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- Hackwhackers has the big, but not exactly stunning, news. SCOTUS put a hold on lower court restrictions to the medical abortion drug mifepristone.
Really. Did they have a choice?
The original judge had issued an opinion that was less legal than a blog‑level diatribe. It could have been written in crayon.
- Another big bit of news:
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit briefly summarizes the Dominion/Fox settlement. Shorter Fox News: “Yes, We Lied. Here’s $787,500,000.”.
- Vixen Strangely is disappointed that the Dominion defamation case against Fox News has been settled merely for money. But, with other FOX plaintiffs and more Dominion defendants in the works, it may not be over.
Key hope and caution:
I still say Fox is in trouble–because I can’t convince myself the bubble has yet been created that can’t eventually be pierced, and I think the docs that Fox was hiding with respect to Rupert Murdoch must be very not great for them to have been hidden.
But perhaps I should by now know to keep my hopes lower in the stratosphere.
- To those a bit disappointed by the conclusion of the Fox lawsuit, Dominion lawyers have been hinting that there will be more.
The Palmer Report decodes those somewhat oblique comments and speculates that the settlement of the civil case could graduate to an unsettling (to Fox) criminal investigation.
Key legal point:
Dominion v. Fox News has always just been a civil case, and was never going to be a criminal case. But when you get caught trying to obstruct the courts in a civil case, now you’ve committed a potential criminal act.
- Frances Langum has the judgment against pillow guy Mike Lindell who issued a challenge and must now pay five million dollars to some enterprising soul who proved Mike’s stolen-election claims were lies.
Key free retroactive advice:
Gee Mike Lindell, maybe you shouldn’t have issued a ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge.
- As the settlement settles in, News Corpse speculates on whether the separation of Fox from a Trump commentator represents the first firing.
Key point:
Times are changing fast at Fox News now that a court has affirmed that they are staffed by shameless liars.
- In The Borowitz Report, the Dominion lawsuit has been settled at an extreme cost to the Fox Network. In fact, the cash strapped network is now forced to sell Kevin McCarthy.
Key separation desire:
“I wish Kevin well,” Rupert Murdoch said. “I hope whoever buys him finds as much use for him as I did.”
- In the wake of the massive settlement, Dave Columbo has a suggestion or two for Fox:
- The Propaganda Professor says:
Even Fox host speaking patterns designed to inundate and deceive
will continue to combine with
the desire of viewers to be deceived.
He does not believe the Fox settlement and the disclosures preceding it will have any effect on Fox believers.
Key factors:
All of this despite the fact that Fox “News” has repeatedly admitted that it lies to its viewers, and that its “entertainment” is not to be construed as news — indeed, that “no reasonable person” would believe what its personalities say.
And it hasn’t made a damn bit of difference. The faithful flock are still as gullible as ever.
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