Saturday night live coincided with the biggest media stories of the week leading up to its cold opening: The Dominion Voting System filed bombastic revelations in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News. Watch a video below.
Select the setting again fox and friends Drilling down on the network, hosts Steve Doocy (Mikey Day), Ainsley Earhardt (Heidi Gardner) and Brian Kilmeade (Bowen Yang) explained the revelations and why the network didn’t address the matter.
“Rupert Murdoch admitted that Fox News aired voter fraud plots to get ratings, even though everyone at Fox knew they were fake,” says Day’s Doocy.
“Oh oh. I don’t. Adopt a brother next time,” said Kilmeade of Yang.
Gardner’s Earhardt then tells viewers, “You might be wondering, if this is such a big story, why didn’t I hear about it on Fox?”
“I think it’s because they’re suing us for $1.6 billion,” says Kilmeade.
Doocy corrects him. No, it’s full of BS. The media is taking private texts from Fox News anchors and showing them completely out of context.”
In fact, Fox News actually claimed that Dominion took texts and emails collected during its trial out of context in its court filings.
A planned release of testimony in the case Tuesday should provide additional context about some of the texts, emails and statements cited by Dominion in its filing. But in the SNL joke it fox and friends Hosts try to explain the context.
They refer to a text by Sean Hannity: “Rudy Giuliani is crazy.”
“How could you leave the rest out?” said Kilmeade. “It’s Rudy Giuliani who is crazy– nice and warm.“
The sketch also included an appearance from Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, one of the network’s most prolific sponsors — and one of its most visible conspiracy theorists in the 2020 election.
Before continuing, Kilmeade warns him, “Because of this lawsuit, our lawyers have asked you not to say anything crazy about Dominion.”
Lindell replies, “No problem. I’m informed. I know the rules. Inside every Dominion machine is a Venezuelan Oompa Loompa!”
Then Doocy tries to cut him off.
“You can’t just say anything anymore.”
Lindell replied, “Of course, of course. Let me choose my words carefully. Dominion voting machines give triple votes to Democrats, illegal immigrants and this lady M&M who stopped shaving her seeds!”
Dominion’s lawsuit names Lindell as one of the guests Fox hosted to support false claims that the company was involved in election gimmicks. Dominion determined in its files that Tucker Carlson Lindell hosted on January 26, 2021, well after Dominion warned the network that his personalities would reinforce falsehoods about the company. According to Dominion, “Murdoch admitted it was ‘wrong’ for Carlson to house Lindell without questioning his claims about the company.
According to Fox News, reporting and commenting on allegations of voter fraud made by then-President Donald Trump is protected under the First Amendment.
The network’s moderators and correspondents were reluctant to share stories about the case. Howard Kurtz, who hosts the weekly paper MediaBuzzsaid on Sunday’s show that he was told not to hit it, although he disagreed with the decision.
Here’s a clip of the cold opening:
Source: Deadline
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