Fox News Busted For Coordinating With Rudy Giuliani On Big Lie

[applegrove]

BY JASON EASLEY at Politicus USA

Fox News Busted For Coordinating With Rudy Giuliani On Big Lie

https://www.politicususa.com/2021/07/02/rudy-giuliani-fox-news-big-lie.html

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Rudy Giuliani has been subpoenaed in the Dominion voting machines lawsuit and asked to turn over all of his emails with Fox News going back years.

Bloomberg News reported:

The former New York mayor and Donald Trump’s personal lawyer was asked to hand over all documents stemming from his appearances on Fox starting in 2016 as well as all communications with the network related to the 2020 presidential election and Dominion, according to a June 28 filing in state court in Delaware.

The subpoena also seeks Giuliani’s communications concerning the “truth or falsity” of the claims he made about Dominion while appearing on Fox, plus documents about the nature of his relationship with the network, “whether formal or informal, compensated or uncompensated.”

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The subpoena is a massive problem for Fox News because it goes to the heart of what critics have been saying about the network for decades.  If Fox News coordinated with Giuliani to push the Big Lie that the election was stolen, then Fox is a political operation, not a journalistic organization.

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[Scrivener7]

1. But they've already said during a court case that they are not actually a news organization.

I would imagine that inoculates them against a lot of things.

[paleotn]

2. Should inoculate their reporters from gaining press credentials.

The Onion doesn't have anyone in the White House press corp. Why should Fux?

[Scrivener7]

3. Well, THAT'S definitely true.

[crickets]

4. +1000000

[70sEraVet]

9. Jenn Psaki should invite a 'reporter' from The Onion

and sit him or her right next to Peter Doocy. Let the cameras pick up 'The Onion News' placard every time they pan Doocy!

[Harker]

17. +33.

Would that I had more to give.

[uponit7771]

19. yep

[Warpy]

13. Maybe the FTC will make them relabel

You know, truth in advertising. Pox Propaganda sounds like an option. Traitor TV? I'm sure their admen will come up with something catchy.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread applegrove.

[certainot]

6. the giuliani/powell press conference was coordinated to start at the beginning of the limbaugh

show that day and limbaugh already knew the content of what they were going to say. come on dominion, don't forget limbaugh, the seller of big lies for 30 years

limbaugh and giuliani and trump played golf with each other for years and years - the silent partner was putin

[oldsoftie]

12. Well, he's dead; I doubt they'd sue his wife

Stick with the living liars!

[certainot]

18. except the EIB network would have all that. sue zombie rush, there's some bucks there and

he did most of the damage

[Pepsidog]

7. What then are the consequences, if any, if Fox is a political organization?

[ProfessorGAC]

8. What I Heard...

...was that if Rudy was a paid contributor, it makes it harder for Faux to defend their lawsuit by saying his defaming comments were merely the opinion of a guest.
That, apparently, is even harder if there were electronic correspondences covering the topics to be discussed.
I don't know if that makes them a political organization or not.
But, there's $1.2 billion they're being sued for. Anything that makes it harder for them to defend is a positive.
Personally, I suspect Dominion lawyers already know the answer to most of their questions.
They're likely not fishing for clues, but rather, gathering firm evidence.

[Pepsidog]

10. Good answer. Thank you.

[OnDoutside]

11. That's a quite specific request.

[salin]

14. Back to 2016.... finally. His "leaking/not leaking" per NY fbi agent buzz around the emails

long have suspected that is the factor (his fox news appearances) pushed Comey to make 'the announcement' when he did. While that doesn't feed into the Dominion case specifically - the type of bs coordinating that he did with Fox could establish a pattern.

I envision Rudy figuratively as a hunk of meat spinning on a spit over a hot flame. Grill Rudy Grill.

[Pobeka]

15. ... "then Fox is a political operation, not a journalistic organization"

In other new news, water is wet.

[TheAnnoyedAgnostic]

16. Fox is literally just the GOP generating "issues"

That then become “issues” among their voters.