In what counts as near-perfect timing, the day after The New York Times reported that then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson argued that outnumbering an opponent is "not how white men fight," the group that publishes "the nation's report card" reported that only 13% of last year's eighth graders were proficient in U.S. history. Eighth grade was a long time ago for the 53-year-old Carlson, but his assertion that ganging up on an adversary isn't what white men do suggests he doesn't know U.S. history, either. Overwhelming opponents by outnumbering them has been exactly how untold numbers of white men in this country have fought.
Fox News chose to settle with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million on April 18, just as Dominion was about to start making its case that Fox News hosts had defamed it by repeatedly telling the lie that its voting machines had been rigged to throw the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. And on April 24, Fox News fired Carlson, its most popular prime-time host. The day before the trial was set to begin, the Times reports, the Fox board saw a text message from Carlson to one of his producers that it worried Dominion would bring up when its lawyers called Carlson to the stand.
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