Are there t-shirts with tire tracks on the front and “Trump Threw Me Under The Bus” on the back?
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Fox bails out Hannity and Dobbs. Do they have to kick in on the settlement?
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Oh man! I was just about to post exactly the same thing!
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People who make their living out of this kind of exploitation are, simply, human scum. Not sure what else there is to say, except that those who believe are not operating with a fully functioning nervous system.
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This would be great news save for the fact that it won’t do anythng to change Faux’s behavior. Murdoch just considers it the cost of doing business. Scum!
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Comprehending the rhetoric over Sandy Hook is impossible. All you can conclude is those that participated in it are incredibly horrible people.
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Yes I believe you are right, and correct. Fox News has an air of respectability. Respectability that was conferred to them early on. But over the years they’ve been allowing their on air talent to get more wacky and less grounded to reality.
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Another good example of how conservatives abuse the judicial system to avoid meaningful accountability.
Thought I don’t blame the family for settling. Fox News has clearly shown both the ability and will to delay justice for years. Few people would be willing to wait so long for closure.
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To the contrary, they have clearly shown the ability and will to pay people lots of money to go away quietly, particularly the victims of O’Reilly and Ailes. I can’t recall Fox News ever taking a case to discovery, much less trial.
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Imagine Hannity and Dobbs at a deposition. The lies and distortions would make the judge blush. A normal journalistic enterprise would have canned them. Just look at what happened to Dan Rather and his producers for not being thorough enough vetting the W. Bush National Guard documents.
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Lemme guess, one of the terms of the settlement is that Fux News doesn’t have to admit any wrongdoing? Give me a break… 
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I was going on 10 years old when the Kent State massacre occurred. What horrified me at that age from reading the newspaper and watching television was the support that the national guard had and the trashing of the students as if they deserved it. The Gallup polling for them was well in the 60’s for support.
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If these kinds of lawsuits happen more often, then Fox’s insurance underwriter is going to call for a little sit down with the executives. And this kind of shit might get curbed.
The insurance company is paying out on these settlements, not Fox.
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And somehow Hannity has gone on vacation this week- how coincidental that.
And the day Fox pulled this story off the air, Hannity- ever the eponyms ‘Journalist’, and the exact same manner as Orange Pustule never ‘conceding’ proclaimed he would never stop fighting for his loyal listeners and never stop telling them the truth with out as much as a word about his own peddling of these lies.
Never admitting the error for the RANJs is not a bug, it is a feature.
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I think that may just be true. For one, we’re not going to have a president and administration echoing these insane conspiracy theories and that will help. We’re going to have a new administration that will do everything within their power to pushback against, punish, and put down these Russian disinformation campaigns. Also, we might just get a Congress willing to pass legislation to combat some of this nonsense.
When you put it that way, maybe what’s hard to comprehend is that people who aren’t necessarily hardened criminals are that horrible. You’d expect this kind of thing from a murderer or a rapist, but it’s just scary when seemingly average Joes behave this way.
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I wish that I could believe that conclusion, it would help my sense of well being. However (the deadly “but”), so long as there is fear and paranoia on the political right, there will be a ready audience for Fox. The unquenchable, irrational fear on the right wing is the bedrock foundation for the Murdoch enterprises and understanding that is the stroke of evil genius that is the foundation of his worldwide success. It is the key to his business model.
That is an interesting thought to follow. Are they average Joes, normally existing as the rest of the average Joes. Or are there behaviors we do not know about that are indicative of these weird creatures. The Proud Boys for example, just do not seem to be typical guys who happen to have this one glitch in their thinking. My view is they likely are pretty poor examples of humanity to be around in general. The murderer or rapist may be acting on a specific and even narrow character glitch. But they do not openly practice those acts or other behaviors as a rule. They want to hide from people.
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I’m surprised they didn’t demand Fox issue a formal retraction of its reporting and apologize. Or do they not have to because the story was being flogged mainly by its “opinion” personalities whom they have argued before in court have no journalistic credibility and therefore cannot commit defamation?
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I’m happy for the family. However, I don’t think it should be legal in these types of situations to tie non-disclosure to a settlement. Whatever price Fox paid, it’s a drop in the bucket of their yearly revenue and really amounts to a slap on the wrist. That they get to continue spewing the lies and never have to make any effort to repair the damage they caused with this and other stories is a crime against the Rebublic.
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Tin soldiers and Nixon coming.