 Talking about charades and shows, do you remember that after the 2020 election, you know, when all the hype was about stolen election, Republicans were freaking out and Donald Trump and Powell and Giuliani, who, you know, were all out there claiming stolen election fraud, dominion voting machines. Ooh, dominion voting machines. They are sneaky little things that sway elections towards Democrats and Fox News was in on it and they were constantly hyping this idea that dominion voting machines were responsible for Trump's loss and they were all rigged in this corruption, it's insane. Well, if you remember, dominion sued over this. They sued in, let me just find this, sorry, yeah, they sued in I think it was March of 2021. They sued Fox basically for defamation, right? Let me just see here, yeah, they sued them for, you know, for the fact that they defamed the company with these fabricated lies and they sued them for 1.6 billion dollars, billion dollars, right? So it's going to go to court and we're going to see everything and it's all going to be revealed and the interesting thing is that dominion in order to prove defamation actually has to show that the company knew that what they were doing was false. They actually have to show that this was intentional, that there was not a mistake, it wasn't bad reporting, that they knew that the dominion machines had nothing to do with fraud, that there was no fraud actually committed and, you know, in order to win the case, 1.6 billion dollars. And anyway, yesterday dominion filed this motion for summary judgment, which is to help with the trial, look at all the evidence, there's no point in a trial, we win. And the company laid out in granular detail its case, as they say it to quote, literally dozens of people with editorial responsibility from the top of Fox organization to the producers of specific shows that host themselves acted with actual malice, acted with actual malice. And you know, they provide emails, what do you call it, text messages, for example, John Hannity and Tucker Carlson tried to get Fox News reporter Jackie Henrik fired for fact checking a Trump tweet about dominion and noting that there was no evidence of voting being destroyed, right? And here's the text that Tucker Carlson said to Laura Ingram, please get it fired, seriously, what the fuck, Carlson texted Ingram and Hannity on November 12, 2020. It's measurably hurting the company, the stock price is down, not a joke. Now, this would be fine if Tucker Carlson actually thought that the dominion machines were actually fraudulent, right? That there was actually fraud that had been committed or that Tucker Carlson or any of these guys thought this, but this is indeed clearly not the case, right? For example, Tucker Carlson writes this producer, Alex Pfeiffer, about Sidney Powell, one of Trump's campaign lawyers, Powell is lying, this is November 16th, host Laura Ingram to Carlson and fellow host Sean Hannity, quote, Sidney Powell is a bit nuts, sorry, but she is November 15th. Carlson to Ingram, Sidney Powell is lying, by the way, I caught her, it's insane, Ingram replied, Sidney is a complete nut, no one will walk with her, did her for Rudy, that's Rudy Giuliani. Carlson replied, it's unbelievably offensive to me, our viewers are good people and they believe it. Fox Copa chairman Rudolph Murdoch, quote, really crazy stuff with regard to the whole conspiracy around the elections, that was on the 19th of November, Murdoch after watching Giuliani and Powell on November 19, 2020, quote, terrible stuff damaging everyone, I fear. Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott replied, yeah, she had indeed even Jeanine Pirro agrees. Fox reporter Lucas Thomason to Anchor Brett Bair, it's dangerous, insane, these conspiracy theories. Fox political editor Chris Steywald on whatever the allegations that Dominion rigged the election was true, quote, no reasonable person would have thought that. This is all from Fox Tweets and Fox Emails, this is not anybody's not making this up. Fox CEO, Fox News CEO, Suzanne Scott responded, quote, yes, I believe that, that no reasonable person would have thought that to the question. You believe, since at least the time that Fox News called the election on November 7th, that Joe Biden was legitimately elected the president of the United States, correct? And CEO of Fox News says, yes, I believe that, Carlson texted a redacted name, quote, that it was shockingly reckless to claim the Dominion rigged the election. If there's one, if there's no one inside the company willing to talk, or internal Dominion documents or copies of the software showing that they did it, and as you know, there isn't. Fox's internal fact checks about Dominion allegations reported they were incorrect and, quote, not evidence of widespread fraud. Anyway, you can find these articles, they were published this morning coming out of the data dump, data dump that occurred, all this happened in the November, yeah, all of this is November, November 18th, November 20th. Some of it then in early December, December 12th. You know, this is Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Simmons to Fox political editor to Chris Starwood on the network's coverage of quote, supposed election fraud. He writes, it's remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things. That was in December 2nd. And then you go on and on. I mean, there's long lists of this. I mean, I don't know what Dominion, what Fox could do for Dominion not to win the case. They would have to lose it on some kind of technicality related to the issues. But there's absolutely no question that senior people at Fox News, including people like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingram all knew that there was no fraud committed during the 2020 election, and certainly no fraud committed by the so-called Dominion machines. They knew that in spite of that they continued reporting on it. They continued giving Powell airtime. They continue giving Giuliani airtime without questioning their accounts of what was going on. They perpetuated a conspiracy theory in spite of Tucker Carlson saying that people who believe this are good people kind of his audience, they perpetuated a lie to that audience. This is this is horrific behavior. I hope they lose. I hope they have to pay 1.6 billion or more punitive damages would be. I don't think there are punitive damage in this kind of case. But it's just horrific because these conspiracy theories are stuck. They're not part of the Republican base's set of beliefs. I don't think anything that is published will change anybody's mind. But these were lies from the beginning. They were constructed by certain people within the Trump campaign or administration, Powell and Giuliani and others. And they were then spread out by right-wing media, in particular Fox, but also all the other alt-right media that still continues to report these other falsehoods. And that people still believe them, and that people still, I don't know, share this stuff and repeat it and advocate for it is just mind-boggling and it shows the mentality of conspiracy theories. It doesn't matter how much evidence you show. It doesn't matter how much facts show that they're wrong. Facts are not the issue. They never work. Conspiracy theories are never based on facts. It's all about emotion. It's all about belief. Ultimately, it's all about faith and to see people who typically are semi-rational by anti-conspiracy theories and embrace them completely mind-boggling in one of the areas where you're really seeing this, I think, is with the COVID vaccines right now. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Brook Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbrookshow.com slash support, by going to Patreon, subscribe star, locals, and just making an appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. Also, if you'd like to see The Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. 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