Funny thing happened when these networks got lawsuits, now they won't promote the BIG LIE!
After MyPillow CEO starts spouting election misinformation on Newsmax, anchor walks off show
Mike Lindell’s rant made his interviewer visibly uncomfortable, possibly because the channel has been threatened with a lawsuit for airing baseless election-fraud claims
By Jeremy Barr
Feb. 2, 2021 at 8:46 p.m. EST
Things went sideways just 10 seconds into Newsmax TV’s interview Tuesday afternoon with Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell, the pillow-company executive who rose to fame in conservative circles because of his effusive praise of former president Donald Trump.
Appearing on the conservative cable news channel, Lindell was asked to discuss Twitter’s decision to ban him for repeatedly spreading misinformation about the 2020 presidential election, which he has insisted for weeks was stolen from Trump.
The MyPillow chief executive immediately launched into an attack on Dominion Voting Systems, an election technology company that has become the subject of baseless accusations related to the election. He said his Twitter feed “was taken down because we have all the election fraud with these Dominion machines. We have 100 percent proof.”
Co-anchor Bob Sellers tried to cut Lindell off. “Mike, Mike, Mike. ... We at Newsmax have not been able to verify any of those kinds of allegations,” he said. “We just want to let people know that there’s nothing substantive that we have seen. And let me read you something.”
Lindell just kept talking, his words muted and mostly indecipherable, while Sellers looked down and began to read from what sounded like a legal disclaimer: “Newsmax accepts the [election] results as legal and final. The courts have also supported that view.”
What was left unsaid was that Newsmax has recently faced legal threats from Dominion and Smartmatic, another voting technology company that has threatened to sue right-wing news outlets and personalities for spreading what the companies claim is defamatory misinformation about their role in the election.
more:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/02/02/newsmax-mike-lindell-my-pillow/
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