Truth won. Facts won. The law won.
Dominion won.
Fox Spews lost. Propaganda lost. Lies lost. And liars got spanked and further exposed.
It was a good day for the founding principles not only of America, but of Radically Rational.
“We’re brining facts back into fashion.”
“We’re making simple sanity sexy again.”
“We’re beating crazies of all stripes back into the corners and shadows where they belong.”
“Crazy ain’t cool.”
Crazies got KAYOed.
This was nothing short of a total victory for Dominion and for justice.
Fox Spews lied. Fox Spews knew it was lying. Fox Spews continued to lie. Dominion rationally and serially conveyed to Fox Spews that it was lying, and provided overwhelming documentation.
Fox Spews continued to lie, even after executives and anchors at Fox Spews acknowledged to themselves and to each other that they were lying.
Fox Spews acted with actual malice, soaring over the pole-vault height bar that must be cleared to prove defamation and libel as established by Times v. Sullivan.
Fox Spews desperately settled, and probably considers $787.5 mill to be a bargain. No courtroom under-oath testimony by the lying likes of Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham and Murdoch.
Look, I will admit that I was momentarily disappointed by the settlement. I wanted this to go to court. I wanted all of Fox Spews’ dirty laundry to be hung out to dry without prior sanitation. I wanted Dominion to beat on Fox Spews like a musty rug. I wanted Dominion to hold Fox Spews up against the ropes and continue to pound their ribs, much like Ali did to Floyd Patterson.
“What’s my name, Fox Spews bitch?!”
“Dominion. Dominion. Now please stop beating on me. You’re hurting me.”
But I understand the settlement. I wish it included daily Fox Spews on-air mea culpas and apologies, and maybe at least a couple of honor suicides. But the point was made, the victory was both decisive and historic, and perhaps Dominion didn’t want to run the risk of having one wild-eyed, fact-denying tribal cultist juror fuck this up.
With the exception of Fox Spews’ own blindfolded lemings, the whole world was watching.
Truth won.
I am not superstitious (except for sports, of course). But let me gently recommend that we all watch our backsides on this April 19. April 19 has tended to be, shall we say volatile, in American history.
- 1775—The Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
- 1865—Abraham Lincoln’s funeral was held at the White House.
- 1912—A special Senate subcommittee opened hearings on the Titanic disaster.
- 1989—Forty-seven sailors were killed when a gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa.
- 1993—The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents breached the building.
- 1995—A truck bomb destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
Just, you know, look both ways today.
