Over and out. Photo: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images The post-Trump right-wing media landscape underwent a major change on Friday night, when the Fox Business Network took its highest-rated host, Lou Dobbs, off the air, according to the Los Angeles Times and multiple other outlets.
The sudden cancellation of Lou Dobbs Tonight — which has been on the air since 2011 — came one day after after Smartmatic, a voting tech company, filed a massive $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, Dobbs, and two of the parent company network’s other hosts, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro, alleging they propagated lies about the company following the election.
A Fox News spokesperson characterized Dobbs’s immediate ouster from the cable-waves as a pre-planned changing of the guard:
It’s a good day for democracy.
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