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🗓️ 26 February 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, a fun one today, you know, for a change. |
0:08.4 | Jeremy Peters reports for the New York Times. |
0:11.3 | Jeremy was one of the authors of an article this past week on the Dominion v. Fox lawsuit, |
0:18.1 | which included a lot of revelations about the Fox News Channel that confirmed, |
0:25.5 | well, everything we already knew, which is that they are lying liars, but more than that, |
0:30.9 | they are cynical, shameless, greedy, power-hungry low-lifes. |
0:36.6 | A little background, there was a presidential election way |
0:40.3 | back in 2020, which Joe Biden won, which is why he's the president. Donald Trump and a lot of |
0:48.5 | people who work for Trump, like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, claimed that the election had been stolen from Trump |
0:57.3 | through a number of schemes. Chief among them, a voting machine scam where these Dominion |
1:06.4 | voting machines switched hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Trump votes to Biden votes. |
1:14.1 | Turned out that wasn't true. |
1:16.0 | That didn't happen. |
1:17.0 | Nevertheless, Fox News kept reporting that that had actually been the case, even well after Fox |
1:24.9 | knew that it wasn't. |
1:27.3 | Hence, the defamation lawsuit for $1.6 billion, which looks pretty nailed down, if you ask me, |
1:35.5 | and a lot of lawyers, including lawyers, who usually defend media organizations on the |
1:41.5 | principle that we need news organizations to be willing to report on |
1:46.1 | malfeasance and corruption, even if they make a mistake or two or three every once in a while, |
1:51.3 | as long as the mistake was not made maliciously or with total disregard for the truth. |
2:00.3 | See, for someone to successfully sue a news organization for defamation, |
2:06.1 | they have to prove that it was done with either malicious intent |
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