Tucker Carlson out at Fux News

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51 percent say Fox hosts made comments about 2020 election they knew were untrue: poll
A majority of respondents in a new poll say they believe hosts at Fox News made comments about the 2020 election they knew were untrue.
A total of 51 percent of adults asked in a YouGov poll answered “yes” to the question “do you think hosts on Fox News said things about the 2020 election that they knew were untrue?” Meanwhile, 29 percent said they were “unsure” when asked the same question and 21 percent answered “no.” The YouGov poll was taken from April 29 to May 2, 2023 among 1,500 U.S. adults.

Fox last month agreed to pay $787 million to settle a blockbuster defamation lawsuit brought against the network by Dominion Voting Systems in connection with the channel’s airing of false claims about its software.

Before it settled, Fox in legal filings and public statements had argued that the allegations about Dominion, which had been promoted by former President Trump and his allies, were newsworthy and warranted coverage on its top shows.

In a deposition taken by Dominion’s lawyers ahead of what was expected to be a lengthy jury trial, Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire conservative media mogul who owns Fox, acknowledged that some of the leading hosts on his network embraced Trump’s false statements about the election “as commentators.”

Fox is gearing up to defend itself from a second defamation lawsuit, brought by voting systems company Smartmatic, over similar claims made on its air.

A trial in the Smartmatic matter is not expected for months or possibly years.

“We will be ready to defend this case surrounding extremely newsworthy events when it goes to trial, likely in 2025,” a spokesperson for the network said a recent statement about the case. “As a report prepared by our financial expert shows, Smartmatic’s damages claims are implausible, disconnected from reality, and on its face intended to chill First Amendment freedoms.”
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51 percent say Fox hosts made comments about 2020 election they knew were untrue: poll

A majority of respondents in a new poll say they believe hosts at Fox News made comments about the 2020 election they knew were untrue. A total of 51 percent of adults asked in a YouGov poll answer…
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cannabineer

cannabineer

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51 percent say Fox hosts made comments about 2020 election they knew were untrue: poll
A majority of respondents in a new poll say they believe hosts at Fox News made comments about the 2020 election they knew were untrue.
A total of 51 percent of adults asked in a YouGov poll answered “yes” to the question “do you think hosts on Fox News said things about the 2020 election that they knew were untrue?” Meanwhile, 29 percent said they were “unsure” when asked the same question and 21 percent answered “no.” The YouGov poll was taken from April 29 to May 2, 2023 among 1,500 U.S. adults.

Fox last month agreed to pay $787 million to settle a blockbuster defamation lawsuit brought against the network by Dominion Voting Systems in connection with the channel’s airing of false claims about its software.

Before it settled, Fox in legal filings and public statements had argued that the allegations about Dominion, which had been promoted by former President Trump and his allies, were newsworthy and warranted coverage on its top shows.

In a deposition taken by Dominion’s lawyers ahead of what was expected to be a lengthy jury trial, Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire conservative media mogul who owns Fox, acknowledged that some of the leading hosts on his network embraced Trump’s false statements about the election “as commentators.”

Fox is gearing up to defend itself from a second defamation lawsuit, brought by voting systems company Smartmatic, over similar claims made on its air.

A trial in the Smartmatic matter is not expected for months or possibly years.

“We will be ready to defend this case surrounding extremely newsworthy events when it goes to trial, likely in 2025,” a spokesperson for the network said a recent statement about the case. “As a report prepared by our financial expert shows, Smartmatic’s damages claims are implausible, disconnected from reality, and on its face intended to chill First Amendment freedoms.”
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51 percent say Fox hosts made comments about 2020 election they knew were untrue: poll

A majority of respondents in a new poll say they believe hosts at Fox News made comments about the 2020 election they knew were untrue. A total of 51 percent of adults asked in a YouGov poll answer…
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corollary:
21% are liable to tip their heads up when it rains, and drown
 
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Tucker Carlson in texts to Bret Baier: ‘When Trump loses, he’s going to blame us’
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson texted anchor Bret Baier in November 2020, voicing concerns that former President Trump would “blame” the network when he lost the election, according to text messages obtained by The Daily Beast.

“See if there’s any way I could help calm viewers down,” Carlson said to Baier. “When Trump loses, he’s going to blame us. That’s going to be very bad.”

The messages, which are reportedly part of redacted court filings in Dominion Voting Systems’ former defamation case against Fox News, show the two Fox News personalities discussing the backlash the network faced after calling Arizona for President Biden.

“I continue to think the company isn’t taking the [sic] seriously enough,” Carlson texted Baier on Nov. 5, 2020, according to The Daily Beast. “We need to do something to reassure our core audience. They’re our whole business model.”

“We have been pushing for answers,” Baier responded. “I have pressed them to slow. And I think they will slow walk Nevada. The votes don’t come in until tomorrow.”

Baier sent an email on Nov. 5, urging the network to withdraw its call for Arizona, The New York Times’ Peter Baker and The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser reported in their book last year. They also previously reported that the Fox Decision Desk was not allowed to call Nevada for Biden.
“Please let me know if they don’t seem to be obeying,” Carlson said in response to Baier’s comments about Nevada. “We could really f— up a lot of what we’ve built.”

“I’ve got four more years here,” Carlson also said in the messages. “I’m stuck with Fox. Got to do whatever I can to keep our numbers up and our viewers happy.”

Fox News emphasized in a statement that it “stood by the Arizona call despite intense scrutiny.”
“Given the extremely narrow 0.3% margin and a new projection mechanism that no other network had, it’s hardly surprising there would be postmortem discussions surrounding the call and how it was executed, no matter the candidates,” the network said.

After Baier’s Nov. 5, 2020, email originally emerged, he noted in a statement that “the vote margins in Arizona narrowed significantly” in the days after the election and he “communicated these changes to our team along with what people on the ground were saying and predicting district by district.”

“I wanted to analyze at what point (what vote margin) would we have to consider pulling the call for Biden,” he added. “I also noted that I fully supported our decision desk’s call and would defend it on air.”

Following Fox News’ massive $787 million dollar settlement with Dominion Voting Systems last month, Carlson was booted from his prime-time hosting slot at the network.
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Tucker Carlson in texts to Bret Baier: ‘When Trump loses, he’s going to blame us’

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson texted anchor Bret Baier in November 2020, voicing concerns that former President Trump would “blame” the network when he lost the election, according to text me…
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DIY-HP-LED said:
They are the same percentage who pick their noses in public.
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cannabineer said:
but I do that.
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Just lightly butter my toast, please.

On serious note: Trump said (in not so many words) he's the scorpion and his
base is the frog. LMAOOOOO ("all your base are belong to me"). Fucking alien
demon creep. Remember, Trump's the one: "I could shoot somebody on 5th ave. and get away with it."
He TOLD us what a monster he is, why would he do that? To get MORE voters, plus
it's just the narcissistic thing to do. Why wouldn't american, mid class, working class
voters elect somebody who's got a GOLD FUCKING TOILET! Don't see anything wrong there.
 
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doughper said:
Just lightly butter my toast, please.

On serious note: Trump said (in not so many words) he's the scorpion and his
base is the frog. LMAOOOOO ("all your base are belong to me"). Fucking alien
demon creep. Remember, Trump's the one: "I could shoot somebody on 5th ave. and get away with it."
He TOLD us what a monster he is, why would he do that? To get MORE voters, plus
it's just the narcissistic thing to do. Why wouldn't american, mid class, working class
voters elect somebody who's got a GOLD FUCKING TOILET! Don't see anything wrong there.
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That's one thing about Trump's base that I find amazing. Did you not hear him telling us he was not going to leave the WH peacefully after he lost the election? He was very clear that he did not accept the results. He said "it will be wild" when he asked people to come en masse on Jan 6 and told them to fight. As you say, he told us he believed he was above the law in his 5th ave speech. He publicly asked Russia to intervene in the election and raid Hillary's e-mail accounts. Trump tells us what he plans to do. No matter how outrageous it is, his followers lap it up. For a while, I just thought he was a gas bag and laughed but by the middle of his term, he made me more and more nervous because what he said he will do, he does. His followers not only don't care if he runs roughshod over our constitution and government, they support him because he does.
 
cannabineer

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Fogdog said:
That's one thing about Trump's base that I find amazing. Did you not hear him telling us he was not going to leave the WH peacefully after he lost the election? He was very clear that he did not accept the results. He said "it will be wild" when he asked people to come en masse on Jan 6 and told them to fight. As you say, he told us he believed he was above the law in his 5th ave speech. He publicly asked Russia to intervene in the election and raid Hillary's e-mail accounts. Trump tells us what he plans to do. No matter how outrageous it is, his followers lap it up. For a while, I just thought he was a gas bag and laughed but by the middle of his term, he made me more and more nervous because what he said he will do, he does. His followers not only don't care if he runs roughshod over our constitution and government, they support him because he does.
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the only way it squares is that he is grabbing them by their grievance. They know he’s a snake, but he’s their snake.
 
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cannabineer said:
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Fox sends cease-and-desist letter to Media Matters over leaked Tucker Carlson footage

Fox Corp., the parent company of Fox News, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Media Matters for America over its publication of leaked videos showing Tucker Carlson, a former host at the network…
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Go to a jury trial in a civil case and see how much they award foxnews, provided they win or can get into court because of an overriding public interest. Discovery will be fun for foxnews, since Media Matters now know where all the bodies are buried at foxnews.
 
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Fox demands Dominion conduct internal probe after redacted Tucker Carlson text messages leaked
Lawyers for Fox News are asking officials at Dominion Voting Systems to conduct an internal investigation after media reports have surfaced pertaining to leaked text messages from Tucker Carlson, a former top host at the network.

In a letter dated Friday, Fox lawyers said the company had learned documents Fox produced as part of its recent litigation against the voting systems provider “were disclosed to media organizations and published for mass consumption.”

The letter urges officials at Dominion to “investigate and confirm that you are not the source of these improper disclosures.”
Leakage of court documents and redacted exhibits, the network’s lawyers said, would violate “the text and spirit of the parties agreement.”

Late last month, the news company agreed to pay Dominion $787 million to settle defamation claims in connection with false claims the network aired about the company’s software around the time of the 2020 election, a narrative being promoted by former president Trump and his allies.
Days after the two parties settled out of court, Fox ousted Carlson, its top prime-time host.

The contents of Carlson’s text messages to fellow employees disparaging Trump and his false claims of voter fraud had previously been made public as part of Dominion’s process of legal discovery and produced a number of embarrassing headlines for the network ahead of an expected jury trial.

But since his departure, previously-redacted portions of Carlson’s text messages have come to light.

This week, the New York Times reported Carlson texted a producer on his show after watching a video of a three-on-one attack that broke out at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, claiming the beatdown wasn’t “how white men fight.”

Another report published in the Daily Beast this week, citing redacted court documents, alleged Carlson used the c-word to disparage female executives at the network.

Earlier Friday, attorneys for Fox sent a cease-and-desist letter to Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog, over its publication of leaked, off-air footage of Carlson making sexist and crude comments.

When reached out to for comment, a Dominion spokesperson told The Hill in a statement that “nobody associated with Dominion shared these confidential materials with the press.”
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Fox demands Dominion conduct internal probe after redacted Tucker Carlson text messages leaked

Lawyers for Fox News are asking officials at Dominion Voting Systems to conduct an internal investigation after media reports have surfaced pertaining to leaked text messages from Tucker Carlson, a…
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"We will get right on that."
 
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Fox demands Dominion conduct internal probe after redacted Tucker Carlson text messages leaked
Lawyers for Fox News are asking officials at Dominion Voting Systems to conduct an internal investigation after media reports have surfaced pertaining to leaked text messages from Tucker Carlson, a former top host at the network.

In a letter dated Friday, Fox lawyers said the company had learned documents Fox produced as part of its recent litigation against the voting systems provider “were disclosed to media organizations and published for mass consumption.”

The letter urges officials at Dominion to “investigate and confirm that you are not the source of these improper disclosures.”
Leakage of court documents and redacted exhibits, the network’s lawyers said, would violate “the text and spirit of the parties agreement.”

Late last month, the news company agreed to pay Dominion $787 million to settle defamation claims in connection with false claims the network aired about the company’s software around the time of the 2020 election, a narrative being promoted by former president Trump and his allies.
Days after the two parties settled out of court, Fox ousted Carlson, its top prime-time host.

The contents of Carlson’s text messages to fellow employees disparaging Trump and his false claims of voter fraud had previously been made public as part of Dominion’s process of legal discovery and produced a number of embarrassing headlines for the network ahead of an expected jury trial.

But since his departure, previously-redacted portions of Carlson’s text messages have come to light.

This week, the New York Times reported Carlson texted a producer on his show after watching a video of a three-on-one attack that broke out at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, claiming the beatdown wasn’t “how white men fight.”

Another report published in the Daily Beast this week, citing redacted court documents, alleged Carlson used the c-word to disparage female executives at the network.

Earlier Friday, attorneys for Fox sent a cease-and-desist letter to Media Matters for America, a liberal media watchdog, over its publication of leaked, off-air footage of Carlson making sexist and crude comments.

When reached out to for comment, a Dominion spokesperson told The Hill in a statement that “nobody associated with Dominion shared these confidential materials with the press.”
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Fox demands Dominion conduct internal probe after redacted Tucker Carlson text messages leaked

Lawyers for Fox News are asking officials at Dominion Voting Systems to conduct an internal investigation after media reports have surfaced pertaining to leaked text messages from Tucker Carlson, a…
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"We will get right on that."
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Sue me! :lol:
 
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Oh hell, here, i looked it up for ya, you deserve it:
All your base are belong to us
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



The phrase as it appears in the introduction to Zero Wing

"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a badly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing.[1][2] The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive port of the 1989 Japanese arcade game.[3][4]

By the early 2000s, a GIF animation depicting the opening text was widespread on internet forums.[2][5] A music video accompanied by an EDM remix of the clip was posted on comedy forum Something Awful, gaining popularity and being referenced outside of the forums, becoming an Internet meme.[2][6] The meme has been referenced many times in media outside of the forums.[7][8][9][10]
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And then it goes, "All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time."

Code: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
 
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