Clay Bennett for April 19, 2023

I wished Dominion would have gone all the way here.

They should have been forced to change their name officially to “Faux News”

Fox was cutting their losses. They have to admit they lied but they don’t have to admit it on their own programs.

Garbage cartoon, Fox only lost a shoe lace, not almost all their clothes.

I have to admit, I am very disappointed with this settlement that does not include the requirement of an on-air retraction with multiple repeats on every Faux “News” show for a month, a year, or whatever. I also would have loved to see Rupert Murdoch, Tucker Carlson, Jeanine Piro, Maria Bartiromo, squirming under cross-examination in the witness seat, under oath.

I wanted a healthy dose of very public disinfecting by sunlight, but we can still look forward to Dominion’s separate lawsuits against Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Mike “the Pillow guy” Lindell, NoiseMax and OAN. Hopefully someone will take it to a trial.

And yes, Smartmatic — the other voting machine manufacturer that was defamed by all of the above (and which has an even stronger case because none of their machines were even involved in any of the critical swing state elections) is also now waiting in the wings for its turn at Faux “News” and all the others.

Next; Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Mike Lindell. Hopefully Smartmatic will deal the death blow to Fox Spews. Otherwise, it’s business as usual for Fox.

If only, Clay.

I read that Fox’ revenue are on the order of $10 bil per year. Not exactly a crippling loss.

Probably tax deductible, as well.

It’s a start. More needs to happen. Retractions and sanctions would help.

The other company has made it clear they won’t settle. Should be fun.

Move them to the Comedy Channel for the rest of their miserable existence.

I’m surprised I haven’t heard anything about the separate case against Lou Dobbs. He’s the only one Fox fired and Dominion filed against him personally.

Hardly but it’s a start.

Fast work!

Disappointing, no retractions nor admissions of lying required.

So, once again faux news gets away with it. They pay a minor(for them) fine and can claim vindication and that none of the “rumors” about them lying have any basis in fact. They will say there is no, and never was, any evidence that anything they did was wrong and those who already believe them will agree. They can claim that all the emails and such that Dominion “claimed” it had are fake and practically slander. By settling Dominion gives faux and their ilk permission to continue with the lies and slanders that are the core of the murdoch model of “journalism”. Once again we get our hopes up that someone, ANYONE, on the reich will face a real consequence, and once again they slither out of it. Just like trump.

Baloney! They settled for less than half the money — petty cash for Fox and the Murdochs. And they didn’t even get an admission of guilt, let alone an admission of culpability!

Fox will go back to lying to the Rubes; nothing was learned or affirmed by this settlement except money will get you out of any trouble.

Bear in mind that Dominion is owned by a private-equity fund. One might guess that politics or public service are at best secondary interests to just collecting a huge wad of cash. Not huge for dominion, but many (20?) times the prior value of the whole Dominion operation.

One does hope that Smartmatic will indeed go all the way with their suit, collect a whole lot more, and get all the people and lies out in public and on the record for future reference.

Yep! At the last minute, Fox, the liars and cowards that they are, settled and now he’s gotta pay for the lies of rump!

Sue him, Sue him good!

Not nearly enough – after all, they’re still in business.

Won’t sway their viewers. They’re the ones that believe the National Enquirer is real news.

And TFG is STILL telling them to LIE about his LOSING THE ELECTION!!!!

that’s merely the price of doing business. no consequences. (they have billions – this is a pittance) no on-air hosts on the stand admitting their culpability, and they are free to slide back into their propaganda/misinfotainment aided & abetted by The NY Post, the Wall Street Journal, & whatever other rag this s—t-storm-stirrer owns. he ought to be deported & stripped of American citizenship. this is a crime, not a faux pas.

They can’t appeal for years and years if they settled!

Nicely drawn

Local Fox News channel keeps stating that they are not owned by Fox but another corporation. Guess they are trying to distance themselves.

It changes nothing :/ Odds are they were waiting to hear what the settlement amount would be in the first place, knowing they could pay it and move on. Now they can continue their lies with no remorse (as if they had any to begin with…)

Could someone explain how this is not court approved/sanctioned hush money. Blackmail by any definition.

Another few 000’s on the settlement would have been better because that old bastid will still try with every single chance he gets to pass of his sorry tuchus as being in sackcloth and ashes but we all know that the chances of his repenting are about 1,000,000,000,000,000:1

@eolan59- Or how about “FALSE News” or “FAKE News”?

It ain’t over until it’s over. – Yogi Berra

Slander and false election accusations should be vigorously prosecuted. Now, how about the long overdue trial of former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook who fabricated the Russian Collusion Story after Trump was elected….fair is fair, right?

Somebody PLEASE tell John Wick that Faux Noise was talking bad about his dog….

I seen a photo of Murdoch on the beach. Clay is bing kind in his drawing.

Funny – I always pictured Murdoch wearing Depends.

Fines mean nothing to wealthy people. If you had $10 billion and you had to give away $1 billion, what would change?

Really? Fox doesn’t admit it lies, and will continue to do so. That wardrobe is easily replaced.

And then say, with a straight face, “We’re glad to be able to get back to providing truth in journalism.” Right…

He doesn’t deserve to’ve kept his shoes and socks. Shorts? okay, for the sake of our eyes,okay.

I have to say I’m really disappointed. I really wanted to watch those Fox hosts testify under oath.

The trouble is stripped Murdoch has a big wardrobe back home. This judgement is a severe slap on the wrist, but better a little drop in the polls now, than a lot of drops later.

FUX SPEWS—the final word in drivel!

Reduced to a little over 700 million. No apology, (I thought Dominion really wanted an apology). To me it looks like Fox can claim victory. Did they have some interesting evidence on Dominion?

They have another $3 billion left. Selling lies turns out to be very profitable.

Nope, the payoff was chump change and Fox “news” didn’t even have to admit what they did (and are still doing) on the broadcast. Fox will just raise the price they are charging the cable companies. I want to know what Fox was so afraid was going to come out in court given what we already know.

I wish this were literal. I’d love to see Murdoch, Carlson Hannity and the rest sentenced to run around in their skivvies for a few weeks. It’s not even salicious, just for the embarrassment factor.

Stings a bit, but it’s merely a cost of doing business. Ever seen the Gene Hackman movie “Class Action” . . .

They didn’t even give 1 year of profits. It should have been a 5 billion settlement. A$$h0les

The amount is more of an inconvenience than a severe blow to Fox.

Were he alive, Walter Cronkite would’ve kicked Li’l Rupert and his son, Lackland, in the stones!

I’d hold his coat.

Why doesn’t the FCC yank FOX’s license?

Still not enuf…..

Ahh, this isn’t the end for the Fox liars. The settlement with Dominion only applies to the company, there is nothing to stop Dominion going after Rupert, Carlson, Hannity etc. Watch this space.

$787 million doesn’t begin to cover the damage Murdoch has done to this country, let alone their promotion of fascism upon the entire English speaking world. SmartMatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit is next. I hope they grow a pair and refuse to settle.

I’d be okay with the settlement, but only as long as Faux News was forced to make an official public apology, on their channel at prime time, every night for a week, and admit that they all lied, every single one of the sick, evil little gremlins, Tucker, Hannity, Piro, Ingraham, all of them, and Rupert, too. At least maybe a few of their bonehead, gullible, deranged followers would get it and the veil would fall from their eyes.

They never bothered to sue any Democrat that spoke badly about them

Settlement amount aside, this is a shot across the bows for other news agencies. Ne plus ultra.

This alone will change nothing. But other lawsuits are coming, so maybe the cumulative rulings will have some positive effect.

It’s not over till the fat mouth sings…Rudy toot toot, the pillow guy and that hussy lawyer are fighting in court….

Rudy is already having dreams of grandure to be in charge of Trumps cabinet and said he’ll get it all in order….

ROFLMAO