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Murdoch Called Hannity ‘Retarded’ and DeSantis ‘Kicked’ Tucker’s Dog, Wild New Book Claims

 

Gov. Ron DeSantis may have kicked Tucker Carlson’s dog, Rupert Murdoch may have called his longest-running primetime star an ableist slur, and Lachlan Murdoch has a fondness for anti-Trump toiletries—these are some of the many outrageous pieces of gossip revealed in provocative author Michael Wolff’s upcoming new book about the Fox News universe.

 

The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty, due out Sept. 26 via Henry Holt & Co., purports to give readers a behind-the-curtains look into Fox’s handling of the Dominion defamation lawsuit over its 2020 election lies, its post-election clashes with former President Donald Trump, its shocking firing of Carlson, and the Murdoch family’s Succession-like turmoil.

 

In Wolff’s telling, both Fox News and the Murdoch empire are in a slow-motion decline.

 

“The fact that the last book by this author was spoofed in a Saturday Night Live skit is really all we need to know,” a Fox News spokesperson wrote The Daily Beast in a statement. Reps for the Murdoch family declined to comment, but a person familiar with the matter claimed to The Daily Beast that Wolff did not approach Fox News or Fox Corp for fact-checking. “Every principal character in the book including [Murdoch] was contacted for comment,” Wolff responded in a statement.

 

The book, which The Daily Beast has obtained and reviewed, is billed as a juicy tell-all and is chock full of eye-opening and at-times absurd anecdotes that occasionally strain credulity. During one chapter, Wolff writes that prior to being fired from his top-rated primetime perch, Carlson considered a run for president in order to escape his Fox News contract. The author also details a bizarre incident that allegedly occurred when Carlson shared a meal with DeSantis.

 

With Fox urging its stars to be “open-minded” about the Florida governor, then Murdoch’s “favored candidate” for 2024, Wolff writes, Carlson and his wife Susie welcomed DeSantis and his wife Casey to their Florida home for lunch. Despite hoping to impress Carlson—arguably a top GOP kingmaker—the presidential hopeful and Trump rival failed the “Susie Carlson test” during the visit, Wolff claims.

 

The DeSantis couple allegedly failed “to read the room,” especially with Carlson’s wife, “a genteel, stay-at-home woman, here in her own house,” Wolff notes. “For two hours Ron DeSantis sat at her table talking in an outdoor voice indoors, failing to observe any basics of conversation ritual or propriety, reeling off an unselfconscious list of his programs and initiatives and political accomplishments.”

 

Making matters worse, Wolff claims, an “impersonal” DeSantis seemed dismissive and may have used physical force against one of the Carlson family’s four beloved spaniel pups.

 

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"Most of the media is in cahoots with those elites, peddling political narratives rather than pursuing the truth."

 

He's describing himself and Fox news.  This is the same kind of nonsensical projection that Trump frequently engages in.

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Fox Ignores Its Own Interview That Destroys Ukraine-Biden Conspiracy

 

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade’s interview with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, which largely demolishes a conspiracy theory at the center of the GOP’s impeachment case against President Joe Biden, has been completely ignored by the network. During the sitdown, which aired on Saturday night, Poroshenko dismissed ex-Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokin as a “completely crazy person” who didn’t utter a “single word of truth” and “played [a] very dirty game.” This was in response to Shokin telling Kilmeade last month that “Poroshenko fired me at the insistence of the then Vice President Biden because I was investigating Burisma” and accusing Biden of corruption. While Fox News devoted nearly three hours of airtime and 50 segments to discussing the Shokin interview, the right-wing channel has buried Poroshenko’s denouncement of Shokin’s allegations, despite the attention it received from mainstream media outlets. According to Media Matters for America, the Poroshenko interview hasn’t been mentioned once on Fox since it aired, even though Kilmeade is a co-host of the three-hour morning show Fox & Friends, which spent 20 minutes on the Shokin interview.

 

 

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Lachlan Murdoch facing a minefield of lawsuits after taking control of Fox Tom Boggioni

 

Newly anointed chairman of News Corporation and Fox Corporation Lachlan Murdoch, having taken over from his father Rupert Murdoch, is facing a perilous future as the media empire, particularly the Fox News division, contends with a flood of lawsuits including a multi-billion lawsuit filed by Smartmatic over election fraud claims.

 

Having weathered a similar defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems that resulted in a stunning $787 million settlement, the heir to the News Corporation throne will attempt to oversee the company through the stormy waters that also include claims made by multiple pensions funds linked to the admission made by Fox in the Dominion lawsuit as well as former employees who have filed multi-million dollar lawsuits against the company.

 

According to a report from the Guardian's Edward Helmore, "deriving from the Dominion settlement are claims by the $95.4bn state of Oregon and five New York City pension funds that Fox News breached its fiduciary duty when it broadcast false claims about the 2020 election, potentially exposing shareholders to liability. Oregon holds just over $5m in Fox Corp stock; New York has $27m."

 

Added to that are lawsuits filed by Jan. 6 participant Ray Epps who claims he was smeared by former Fox host Tucker Carlson as a government informant, former Fox News reporter and producer Jason Donner who claims he was fired for his refusal "to report false information surrounding both the election and J-6" and "a claim by Nina Jankowicz that she was subjected to a 'malicious campaign of destruction' orchestrated by Fox after she was appointed to Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board widely derisively dubbed the 'Ministry of Truth'."

 

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In blow to Fox Corp., judge rules Smartmatic case over 2020 election lies can proceed

 

The voting technology company Smartmatic can move forward with its defamation lawsuit against Fox Corporation, a New York judge ruled Wednesday, dealing a blow to the parent company of Fox News, which is already fighting the massive lawsuit over its repeated airing of 2020 election lies.

 

The decision from Manhattan Supreme Court Judge David Cohen represents a significant setback to Fox’s corporate leadership, including the powerful Murdoch family, who will now face more scrutiny in the litigation. Cohen already let the case proceed against Fox News — and on Wednesday, he rejected a request by Fox Corporation to throw out the claims against the parent company.

 

The lawsuit was filed in the wake of the 2020 election, when Fox repeatedly gave airtime to far-right figures who promoted outrageous and debunked claims that Smartmatic rigged the presidential election by flipping millions of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. They did this even though on-air anchors, top producers and executives privately admitted that the election wasn’t stolen.

 

The judge said Smartmatic’s case was strong enough to proceed against the parent company because it has “sufficiently alleged that (Fox) Corp. employees acted with malice by purposely and deliberating publishing knowingly false stories about (Smartmatic) in order to benefit (Fox) Corp.’s financial interest.”

 

Smartmatic has “sufficiently alleged in their amended complaint that (Fox) Corp. employees played an affirmative role in the publication of the defamation at issue,” Cohen concluded.

 

Smartmatic sued Fox News and its parent corporation in 2021 for defamation and is seeking more than $2 billion in damages. A New York appeals court previously dismissed the case against Fox Corp. but gave Smartmatic a chance to refile the allegations with more evidence. Cohen said Wednesday that the refiled claims against Fox Corp. are sufficient enough to move forward.

 

The case is still in the discovery phase, with some major depositions taking place in the past month, including former Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch.

 

The judge also on Wednesday gave Fox News a greenlight to continue its counterclaims against Smartmatic. The right-wing network is alleging that Smartmatic’s massive $2.7 billion request for damages is a legally baseless attempt to silence the network’s free-speech rights.

 

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