Fox News had a terrible, terrible, not good, very bad day. At least according to Jimmy Kimmel, who cited the network’s $787.5 million defamation settlement as proof that the lies don’t actually pay off.
“No company in America has had such a bad day as Fox News,” Kimmel said at the start of the program Tuesday night. Some might say it was actually a win for Tucker Carlson and his friends that the network settled a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit for just $787.5 million; Kimmel knows that even this much smaller amount will still damage the network. “It will take a lot of reverse mortgage ads to pay for it,” he joked.
Still, Kimmel said that while Fox understands that he is the “main villain” in the story, he has no intention of ditching the Dominion Voting Systems so easily.
“We naively thought it was about getting Fox News to take responsibility for destroying their reputation because they told us so,” Kimmel said of Dominion. “But once a big enough number was written on a piece of paper and slid onto the table, all that ethical stuff became secondary.
According to Kimmel, this means “liars who knowingly mislead their oatmeal-brained audience and seriously harm our democracy need not say anything about it. No apologies, no testimonies – they could go back to sodomizing the country. I think Dominion and their lawyers are going yacht shopping.”