Smartmatic's $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News can proceed

[SleeplessinSoCal]

A judge uses Tucker Carlson’s own words against Fox News

It’s a pretty remarkable state of affairs when a judge is approvingly citing Tucker Carlson’s journalistic rigor, but that’s precisely the situation we find ourselves in now.
And rather ironically, that could be bad news for Fox News.

New York Supreme Court Judge David B. Cohen has now ruled that voting-machine company Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News and Rudolph W. Giuliani can proceed. The case involved numerous false and baseless claims made on Fox about voter fraud involving the company’s voting machines.
In the ruling, the judge notably dropped Fox host Jeanine Pirro and former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell from the lawsuit — Pirro because her statements didn’t so directly accuse Smartmatic of illegality, and Powell because New York doesn’t have jurisdiction over her.
But the case against Fox, its other hosts and Giuliani can proceed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/09/judge-uses-tucker-carlsons-own-words-against-fox-news/

[YoniCat]

1. Es&S voting machines

Funny isn't it how Fox never accused the Russian heritage creator of the Republican-owned ES&S voting machines with the really fishy election results of wildly unpopular creeps like Moscow Mitch, Miss Lindsey and the pearl clutcher Susan Collins of having cheated? Now, why is that? Hmmmm.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

2. I wonder now if all the billionaire donors will rescue FNC.

They basically only care about each other. Will they be too cheap to bail out their "lobbyists"?