MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Wednesday instructed three phrases might have saved Fox Information from paying out $787.5 million within the defamation lawsuit introduced by Dominion Voting Methods.
Had Fox hosts mentioned “if that’s true” after listening to baseless claims that Dominion’s voting machines by some means rigged the election towards former President Donald Trump, then “The Final Phrase” anchor mentioned the conservative community wouldn’t have been sued after which needed to accept the huge quantity because it headed to trial.
“The stupidity within the govt places of work at Fox and on the anchor desks led to this final result, which was fully avoidable,” he defined. “Somebody at Fox might have mentioned to the individuals internet hosting their reveals, ’You'll be able to let [former Trump attorney] Rudy Giuliani inform any lie he needs for so long as he needs and on the finish of it, all you must say is, ‘If that’s true … it is a horrible state of affairs and we’re going to should do one thing about it.’”
Fox “by no means might have been sued as a result of the host would have mentioned, ‘if that’s true,’” O’Donnell continued. “These are the authorized protected phrases that prevent $787 million, and everybody working at Fox was too silly to know these authorized protected phrases.”
“Rupert Murdoch was too silly to inform his individuals to make use of these authorized protected phrases,” he added. “And so Fox misplaced and fact received.”
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