The Motley Crew Starring In Dominion’s Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Against Fox News | Talking Points Memo

Turcker Carlson is the Cliff Clavin of Harry Mudds.

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They obviously don’t know much about books. The go out of publication all the time if there is no demand.

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Mike Lindell started as a drug addict and went downhill from there to being a pillow huckster, religious hypocrite, and now Trumpist. He should share a cell with Trump.

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In a just world all of these MFers would go down HARD, but this isn’t a just world, and I suspect these suits will fail. Now if the suits were brought by a large business against a liberal organization, like a union, we might see a precedent established that the left could then build on. But way too many members of the judiciary came to power in Fox world.

I hope not, because this kind of suit is going to end up being the truth’s only defense

I think Dominion has a good case, or good cases.

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@sniffit And how quickly would they wind up eating crow when one of “their” organizations winds up on the funding chopping block because it ran afoul of that law? “We must protect the purity of essence of our children from the blatant Satanism depicted in Harry Potter, so you can’t defund us!”

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Word. hhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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You reminded me of this loony-toon haha

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Remember that suit that a Fox affiliate won regarding the bovine growth hormone report where they said they were an entertainment channel with limited time devoted to hard news? And that nothing in the FCC rules say that a broadcaster has to tell the truth.
There’s precedent because the court agreed with them and they won after misrepresenting a report on BGH.

Dobb’s Bartiromo, Hannity, Tucker and Pirro are opinion/entertainment hosts. not news anchors. I’m betting that’s the angle they going to try. It worked once.

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Mom spanked that ass in public.

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They’re filing most of their cases in D.C. district court. The make-up of the D.C. district court is 11-3 judges appointed by Democrats v. Republicans. They have rock solid cases and will more than likely have friendly juries.

They never ran the report though. They sat on it to hide the truth from the public or asked the reporters to lie about what was in the report and then retaliated against those reporters, that’s what the lawsuit alleged. The claimants wanted action in response to being effectively silenced. These cases couldn’t be more different.

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All i want is for Fox News, and every GD faux personality who spews their deplorable words every GD day, to go down. HARD!

This trial is going to be epic!

And then there’s the Dotard, and his family, and his Organization standing in line…

2021 is gonna be FUN!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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No I really don’t remember that suit but I understand what you are saying and I don’t think they have to be news people in order to have had an affect on Dominion and I think Dominion can show they were damaged. Dominion is suing more than Fox people. So it’s not about the news. It’s about what was said damaging Dominion and given the kind of business they are in I think they have a damn good case.

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They’ve already lost business in Ohio.

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Let the tsunami begin. Come on Coca-Cola, Delta airlines, Home Depot, UPS, Aflac, Arby’s, etc, etc. etc. let’s hear your voices.

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Yeah I knew they had lost business and that just makes their point.

And mine.

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This suit that was dismissed by a Seattle Judge less than a year ago. I think it covers some of Fox’s legal claims they will use:

WASHLITE also used a Fox News legal “terms of use” web page to argue that Fox doesn’t even consider itself a news source. “Company furnishes the Company Sites and the Company Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment,” the Fox terms of use state. Per WASHLITE:

In this case, Fox claims the protections afforded to a known and authentic news source such as the Washington Post but limits itself as an entertainment source thus disclaiming that it is a news source. Fox’s own words condemn it claims. And because it disclaims itself as a news source, Fox is not entitled to the protection of a newspaper. By disclaiming that it is a “news” source, Fox is deceiving consumers in Washington State. Neither Fox News or Fox Business distinguishes between news as authentic information and news as entertainment/enjoyment, thus conveying that all statements broadcast on its channels are authentic.

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I do not think that Dominion’s cause of action depends on Fox being a news source. I don’t think it matters - it could have been say, Bill Maher making those claims about those machines repeatedly and if Dominion could show they were damaged by the statements, they would have a good cause of action against Maher.

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I wonder if this guy ever heard of the First Amendment?

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Aren’t these the same types who censored Catcher in the Rye?

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