canucklhead wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:30 am As predicted, the mainstream media is melting down after Tucker crushed it on his Twitter broadcsat. 90 million views
A win for free speach. The attacks are going to be vicious.

canucklhead wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 10:30 am As predicted, the mainstream media is melting down after Tucker crushed it on his Twitter broadcsat. 90 million views
A win for free speach. The attacks are going to be vicious.

Fox News has been hit with yet another defamation lawsuit, this time by Ray Epps, a former U.S. Marine turned Arizona wedding venue operator who was in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.

The suit centers on the statements of Fox's former primetime star, Tucker Carlson, who repeatedly placed Epps, a supporter of then-President Donald Trump who says he sought to stave off any bloodshed, at the center of the violent siege on the U.S. Capitol.

Carlson's guests and his own remarks conveyed with seeming certitude that Epps helped instigate the violence unleashed that day and also that he must have been collaborating with a federal agency to do so. Yet Carlson never presented viewers with any concrete evidence of the claims.

"Fox News and in particular Tucker Carlson spent a good part of two years lying about Mr. Epps's involvement in January 6th, creating a fictitious story and narrative about him that is wholly untrue," Teter tells NPR. "And because of that he has faced harassment and threats from Fox viewers and others that have ruined his life."

Epps has said he and his wife had to sell their home — and give up their wedding business — and move to a mobile home in Utah.

"He believed in Donald Trump and he believed the lies that Fox told," Teter says. "The fact that then Fox would take one of their viewers and turn him into the villain of one of their conspiracy theories demonstrates what we've known for a while, which is Fox News does not care [about its viewers]."

"It cares about making money," Teter says. "And it will lie to them. It will discredit them. And ultimately it will ruin their lives if they see a profit for them to be made."