Fox Host Calls The Claims Aired By His Network 'Obviously False' Amid Settlement News [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
Reporting on breaking news that Dominion Voting Systems had settled its landmark defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Howard Kurtz said some of the claims his own network aired about the 2020 presidential election were “obviously false.”
Kurtz joined fellow Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto on “Your World” on Tuesday to cover the news. After reading the right-wing network’s statement on the matter, noting that the statement acknowledged Fox News had broadcast false claims about Dominion, Kurtz explained that the case centered on the false claims that Dominion’s voting machines were rigged.
“Former President Trump and his allies made this case on Fox and elsewhere, that somehow they were stealing votes from Donald Trump and flipping them for Joe Biden. That’s obviously false. Those were conspiracy theories,” he said.
“But the case would have revolved around whether Fox had done due diligence, whether it was reckless, whether it was simply reporting, as the network contends, on an extremely newsworthy matter argued by the then-president of the United States himself.”
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-howard-kurtz-settlement-obviously-false_n_643f3067e4b03c1b88c3712a
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As Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out tonight, this was the first time anyone at Fox talked about the case on air. Fox had their so-called "media reporter," Howard Kurtz, speed talk his way through a brief statement. And it's notable that he referred to TFG as "former President Trump" (yes, he used the word "former"!).
Granted it was at mid-afternoon at one of the lower viewership hours, but getting any Fox personality to say "that's obviously false, those were conspiracy theories" is helpful, even if it didn't come with an apology. I guess getting $787.5M was enough of an apology for Dominion.
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