This was a very bad week for members of the conservative media, because they finally,
after a month and a half of a try to sell the grift had to admit that they have been
lying through their teeth about all these claims of election fraud that they've been
selling since election day now, particularly they had to address and retract and apologize
for all of the lies that they had spread about two companies, dominion and Smartmatic.
Now dominion is voting machines, Smartmatic is a voting machine, software security, and
both of these companies last week for all of the apologies and retractions, uh, issued
a formal letter saying you have said things that are on true about us.
We are giving you the opportunity to correct the record now by sending this letter, this
is typically the first step, uh, in a slander law.
If the, uh, parties who committed did the slander do not issue the retractions and apologies,
then typically the next step is to actually filed a slander lawsuit.
And in the case of both dominion and Smartmatic, there is no evidence to suggest that anything,
these Republicans and Republican outlets had said were true.
And that's why they had the issue of the retractions.
Now here's the thing, both of these companies claim that they are at risk of losing significant
contracts with States and cities to provide voting machine software and voting machine
security because of that, they absolutely would have grounds to file a slander lawsuit
because apparently one of the thresholds you have to hit to file a slander lawsuit, is
that it inhibited your ability to make money.
I think that's a ridiculous requirement.
Uh, so you could lie about somebody as long as it doesn't hinder their career or their
job prospects, then it's okay.
Like, no that's stupid.
But nevertheless, it does meet that threshold because they, uh, had claimed they were already
getting cancellations.
So there's that, but here's the thing, the overall part of the story, cause you had Newsmax
Fox news and Fox business channel, all issue, major retractions to literally everything
they had to come out and say, okay, there was no evidence that Hugo Chavez was involved.
No evidence of Venezuelan involvement, no evidence of Nancy Pelosi's involvement, no
evidence of George Soros, his involvement, all of those things were actually said and
addressed in the two minute video that Newsmax had to put out, like those were actual lies
that they had told about these companies.
It was insane.
And these are the same lies by the way, the Trump's attorney Sidney Powell mentioned during
her insane press conference.
She, uh, as of me sitting here talking to you has not yet issued her retractions.
She was the first person, by the way, last week to a letter saying, you have to stop
doing this
Or C and court.
She has not issued a retraction.
She is likely going to get sued for slander.
And I hope she does.
She absolutely 100% without question
And deserves it.
And that's what these networks were afraid of right
Now, freaked out conservatives, they got.
They took to the internet, they started whining and complaining.
One of them even went as far as to say, Newsmax is now a part of the deep state, but listen,
the threat of the slander and libel lawsuits is the only thing that occasionally keeps
these networks
Honest.
That's
The only thing they're afraid of losing money, especially in an organization like Newsmax.
They don't have a whole heck of a lot of money to lose and they don't want to start fresh
out the gate, getting smacked with a major slander lawsuit that is going to severely
hurt their already non-existent credibility.
So it is what it is.
They issued their retractions.
They got embarrassed in front of their conservative audiences and they'll continue to limp along
until of course, in the case of Newsmax the money eventually dries up because there's
just not enough market for that many crazy
Right-wing networks.