Posted on 02/27/2023 3:57:18 PM PST by John W
New York(CNN) Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, acknowledged in a deposition taken by Dominion Voting Systems that some Fox News hosts endorsed false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
Murdoch's remarks were made public in a legal filing as part of Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News.
In his deposition, Murdoch rejected that the right-wing talk network as an entity endorsed former President Donald Trump's election lies. But Murdoch conceded that Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and former host Lou Dobbs promoted the falsehood about the presidential contest being stolen.
"Some of our commentators were endorsing it,," Murdoch said, according to the filing, when asked about the talk hosts' on-air positions about the election. "I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight," he added.
The filing also revealed that Murdoch referred to some of Trump's 2020 election lies as "bulls**t and damaging."
In a Monday statement, Fox News assailed Dominion.
"Dominion's lawsuit has always been more about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny," the network said, "as illustrated by them now being forced to slash their fanciful damages demand by more than half a billion dollars after their own expert debunked its implausible claims."
"Their summary judgment motion took an extreme, unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from basic reporting and their efforts to publicly smear Fox for covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting President of the United States should be recognized for what it is: a blatant violation of the First Amendment," the network added.
The messages showed that Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham brutally mocked lies being pushed by former President Donald Trump's camp asserting that the election was rigged.
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Because they weren’t false, Karen. (Murd_ck)
I find it amusing that people believe that any of these news channels are even capable of anything investigative. They are talking heads. Period.
They rip news reports off the wires and re-write them (sometimes.). If you flip between the channels you will hear the same story, written the same way, using the same language. People doing that are not conducting deep investigations.
Expecting your favorite news reader to do anything more than reading the news and inject an occasional side comment is silly.
The ONLY people doing any news gathering are a bunch of producers working for peanuts—usually with a hangover. They are lazy and not really “aggressive.” This is true in every newsroom at that level.
Thanks Mr Raffensburger.
#EverybodyKnows the election was stolen.
The numbers present chronologically when the voting was stopped vs. the multiple feed “overvotes”. It’s quite simple, because the numbers for Trump far exceeded Biden, before the illegal counting began. The Elections Supervisor knew this, and he worked for the Sec State— illegally, since that person is supposed to be a Govt. Employee. That’s number 1. Number two is the well established count summary that was published by the hour on the States’ website, county by county. Trump was kicking JoeBama’s a@@ soundly— and the overwhelming “vote” digitally deliver a beyond voter by precinct number enough to be shown as fraudulent. All involved including SecState need to be brought up on charges.
They just aren’t news channels anymore. It’s pure entertainment industry pap wrapped around government mouthpiece propaganda and it’s been that way for a long time.
Are you saying some precincts delivered more votes than voters?
And none of GA’s audit procedures caught it?
Do you have a source?
It was in all the GA papers— the issue is still being investigated, and the Fulton DA’s “case” is total SMOKE for their particular county’s overwhelming fraud. Fulton’s sheriff quickly had the mass scanned ballots sent to the County Sheriff’s maintenance yard— where they were burned. This is a matter of photographic and public reporting. The Sheriff needless to say is a crook all his own— crooked cop and his county has the highest drug crime/murder etc of any of the urban Atlanta counties. Just saying. Discussion over.
Rupert Murdoch acknowledged that Fox News hosts endorsed false stolen election claimsBut only the ones that got fired.
He's making this statement to soften the blow he's about to receive from Dominion...and then his fans for his betrayal to the country and a sitting President.
FYI - Semimojo has been a Leftist troll for many years. That thing hates most FReepers and is to the left of most democrats.
Sounds like Rupert is itching to pay Dominion a Billion dollars plus...
Keep your mouth shut fool.
Wipe yer chin, Oliver.
The real American people no the truth
“How did Fox know that Biden was going to win? It raised suspicions that Fox management was in on the vote theft scheme from the beginning.”
Ya think?
Fox bigwigs Murdork Ryan (and Obama/Rice?) were in on the Biden coup d’etat.
Like the rest of the Deep State (Karl Rove et al) were.
Might as well throw wishy washy swishy Lindsay Graham in there too.
They fear Trump because HE IS US*
*Us being clingers to the Constitution, our Constitutional Republic not to mention our Bibles (the manual written by God for Blessings on the USA) and last but not least our Second Ammendment Rights — Needed to keep our Republic pure!
Footnote:
Yes, there was NOT an attempted coup by Trump et al as they keep saying, but the real coup d’etat was the stealing of the presidentcy for Puppet Tool Joe Biden!
Which is their fundamentaly transformation of the Greatest Nation Ever into an antichrist nation.
Dear God, take note...✝️✝️✝️
Second!
How could there be? The demonrats destroyed the evidence.
I’m still having trouble figuring out how all these Trolls have infiltrated FR!! Maybe I just don’t pay enough attention to them.
” the right-wing talk network “
I wish they’d stop referring to Fox that way!
“I believe there was massive fraud based just on how they react whenever the topic is broached.”
Yes; that says a lot.
Just like their reaction to McCarthy releasing the Jan. 6 tapes. When the RATs had the House, they wouldn’t STFU about Jan. 6 and “the truth”. Now that the GOP is in charge, they’re having major hissy fits about even mentioning it.
Their reactions always are telling.
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