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[Chicks]

John Boehner Spills on Shocking Meeting With Roger Ailes to Try to ‘Put a Leash’ on Fox News Hosts Like ‘Nut’ Sean Hannity

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/john-boe...-sean-hannity/

[RickeyM]

Let me guess how that went.
Boehner: time to pull the leash of these loose nuts.
Ailes: (loose nuts = viewers = $$$) OK Boomer

[Chicks]

How right-wing media keeps smearing George Floyd with the racist ‘no angel’ narrative

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...b78_story.html

In an appalling bit of shorthand, the riveting courtroom drama in Minneapolis has come to be called “the George Floyd trial.”

Floyd died in police custody last spring and is obviously not the one on trial. It was a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for more than nine unrelenting minutes, who now faces second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges.

But some in right-wing media keep doing their utmost to make this tragedy about Floyd’s drug use and troubled life, in what seems like an attempt to absolve Chauvin long before the jury reaches a verdict. In effect, they are putting Floyd on trial.

It feels all too familiar. This is the “well, he was no angel” narrative, obliquely blaming the victim for his fate. It’s a narrative all too often applied to Black men who die at the hands of police.

Give the Reich-wingnuts what they want to hear.

[donquixote99]

I remember it being applied here, that 'he's no angel' narrative. In the case of Michael Brown.

[RickeyM]

I recall hearing it as “the George Floyd trial” last week on Faux News*. I was not surprised and I knew it was intentional. It all gives weight to the narrative that he was a druggie lawbreaker who deserved what he got.

[Chicks]

How do the immigrants who run Fox feel about Tucker Carlson’s anti-immigrant rants?
By Max Boot

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...migrant-rants/

Tucker Carlson, the top-rated host on Fox “News” Channel, has been attracting attention for a while with his vile rhetoric against immigrants. Yet now he’s reached a new low.

Carlson is a child of privilege: His father is a wealthy businessman and former ambassador, his stepmother an heiress to the Swanson frozen food fortune, and he grew up in the tony precincts of La Jolla, Calif.. And now he is becoming richer and more famous than he already was by consistently abusing some of the least fortunate and most vulnerable among us — especially immigrants from non-European countries.

As the left-leaning Media Matters for America has chronicled, Carlson has a long history of ugly statements. He has called Iraqis “semiliterate primitive monkeys” and said that Afghanistan is “never going to be a civilized country because the people aren’t civilized.” He has complained that an influx of poor immigrants “makes our own country poor and dirtier and more divided.” He has repeatedly described immigration as an “invasion,” and called the urgent threat posed by white supremacists a “hoax” and “a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power.”

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On Thursday night, Carlson moved even closer to white supremacist ideology by explicitly endorsing the Great Replacement theory, which holds that shadowy elites are orchestrating a plot to replace native-born White people with immigrants of color. The New Zealand shooter’s manifesto was literally headlined “The Great Replacement,” and the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville chanted “Jews will not replace us.”

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The founder and co-chairman of Fox Corp. is, of course, Rupert Murdoch, a mogul who was born in Australia and now spends a lot of time in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The co-chairman and CEO is his son, Lachlan Murdoch, who was born in London and now lives in Australia. The person who is often said to be the most powerful day-to-day executive at Fox is Viet Dinh, a Vietnamese refugee born in Ho Chi Minh City who is now the corporation’s chief legal and policy officer. The lead outside director is Jacques Nasser, a former Ford CEO who was born in Lebanon and grew up in Australia. Another Fox director is Anne Dias-Griffin, the founder and chief executive of Aragon Global Holdings, who was born and educated in France.

This is not a comprehensive list. No doubt there are other senior directors and managers of Fox who are immigrants — and even more who are the children or grandchildren of immigrants. How do they feel about Carlson’s odious aspersions on Americans who weren’t born here? Are they okay with profiting from what Carlson is saying? And is Carlson okay with their presence in America? Isn’t he worried that they are taking the jobs of native-born media executives? Or does his hostility to immigrants exclude those who are his bosses?

Note to the resident Trumpkin morons: Max Boot is a CONSERVATIVE columnist.

[donquixote99]

Max belabors Tucker at length, as if he ought to make sense. Of course Tucker's rank appeals to bigotry don't make sense. You all hear he trotted out the 'colored are trying to replace us' trope, featured in white supremacy myths everywhere?

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

How do the immigrants who run Fox feel about Tucker Carlson’s anti-immigrant rants?

How he asks?

Answer says I:

[donquixote99]

^^^ yes!

[Chicks]

About a dozen OAN employees have quit in recent months as some staffers don't believe the stories run on air

https://www.businessinsider.com/oan-...age-nyt-2021-4

Couldn’t sleep at night?