More on Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News

In a recently post, Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News, I noted that the criterion that the plaintiff in this defamation suit must prove is “malice,” i.e., that Fox’s continual assertion, one that it knew to be a lie, is that Dominion rigged its voting machines in the 2020 presidential election to covertly “flip” votes that had legitimately been placed for Trump and record them for Biden.

I pointed out that it’s hard to imagine that broadcasting these lies doesn’t meet the level of malice, because of the extreme and deliberate damage they did to the reputation of every employee, and to the financial stature of Dominion.

What I later realized that convincing gullible but heavily armed people that their country’s democracy had been stolen deliberately incited violence.  It’s no secret that the MAGA crowd stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 and that death and injury ensued.  Continuing to spew these lies could only have been calculated to cause more mayhem.

Here’s a question for the the U.S. federal government: Don’t you recognize, even vaguely, any responsibility to protect the lives of innocent Americans?  Can’t you stop these bastards?