Analysis: A judge uses Tucker Carlson's own words against Fox News

[ificandream]

By Aaron Blake/Washington Post

It’s a pretty remarkable state of affairs when a judge is approvingly citing Tucker Carlson’s journalistic rigor, but that’s precisely the situation we find ourselves in now.

And rather ironically, that could be bad news for Fox News.

New York Supreme Court Judge David B. Cohen has now ruled that voting-machine company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News and Rudolph W. Giuliani can proceed. The case involved numerous false and baseless claims made on Fox about voter fraud involving the company’s voting machines.

In the ruling, the judge notably dropped Fox host Jeanine Pirro and former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell from the lawsuit — Pirro because her statements didn’t so directly accuse Smartmatic of illegality, and Powell because New York doesn’t have jurisdiction over her.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/09/judge-uses-tucker-carlsons-own-words-against-fox-news/

Good. Make them pay and pay huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge.

[Claustrum]

1. Agreed. There needs to be consequences for their lying and banding the truth.

It's profitable for them to lie now. So make it not profitable and they will stop the lying, at least less of it.

[underpants]

2. Too sweet. Boy those 8PM hosts sure are great for Fox News huh?

O’Reilly and now Tucker.

I suspect the “no one should take him seriously” and/or entertainment defense.

They dropped Judge Pirro, reading into it, because she never got around to actually making a point.

[Volaris]

5. Yep..that will be fox's defense, that Carlson's 'journalistic rigor',

ISNT a reason, because other judges have concluded that hes not to be taken seriously by reasonable people.

You watch, its coming.

[grumpyduck]

3. "...Tucker Carlson's journalistic rigor,"

Calling what that %#$*&^%$#@ does "journalistic rigor" is an insult to the profession.

He is nothing but a fucking lying asshole piece of pond scum.

[ificandream]

4. Yup.