Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121187542/dominion-voting-fox-news-lawsuit-Porto


The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.

The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump's lies that the election had been stolen from him. The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story. Fox News declined comment.

Pirro was far from alone in broadcasting such false claims. In the weeks that followed Election Day 2020, other prominent Fox stars, commentators and their guests heavily promoted them.

A repeat target was Dominion Voting Systems, the election machine and technology company. Trump and his allies alleged on Fox that Dominion was engaged in a conscious effort to throw the 2020 race to Joe Biden. They implied and falsely asserted on Fox programs that Dominion's machines and software either discarded Trump's votes or transferred them to Biden. Dominion argues their false claims were frequently egged on by Fox's own stars.

The producer's email is among the voluminous correspondence acquired by Dominion's attorneys as part of its discovery of evidence in a $1.6 billion defamation suit it filed against Fox News and its parent company. Dominion alleges it has been "irreparably harmed" by the lies, conspiracy theories and wild claims of election fraud that aired on Fox.

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[ZonkerHarris]

1. Go Dominion go!

[Liberal In Texas]

2. That sentence structure in the title is very confusing.

He warned ABOUT Pirro not AGAINST her.

I realize this is from NPR and not your construction. I think they should hire some editors that actually understand English grammar. Or maybe just hire some editors.

[Skittles]

3. HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE

IT IS WAY PAST FUCKING TIME

[sarcasmo]

4. Judge wine box is nuts, news at 10.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. That's going to leave a mark!

[ificandream]

6. I find it amazing that Pirro was actually given a judge job.

She is a real flake on Fox. I did look her up on YouTube and way before Fox she actually sounded a little normal. The whole Fox thing is probably an act. Which says a lot about Carlson and Hannity.

[KS Toronado]

7. Meanwhile......

E S & S voting systems which have been proven very hack-able are widely used in red States,
it's how Moscow Mitch and others barely win elections when exit polls say they lost.

[multigraincracker]

8. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Judge Pirro.

Money talks and big mouths walk.

[Mozeltov Cocktail]

9. Her husband was convicted of tax fraud...

Trump pardoned him during his last weeks in office. She has some obvious problems, but if you're a judge and your husband is a convicted felon... doesn't that call into question, (wait for it) your judgement.