[NYT] The 11th-hour deal saved Fox a potentially lengthy legal tangle, though it still faces other lawsuits over its coverage of false claims about the 2020 election.
Fox News’s agreement with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday abruptly resolved a lawsuit over how the network amplified conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, which devastated Dominion’s reputation and business.
The network had advanced former President Donald J. Trump’s claims, which its own hosts did not believe, that Dominion’s voting machines had been used to tilt the election against Mr. Trump. The trial was set to begin on Tuesday, and gasps were heard in the courtroom when the judge announced the settlement.
Here are the key facts about the deal that ended the case.
What were the terms of the settlement?
At $787.5 million, the amount that Fox News agreed to pay Dominion was one of the largest in a defamation case. Fox was not required to apologize on the air, though it did make a statement recognizing that the court had found "certain claims about Dominion" aired on its programming "to be false."
The settlement carried an implicit plea of "no contest" to several pretrial findings from Judge Eric M. Davis, who presided over the case. He had written in one ruling that it was "CRYSTAL clear" that Fox’s statements regarding Dominion and the election were untrue.
Fox News upper management (you know who they are), clandestinely assembled "false claims" regarding Dominion and mashes dissemination button. Fox News announcers take the bait and dutifully broadcast "false claims."
On queue (thumbs-up from FOX), Dominion assembles legal team and files defamation lawsuit.
FOX News upper management legal team sez, "oh darn, did we mess up." How about $787.5 million for your pain. We promise not to say another word about voting irregularities in the upcoming 2024 race.
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Will they use Dominion machines to count the money?
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Why couldn't Fox just tell the truth?
The truth being that these machines are subject to all manner of mischief such as hacking and deliberate manipulation of the code. You can certify the software all you want but that doesn't mean a thing on election day because nobody can prove the code wasn't altered in some way after the certification. Nobody can see what is actually happening inside that box and, without a paper trail, nobody will ever know for sure what did happen. These facts are indisputable. They don't mean Dominion or anybody else actually did anything wrong. All it means is that using computers to count votes is subject to all kinds of mischief that would be impossible with paper ballots. As long as computers are used to count votes, Dominion computers or anybody else's, there will be doubts about election integrity. Dominion would then have no grounds for a suit.
I didn't have much faith in Fox before this settlement. I watch it only rarely. But now my faith in Fox is at the same level as my faith in Dominion. I cannot defend Fox to my liberal friends and family. Maybe I can still watch Tucker once in a while but that's it. Maybe Tucker should look for another platform.
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Will they use Dominion machines to count the money?
No. They'll just print more.
Snark O'The Day
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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#8 nails it. Just put a disclaimer on any article about any election using electronic tabulation. Don't mention any one company by name, just say that like water is wet and fire burns, they are all subject to corruption / subversion / falsification.
Make them prove otherwise in court if they want to sue.
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Abu Uluque, you make an excellent point. Voting systems without a paper trail should be a no go.
Fox got itsself into that mess because they knowingly stated things they had no way to prove. Murdoch should have settled this much earlier.
Giuliani is toast.
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What this did was shoot the 1st Amendment in the chest. Every investigative journalist will be hauled into court over one fact or another not being true or not quite true. So now when people see 130 ballot count jump they will get sued for asking about it and all the truth will go away. Its no conspiracy here, when Trump says there was cheating in 2024, like he did in 2020 and 2022, he will get sued or the news orgs will not run with it. And yes, my friends on the left, in 2022, in the red districts there were voting issues. Ballots were tampered with, the system was tampered with and it is proven. Fact check the printer printing off PDF ballots that were the wrong size to be counted by the machines, both printer and counting were Dominion. My vote did not count, but no one in the leftist courts really cares.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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IOW, they don't call it software for nothing. It is soft and pliable. You can do anything you want with it and, in the hands of Democrats, that is exactly what we fear.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Free speech ends, even for the media, when you publish things that aren't true AND you know it or act with reckless disregard. That's "actual malice". The U.S. has much tougher laws to protect free speech of the media than any other country in the world, but limits must apply.
Fox settled because Dominion seemed to have been in the position to prove "actual malice". And Fox can only blame itself for that.
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04/19/2023 16:10 Comments ||
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Fox settled because Dominion seemed to have been in the position to prove "actual malice"
I don't think so. Lots of news outlets had worse to say about Dominion. But they sued Fox. Now no one will ever question Dominion again publicly. I say the fix was in.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] For any that missed it. The whole premise for the machine 'miscount of votes' saga may be crap.
Opening statements in Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6billion defamation suit against Fox News were set to begin today in Delaware Superior Court
After an hours-long delay, Judge Eric Davis entered the courtroom just before 4pm and dismissed the jurors, saying, 'The parties have resolved their case'
The voting machine company had accused the cable news network of 'giving life' to a 'manufactured storyline' about voter fraud after the 2020 election
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Dominion was sold to Staple Street in 2017. Enterprise value was about $80M at the time.
Obviously Fox didn't want a trial.
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This has nothing to do with whether or not what they were reporting is true — we all know it was — but the cost of fighting in court versus quietly making it go away. This is like Donald Trump’s lawyer paying Ms Stormy Daniels to shut up.
[Epoch Times] The Biden administration has announced that the president will veto the H.R. 734 bill that seeks to protect female sports from transgender athletes.
H.R. 734, also known as "The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," was introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and is expected to come to vote in the House this week. The bill seeks to prevent biological males from participating in women’s sports. H.R. 734 will amend Title IX to recognize sex as "based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth."
The House Education and Workforce Committee already approved the bill 24—17, with Democrats voting against it and every Republican voting for it.
"The Administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 734," according to an April 17 statement (pdf) made by the office of the Biden administration. "If the President were presented with H.R. 734, he would veto it."
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It would be funny to see Tacko Fall retire from China to dominate the WNBA.
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Maybe if there were all younger the senile pedophile would tag along.
[NYPOST] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... has found the real cause of the US culture war around trans issues: social conservatives "defeated on same-sex marriage" who "went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors."
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#1
I think the way congresscreatures are milking the Ukraine mess is the end of the line for running as a former warfighter. All we get are McCains, McSallys, Blumenthals and Crenshaws. It's got to stop.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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We think a congressman can do anything to help him? Crenshaw knows his limits. All Congress ever does is bitch and complain, then pass pay raises for themselves. If a congressman could get anything done, the J6 guys would be out by now. All they do is have hearings and cry to the media. They have no teeth and their lane is the budget where they are on a drunken spending spree...
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
04/19/2023 12:24 Comments ||
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The problem here Pan is Crenshaw was actively trying to keep Gallagher in prison. While 50 some congressmen wanted him released. I amuse you didn't get to that part.
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Crenshaw is little more than a deep state opportunist. If you look at his votes and financial records, he is lining his pockets with money made from what non congress critters call "Inside Trading". We had a saying for guys like him.
I would trust him with my life. But I don't trust him with my wife, wine or wallet.
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04/19/2023 20:53 Comments ||
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There was actually a substantial weight of evidence suggesting Gallagher had gone nuts before the alleged murder. Apparently the officers who commanded his unit were aware that he was rashly exposing his men by using them as bait to attract bad guys, going on unauthorized and unapproved missions, etc. His field CO's even started going on missions with his squad because there was complaining from his men he was careless and prone to tactical error. There were also a number of complaints that he was shooting civilians, although as anyone in a similar position knows, complaining about the guy next to you is a risky proposition. He was not a popular NCO. But in the end, so many failed to take action (and so, could not comment truthfully without endangering themselves for failure to report) or were put in the position of shutting up or losing their jobs, and others no doubt were sympathetic to Gallagher, the entire truth is murky. The prosecution pretty clearly were trying to railroad Gallagher based on anecdotal evidence, because they couldn't prove the murder. The first prosecutor and the NCIS agent both got caught violating their ethical duty if nothing else. Early on, Crenshaw was reported as believing some of the allegations and that Gallagher was bringing trouble to the SF community. Crenshaw wrote a letter asking that Gallagher be moved to less restrictive confinement, allowed access to his family, lawyers and medical, and suggesting Gallagher was being treated unfairly. That's not exactly how Gallagher frames it, so Gallagher is being a little loose with the truth himself. As far as I can see, Crenshaw only went so far to stand up for a guy he thought was guilty because the prosecution was not playing by the rules.
Not so much with as happening to be in the same country at the same time. He is looking well — she, not so much.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Bill Clinton delighted the locals of a city in Northern Ireland last night by surprising them with a visit to a local pub for a pint of Guinness.
The charismatic former president was seen in the crowded Londonderry establishment raising his glass before taking a sip of the Black stuff.
Clinton was there with Colum Eastwood, the leader of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), who welcomed him to the city as the island of Ireland marks the 25th anniversary of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
Lively photographs from the Tap House pub showed Eastwood's wife Rachael Eastwood enthusiastically embracing Clinton, to the delight of the 42nd president, who to this day remains a popular figure on both sides of the Irish border.
With traditional local music playing the background and to the flashes of cameras, the raucous group cheered as they raised glasses of Guinness, before taking a sip.
Emerging outside, Clinton was mobbed by more crowds of well wishers with whom he shook hands and posed for selfies. He took time to speak to several of those gathered there before getting into his waiting vehicle to leave.
World leaders have flown in across the world to mark the occasion in Belfast. Clinton will be joined by ex-British prime minister Tony Blair, former Irish premier Bertie Ahern and European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic.
Irish premier Leo Varadkar and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will also address the conference on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton arrived at Limavady High School on Friday morning where she unveiled two benches to mark the new shared education campus with the adjacent St Mary's High School.
Mrs Clinton met the head boy and head girl from both schools in Co Londonderry before visiting woodwork classrooms where she talked with pupils and viewed their projects.
[NYPOST] Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated the federal Hatch Act last year by publicly endorsing Sen. Alex Padilla’s re-election, a federal watchdog found Tuesday.
The US Office of Special Counsel confirmed that Becerra engaged in prohibited political activity when he announced that he would be voting for Padilla (D-Calif.) in the midterm elections.
"To my brother, my friend and senator, and someone I will be voting for in a little bit more than a month, Alex Padilla, thank you so much, senator, for being there for all of us," Becerra said after accepting an award at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Annual Awards Gala on Sept. 15, 2022.
"We are proud to have you as our senator."
The OSC report notes that Becerra’s "statement was so obviously concerning that a member of his own staff, present at the Gala, gasped and said, ’no, no, you can’t say that’ immediately after hearing it."
The Hatch Act, enacted in 1939, prohibits executive branch employees from using "official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election."
#3
Nasty, nasty! I bet they get real tough on him and suspend him from the softball team for the next three games or something.
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Abraham might be able to negotiate God down to saving DC and Alexandria, if 10 federal employees could be found that did not violate the Hatch Act today, but I would still spray paint my rear view mirror black in whatever vehicle I chose for my immediate evacuation.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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Posted by: M. Murcek ||
04/19/2023 7:53 Comments ||
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And when you consider the "Mansion Tax", its an offer they can't refuse.
Property tax valuation increases+inflation, neighborhood goes to crap, surrounding hotels bow out and become soviet camps, electricity at premium rich people prices at least when it is on.
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I think it would be detrimental to their Vitamin D levels.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
04/19/2023 11:47 Comments ||
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World class stupid.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
04/19/2023 11:52 Comments ||
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But then, just imagine the opportunities for ballot harvesting. You register the hobos to vote using their new government housing addresses and then send Democrat apparatchiks into those hotels and motels to "help" the hobos with their ballots. Hmmmm. Maybe not so stupid.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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When polio makes a comeback in NYC because half the illegals there are un-vaccinated, will someone blame the Biden Administration and the Democrat Party?
Well done, ladies and gentlemen. Keep up this good work.
[NYPOST] Sen. Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... (R-SC) objected to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer ...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 47.36702 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017... ’s request on Tuesday to temporarily replace ailing Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... (D-Calif.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.).
Graham, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, accused Democrats of trying to "change the numbers on the committee in a way that I think would be harmful to the Senate, and to pass out a handful of judges that I think should never be on the bench."
"With all due respect to Sen. Feinstein, I object," he added.
Reshuffling the composition on the panel, even temporarily, requires unanimous consent from all senators, meaning only one Republican needed to object Tuesday to block the resolution.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday his party will oppose any attempt by Democrats to temporarily replace Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee — calling the gambit a bid by President Biden’s party to "force through their very worst nominees."
"The supposed emergency is that Senate Democrats are unable to push through the small fraction of their nominees who are so extreme, so extreme and so unqualified, that they cannot win a single Republican vote in committee," the 81-year-old McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor.
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Schumer’s punks did something that seems like the right thing to do. Maybe this is a deal to convince Feinstein to retire in a way that gives Schumer cover. I rule out actual opposition based on the track record of McConnell and his puppet Graham.
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[NYPOST] Just hours after a female NYPD officer was struck in the head with a bottle by a deranged man, Alexandria Boom BoomOcasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... decided to add insult to injury — spitting on the profession that keeps this city safe.
"We’re now at a point where officially, most officers are paid more than a teacher with a master’s degree serving the same kids, involved in the same incidents," AOC fumed on "The Daily Show."
"We are defunding safety. Defunding our public schools," she continued. "When we are taking all of those resources and demanding every single department except the militarized ones be cut, we are sending a message about who and what we care about."
What disrespectful, factless blather.
Last year, per the Department of Education, starting salaries for teachers with no teaching experience ranged from $61,070 for a candidate with just a bachelor’s degree to $68,252 for one with a master’s.
Under the contract just signed with the coppers’ union, starting NYPD cops will make $55,000.
Moreover, if teachers are "involved in the same incidents," it’s because AOC and her ilk have successfully gotten police out of schools and pushed "restorative justice," under which teachers can’t discipline disruptive, sometimes violent mostly peaceful, students.
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New York City, Chiraq and LA / SF are in a race to see who can match or beat Detroit / Baltimore / Portland first. And Atlanta / St. Louis / KC / Houston / Philly are not far behind.
Don't even get me started on the third tier of that sad olympics of socialist anarchy.
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Those are hubs.
Houston/Austin/DallasFTW, the webs are huge.
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I think AOC is secretly on the Bee's payroll....
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"We’re now at a point where officially, most officers are paid more than a teacher with a master’s degree serving the same kids, involved in the same incidents," AOC fumed on "The Daily Show."
Stoopid. Teachers in New York City make $65,000 base salary. Police make $45,000 base salary. She said if we pay police less and teachers more we would be safer.I didn't think she could get any dumber or anyone else could until Geraldo defended her. I lost a few I.Q. points reading that.
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[NYPOST] A deal that blocked Florida government-appointed board members from overseeing a special tax district surrounding Disney World will be argued null and void Wednesday — potentially ending a heated dispute between Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the entertainment giant.
Attorneys for the board will announce that the agreement their predecessors entered into with Disney ran afoul of Florida law, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
Disney and DeSantis have fought for more than a year over control of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, where the company has had the sole authority to develop around 27,000 acres since 1967.
But a day before politicians voted in February to let DeSantis appoint a new board, the incumbent board coordinated with Disney to gut their successors’ ability to oversee zoning and development in the special district.
The tit-for-tat exchange came on the heels of Disney’s war of words with the 44-year-old governor and presumptive 2024 GOP presidential candidate over the so-called "Don’t Say Gay" bill, which outlawed the discussion of gender identity and sexual orientation in public school classrooms where students from kindergarten through third grade were taught.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Epoch Times] The Biden administration has announced that the president will veto the H.R. 734 bill that seeks to protect female sports from transgender athletes.
...Senator-for-life from New York, renowned for his love of standing in front of cameras and microphones. Schumer has been a professional politician since 1975, when disco was in flower, which is 47.36702 years. Senate minority leader as of 2017...
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the 
[NYPOST] A deal that blocked Florida government-appointed board members from overseeing a special tax district surrounding 
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