What Fox News hosts said privately vs. publicly about voter fraud.
Two days after the 2020 election, Tucker Carlson was furious.
Two days after the election, Pfeiffer said that voices on the right were “reckless demagogues,” according to a text message. Carlson replied that his show was “not going to follow them.” In a statement, the company said that “the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution” and protected by legal precedent. It added, “Dominion has mischaracterized the record, cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context, and spilled considerable ink on facts that are irrelevant under black-letter principles of defamation law.
Carlson also privately criticized Sidney Powell, a lawyer and conspiracy theorist who was gaining traction among the far right for her involvement in several lawsuits aimed at challenging the election results, the court filings show. Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo, two hosts on Fox Business, a sister channel to Fox News that is also part of Dominion’s lawsuit, repeatedly invited Powell onto their shows as an expert on voter fraud claims.
Privately, Carlson continued to criticize Powell, calling her claims “shockingly reckless.” Pfeiffer and Carlson both privately called her a “nut.” Laura Ingraham, who is the host of a 10 p.m. show and Raj Shah, a senior vice president at the Fox Corp., the network’s corporate parent, were equally incredulous.
Consternation over Powell grew behind the scenes at Fox News as her lawsuits were repeatedly dismissed by courts and her promises to produce concrete evidence of widespread voter fraud never materialized. Yet she was still getting airtime, and senior executives at the network appeared concerned. Several Fox News hosts and producers were criticizing Powell, including John Fawcett, a producer on Dobbs’ show, who said he believed Powell was “doing LSD and cocaine and heroin and shrooms.”
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