‘The Daily Show’ Gives Us the Tucker Carlson Apology Fox News Won’t

Dominion Voting Systems’ decision to settle its massive defamation suit against Fox News may end up relieving Rupert Murdoch’s checkbook of $787.5 million, but it deprived the American public of something much better: listening to inexplicably popular hosts like Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham admit they lied about the 2020 presidential election to their audiences. And Jordan Klepper won’t stand for it.

While discussing the fallout from the Fox-Dominion settlement on Wednesday night, The Daily Show guest host noted that “Dominion was not the only injured party” from the network’s constant pushing of Trump’s “Big Lie.”

“What about, you know, our faith in democracy?,” Klepper said. “There are people who will not trust elections for the rest of their lives—and I have to talk to those people.”

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