Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
About
Christology
Israel/Palestine
Publications
KermitZarley.com
Archives
Categories
- Angels
- Blog Description
- Book Reviews
- Christian Living
  - Unconditional Love?
- Christianity
- Christology
  - Deity of Christ?
  - Holy Spirit
  - Incarnation?
  - My Change
  - Trinity?
- Church History
- Current Events
- War on Terrorism
- Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Eschatology
- Ezekiel 38-39
- Last Empire
- Primitive Weapons
- Film Reviews
- God
- Golf
  - Billy Graham
  - Karsten Solheim
  - Lee Trevino
  - Major Championship Winners
  - Masters
  - Purpose
  - Ryder Cup
- Gospel Harmonization
- Interview
- Islam
- Jesus
- Literary Announcements
- Monotheism
- My Books
  - The Restitution of Jesus Christ
- Old Testament
- Politics
- Society of Biblical Literature
- The Bible
- Trinitarianism
- Uncategorized
FREE NEWSLETTER

Home
Progressive Christian
Religion News
Rupert Murdoch Does the Fox Trot

Rupert Murdoch Does the Fox Trot

Last updated on: March 9, 2023 at 10:58 pm by Kermit Zarley

0 Comments

Rupert Murdoch Does the Fox Trot 2023-03-09T22:58:15-07:00 Kermit Zarley

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

RUPERT MURDOCH

The Bible records that Moses told two of the twelve tribes of Israel that if they did not keep their promise to God and the other Israelites to assist those ten tribes in driving out the Canaanites, “your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32.23). Likewise, it appears that it now can truly be said of the assertion by the name Fox News–that it honestly reports the news–“your sin will find you out.”

Eighty-nine year old Rupert Murdoch is the founder and chairman of the board of News Corp, the parent organization of the cable television channel Fox News, which is rated #1 in American television news. He was deposed last November by prosecutors representing DominionVoting Systems in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Dominion has now released to the public, which is legal, much information about its discovery process. It included tons of private text messages and emails internally sent between Fox News employees such as its leading television hosts Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs (who was fired), and some by Sean Hannity.

These communications are absolutely devastating for Fox News in this lawsuit. Some of its hosts denigrated Trump privately while praising him publicly on television. Fox News’ #1 host Tucker Carlson once said he hates “passionately” the former president Donald Trump. Another time he called Trump “a demonic force.” He admitted privately that Trump and some of his lawyers, such as Sidney Powell, had been lying all along about a 2020 fraudulent election. Yet Carlson regularly indicated otherwise on his TV show, even having Trump people such as Powell on his show espousing her lies about a fraudulent election.

The public should be able to trust that these Dominion accounts of internal Fox messages, which the judge in this case had granted Dominion access to, are indeed messages sent so that Dominion, in quoting these messages, is not lying about them or in any way misrepresenting them. Why am I even having to say this? Because that’s what many of Fox News viewers are now saying–that you can’t necessarily trust Dominion being truthful about this.

Baloney! Dominion’s lawsuit is all about accusing Fox News hosts and some of their guests of charging Dominion with manipulation of its voting machines used by many states in the 2020 election and Dominion saying that some of these Fox News hosts were not only wrong about such allegations but that they knew they were wrong and therefore were lying about it. So, it would be so stupid and devastating to Dominion’s case–accusing Fox News of lying in accusing Dominion of machine manipulation–since the court knows what those messages say. Dominion would therefore be in huge trouble for lying in a defamation case in which the plaintiff claims the defendant is lying, and it’s all about something that can be proved–what in the actual transcriptions of the text messages and emails. So, Fox News viewers saying Dominion may be lying about this is such shortsighted baloney!

So, how did Rupert Murdoch respond in his deposition to the many questions Dominion lawyers asked him under oath about these things? He answered surprisingly and matter-of-factly quite honestly by repeatedly doing the Fox Trot. How so? He would trot out these Fox News hosts such as Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity (although sometimes the lawyers mentioned them) by admitting that after the 2020 election, they privately said Trump lost the election, but on their televised shows they indicated otherwise. So, Murdoch admitted Fox News hosts lied. Oftentimes, they interviewed guests such as Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, and Sidney Powell who were working diligently to convince America the 2020 election was fraudulent to point that Donald Trump really won that election, which is clearly false. And when these guests would makes these false claims, these Fox News hosts would often affirm such claims were true or indicate slightly their approval, but never disagree by saying such claims were false. So, Murdoch was saying that’s what his Fox News hosts were doing–promoting the conspiracy theory of a 2020 fraudulent election and sometimes saying, or leading the audience to believe, it was Dominion’s fault.

But when Dominion lawyers asked Murdoch in the deposition if the cable news outlet Fox News itself said the 2020 election was fraudulent, he denied it. So, I say that’s Murdoch doing the Fox Trot–individually blaming his Fox News hosts of actual lying or misrepresenting the results of that 2020 election, but claiming Fox News itself did not.

Now, the judge in this case will decide and make public his decision on a summary judgment on March 21, thus less than two weeks from now. He could rule that Dominion has no case and dismiss the charges, which is about 100% impossible! He could rule the evidence against Fox News is so overwhelming that there is no need for a trial and therefore he would rule that Fox News must pay up–$1.6 billion in damages to Dominion. But I guess it is most likely that he will decide to let the case go to trial. In that case, I wonder if Mr. Murdoch will keep doing the Fox Trot. What do you think?

Politics and Religion

Politics

Dominion Voting Systems

Previous Post

March 6, 2023

Should We Call God "Our Father"?

Next Post

March 12, 2023 Scottie Scheffler Wins the Players Championship and Regains His #1 Position

Recent Comments

0 | Leave a Comment

"Glen, you seem to be advocating a preterist viewpoint, with which I disagree." I'm a ..."

Kermit Zarley

Family Estrangement Versus Honoring Father and ..."

"THESIS is a SCRIPTURE QUOTE.“Remember the predictions foretold by the holy prophets and by the ..."

glen smith

Family Estrangement Versus Honoring Father and ..."

"How are they going to answer it. They don't have unlimited financial resources. They're trying ..."

Kermit Zarley

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Getting Much Worse

"...but isn't that an important question to answer?"

Harold Porter

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Getting Much Worse

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category Angels Billy Graham Blog Description Book Reviews Christian Living Christianity Christology Church History Current Events Deity of Christ? Disarmament Eschatology Evangelicalism Ezekiel 38-39 Film Reviews God Golf Gospel Harmonization Health History Holy Spirit Incarnation? Interview Islam Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jesus Last Empire Literary Announcements Major Championship Winners Masters Monotheism My Books New Testament Old Testament Politics Primitive Weapons Ryder Cup Science Society of Biblical Literature The Bible The Restitution of Jesus Christ Trinitarianism Trinity? Uncategorized Unconditional Love? War on Terrorism

Select a Month October 2026 September 2026 August 2026 July 2026 June 2026 May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 December 2025 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 December 2023 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

How many years did Solomon reign?

Select your answer to see how you score.

30 years 35 years 50 years 40 years

Books by This Author Books by Kermit Zarley Blog

See All Titles »