Tucker Carlson. Fox News A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News this week after lawyers for the network argued that no "reasonable viewer" would take the network's primetime star Tucker Carlson seriously. The former Playboy model Karen McDougal filed a defamation suit against Fox alleging that Carlson slandered her during a December 2018 episode of his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight." The network asked a judge to dismiss the case by arguing that "Carlson's statements were not statements of fact and that she failed adequately to allege actual malice." The judge agreed with Fox's premise, adding that the network "persuasively argues ...