Apparently the head and CEO of Fox News felt that the election
denialism that was spouted by hosts on her own network was crazy.
In fact she referred to it as the crazies yet
allowed it to continue airing on Fox News.
And we're learning about this thanks to the lawsuit that has been filed against
Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.
It's a defamation lawsuit.
And during these proceedings they're trying to get access to the contracts for
the various hosts that spouted that the election was stolen from Donald Trump and
the real winner was Trump not Joe Biden.
Now as a result of all this election night pressure Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott
warned colleagues quote, we can't give the crazies an inch.
So the election night was an interesting night
because remember Fox was the first to call Arizona for Biden.
And Trump was furious about that, there was a lot of pressure from Trump and
all his cronies to avoid doing that.
But Suzanne Scott was like, no we can't give the crazies an inch.
Now again, that's according to a Dominion Voting Systems lawyer.
The company is seeking $1.6 million from Fox News over defamation over
the false allegations that Dominion had committed election fraud.
The trial is set for April.
Here are few more details.
Dominion's attorney Justin Nelson revealed Scott's remarks in a court proceeding
earlier this week in which he argued that Dominion's legal team is entitled
to receive the employment contracts of 13 Fox News executives including Scott.
And luckily in a ruling that happened this past Wednesday Delaware Superior Court
judge Eric Davis affirmed that Dominion should receive the contracts.
And the reason why the statement from Fox News CEO is so
important is because when you are moving forward with a defamation lawsuit,
it is up to you to prove, right that the organization.
Fox News in this case knew that what they were spouting on
their airwaves or on their shows was a lie.
And in this case, Suzanne Scott warned colleagues,
we can't give the crazies an inch.
She called the election denial lists the crazy.
So she knew it was wrong.
But after election night, as we all know,
various hosts on Fox News continued spouting these lies.
>> Not only did they give them an inch once they give an inch,
they had to give them a while.
So there's comments that producers internally saying,
we can't let Pyro say these things and yet they let her say those things.
>> Same with Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo.
>> And so, but
I think the most interesting part of the story is the fact that the CEO of Fox and
probably almost all their other executives think that their audience is nuts.
They just think, hey, we're making money off these suckers,
who cares what we're selling right?
If they want lunatic conspiracy theories and we're making a buck off of it.
Well then let's give them lunatic conspiracy theories because that's what
we're selling.
So, yeah, vaccines.
I don't know if they work.
Maybe it was Faucet and Bill Gates have been planted a chip in your head.
Who cares?
You like it, give me money, okay.
So they're literally selling crazy and they know it, it's her quote.
And so look, I don't know if she's also referring to Dobbs and
Jeannine Pirro and Bartiromo is also crazy.
So. >> But that really doesn't matter,
because she knows that the big lie is crazy, right.
That's what she's referring to and.
>> It's kinda like car salesman, right?
It doesn't really matter if they think the car is great or not, right.
As long as they're moving product.
And so these folks were moving product and when they said, hey,
the election was stolen etc.
More people watched when they said the election wasn't stolen,
less people watched.
So they know that they're selling crazy and they wanna be better at selling crazy.
So they get more viewers more profits.
So dominion says well, but there's a price to be paid for
that because you're lying about us.
And now it's fairly clear that you're doing it on purpose and
that's textbook defamation.
>> In fact, according to Nelson's remarks at the hearing and
Justin Nelson of course is the lawyer for Dominion.
Senior Fox News executives interceded to try to block Fox business stars,
Lou Dobbs and Maria, Bartiromo from having Trump's campaign attorneys,
Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani on their shows to repeat such lies.
In late 2020 Dobbs and
Bartiromo hosted Trump's advocates to make those accusations.
But I guess they didn't intercede hard enough because those broadcasts
continued to happen.
The lies continued to be repeated on these shows.
Later, Lou Dobbs got fired which I actually forgot about.
So in December of 2020 Dobbs contended on air that
Trump's opponents within the government had committed treason.
And later suggested any action by a Republican officeholder to uphold
Biden's victory might have been criminal.
And again, he was fired later.
His departure from the network was hastily announced the day after another election
software company Smartmatic filed its own $2.7 billion dollar lawsuit
against Fox for defamation surrounding similarly false accusations of fraud.
>> Yeah, I remember that because we did a segment on it and I said.
He's a sacrificial lamb there when they go to trial,
they're gonna say well we fired Lou Dobbs okay.
But number one, they allowed him to say all those things and
they fired him afterwards.
But secondly, he was sacrificial lamb.
They still kept they kept Piero, they kept Bartiromo.
They kept the biggest problems of all Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, right?
And so look if you're a right winger though and
you're mad at the Fox News executives for thinking that you're crazy.
Well, what do you want him to think?
They told you the truth that Biden had won Arizona.
You hated it.
And you swarmed news backs in OAN.
You said you're never gonna watch Fox news again.
They told and then they got reluctant to tell you that he won the overall election.
That's also part of this lawsuit.
They knew that he had won the last remaining state that they
needed to buy nad.
Everybody else called that first.
Fox waited on purpose to call it last because they were taking too much heat.
They covered up the facts because their audience doesn't like facts.
They like nonsense.
They like things that are emotionally pleasing that aren't anywhere near true.
And so this case is super important because are we going to have a country
that says the media can say anything they want.
It doesn't have to be true and they could know that it's not true and
as long as it sells they can say it.
And so. >> Well Alex.
>> We don't know.
>> No, we do know Alex Jones has learned the hard way that you can't say anything
you want.
You can't go around defaming people and get away with it just because you wanna
make a profit off of making other people's lives miserable off of literally
ruining the reputations of other people and directing violence toward them.
And so, I think Dominion and Smartmatic have an excellent defamation
case against Fox News and others will see how it plays out.
But I do think that that statement from Fox News CEO was damning.
>> Yeah.
No question.
Even the Fox X items know their audience is nuts.