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There are some Big Reveals happening in the Dominion Voting v. Fox News lawsuit. Almost as weighty and the Big Lies that the Fox Hosts were spewing, in the run-up to 1-6.
And the damning thing is — they all knew they were lying.
Reporting the Facts was no longer something they did at Fox News. Their actions, emails and texts confirm this. Despite all their smug excuses of being just “opinion programming” ...
Rupert Murdoch Admits Under Oath That Fox News Hosts Were Lying About the Stolen Election
newrepublic.com — 02/27/2023
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Murdoch acknowledged that multiple popular Fox News hosts such as Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs, and Jeanine Pirro were “endorsing” the conspiracy that the election had been stolen.
He also said he knew regular guests such as Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell were spreading the election lies, but he continued to allow them on air. His reason, as he explained in Lindell’s case, was that “it is not red or blue, it is green.” What is democracy compared to dollars, apparently?
On January 5, 2021, Murdoch considered releasing a joint statement with Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Laura Ingraham saying some variation of “The election is over, and Joe Biden won.” They didn’t, and the next day, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop the certification of votes and potentially to capture and kill lawmakers.
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And who were their sources for the allegations of “systematic voting flipping” …?
Sidney Powell cited woman who claimed to be headless, time-traveling entity in email pushing election conspiracy theories
www.businessinsider.com — 02/27/2023
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Dominion said that [Sidney] Powell forwarded the email [titled: Election Fraud Info] to Fox personality Maria Bartiromo in November 2020, and informed Bartiromo that she'd received "evidence" about voter fraud.
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One particularly odd section deals with how the source claims to have gotten her information. It says:
"Who am I? And how do I know all of this?...I've had the strangest dreams since I was a little girl....I was internally decapitated, and yet, I live....The Wind tells me I'm a ghost, but I don't believe it."
At another point she described herself as being able to "time-travel in a semi-conscious state."
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The 'wackadoodle' foundation of Fox News' election-fraud claims
www.npr.org — 02/20/2023
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[Sidney Powell’s source], who is not named in the legal brief, wrote that she knew the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had been killed during a week-long human hunting expedition at an elite social club. (Scalia, a favorite of many Fox News hosts, died in 2016 of a heart attack, according to local officials in Texas, where he died.)
And the woman asserted that the late Fox News chairman Roger Ailes and Fox Corporation founder Rupert Murdoch "secretly huddle most days to determine how best to portray Mr. Trump as badly as possible." By the time the woman wrote her memo, Ailes had been dead for more than three years.
This all appeared in the same memo that claimed Dominion's software flipped votes from Trump to Biden, and tied the election company to a conspiracy involving Democrats Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
[...] Dominion began sending journalists and executives at the network regular messages attempting to set the record straight — and putting the network on notice, according to the filing.
Such ravings were the basis, on which the Big Lie Echo-campaign at Fox — were built. Damn the actual Facts. Damn the legal-fact that their Election allegations were the unsubstantiated “claims” of a "time-travel[er] in a semi-conscious state."
In a separate defamation case against her reckless claims, being brought by Dominion,
Sidney Powell’s weak-tea legal defense, seems more worthy of a ‘
Rogues Gallery of Whoppers’ — than an actual Court of Law:
Sidney Powell tells court "no reasonable person" would take her voter fraud claims as fact
www.cbsnews.com — 03/23/2021
Washington — Lawyers for conservative attorney Sidney Powell told a federal court on Monday that "no reasonable person" would conclude her unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election were statements of fact as she fights a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.
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Which tells us all we really need to know, about the Murdoch propaganda-promoting operation, in the run-up to Jan 6th attack on Congress — “reasonableness” had nothing to do with it, with their FAKE NEWS, serious-as-a-heart-attack, Big Lie deception.
It was all about The Green — Rupert Murdoch admitted as much in the current case — Afterall it wasn’t his Democracy1 he was putting on the chopping block. Truth and Facts be damned — who needs them:
“it is not red or blue, it is green.”
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(Speaking of “time-travelers” ...) the Free Speech and Fourth-Estate advocates of yore, must be rolling in their graves. Assuming they could see where their lofty goals of a “Democracy of, by and for the People,” has finally landed — in this cynical realm run by even more cynical “corporate persons” … primarily beholden to “the Al-mighty Dollar.”
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If only we could make this a Meme:
It’s OK Tucker — Dems “hate him passionately” too.
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Footnote 1: [...] in 1985, [Rupert Murdoch] became a naturalized US citizen, giving up his Australian citizenship, to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.[5]