FAKE NEWS EXPOSED: A Service of PoliticalChat.com

[Chicks]

It’s not just David Duke and the KKK anymore; it’s Tucker Carlson and Fox News Network who sell hate

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/10/its...who-sell-hate/

He’s hiding now, which is what white supremacist right-wing fanatics do when they’re not actually going out and killing people

Kinda makes you wonder why Whell and his fellow white supremacists here are no longer posting...

[Chicks]

Tucker Carlson’s Ad Sales Are Tanking Thanks to His Appalling Racism

https://splinternews.com/tucker-carl...app-1837132742

Why would any company sponsor this hate monger in the first place? He’s been spewing absolutely nonsensical hatred for years.

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Tucker Carlson’s Ad Sales Are Tanking Thanks to His Appalling Racism

https://splinternews.com/tucker-carl...app-1837132742

Why would any company sponsor this hate monger in the first place? He’s been spewing absolutely nonsensical hatred for years.

Wounder if the same effect will also tank support for Trump the first by his base?


Nahhhh!

[Chicks]

The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/w...tionalism.html

[Chicks]

Fox "News" has no comment on its venomous rhetoric

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opin...mous-rhetoric/

...it’s hard to avoid Fox News’s influence on immigration or any other contemporary controversy, especially for those inclined to seek out conservative news on the Internet. The influence is malign, too. Yochai Benkler, a scholar affiliated with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, has studied the network’s ability to seed its ideas across the web. He told The Post last year:

Our data repeatedly show Fox as the transmission vector of widespread conspiracy theories. The original Seth Rich conspiracy did not take off when initially propagated in July 2016 by fringe and pro-Russia sites, but only a year later, as Fox News revived it when James Comey was fired. The Clinton pedophilia libel that resulted in Pizzagate was started by a Fox online report, repeated across the Fox TV schedule, and provided the prime source of validation across the right-wing media ecosystem.

Which is to say, it is difficult to avoid the influence of Fox News. The Carlsons and the Ingrahams and the Hannitys — they’re the people who coin the language and forge the tone of the country’s immigration debate. If they say there’s an invasion, there must be an invasion. If they say there’s a replacement conspiracy afoot, well, believe it!

The rhetoric was dangerous before the emergence of the El Paso shooter’s manifesto; it will be dangerous once the document fades into the abyss of mass-shooter history. Consider that Carlson last December said that immigration makes the country “dirtier”; that Mexico is trying to change U.S. demographics; and that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was “living proof” of U.S. immigration failures. When Carlson unleashed his monologue on Omar, he teetered between policy critique and call for action:

Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country. A system designed to strengthen America is instead undermining it. Some of the very people we try hardest to help have come to hate us passionately.

So Fox News provides the hatred of immigrants; what viewers may choose to do with that hatred is up to them. Some may ignore it; others may vote only for politicians with hard-line stances on the topic; others may denounce immigrants at social functions or shout them down in person. Could yet others grind it into violent ideations?

Whatever the perils, Fox News isn’t talking about them. It had no comment for the New York Times. A follow-up from the Erik Wemple Blog fetched nothing. The same nonresponse greeted this blog’s inquiries about Cesar Sayoc, the confessed domestic terrorist — he mailed improvised explosive devices to prominent Democrats and CNN; they didn’t detonate — whose lawyers claimed in a court filing that he was radicalized in part by Fox News.

It’s gut-check time for Fox News, in other words. The work of its opinion-side hosts in siding with Trump’s racist, anti-immigration agenda is creating fresh exposure for the network, with clear warning signals on the public record. As Peter Maass wrote in the Intercept after Carlson’s attacks on Omar, the outrages are rightly laid at the door not only of the Fox News hosts but more appropriately the Murdoch family, whose trust owns 39 percent of Fox Corp.

[Chicks]

This is how to respond to Trump’s conspiratorial lunacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...torial-lunacy/

In short, the story here is threefold. The president is irresponsibly fanning incendiary conspiracy theories and white nationalist tropes; his aides won’t acknowledge that, so they lie about what he’s saying; and Republicans are too cowardly to denounce him or question his mental fitness. With Trump, his media mouthpieces and social media armies spreading so much misinformation that feeds the atmosphere, the mainstream media has an outsized obligation to provide a true accounting of events. If not, they become complicit.

[Chicks]

An Open Letter to Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith: Quit Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Now

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/an-...-news-now/amp/

[Chicks]

Overstock plunges for a third straight day after CEO comments on ‘Deep State’

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/14/over...eep-state.html

Don't think I've ever used overstock.com (which is a fake name, as they don't deal in overstock merchandise), but now I'm sure I never will. Nutjob CEO. Hope it goes bankrupt.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Overstock plunges for a third straight day after CEO comments on ‘Deep State’

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/14/over...eep-state.html

Don't think I've ever used overstock.com (which is a fake name, as they don't deal in overstock merchandise), but now I'm sure I never will. Nutjob CEO. Hope it goes bankrupt.

He also had a thing going with Putin's gal, Maria Butina.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/85938...ate-conspiracy

[Chicks]

Fox “News” hires former White House press secretary Sarah Slanders as a contributor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...7ce_story.html

Gee, what a surprise!