Federal judge rules Rachel Maddow's show is not legitimate news

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That is the same argument Sidney Powell is using in Dominion's defamation suit against her.

It is also the same argument Fox lawyers made in their defense of Tucker Carlson when Karen McDougal sued him for saying she tried to extort President Trump.

1) Whataboutism fallacy.

2) No one ever claimed Sidney Powell was a news outlet.

3) Carlson's claim, unlike Maddow's, was ACCURATE. Here's exactly what he said:

“Remember the facts of the story. These are undisputed. Two women approached Donald Trump and threatened to ruin his career and humiliate his family if he doesn’t give them money. Now, that sounds like a classic case of extortion."

Those ARE the facts of the case. It DOES sound exactly like extortion. And even if it DIDN'T sound exactly like extortion, saying it sounds like extortion isn't claiming it was a fact that they did commit extortion. Every part of this comparison does not hold water.

Next.

 

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1) Whataboutism fallacy.

2) No one ever claimed Sidney Powell was a news outlet.

3) Carlson's claim, unlike Maddow's, was ACCURATE. Here's exactly what he said:

“Remember the facts of the story. These are undisputed. Two women approached Donald Trump and threatened to ruin his career and humiliate his family if he doesn’t give them money. Now, that sounds like a classic case of extortion."

Those ARE the facts of the case. It DOES sound exactly like extortion. And even if it DIDN'T sound exactly like extortion, saying it sounds like extortion isn't claiming it was a fact that they did commit extortion. Every part of this comparison does not hold water.

Next.

The similarities of the cases was the application of laws on libel/defamation and the defense against those claims.

Sidney Powell does not have to be a news outlet to defame.

Powell made false statements she cannot prove about the election and Dominion. Now she is using the same defense as Fox that it was "rhetorical hyperbole."

National Enquirer (AMI) paid McDougal $150,000 to keep her quiet. They later admitted to making the payment in concert with the Trump campaign and Cohen plead guilty to campaign finance violations and went to prison because of the payment.