Simmsy Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 Watters is much dumber than Tucker, I expect a defamation lawsuit pretty soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 1, 2023 Share Posted July 1, 2023 Fox News Agrees to Pay $12 Million to Settle Hostile Workplace Suit Fox News has agreed to pay $12 million to Abby Grossberg, a former Fox News producer who had accused the network of operating a hostile and discriminatory workplace and of coercing her into providing false testimony in a deposition. Parisis G. Filippatos, a lawyer for Ms. Grossberg, said the settlement concluded all of Ms. Grossberg’s claims against Fox and the people she had named in her complaints, which included the former host Tucker Carlson and some of his producers. Ms. Grossberg’s legal team filed a request in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday to dismiss a remaining lawsuit against Fox in light of the settlement. Ms. Grossberg said in a statement on Friday that she stood by her allegations, but she was “heartened that Fox News has taken me and my legal claims seriously.” “I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace,” she said. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 Tucker Carlson could play a starring role in Smartmatic's $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit – and Fox News should be terrified Tucker Carlson has some leverage. Ever since Fox News fired its star host in April with no explanation, he has been in open conflict with the network. Forbidden from hosting his own TV show for the duration of his contract, which ends in December of 2024, Carlson has resorted to vlogging on Twitter. But Fox isn't happy with that arrangement, sending legal threats over his new show. Carlson has a potential ace up his sleeve: becoming a friendly witness for Smartmatic in its pending $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News. Fox fired Carlson just days after it agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems. The timing contributed to theories — which Dominion has denied — that dropping Carlson was one of the settlement's terms. Carlson may have been a damaging witness for Fox News for other reasons. According to the New York Times, evidence collected by Dominion as part of the lawsuit's discovery process show Carlson sending messages with misogynistic language and expressing some allegiance with a group of white men assaulting an "Antifa kid." The potential public damage would have hit Fox hard and fast. Before a settlement was reached, Dominion had planned to call Carlson to the witness stand. Still on the horizon is Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit. Like Dominion, Smartmatic alleges that Fox News defamed it when it hosted Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, two conspiracy theorist lawyers. In interviews on Fox News programs, they pushed false claims that Dominion and Smartmatic, two election technology companies, were somehow secretly in cahoots with each other and flipped the 2020 election from then-President Donald Trump to now-President Joe Biden. Smartmatic's suit, which also includes Giuliani as a defendant (Powell is being sued separately in Washington, DC, court for jurisdictional reasons), is playing out in a New York state court and expected to go to trial in 2025. The judge previously ordered Fox to give Smartmatic all the discovery evidence in the Dominion lawsuit, handing Smartmatic a powerful weapon already. If Smartmatic were to put Carlson on the witness stand — or even just play a deposition video — he could deal a potent blow against Fox News. Click on the link for the full article Not sure why the trial won't start for another 2 years, that seems like a long way off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 The Case That Could Be Fox’s Next Dominion Of all the distortions and paranoia that Tucker Carlson promoted on his since-canceled Fox News program, one looms large: a conspiracy theory that an Arizona man working as a covert government agent incited the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol to sabotage and discredit former President Donald J. Trump and his political movement. What’s known about the man — a two-time Trump voter named Ray Epps — is that he took part in demonstrations in Washington that day and the night before. He was captured on camera urging a crowd to march with him and enter the Capitol. But at other points, he pleads for calm once it becomes clear the situation is turning violent. He can be seen moving past a line of Capitol Police at the barricades, but never actually goes inside the Capitol. Federal prosecutors have not charged Mr. Epps with a crime, focusing instead on the more than 1,000 other demonstrators who acted violently or were trespassing in the Capitol. The Justice Department’s sprawling investigation into the attack remains open, however, and Mr. Epps could still be indicted. Yet for more than 18 months, Mr. Carlson insisted that the lack of charges against Mr. Epps could mean only one thing: that he was being protected because he was a secret government agent. There was “no rational explanation,” Mr. Carlson told his audience, why this “mysterious figure” who “helped stage-manage the insurrection” had not been charged. He repeated Mr. Epps’s name over and over — in nearly 20 episodes — imprinting it on the minds of his viewers. Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted July 19, 2023 Share Posted July 19, 2023 Today I unfortunately caught a segment of Kudlow on Fox Business in which he had a panel discussing the stock market. They put up a chart comparing the performance of the major indices in the first 2.5 years of the Trump and Biden presidencies. Granted, last year was terrible for the stock market (but has recovered a lot of the losses this year), while Trump had a significant downturn at the end of 2018 but recovered quickly. The numbers they displayed (credited to a group called the "Committee to Unleash Prosperity"), versus what I think they actually are: S&P: Trump 40 pct vs Biden 16 percent (Actual, Trump 32 vs Biden 19) Dow: Trump 35 pct vs Biden 11 percent (Actual, Trump 37.5 vs Biden 12.5) Nasdaq: Trump 162 pct vs Biden 3 pct (Actual, Trump 47.6 vs Biden 9.3) The Nasdaq figure they displayed just looked too jarring. How do they mess it up that much? Oh wait.......its a deliberate lie, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted July 20, 2023 Share Posted July 20, 2023 I'm just admiring the notion that the way you should judge a President's handling of the economy, is to ignore the number of jobs, worker earnings, (or GDP?), and demand that he inflate the stock market. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 Fox Guest Alleges Electric Stoves Are Part Of Government Conspiracy: ‘Eventually, They Can Control That Stove’ A Fox Business Network guest claimed on Tuesday that efforts to encourage the use of electric stoves over gas ones are part of a government conspiracy to control household appliances. Republicans are railing against a recent proposal by the Biden administration that would require water heaters to be more energy efficient. The move comes after several other initiatives aimed at encouraging the manufacture of more energy-conscious household appliances. “What is it with this crowd in the name of climate change that they are operating Soviet-style, regulatory policies?” Larry Kudlow wailed on Tuesday. “And they’re jamming it down our throats and taking all consumer choice and freedom away. What is up with this?” “They don’t value consumer choice,” Fox News contributor Liz Peek replied. “And they sure don’t value freedom. These are little puny efforts to combat climate change. You put them all together, and it isn’t going to have any impact.” Kudlow returned to the water heater issue. “I want some damn hot water,” he said. “You want to live like in Europe? “You ever try to take a shower in Europe? You can’t do it. You ever try to flush the toilet in Europe? You can’t do that either.” Radio host Mark Simone then alluded to a previous Biden effort to encourage a transition from gas to electric stoves, and claimed appliances are a way to control the populace: Quote This is really about control. That’s what it’s really about. The reason they want you [to go] from a gas stove to electric stove is, eventually they can control that stove. They’re already doing that in some towns in California – controlling the thermostats. They can turn it down when they want to. You look at electric cars, they’ll be able to shut you down if they need to. Everything – the new washer, dryer, you know, the new toilet, instead of three gallons, one gallon to save water. Now you gotta flush it 11 times. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 Fox Staff Anonymously Revolted By Gutfeld Holocaust Remark: ‘At Any Other Place, His Career Would Be Over’ Fox News staffers were revolted by a comment Greg Gutfeld made to colleague Jessica Tarlov about the Holocaust in defense of the controversial new Florida slavery curriculum — at least, anonymously they were. Tarlov and her co-hosts debated the newly-approved Florida curriculum on Black history — which includes teaching that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit” — on Monday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Five. That debate included this stunning exchange in which Tarlov — who is Jewish — asks a hypothetical analogizing the Florida standards to a similar premise about the millions slaughtered by the Nazis and Gutfeld had a quick reply: Quote JESSICA TARLOV: I do think that she read the whole thing, and I think that it’s an incredibly complex piece when you look at it, 191 passages. You have some good… And frankly, I’m just fundamentally uncomfortable with the sentence that Blacks benefited at all from this. And. You know, it made me think of someone. Obviously, I’m not Black, but I’m Jewish. Would someone say about the Holocaust, for instance, that there were some benefits for Jews? Right? While they were hanging out in concentration camps. You learned a strong work ethic, right? Maybe you learned a new skill. GREG GUTFELD: Did you ever read ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’? Vik Frankel talks about how you had to survive in a concentration camp by having skills. You had to be useful. Utility, utility kept you alive! The remark drew a lengthy rebuke from the Auschwitz Museum and from President Joe Biden’s press team. And according to The Daily Beast’s Justin Baragona — a Mediaite alum — Fox insiders were also “disgusted.” Click on the link for the rest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 Quote The conglomerate—which owns media outlets around the world, including U.S. publications like the New York Post and Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal—recorded $187 million in net profit for the year, a steep drop from last year’s tally of $760 million. Declines in both print and digital advertising revenue were clocked at News Corp Australia, while print ads were also down at the company’s U.K. news arm. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 AI "News" reports are just what we need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 75% drop in profits. Did they go woke? 🤭 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted August 12, 2023 Author Share Posted August 12, 2023 On 7/19/2023 at 11:54 PM, Larry said: I'm just admiring the notion that the way you should judge a President's handling of the economy, is to ignore the number of jobs, worker earnings, (or GDP?), and demand that he inflate the stock market. The two presidents with the highest stock gains in US history? 1. Bill Clinton 2. Barack Obama 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinsmarydu Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 2 minutes ago, Riggo-toni said: The two presidents with the highest stock gains in US history? 1. Bill Clinton 2. Barack Obama Just personal history/anecdote: Presidents whose policies made me the most money without a degree that I can't pay for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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China Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 Fox’s Greg Gutfeld goes on sexist rant, suggests crimes would ‘disappear’ if women went away One of Fox News’ top hosts said that many of the world’s problems would be solved if women were to vanish from the planet. Greg Gutfeld, the right-wing channel’s resident jester who was recently promoted to host his own prime time hour, made a series of brazenly sexist comments on Monday’s edition of “The Five” during a discussion on looting. As surveillance video played showing a smash-and-grab that occurred over the weekend at a Los Angeles Nordstrom, Gutfeld went on a rant portraying women as soft on crime and effectively blaming the entire gender for supposed policies that would prevent such crimes from being committed. “What would happen if all the women took a ladies week off and they went to Venus … How many of these problems would still exist?” Gutfeld wondered aloud. Gutfeld, who allowed for the possibility that new problems would emerge in the absence of women, confidently argued that “smash and grabs” and “rampant recidivism” would “disappear.” At one point during the discussion, Gutfeld acknowledged that what he was saying might not sit well with Jeanine Pirro, a tough-on-crime co-host of “The Five” who previously worked as a prosecutor and served as a New York state judge. “I know this is offensive to the judge because she thinks like a dude,” Gutfeld joked. Click on the link for the full article 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Analysis: Fox News is trying to sugarcoat its right-wing propaganda. Some news outlets are falling for it It is the year 2023. And news organizations are still failing in their coverage of Fox News. The right-wing channel, which is in the spotlight as it prepares to host the first GOP primary debate of the 2024 election on Wednesday, was exposed in grand fashion as a dishonest propaganda organ of the Republican Party just months ago when it paid a historic $787 million defamation settlement to Dominion Voting Systems over the lies it spread during the last presidential election. If newsrooms somehow didn’t comprehend what Fox News really was before that explosive lawsuit, there isn’t an excuse now. The lawsuit humiliated the channel and shredded what was left of its credibility, putting on display in thousands of pages of court documents the unethical behavior of its top executives and hosts behind the scenes. The dishonorable conduct spelled out in black and white in the cache of legal filings would get most journalists fired at actual news organizations and constitute scandals that would permanently run them out of the news business — maybe even other industries as well. And yet, just months later, Fox News is trying to move on, as if the shameful behavior brought to light by the Dominion case simply evaporated from history the moment it opened up its checkbook. In fact, while Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch did pay a record sum of money to make the Dominion case vanish, they kept in place the channel’s top executives, Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace. And, perhaps more importantly, they have expressed zero regrets for the dishonest Fox News programming that threw them in legal hot water. But Fox News attempting to move past the embarrassing saga is not surprising. It is to be expected. What is striking, however, is how many credible news organizations are failing to describe in clear-eyed terms to their audiences — who count on them, and often pay them to deliver the unvarnished truth — what the network actually is. In stories about the looming GOP debate published over the last several days, it is evident that the majority of newsrooms are dropping the ball, willfully taking part in a Fox News rehabilitation tour led by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. (In one interview last week, MacCallum actually referred to the Dominion settlement as “ancient history.” The network settled only 126 days ago and is still facing an even larger lawsuit over its election lies.) Most outlets still haven’t worked up the courage to describe Fox News as a “right-wing channel.” The WaPo on Tuesday didn’t even refer to the outlet’s prime time bloc of Donald Trump propagandists in such terms. It merely described the channel’s evening programming as “conservative leaning.” Calling that language weak would be generous. Click on the link for the full article 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 Why haven’t we boycotted Fox and all Fox sponsors again? I suggested this years ago and remember being poo pooed but sure seems like a good idea to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said: Why haven’t we boycotted Fox and all Fox sponsors again? I suggested this years ago and remember being poo pooed but sure seems like a good idea to me. Because it's not sponsors. It's that you can't tell the cable company you don't want to pay for Fox News. It's all "bundled". Ala Carte cable would be amazing, and end up killing a bunch of networks. If you are paying for a plan that includes them, they get $2 from you a month. That's how they can afford to pay fines, and sell ad space to Cash4Gold in prime time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 9 minutes ago, @DCGoldPants said: Because it's not sponsors. It's that you can't tell the cable company you don't want to pay for Fox News. It's all "bundled". Ala Carte cable would be amazing, and end up killing a bunch of networks. If you are paying for a plan that includes them, they get $2 from you a month. That's how they can afford to pay fines, and sell ad space to Cash4Gold in prime time. I’m not saying boycott FOXNews. I’m saying boycott Fox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobraCommander Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 9 minutes ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said: I’m not saying boycott FOXNews. I’m saying boycott Fox. This board is united in one thing, football, aired every weekend on Fox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sacks 'n' Stuff Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 1 minute ago, CobraCommander said: This board is united in one thing, football, aired every weekend on Fox. I’d give it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 15 minutes ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said: I’m not saying boycott FOXNews. I’m saying boycott Fox. I misunderstood, sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobraCommander Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 1 hour ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said: I’d give it up. All professional football or just the games on Fox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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