Tucker Carlson’s Dominion Text Messages Are a Thing of Beauty – By Jeremy Stahl (Slate) / Feb 17, 2023
Thursday was an awful day for the Big Lie.
First, a judge in Georgia released a report from the special grand jury investigating Donald Trump for crimes related to his attempts to overturn the election, in which the 26-member grand jury found “by a unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election.”
Then on Thursday, the New York Times and Washington Post reported that Dominion Voting Systems had filed a 178-page brief in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News detailing how, in the words of the brief, “from the top down, Fox knew ‘the dominion stuff’ was ‘total bs.’ ” To demonstrate this case, Dominion revealed embarrassing excerpts of text messages and depositions from Fox News executives, journalists, staff, and program hosts demonstrating a widespread acknowledgment in the company that the claims some Fox programs were propagating about Dominion stealing the election for Joe Biden were “really crazy stuff,” as Fox Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch put it.
The brief’s showcase of the near-unanimous views inside Fox News is fascinating. It’s worth it, though, to focus on the text messages and testimony from just one person for their entertainment value alone: Fox News’ top-rated host Tucker Carlson.
