Kimmel Disses Dominion for Settling With Fox News: ‘They Took the Money Instead’ (Video)

What is Rupert Murdoch up to? At age 92 he confronts the challenge of re-energizing Fox News, yet his stewardship remains as enigmatic as his politics.

As twice-impeached and once-indicted former President Donald Trump finds himself in the middle of another lawsuit, the hosts of “The View” couldn’t help but mock his tactics on Thursday morning. According to the women, he’s actively “making another case against himself.”Earlier this year, Trump was indicted on 34 counts of felony business record falsification and is the target of at least four other investigations.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor It’s an idea that would make any news executive salivate. What if MSNBC revived CNN’s old “Crossfire” show, enlisting Tucker Carlson from the right and Don Lemon from the left? Such a concept would normally be unthinkable. Tucker Carlson is known for his work on Fox News. Don Lemon has long held forth for CNN. It has been that way for years. Until, as of earlier this week, it wasn’t. Within the space of 90 minutes on April 24, Carlson was ousted from Fox News Channel and Lemon was pushed from CNN. Both were stalwart personalities for their networks. Both were valued for their ability to spark conversation, debate, pushback and even furor. For years, that has been the cable-news coin of the realm. As the economics of TV shift, however, it is becoming clearer that media executives may have less patience for TV-news pot-stirrers.

If the 2024 presidential election once again comes down to President Joe Biden and twice-impeached-once-indicted former president Donald Trump, “The View” host Alyssa Farah Griffin won’t be voting for either of them. On Wednesday morning’s episode of “The View,” the host admitted that she’d likely write someone in.Her statement came as the women at the table discussed Biden’s announcement on Tuesday morning that he is officially running for reelection in 2024, in hopes to “finish the job” he started in 2020.

President Joe Biden officially announced Tuesday that he is running for reelection in 2024, and Seth Meyers is really dreading the potential rematch between the current Head of State and the former, twice-impeached-and-now-indicted one, Donald Trump.Meyers led his monologue with the news of Biden’s announcement, joking that choosing between the two men again is basically just choosing between two awful menu items at a subpar restaurant.“Can you imagine if it’s Biden versus Trump again? That’s like going into a diner and the only things on the menu are two-day-old egg salad and Donald Trump,” the “Late Night” host joked. “I guess I’ll take my chances with the egg salad!”Meyers then turned his attention to Biden’s apparent new slogan.

John Mulaney found an unexpected refuge. The 40-year-old comedian, who did a two-month stint in rehab back in 2021, found himself in search of a place to live when he came to Los Angeles after getting clean and sober.On Tuesday's episode of , Mulaney revealed that he spent several weeks in the late-night host's guest house after his time in rehab. Mulaney shared that over the years Kimmel had frequently offered up his guest house for anyone who might need it.«Most people have homes, so they take that and go, 'Oh, Jimmy, you're a mensch.' I must have filed it away.

Megyn Kelly and Chris Cuomo have a thing or two in common with Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon. Kelly and Cuomo are weighing in on Monday's sudden firing of Carlson from Fox News and Lemon from CNN, offering both support and perspective to the situations. Kelly took to her eponymous SiriusXM show on Monday to weigh in on both exits. First, Carlson from Fox News. «This is a terrible move by Fox, and it's a great thing for Tucker Carlson,» she said.

Tucker Carlson is gone and late-night hosts are excited.

Digital and social media marketing chiefs of major studios said today they’re really hoping the threat of a U.S. government ban on Tiktok never materializes, so crucial has the platform become to launching films. They’d also like Elon Musk-owned Twitter to get itself together, since that’s also a key platform for Hollywood.

settled its $1.6 billion defamation case against Fox News for $787.5 million, did not have any influence on Fox and Carlson’s decision to part ways, people with knowledge of the situation tell TheWrap. Dominion has already collected its payout from Fox News and had no comment on Monday’s development.Carlson was a centerpiece of Dominion’s defamation suit, but his role was less as a provocateur and more as one of the dissenting voices internally disparaging the network for indulging the 2020 election conspiracy theories of Donald Trump and supporters Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.

stunning announcement that Tucker Carlson had parted ways with Fox News, more details are emerging about the primetime host's sudden departure. In a statement issued by Fox News on Monday, Carlson and the network «agreed to part ways» after 14 years. «We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,» read the network's statement in part.

Tucker Carlson and Fox News have agreed to part ways, the media company said in a statement on Monday, less than a week after Fox News and parent company Fox Corp FOXA.O settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million.

Tucker Carlson and Fox News have agreed to part ways, the network said Monday.

CNN’s Dana Bash, accusing her and her peers of “covering up” for Democrats when it comes to the issue of late-term abortions. The heated exchange occurred on Bash’s “State of the Union,” when the anchor questioned Graham on the issue of abortion as the Supreme Court this past week issued a stay on a lower court ruling banning the use of the abortion drug mifepristone.

Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker were the musical guests on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (April 21), performing their Boygenius track ‘Not Strong Enough’ – check it out below.‘Not Strong Enough’ appears on Boygenius’ debut album ‘The Record’ which was released last month and topped the UK Album Charts.Speaking about the track to Rolling Stone, Bridgers said the lyrics were about “Being like, ‘I’m not strong enough to show up for you. I can’t be the partner that you want me to be.’ But also being like, ‘I’m too fucked up.

flexed his editing skills, posting the edited and unedited versions of the scene. By removing sound effects and boosting Marge’s voice in Adobe Audition, Rayburn, who works as a professional video editor, unveiled Marge’s stark warning.“Well, all right, but make sure [Bart and Lisa] don’t pick up any of the band’s attitudes toward liquor, religion, politics … really, anything,” Marge says in reference to the show’s headliners — mockumentary rock group Spinal Tap.Rayburn’s tweet earned 1 million views and more than 20,000 likes.I used my audio editing skills to recover a buried @TheSimpsons joke.

Disney Entertainment is once again hosting its annual Disney FYC Fest.

Stermon died by suicide. But in the wake of his death new accusations have emerged that Stermon allegedly tried to bribe an underage girl with Taylor Swift tickets in exchange for nude photos. “Anyway, that’s who Governor Meatball appointed to make decisions about public education in his state,” Kimmel said.

There are exactly six people who have officially declared their candidacy for president in 2024 at this point, and the hosts of “The View” aren’t impressed by any of them.To kick off Thursday morning’s Hot Topics discussion on ABC, the women first focused on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has yet to officially say he’s running for president but is largely expected to do so.“You know, a lot of his policies aren’t even going over well with other Republicans,” Whoopi pointed out.

Lever News, which first reported the write-off potential and set the deduction at $213 million, noted that the IRS has ruled multiple times that settlements payments can be deducted.The settlement reached Tuesday will result the largest-known defamation payout in U.S. history, after Fox agreed to the deal at the last minute.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Let no one deny it: Rupert Murdoch is clever like a fox. He’s slyer than his adversaries in mainstream media. They still think in real-world terms. But Murdoch thinks in terms of the world that he’s created — the world of fake news, of lies that play because they carry the ring of vengeful mythology (life as a Charles Bronson film that never ends). The world that Fox News pretends is reality. You could make a case that in recent weeks, Murdoch’s circus of happy-talk dystopian propaganda (otherwise known as any random half hour of Fox News) took a major hit. The release of documents subpoenaed during the Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News revealed something that was, or should be, profoundly embarrassing to the network: that there are moments when its star huckster, Tucker Carlson, actually tells the truth (at least in private). The revelation that Carlson, along with a number of Fox News executives, peddled Donald Trump’s crackpot assertion that he won the 2020 election not because they believed it, but because they thought they had to go along with what their viewers wanted to hear, made the Fox team look like craven cowards. The lawsuit never made it to trial, but because those documents were leaked you could say the damage was done. And to keep the trial from happening, Murdoch had to cough up the mother of all defamation settlements: $787.5 million. 

on the network’s official website there wasn’t a single mention of the settlement. As of this writing, readers instead are being treated to stories about Joe Biden’s taxes, Tucker Carlson’s interview with Elon Musk, Ray Romano’s heart surgery, and yes, that story about a goose rescue.Former Illinois congressman and now CNN Senior Political Commentator Adam Kinzinger was among those pointing out the omission on Twitter.“Just looked at Fox News, no mention of the settlement on their website,” Kinzinger wrote.Just looked at Foxnews, no mention of the settlement on their website.

Let the gloating begin.

Fox News’s $787.5 billion settlement with Dominion Voting Systems does not require that the network do an on-air a retraction or apology, sources confirmed.

Sophia Scorziello editor Fox settled its Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit for $787.5 million, but the network’s litigators submitted several clips from “The Simpsons” to be shown in court, had the case gone to trial. Each of these scenes show Homer Simpson voting in a presidential election, as NBC reported: — Season 20’s “Treehouse of Horror XIX” shows Homer attempting to cast a ballot for Barack Obama.— The promotional short “Homer Votes 2012” shows him voting for Mitt Romney.— The YouTube short “Homer Votes 2016” features Russian President Vladimir Putin disguising himself as an American voter and trying to convince Homer to vote for Trump.— Season 32’s “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” finds Homer unsure whether to vote for Trump or Biden.

Fox News has settled Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the Rupert Murdoch-owned organization, averting a lengthy, expensive and certain to be embarrassing trial.

A jury has been seated in the Dominion vs. Fox News trial, kicking off at last what is being billed as the “defamation trial of the century,” with the prospect of the network’s star hosts and Rupert Murdoch himself taking the stand.

First Amendment implications.Fox is accused of defaming Dominion’s immediately following the 2020 presidential election, when some of the network’s guests and hosts suggested that the Denver company’s voting machines had been hacked or compromised. The network has stridently denied any wrongdoing, saying it was merely reporting what was being said by newsmakers – including Donald Trump and his shrinking circle of lawyers, including Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani – who were pushing the unfounded claims.Dominion scored a series of early victories in discovery and pre-trial filings, from embarrassing revelations about behind-the-scenes discord at the network’s promotion of zany election conspiracy theorists down to the sloppy “discovery misconduct” of Fox’s lawyers on the eve of trial.

On Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the thing that seemed to keep Kimmel particularly amused was the fact that according to independent trackers of website traffic, Donald Trump’s Twitter clone, Truth Social, is a failure.In fact, Kimmel gloated, “a foot fetish website is much more popular.”That factoid came out of a discussion of Trump’s overall finances that inspired his deep dive.“Donald Trump did something miraculous this weekend. He filed a financial disclosure report,” the ABC host said during his monologue. You know those things you have to file when you’re running for office? He actually filed one.” “He did it at the last minute.

at rallies for Donald Trump, “The Daily Show” correspondent Jordan Klepper is pretty familiar with the twice-impeached-and-now-indicted former president’s supporters. So, speaking to MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday, Klepper pointed out that they have “trickily” turned AR-15s into “a new MAGA hat.”Ahead of his week of guest hosting “The Daily Show,” Klepper told Psaki that the thing he most often gets asked, based on his experiences in the field, is “can Trump supporters ever change their mind? Can you ever win an argument with a Trump supporter?” To that, Klepper had a bit of a layered answer.“You can convince somebody to change ideas.

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Rupert Murdoch can breathe easy for at least one more day. The judge overseeing the much-scrutinized defamation trial brought against Fox News and its parent, Fox Corp., has delayed its start by a day, according to a statement issued by Delaware’s Superior Court, where the case is being heard. The decision is sure to raise speculation that the two sides may be seeking a settlement. “The Court has decided to continue the start of the trial, including jury selection, until Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. I will make such an announcement tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. in Courtroom 7E,” Judge Eric Davis said in a note Sunday evening.

The start of the Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation trail against Fox News that was to start Monday has now been delayed until Tuesday.

President Joe Biden met with Irish president Michael D Higgins in Ireland on Thursday, but before he left, he wrote a message in the visitors book. On Thursday night, James Corden and his CBS crew couldn’t help but laugh at how small the desk was that Biden had to sit in while writing.

signed a bill banning abortions after six weeks into law, the “Morning Joe” team weighed how such a partisan move may impact his chances in the general election were he to run for president in 2024. Contributor Sam Stein, Politico’s White House editor, drew comparison between former president Donald Trump and DeSantis’ policies on abortion, noting, candidly, that the difference is Trump “is a lot of things,” but he’s “not a total dummy.”“Donald Trump really largely has stayed away from the abortion issue and remember blamed pro-lifers for the losses in the midterm elections,” said “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist, punting the mic to Stein.

Trump filed against his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, dubbing their weird journey from longtime employer/employees and co-conspirators to enemies “the circle jerk of life.”“You know, Donald Trump was in — you’re not gonna believe this — he was in court today. He’s in court in New York to be deposed in one of the 70 or 80 cases against him,” Kimmel said during his monologue.