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Lou Dobbs Airs Segment Refuting Election Fraud Claims — Including His Own — In Wake Of Legal Threat
Yahoo!Entertainment ^ | December 19, 2020 | Ted Johnson

Posted on 12/19/2020 4:36:11 PM PST by goodn'mad

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs aired a segment on Friday that amounted to a fact-checking refutation of claims that he and guests have made about an election tech company Smartmatic and its role in the 2020 presidential election, after the company threatened legal action.

Other similar segments will be shown on Justice with Judge Jeanine on Saturday and Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, a Fox News spokesperson said. Lisa Boothe will host Judge Jeanine, as Jeanine Pirro is off for the holidays

Earlier this week, Smartmatic announced that it had threatened legal action against Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network “for publishing false and defamatory statements,” after talking heads on the outlets have pushed claims of election fraud, including unfounded conspiracy theories of rigged voting machine companies.

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KEYWORDS: backtracks; dobbs; election; electionfraud; foxnews; joebiden; judgejeanine; lawsuit; lou; loudobbs; mariabartiromo; media; realitysettingin; smartmatic; trump
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To: RedMominBlueState

I wonder what their contracts say about such matters, and whether they have options to quit if programming messages are forced upon them?


21 posted on 12/19/2020 4:48:23 PM PST by Swirl
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To: goodn'mad

Hard to believe Fox is being cowed by this threat. By that I mean, it is hard to believe they have not performed the calculus of regaining the value of their lost viewership against the risk of this suit.


22 posted on 12/19/2020 4:50:15 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: dynoman
They went after Powell.

Let the discovery begin!

ML/NJ

23 posted on 12/19/2020 4:50:53 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: goodn'mad; All

I didn’t find a video of Lou Hobbs allegedly refuting evidence. Did I miss a link?


24 posted on 12/19/2020 4:51:32 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: goodn'mad

FOX needs the money to payoff their sexual predators and victims.


25 posted on 12/19/2020 4:53:38 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: goodn'mad

I saw that Smartmatic infomercial and now I know why.

FOX was threatened with a lawsuit and they thought it better to give in than fight.

I am not concerned. Most corporations would do the same. I see nothing to get overly excited about.


26 posted on 12/19/2020 4:53:45 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

FAUX and Smartmatic are on the same team of leftists.


27 posted on 12/19/2020 4:54:55 PM PST by newfreep (The Communist/DNC VOTER FRAUD is Trump's ONLY opponent in 2020 election.)
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To: servantboy777

Maybe. But Steve Bannon hit this hard today on War Room and I wasn’t sure what he was referring to. I think this is it. If you see a better or more truthful article, will you post it?


28 posted on 12/19/2020 4:55:15 PM PST by goodn'mad
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To: Amendment10

I’ve been looking too and haven’t found anything of the like. Again, this is anti-Trump Yahoo News reporting.


29 posted on 12/19/2020 4:55:50 PM PST by White Lives Matter
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To: goodn'mad

Sorry, Lou, but, like Tucker, you’re a prick tease. You run up to the moment, scream and shouting, but you never finish.


30 posted on 12/19/2020 4:57:09 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: goodn'mad

If Dobbs had actual evidence, he could have stood up to them. Fox has a much stronger financial position than Smartmatic, and can afford the legal battle. But if you call them out for criminal activity on television, you have to be prepared to show proof. Instead, Dobbs was forced to “debunk” his own story.


31 posted on 12/19/2020 4:57:55 PM PST by ETCM
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

I might add Smartmatic has been a bit player in this whole fiasco.

If FOX kowtows to lawsuit threats from Dominion, then we have a problem.


32 posted on 12/19/2020 4:58:18 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: norwaypinesavage

That was my thought. But apparently there was too much risk of no there thete.


33 posted on 12/19/2020 4:59:57 PM PST by joesbucks
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To: servantboy777

Since you can find a video of Dobbs doing it, it’s not so fake.


34 posted on 12/19/2020 5:01:06 PM PST by joesbucks
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To: goodn'mad

I guess Dobbs (and his producers and lawyers who are supposed to protect Dobbs) screwed up big time accusing a company without proper proof. And now they all have to pay the embarrassing price.


35 posted on 12/19/2020 5:01:18 PM PST by hawkaw
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To: norwaypinesavage

exactly. L Wood said they would never sue because the discovery would do them in.

Dobbs caved for nothing. But at least now we know who he is.


36 posted on 12/19/2020 5:01:56 PM PST by CottonBall (COVID -1984)
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To: ETCM

You won’t be very popular, but likely true. !


37 posted on 12/19/2020 5:02:01 PM PST by joesbucks
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To: Sarah Barracuda

We will be a Chinese colony of stupid people who spend their money on Chinese stuff with rigged elections


38 posted on 12/19/2020 5:03:56 PM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: goodn'mad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvSOcWw9rps


39 posted on 12/19/2020 5:04:07 PM PST by x_plus_one
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Hard to believe Fox is being cowed by this threat. By that I mean, it is hard to believe they have not performed the calculus of regaining the value of their lost viewership against the risk of this suit.

I doubt they are cowed.

I suspect this gave them the opportunity to cut the ground from under those who are trying to help the president.

In other words they welcomed it as an opportunity to hit directly at Trump without showing their hand to the deplorables.

40 posted on 12/19/2020 5:05:24 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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