Take My Word For It. Rupert Murdoch Is Toast. And It Won’t Take Long

I was out this afternoon with Teri, so I haven’t had much time to peruse all of the details of Dominion’s $787 million settlement with FUX News. but it really doesn’t matter. Rupert Murdoch’s days in charge of FUX News are numbered, and you don’t need a Casio calculator to keep track of them.

Because this has been nothing but an unmitigated disaster for FUX, and while it may not be fatal, their stock is damaged, and their reputation is now right down there with Clarence the pig. And since Rupert Murdoch likes to portray that he personally is FUX news, then there’s no real question where the bucket of sh*t gets dumped.

If I read correctly, Dominion settled for some $787.5 million. That’s about 1/2 of the $1.6 billion Dominion asked for in the suit. And my friends, that’s management and legal malpractice. With a few concessions, and a little message massaging in the text, FUX News could have had this same settlement six months ago, before the case entered the discovery phase!

And that discovery is what killed FUX. Instead of engineering a settlement, FUX’s lawyers played parlor trick with redactions, and hide-the-salami with evidence production. Fortunately the Dominion lawyers repeatedly caught them red handed at it, which superiorly pissed off the judge.

Which led the judge to arbitrarily release a treasure trove of FUX internal documents to the public. And those documents were devastating. They showed that FUX’s prime time talent were nothing more than shallow, vapid hypocrites, sneering at their own viewers, and ridiculing their idiotic guests. They all freely admitted that the whole Dominion voting machine scam was bullsh*t.

And it showed that FUX management was desperate to stop the bleeding of both viewership, as well as advertising following the 2020 election. Journalistic integrity be damned. Their revenues were down, viewers were abandoning them, and something had to be done. And if that meant broadcasting Q-Anon froot-loop conspiracies as God’s given truth, then so be it.

It’s simple. FUX couldn’t afford to go to trial. Playing fast and loose with the evidence caused the judge to strip in pre-trial motions of their greatest weapon at trial. And that weapon was newsworthiness. After 1st Amendment Rights, FUX’s best defense was newsworthiness. Basically the defense was that FUX is a news channel, and a lot of famous people were spouting out insane sh*t, so that made it newsworthy, whether it was true or not. And the judge said, Not in my courtroom, boyo.

And here’s the other reason that FUX couldn’t go to trial. The judge had already ruled that Murdoch, his monkey spawn, and two more FUX board members, including former Speaker Paul Ryan could be forced to testify by Dominion. And that would mean actual board members having to disclose confidential, internal discussions on the rather thorny problem of journalistic integrity and corporate responsibility. And since we already know that FUX did, the conclusions the board reached are foregone.

Here’s why Rupert Murdoch has to go, and now. Once the Dominion lawsuit broke publicly, the FUX board’s hands were pretty well tied. To jettison Murdoch at that point would pretty much be an admission of guilt, weakening their position both legally as well as in the media. FUX had no real choice but to defend Murdoch and his idiot son for as long as the issue was pending.

But the resolution of this lawsuit doesn’t let FUX off of the hook, not by a long shot. Because waiting in the wings is a $1.2 billion Smartmatic Software lawsuit against FUX for the same. damn. thing. And the FUX board has a limited window in which to put not only Murdoch, but his imbecile son as well out to pasture. That way they can blame them for everything when the new lawsuit heats up.

There’s an old Russian adage, In war two blunders are not permitted. Murdoch bones the bow-wow when he let the Dominion case spiral out of control. The FUX board is going to want to clean house, and tell Smartmatic to go and chase after them! They won’t get off, but it could shave a little on the settlement. Don’t touch that dial.