Late-Night Hosts Bask In Fox News-Dominion Settlement

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Let the gloating begin. TV’s late-night comedy crowd is reveling in the luscious goodness that was dropped in their collective lap today after Fox News said it will pay $787.5 million to settle the defamation suit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over the cable net’s false election-rigging claims.

Here’s some of what we’ve heard so far. Jimmy Kimmel played Captain Obvious in saying, “No company in America had a worse day than Fox News today,” then zinged ’em with: “It’s gonna take a lot of reverse-mortgage ads to pay that one off.” After another jab or three, the Jimmy Kimmel Live!

host then loosed his vitriol on the plaintiff. RELATED: Fox News Settlement With Dominion Does Not Require On-Air Retraction Or Apology “I also wanna say ‘nice going’ to Dominion,” he said. “We naively thought this was about making Fox News take responsibility for destroying their reputation because that’s what they told us it was about.

But no, they took the money instead — which means the liars who knowingly misled their oatmeal-brained viewers and seriously damaged our democracy don’t have to say anything about it at all … while Dominion and their lawyers go shopping for yachts, I guess.” Here’s part of Kimmel’s ABC monologue:No company in America had a worse day than Fox News!