Judge Rules Rachel Maddow’s ‘Statements Cannot Reasonably Be Interpreted As Allegations Of Fact’

The jealous competitors of Tucker Carlson have increasingly relied upon the same argument to dismiss any news broken by his top-rated show: claiming that Carlson’s lawyers admitted that his show is not journalism and that Carlson’s doesn’t pretend to be truthful.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo provided a prime example last Wednesday. “Here’s what should bother you: His employer said in open court that he is not to be taken seriously,” said Cuomo, who has been known to be less than forthcoming himself. “Why aren’t they telling you: ‘Don’t take this man as truthful, because we said in open court he is not to be believed by reasonable people’? They said it!”