@snood,
snood wrote:
She doesn’t have to give up her desire to do public service.
She could run for county dog-catcher.
She’s got the perfect disposition for the job.
I wouldn't let that woman anywhere near the noble canine.
@glitterbag,
So... not dogcatcher either?
How about sewage custodian - I mean, er, sanitation engineer?
Surely she could be the municipal poop manager?
Fox Business suddenly cancels 'Lou Dobbs Tonight,' its highest-rated show
CNN Digital Expansion 2018, BRIAN STELTER
By Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN Business
Updated 7:05 PM ET, Fri February 5, 2021
New York (CNN Business)Lou Dobbs, by far the highest-rated host on the Fox Business Network, has just been canned by the network.
Friday night was his final broadcast, a Fox spokesperson told The Los Angeles Times.
Fox representatives did not immediately respond to CNN Business requests for comment, but a source close to Dobbs confirmed that he has been benched by the network.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Dobbs "remains under contract at Fox News but he will in all likelihood not appear on the company's networks again."
Dobbs, a veteran financial news anchor, became known at Fox Business for his sycophantic pro-Trump programs. He was one of the former president's biggest boosters on television, and Trump regularly thanked him in return.
The pro-Trump propaganda bent helped make the daily airing of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" at 5 p.m. ET (it also re-aired at 7 p.m.) the network's most-watched program -- so a sudden cancellation would ordinarily make no sense at all.
But Fox is under enormous legal pressure from a pair of voting technology companies, Smartmatic and Dominion, because Dobbs and other hosts made false claims about the companies while perpetuating Trump's lies about election fraud.
Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox on Thursday. The lawsuit also named Dobbs and two other Fox hosts as defendants.
Legal experts have said the case against the conservative cable channel is strong. CNN legal analyst Ellie Honig described it as a "legitimate threat" to Fox and added, "There is real teeth to this."
The lawsuit accused Dobbs of having been "one of the primary proponents" of a "disinformation campaign" against Smartmatic.
Smartmatic's lawsuit identified multiple instances in which Dobbs' program promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election results and said that his behavior was "contrary to his public persona" of being a "provider of factual information" to his viewers.
Not only did Dobbs allow guests to defame Smartmatic, the lawsuit said, but he "took the initiative and contributed additional falsehoods to the narrative."
A Fox spokesperson said in a statement on behalf of the network and its hosts Thursday that it was "proud" of its 2020 election coverage and said it would "vigorously defend this meritless lawsuit in court."
Capitol riot arrests: See who's been charged across the U.S.
https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/capitol-riot-mob-arrests/
Comment;
They all seem to have that Charles Manson glare.
Trump made them...
@TheCobbler,
and he will soon have to answer for them at the impeachment trial...
@Region Philbis,
The irony of the "lock her up" crowd going to jail... Trump soon to follow.
@TheCobbler,
One of the Trump insurrectionists:
Vargas was featured in the Jersey City Times as an "Unsung Hero" in May 2020 for his community work in providing meals to the homeless, but two months later was accused of stealing donations meant for the community.
Comment:
Sound like a Trump charity?
Judge Orders OAN to Pay Rachel Maddow and MSNBC $250,000 in Attorney Fees For Filing Frivolous Defamation Lawsuit
JERRY LAMBEFeb 6th, 2021, 6:48 pm
A federal judge in California has ordered Herring Networks, the parent company of far-right conservative media organization One America News Network (OAN), to pay MSNBC and host Rachel Maddow $250,000 in attorney’s fees stemming from a defamation lawsuit that was dismissed last year.
Herring in July 2019 filed a lawsuit against Maddow which claimed the liberal host had defamed OAN when she discussed reports that one of the network’s contributors also worked for the Russia state news organization Sputnik. Maddow went on to state that OAN “literally is paid Russian propaganda,” which OAN’s parent company claimed was false and defamatory. Herring, the parent company, then filed a defamation lawsuit seeking $10 million.
Attorneys representing Maddow and MSNBC responded by filing a special motion to strike the case under California’s Anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (Anti-SLAPP) law. Such measures are meant to prevent people and companies from using the courts to stifle constitutionally protected First Amendment speech.
Siding against OAN, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant, an appointee of President Barack Obama, dismissed the suit with prejudice. Bashant reasoned that there was “no set of facts that could support a claim for defamation based on Maddow’s statement.”
Under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, defendants who prevail on a special motion to toss a defamation case are entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees and costs related to extracting themselves from unsound claims.
The court calculated that Maddow’s team of high-priced attorneys from the law firm Gibson Dunn—including famed First Amendment attorney Ted Boutrous, Jr.—were entitled to collect on 363.1 hours of work totaling $247,667.50, plus an additional $10,724 for hours billed by paralegals.
In a statement to Law&Crime, Herring Networks President Charles Herring said he and his legal team plan to continue pursuing an appeal to the ruling. “We’re pleased that the fees were reduced by nearly a third by the court,” he wrote in an email. “The case is currently under appeal and we’re highly confident that we’ll receive a favorable and just ruling in the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.”
As previously reported by Law&Crime, OAN came under fire on Friday when the network aired MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s documentary-style disinformation program which alleged massive electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election. The broadcast — some 12 hours total — ran as a paid advertisement.
The Lindell broadcast included a lengthy legal disclaimer that sought to avoid liability for further amplifying false claims made against voting machine vendors and U.S. election officials, but attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic said they planned to sue over the broadcast anyway.
“‘Nice try’ by OAN, but it definitely does not relieve them of liability,” Dominion attorney Thomas Clare told Law&Crime via email. “To the contrary, we warned them specifically and in writing that they would be broadcasting false and defamatory statements of fact if they broadcast the program, and they made the affirmative decision to disregarded that warning and broadcast it anyway.”
Americans Adamantly Refuse to Cash Stimulus Checks Unless Republicans Are Onboard
“I wouldn’t feel good about buying food for my family if I knew that the money came via the budget-reconciliation process,” one poll respondent said.
By Andy Borowitz
@neptuneblue,
All the the money that states had to pay out of taxpayer dollars to fend off Trump's bogus election lawsuits, he should have to pay back too.
@TheCobbler,
TheCobbler wrote:Americans Adamantly Refuse to Cash Stimulus Checks Unless Republicans Are Onboard
Mr. Biden is a failed president with few achievements either way.
But he will achieve less if he abandons bipartisanship. So I'm all for him pursuing reconciliation.
@oralloy,
I am sure you are all for democrats reconciling with the criminals in your party.
Biden has failed miserably at being snookered by the republican crooks, just like Trump's only major success was driving good people away from the republican party.
So yea, Biden has failed miserably and Trump was a successful president...
@TheCobbler,
TheCobbler wrote:
I am sure you are all for democrats reconciling with the criminals in your party.
Biden has failed miserably at being snookered by the republican crooks, just like Trump's only major success was driving good people away from the republican party.
So yea, Biden has failed miserably and Trump was a successful president...
Excellent way to express it, Cobbler.
Excellent.
I doubt the miserable, traitorous garbage on the other side will understand it, but to hell with them.
@revelette3,
The Republicans are already centrists.
It's Rachel Maddow and the progressives who are the extremists.
@oralloy,
Yes, the republicans are centrists... they are centered like vultures and rats around the idea of corrupting and defiling our country with their greed and power grubbing at all cost strategy. While the democrats are indeed extremists... trying to hold on to decency and their oaths to the American people.
Honoring an oath to our constitution should not be an extreme position but when half of the republican senate is centered around a crooked liar and a criminal, law-breaking cheat, then anything sane seems extreme in comparison.
Biden won by 7 million votes so that puts your party in the "extreme", breathing its last breath and dying a well deserved death.
Republicans are passing around the lie that Biden has given Iran a trillion dollars but won't give the American people stimulus checks...
Republicans have to spread lies to try and remain relevant but it only makes them look like, liars.
