New York Supreme Court Judge David Cohen on Tuesday shot down Fox News and several Fox anchors’ efforts to quash voting tech company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against them.
Talk 'em down Emo! 
I second that Emotion
Smartmatic obviously has the kind of attorneys TFG wishes he had.
Extremely competent. And paid.
Because 2020 seems like a lifetime ago does anyone have the count on how many programs Fox News aired segments on Smartmatics and their machines after the election?
Because if all these Fox News personalities allowed these claims to be broadcast on multiple programs and days or weeks, at what point does stop being conjecture and turn into a coordinated program to defame?
Next up…
D-I-S-C-O-V-E-R-Y
Texts.
Emails.
Meeting notes and minutes.
Fox axed Dobbs’ show in Feb. of 2021. One day after the suit was filed.
That’s not a good look. It looks like Fox will be blaming everything on their show hosts. But if you own the soapbox, and you pay the person to get up on the soapbox, you have at least some culpability for what they say from the soapbox.
Lou Dobbs is out at Fox Business, just a day after the voting machine company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against him, the cable news network and several purveyors of the debunked theory that its technology was used to commit massive voter fraud.
More about the suit from Smartmatic:
https://www.smartmatic.com/us/media/article/faq-defamation-lawsuit-against-fox-corporation/
Side note: You’d think the election conspiracists would be chomping at the discovery bit too. Seems to me they’d be excited to see themselves proven “right.” HAHAHAHAHA
Meanwhile, oil and gas billionaire Kelcy Warren got his fee-fees hurt and is suing Beto O’Rourke for defamation in Bumfuck Nowhere County, Texas in one of the most transparently stupid lawsuits I’ve ever seen.
Helpful venue hint to Team Beto: Kelcy’s officially claimed homestead is over on Park Lane, not in Bumfuck Nowhere County.
goons? While in spirit I do agree, but in print, can’t we do better than that?
This borders on tabloid journalism.
Not anybody particularly special, and I would wager that they took it on a contingency fee basis, i.e., they get 40% or so of any eventual recovery, net after costs.
The easiest way to support a First Amendment argument and the various claims that no one would take them seriously (when it suits them) is to change the network name to Fox Comedy. After all, no one can sue them for being the worst fucking comedians on Earth.
“I second that Emotion”
Reminds me…time for a Smokey.
Oh right, not the channel, but the process…
Looks like the Money Honey gonna have to find some funny money.
Does Smartmatic files the suit again in Texas or is Mendacious Sidney off the hook for good?
I find this statement ironic:
a spokesperson for the network said in a statement, adding that the lawsuit was a “full-blown assault on the First Amendment which stands in stark contrast to the highest tradition of American journalism.”
The irony in my view is that it is FOX News that stands in stark contrast to the highest tradition of American journalism.
Which means they’re already working behind the scenes on a settlement…
Oh, the schadenfreude! Hee,Hee Hee Hee.
Nice turn of phrase.
May not be the lawyer dream team we wanted but they may turn out to be the lawyers we really needed.
I agree with this ONE MILLION PERCENT!!!