2/6/21: One year ago today, the U.S. suffered its first known death
from COVID-19. The toll now stands at
489,463 dead.
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“Why not just say we’re not going to accept the results of this election? It’s outrageous.”
Lou Dobbs, Fox Business
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IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS, longtime Trump suck-up Lou Dobbs has been canned by Fox News. The top-rated host on the Fox Business channel ran into trouble when he claimed, with 100,000 already dead from COVID-19, that President Trump was “arguably the greatest president in our history.”
Okay, no, that wasn’t it.
How about when he said Trump was setting a standard for presidential stamina “that most mortals won’t be able to meet?”
Or his prediction that Trump would be “unbeatable at the polls?”
Nope.
Well, then, perhaps it was too much when Dobbs fulminated nightly
about how the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. Was Fox Business worried,
for example, when Dobbs gave listeners the wrong idea on November 14? “You know, the president doesn’t
want a statue erected to him,” Lou observed. “What he wants is a free and fair
election and honest results.”
“What I’d like to know,” Dobbs fumed, “is what in the hell is the
Republican Party doing to defend and to, I mean — why not just say we’re not
going to accept the results of this election? It’s outrageous.”
Fox still didn’t care.
Was Fox worried when Dobbs said repeatedly that the election was
rigged and named names in the rigging? The Smartmatic company, he claimed, had
screwed with the software in voting machines and helped steer millions of
votes from Trump to Biden. God damn it! Lou was furious! His guests were furious.
His viewers were furious.
Fox was not worried.
Then something odd happened. Lawyers representing President Trump
filed dozens of legal challenges to the election results, repeatedly claiming
the voting machines were rigged. But they couldn’t present any evidence that
judges considered credible. Finally, Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems,
both repeatedly accused by Dobbs and others of having rigged the machines, decided to sue.
Claim: Defamation. Damages sought: $2.7 billion.
Suddenly, Fox cared.
Also named in the suit: Fox Corporation, and two additional Fox
News hosts, Maria Bartiromo and Judge Jeanine Pirro. (See: 1/26/21, where
Rudy Giuliani also gets sued for the same reasons.)
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