Tucker Carlson's successful defamation defense: No "reasonable viewer" would believe him

[Tanuki]

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[flor-de-jasmim]

1. That should be an obligatory chyron on his show.

[underpants]

5. They are working on it

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[Miguelito Loveless]

2. So, only 40% of the nation

which includes the most heavily armed and mentally unstable.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Slimy fucker using the EXACT same defense that Alex Jones did.

[DFW]

4. What regular viewer of Tucker Carlson can be considered "reasonable?"

His most loyal audience is not comprised of peaceful, reasonable people. It is comprised of belligerent, unreasonable people. Of COURSE sane people don't take him seriously. Who said anything about sane people?

[maxsolomon]

7. It is comprised of elderly white people.

Like my 83 year old father and his 83 year old girlfriend.

They don't know it's sarcasm.

[Midnight Writer]

6. It's not the "reasonable viewer" that I am concerned about.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Judge said that when Carlson claims he is giving "undisputed facts", everyone knows he isn't

“Remember the facts of the story. These are undisputed. Two women approached Donald Trump and threatened to ruin his career and humiliate his family if he doesn’t give them money. Now, that sounds like a classic case of extortion,” Carlson said. “Yet, for whatever reason, Trump caves to it, and he directs Michael Cohen to pay the ransom. Now, more than two years later, Trump is a felon for doing this. It doesn’t seem to make any sense.”

McDougal sued, arguing Carlson defamed her by claiming she had committed the crime of extortion.
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“As (Fox News) notes, Mr. Carlson himself aims to ‘challenge political correctness and media bias,’” the judge wrote.

“This ‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that he is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary,’” the judge added, citing legal precedent.

https://news.yahoo.com/karen-mcdougal-loses-lawsuit-over-194100279.html

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. People Are Mockingly Referring to Sidney Powell's Dominion Strategy as "The Tucker Carlson Defense":

They did not cover this defense back when I took criminal law (I AMJURED this course in law school).

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People are quick to compare this strategy to one Fox News incorporated while defending host Tucker Carlson. The Judge in the case, Mary Kay Vyskocil, agreed with the strategy, writing, “Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes.”

The Tucker Carlson Defense is now a trending topic on Twitter. Attorney Ron Filipkowski writes, “In Sidney Powell’s response to the Dominion lawsuit, her lawyers state that she never actually believed what she was saying, she was just representing her client’s position. The Tucker Carlson defense.

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And author Grant Stern notes, “In deploying The Tucker Carlson defense, Sidney Powell is admitting that her credibility is completely nonexistent.”

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. People Are Mockingly Referring to Sidney Powell's Dominion Strategy as "The Tucker Carlson Defense":

They did not cover this defense back when I took criminal law (I AMJURED this course in law school).

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People are quick to compare this strategy to one Fox News incorporated while defending host Tucker Carlson. The Judge in the case, Mary Kay Vyskocil, agreed with the strategy, writing, “Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes.”

The Tucker Carlson Defense is now a trending topic on Twitter. Attorney Ron Filipkowski writes, “In Sidney Powell’s response to the Dominion lawsuit, her lawyers state that she never actually believed what she was saying, she was just representing her client’s position. The Tucker Carlson defense.

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And author Grant Stern notes, “In deploying The Tucker Carlson defense, Sidney Powell is admitting that her credibility is completely nonexistent.”

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