So yesterday afternoon I started seeing headlines all over the place, including on liberal news
sites, saying that Fox News had scored a victory in the Dominion Voting System's defamation
lawsuit when a judge decided that Dominion cannot bring up the Capitol Riot during the
trial.
Now, Fox had filed a motion last week saying, Hey, we don't want them bringing up the Capitol
Riot, right?
It's got nothing to do with Dominion.
Uh, there's no reason to bring it up.
Oh, and by the way, we also, Fox News said, want to bar them from talking about all the
death threats that, uh, their employees and their executives have received because of
our lies.
So everybody, again, including the liberal news sites, were talking about Fox Goods of
victory.
They can't talk about the Capitol Riot, but nobody decided to, to report on the massive
defeat that Fox News did in fact suffer yesterday, which was the judge said, sure, you can't
talk about the Capitol Riot in the context of Fox News caused the Capitol Riot.
You can talk about Fox News's shift in coverage of the 2020 election after the Capitol Riot.
So Dominion can still basically do what they wanted to do.
Oh, and by the way, the biggest victory is that the judge also said, dominion.
You can talk about the threats against your employees.
You can talk about the added security costs that you incurred trying to protect yourself
and your employees.
So Fox News scored a victory that was like this big dominion scored a victory that was
this big.
And again, it really irks me to see the coverage of this because a lot of those liberal sites
didn't even mention the other part of it.
They didn't mention that the judge said, yes, you can talk about the thing that basically
proves your defamation claims, cuz here's what it is in order to prove defamation, right?
You've got lots of different hurdles you have to do, but one of the hurdles you have to
clear is you have to prove that you lost money as a result of the lies.
One of the ways to prove that you lost money is to show that you incurred unexpected costs
due to the lies.
Part of those unexpected costs were the increase in security costs that Dominion had to pay
because their workers were getting death threats because of the lies being told by Fox News.
So that is a major piece of their puzzle, and that is what Dominion had argued in court.
They said, listen, if we're gonna prove this, we've gotta have this.
You cannot take this away from us.
And the judge agreed, and as I said, dominion can actually still talk about the Capitol
Riot, but they can only talk about it in the context of how Fox News shifted their coverage
following the Capitol riot and stopped
Pushing the lies about the 2020 election.
And, and the reason that's important is because it shows that Fox News finally realized like,
oh crap, our lies have consequences.
Clearly we gotta stop that.
I'd say that's probably not a victory at all for Fox News and that it is a major victory
for Dominion.
So be careful.
Sometimes folks, when you see headlines out there, even if you read the article, it may
not have all of the information that you're seeking.
Sometimes it's good to get second or third opinions from other news sites because based
on what I read on the websites that I love and I visit multiple times a day, they left
out pretty much the most important part of
the story.