How Rupert Murdoch and Fox News Blew the Voting Machine Lawsuit

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News Bites

• Fox News made a fundamental error at the very beginning of the voting machine lawsuit by not devoting a tremendous amount of its resources to investigating whether voting machines were in fact doctored
• Fox News behaved like the worst kind of coward on the battlefield, throwing Lou Dobbs to the wolves
• The real Never-Trump damage being done now at Fox is among the producers and executive producers who dutifully implement the cancel culture dictates from the so-called “second floor”
• If Fox had simply embraced a warrior ethic and the legal strategy of Donald Trump, it would have seen that it’s best defense against the lawsuit would have been a massive offense.

Hi. I’m Peter Navarro and in this edition of the Taking Back Trump’s America podcast and substack I’m going to slap you around a little bit. And when I say the word “slap”, I’m not talking about doing you any physical harm.  I just want to put the Fox News brouhaha with a voting machine company within its proper broader context of a phenomenon known in the American injustice system as a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (a.k.a. SLAPP suit).

 

I don’t know if said voting machine company had anything to do with the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. I do know that its lawsuits against not just Fox News but also other news outlets like Newsmax and One America’s News (OAN) along with patriots like Mike Lindell and Rudy Giuliani have had the same kind of chilling effect on free speech and legitimate inquiry that traditional SLAPP suits have had in American politics.