Originally Posted by iggy
Fox settles for nearly 800 million and admits to false statements regarding 2020 election to avoid trial. That thud you heard was the hope of others sued by Dominion like Pillow guy, Just for Men Drip, and Kraken Lady hitting the floor. Larger lawsuit by Smartmatic still moving forward as more damning evidence seemingly appears.

Even decades-long liberal professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Fox News should not have settled and could have won the case.
But then Fox News would have been subject to Dominion lawyers' discovery, and forced to reveal Fox's executive communications on a number of other internal issues, that would have remained a minor embarassment to Fox News leadership for years to come.
So they settled, for $780 million.

In full perspective, Fox News corporation is worth about $ 20 billion, so that settlement is less than 5% of Fox's total net worth.

It's still not revealed why they fired Tucker Carlson, by far their highest rated and watched anchor. And firing Carlson cost Fox's executive leadership a further $ 1 billion decline in their stock value in the last week, and still falling.
The problem with Fox is not this settlement, the problem with Fox is their betrayal of their conservative audience, and their clear bias against Trump in their news coverage (or selective omission), whose speeches and rallies they don't even cover since 2020, that is eroding Fox's audience trust and viewership, far beyond their settling the Dominion case.


Iggy, are you stupid enough and unhinged enough to believe that Fox News, by settling the case, really believes their coverage was false reporting?
Or are you capable of realizing they settled just to make the case go away, in a case they could have eventually won?

It's a combination of (1) cost/benefit analysis, to settle rather than spend millions more in litigation,
and (2) the fact that Rupert Murdoch's sons are hard-left idealogues who want to turn Fox News into another CNN.
From what I've been able to observe, Rupert Murdoch had a falling out with Trump because he tried to control Trump and extort favors out of Trump in exchange for favorable coverage in 2016, and Trump refused to be controlled. So Murdoch turned on Trump, on election night 2020, and especially after Jan 6 2021.


AGAIN: It has been PROVEN that the FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop since Dec 2019, and verified the information on it by Feb or March 2020 at the latest (as sourced and reported by John Solomon, JustTheNews). So all the 51 intelligence officials who alleged the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformaton" are the liars, the election WAS rigged, irregardless of Fox's settlement with Dominion (a case they could have eventually won, but chose to settle).

AGAIN: It has ALSO been proven that the "Russia Dossier" during the 2016 election was false, that the only Russia collusion was by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, who paid millions to Russian agents for the disinformation in it to slander Trump, that even James Comey to Donald Trump on Jan 5 2017 said the Russia Dossier is "salacious and unverifiable". Another Democrat attempt to rig the 2016 election, just as they did in the 2020 and 2022 elections.

AGAIN: It is ALSO proven that the fraudulent Russia Dossier was used to file **FOUR** illegal FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page's phone and online communications, and by FBI surveillance authorized by that, being able to go "two contacts deep" on two layers of everyone he communicated with, and everyone in the second layer of contacts communicated with, to SPY ON THE ENTIRE TRUMP CAMPAIGN for 6 months up through the 2016 election. And then another 6 months FBI/FISA surveillance on the inaugurated TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IN THE WHITE HOUSE !
Further, FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith was convicted of falsifying evidence about Carter Page (Page had been cooperating and sharing information for years with the FBI about the Russians, but Clinesmith changed a CIA document, to make the document say the exact opposite, in a falsified letter alleging that Carter Page had NOT cooperated and shared information with the FBI, when in the original unaltered letter it said Carter Page *DID* cooperate and stare information with the CIA, and therefore was a proven patriot and not a Russian collaborator. ) The Clinesmith-altered document submitted to a FISA judge to illegally obtain FISA warrants to spy on Carter Page, and through him surveil the Trump campaign (6 months) and the Trump presidency (a second 6 months of FISA surveillance by the FBI). All of which was done by submitting false evidence for the FISA warrant to a FISA court judge. In an FBI Democrat-Bolshevik attempt to rig the 2016 election.

AGAIN: It is ALSO proven via the "Twitter Files" that Elon Musk and several journalists revealed, that FBI and other intelligence agencies KNEW the Hunter Biden laptop information was absolutely true (knew from Dec 2019 right up though the Nov 2020 election) , but used their power as Democrat-Bolsheviks to suppress the truth and suppress information about the Hunter Biden laptop information that proved the Bidens were treasonously receiving millions of dollars for years from Russia, from Ukraine, from China, to compromise the national security of the United States.
Former FBI executive James Baker (in Oct-Nov 2020 an executive for Twitter, but still a Democrat-Bolshevik spy in that position for the FBI) used his position to silence and suppress information from the New York Post that in every poll says 15% of Democrats, if they knew then what they know now, would **NOT** have voted in Nov 2020 for Joe Biden.

And just in the last few days...
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...chief-blinken-triggered-letter-discredit

Morrell and Blinken are PROVEN, by Morrell's own admission, to have rigged the election. Just because the minor part where Dominion Voting Systems has managed to intimidate witnesses and prevent evidence from that portion of the 2020 election rigging from being fully proven, does NOT prove that the election wasn't rigged. Quite the contrary, there is abundant evidence it WAS rigged, on multiple fronts.

Despite the unhinged Democrat/leftist hatred of Iggy and millions of other Democrats who try to brainwash themselves otherwise.
The facts are right there in your face.
Period. The End.