Fox News could be in big trouble: Dominion's huge defamation lawsuit makes a strong case

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox News is moving forward, despite the cable juggernaut's efforts to derail it. In mid-December of last year, the Delaware Superior Court ruled that the defamation case against Fox would not be dismissed, despite the channel's request. What's in question is Dominion's allegation that Fox News trafficked in propaganda on behalf of former President Trump, falsely alleging that the election was stolen and that Democratic voters engaged in massive voter fraud. Dominion has also targeted other right-wing media outlets on a similar basis, including Newsmax and One America News, claiming they indulged in a "barrage of lies" against the company by falsely implicating it in participating in voter fraud.

Predictably, Fox News responded to Dominion's allegations by denying any responsibility. The outlet claimed that "Fox News, along with every single news organization across the country, vigorously covered the breaking news surrounding the unprecedented 2020 election, providing full context of every story with in-depth reporting and clear-cut analysis. We remain committed to defending against this baseless lawsuit and its all-out assault on the First Amendment."

Despite the channel's categorical denial of wrongdoing, it's been clear for some time that Fox News engaged in all types of unfounded speculation about election fraud. I document the various ways the outlet did this in my new book, "Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here." For example, in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Fox News host Mark Levin hosted Kenneth Starr, the former special prosecutor who spent years investigating Bill Clinton. Without presenting evidence, Starr accused Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, of engaging in "illegal" and "unconstitutional" acts by counting supposedly fraudulent votes. Lou Dobbs called on Trump to take "drastic action" in relation to the former president's rhetoric about fraud. For Dobbs, that included the Supreme Court reversing the electoral college votes in swing states that cut toward Biden. (Needless to say, an issue well outside the court's, or the president's purview.) Tucker Carlson speculated about voter fraud by claiming that "dead people" voted "in large numbers." Numerous other Fox hosts, including Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro and Maria Bartiromo, linked Dominion to similar claims of fraud.

Judge Eric Davis recognized Fox's role in stoking Big Lie election propaganda in the Dominion judgment. Davis reflected in his legal decision that "Fox News and its news personnel continued to report Dominion's purported connection to the election fraud claims without also reporting on Dominion's emails" to the network in response to those claims, which presented compelling evidence to undermine the fraud narrative. Davis wrote: "Given that Fox apparently refused to report contrary evidence, including evidence from the Department of Justice, the Complaint's allegations support the reasonable inference that Fox intended to keep Dominion's side of the story out of the narrative."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-could-be-in-big-trouble-dominions-huge-defamation-lawsuit-makes-a-strong-case/ar-AAToC5H

[Budi]

1. FOX. Future home of Dominion News.

Boy would THAT be a LBN Headline

DO IT!!!

[WA-03 Democrat]

3. Great name

"Dominion rules over Fox" does not flow as well for sure

[lagomorph777]

7. That would be huge.

[empedocles]

2. Would be a real FEAR spreader

[leftieNanner]

4. The Only Way to Get Rupert Murdoch's attention

Is through his wallet.

May Dominion prevail!

[BigmanPigman]

35. Ditto!

[monkeyman1]

5. fox might have a lot of un-employable people in near -future ???

[rurallib]

9. I bet Peter Doocey won't be looking for a job for very long

[Budi]

11. He'll be shining Psaki's shoes, while she's giving a Presser

"mmm....missed a spot Peety"

[certainot]

40. dominion could put a llot of talk radio hosts out of jobs if they knew. the limbaugh estate should

be included in theeir suit - the giuliani/powell press conference was timed to start with the limbaugh show that day to reach a much larger live audience and imbaugh went right along with it- there was reason

[LoisB]

6. I hope they bankrupt Fox and Rupert along with it.

[dchill]

14. That would be great.

[tavernier]

8. In my mind I see Neville Longbottom slicing off Nagini's head

and that’s what I wish for the venomous Fox.

[niyad]

18. Now that is an image to warm up this cold, snowy day!

[calimary]

10. Ken Starr wasn't "investigating" Bill Clinton.

He was busily and eagerly and obsessively PERSECUTING President Clinton.

And came up with NOTHING.

[MyOwnPeace]

12. Thank you, Cali........

Ken Starr's actions was one of the most egregious abuses of the 'Special Prosecutor' position in US history.
Wish there was some way that he could go down with the SS Trump.

[calimary]

13. I do, too, my friend. I do, too.

He hasn’t gotten NEARLY the comeuppance he deserves. Bastard deserves to be in jail.

[MyOwnPeace]

17. The irony of Kenny Starr and his over-extension of investigation......

according to what he was 'told' to investigate - was - THE FRICKIN' Repukes were standing on Mueller's shoulders making sure he didn't look past 1 door too many!

Oh, and then there's this one 'witness' from the 'Starr Inquisition' who 'wouldn't talk' - you know, like Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon, Gym Jordan, etc...........

"Her refusal to answer "three questions" for a grand jury, on whether President Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial, led her to receive a jail sentence of 18 months for contempt of court."

[robbob]

22. And let's not forget...

Whitewater was already investigated and cleared by a moderate Republican special council who determined there was no impropriety. That didn’t satisfy the repukes so they appointed Starr to keep digging.

The repukes have been rat fucking America for a long time now.

[MyOwnPeace]

25. Indeed! Starr led the ORIGINAL "WITCH HUNT!!!!!"

[certainot]

41. all that was done because they had rw radio to spread it. cllintons should sue limbaugh, hannity and

levin etc

[louis-t]

26. She says they wanted her to say she had an affair with Clinton.

She refused. Yet tfg is directing all of his worshipers to ignore subpoenas.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

38. The double standard in countless areas is so blatant

Ans so very infuriating. Rs care nothingfor truth or justice.

[Grins]

34. And his protege - Brett Kavanaugh.

Both of them despicable frauds.

And they weren’t the only ones back then, and by ‘ones’ I mean Republicans.

[AZLD4Candidate]

21. He was supposed to investigate Whitewater and ended up investigating a blowjob

That's quite a stretch

[calimary]

28. Maybe he had a thing for kinky sex?

And hated Bill Clinton because Bill liked the ladies and many of them liked him, too.

He was, after all, the first “young” President to come along since JFK, and he was smart, engaging, photographed well, had a fun out-going personality and sense of humor, AND sex appeal like JFK did, but with an “aw shucks, I’m just a country boy” kind of cachet.

Massive appeal! Especially after we’d had a series of old guys in the White House including the dried-up old prune Ronnie Reagan. And Bill Clinton was noticeably younger and more photogenic than the other “old men” (George H.W. Bush, and the dour Bob Dole four years later) he successfully ran against. And he had a working wife who was “somebody” in her own right, independent of his achievements, which I personally found to be instantly attractive. “First Baby Boomer President”. I remember thinking “wow - a First Couple I can actually relate to!”

[homegirl]

42. And I would add

Ms. Lewinsky was an adult, willing participant.

[calimary]

50. Yes. She was. Over 21.

She wasn’t some “innocent, preyed upon.” She was a willing and active participant. As I recall from reading about it back then, it all shifted from mere mutual flirtation when she flashed him. And nobody ever held a gun to her head and made her do that.

Nobody held a gun to her head and made her do ANY of it.

[Seinan Sensei]

45. Ken Starr got fired from Baylor Univ for ignoring rape on campus

Ken Starr "who took a popular president down a peg for lying about sex lost his own job as [Baylor] university president for presiding over a system that shielded rapists and ignored victims. And now the great investigator of Clintonian infidelity stands accused of having an extramarital affair himself." (Salon, Aug 15, 2021)

[calimary]

47. Oh man, so much through the ages has been written about self-hatred...

Makes me wonder if some of these assholes who persecute others are, themselves, perpetrators.

Gives a whole new view of the obsession he had to “get” President Clinton.

With this scumbag Starr, I’m having a hard time NOT reaching that conclusion.

[Gilbert Moore]

15. Article written

with a little love..

in my new book, "Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here."

and it's by Anthony R. Dimaggio

[smb]

16. A Hostile Takeover Of Faux Noise Could Be Entertaining

Personally, if I somehow got control of them, I'd leverage it into making the clown crew obviously beclown themselves by doing on-air interviews with transparent wackjobs talking about the crop circles that appeared in the south forty of the perpetual motion machine they made out of old tractor parts or the proof that you can tell the IRS to take you off their mailing list and never pay taxes again. Of course, all programming would have frequent and prominent disclaimers explaining that it was a parody show, not actual news or commentary.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

19. I would love to see Carlson and Hannity fired and kicked out of the building.

Better yet, be physically thrown out through the doors.

[soldierant]

32. Is that building a single story?

Because if there are upper levels, defenestration sounds tempting..

[3Hotdogs]

33. Ain't gonna happen. They are Fox's largest source of revenue.

[calimary]

48. Besides, OAN or Newsmax would try to grab 'em to pull themselves out of oblivion.

Otherwise, there’s almost no room for them IN the “room” with Pox Noise sucking up almost all the oxygen.

[malaise]

20. Good

Rec

[SallyHemmings]

23. Fade to black

I wish Dominion all the luck in the world.

[Joinfortmill]

24. Good. Bury the b*stards..

[FakeNoose]

27. The Murdoch boys will soon be unemployed

[CaptainTruth]

29. Dominion's cases are all defamation cases, so they have to prove...

From Cornell Law:

To prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the person or entity who is the subject of the statement.

To me, 1 & 2 should be easy. The challenges will be proving sufficient negligence, & proving the amount of damages. There's no question damage was done to Dominion's reputation & business, but quantifying that damage & proving the amount can be a challenge.

[nvme]

37. EVERYTHING WILL BE APPEALED

I WILL GIVE YOU 3 GUESSES WHO WILL BE THE ULTIMATE ARBITERS OF THE CASE.

[we can do it]

30. Shut the assholes down.

[maxsolomon]

31. Define "Big Trouble"

They might have to pay a settlement to Dominion? They had the money to buy off Kelly, Carlson, the woman who accused O'Reilly, etc., and they didn't even blink an eye.

[nvme]

36. EVEN IF DOMINION WINS

TFG STACKED THE SUPREMES AND THEY WILL OVERTURN THE VERDICT CLAIMING 1ST AMENDMENT

[Sherman A1]

39. Believe it when I see it

Not a moment before.

[LymphocyteLover]

43. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

Also I would love to get some major class action suit going against them for spreading anti-vax misinfo/disinfo

[YoshidaYui]

44. make them pay, SUE THEM OUT OF EXISTANCE

MAKE THEM too broke to run their network, burn the place to the ground!!!

[Martin68]

46. It's about time Fox faced reality.

[calimary]

49. Yes. It most certainly in.

What goes up must inevitably come down.

[Aussie105]

51. Dominion knows that the first amendment defense won't hold up.

You can't shout FIRE! in a crowded picture theatre without evidence.

Fox had no evidence saying Dominion machines were, or could be rigged.

Fox was 'reporting' rumor as 'fact'. Someone fed them that, and they ran with it, as a news item.
It wasn't 'They could be rigged, and it needs to be looked at'. They just went with it, as if it was a fact that needed no proof.

Dominion has a reputation to defend.