 text from Carlson to
that it was “shockingly reckless” to claim that Dominion rigged the
election). As of January 26, Carlson had not seen any of the evidence of machine
fraud that Mike Lindell, like Powell, claimed to have on Dominion, nor has he seen
it since. Ex.105, Carlson 208:15-20.
On Sidney Powell:
• Tucker Carlson:
o “lying.” Ex.150 (11/16/20)
o “Crazy person.” Ex.240 (11/16/20)
o “lunatic.” Ex.526 (11/17/20)
o She’s an “unguided missile” and “dangerous as hell.” Ex.503
(11/21/20)
o She’s a “Nutcase” Ex.528 (11/21/20 text, in chain where producer
Pfeiffer comments on Powell, “Isn’t this the emperor’s new clothes
idiom in real life?”)
o “I’ve got a high tolerance for crazy,” but Powell is “too much.” Ex.529
(11/22/20)
o “I hope she’s punished.” Ex.530 at FNN035_03891200 (11/21/20 text,
in response to story with headline “Trump Legal Team Shuns Sidney
Powell as Insiders and National Security Officials See No Evidence
Supporting Her Voting Machine Claims”)
o She’s “poison.” Ex.531 at FNN022_0351889 (11/23/20
On Lou Dobbs:
o Tucker Carlson: “Lou was reckless.” Ex.542 (2/7/21)
As host Dana Perino told
Republican Strategist Colin Reed on November 11, 2020:
“[T]here is this RAGING issue about fox losing tons of viewers and
many watching—get this—newsmax! Our viewers are so mad about
the election calls (as if our calls would have been any different. It’s just
votes!)….So this day of reckoning was going to come at some point –
where the embrace of Trump became an albatross we can’t shake right
away if ever.”
FBN President
Petterson told Gary Schreier on November 12 that Newsmax’s 7pm host had
“delivered over 1 million total viewers,” to which Schreier responded, “I see it.
Jesus.” Ex.512; see also Ex.407 (“newsmax is getting a huge spike in ratings”
related to election coverage); Ex.130, L. Murdoch 145:20-147:24 (Fox’s drop in
ratings was “absolutely” a concern).
I don’t know wut’s goin’ on and who is telling the truth vs who is lying. I do wonder if the talking heads would lose their jobs if they were known to ‘believe’ what was then being termed bizarre baseless conspiracy theories by an insurrectionist. So did any of them claim they didn’t believe Trump in order to keep their jobs? If so, their lives become more complicated with litigation.
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