This CPAC panelist is a raving anti-semite who claims that "Our True Enemy" is Israel, because all the Big Tech platforms are "OWNED OR CONTROLLED" by Israeli Jews, who are also responsible for all online "PEDOPHILIA" via @ehananokimediamatters.org/diversity-disc…
I haven't seen a cancelation that fast since we asked Rich Lowry why one of his writers gave a speech at a white supremacist conference.
Presumably the reprehensible views of all the rest of the speakers **do** have a home with their conference.
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Alright, now that I'm done laughing, here's the actual point. There isn't a debate over whether it's appropriate to deplatform people with horrendous views. There's a debate over which views are horrendous enough to merit deplatforming, to what extent, for whom, etc.
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Laura Ingraham: "The answers to these questions go directly to exposing some of the big covid lies that our press are either too stupid or too biassed to uncover for themselves."
Trump treating Newsmax and OAN as Fox’s equals will encourage other Republican politicians to do the same, furthering a radicalization spiral for both the right-wing media and the GOP.
Gonna be a weird seesaw for Fox between doing pro-Trump propaganda like it has the last several years and doing more traditional work as the GOP’s lie factory. mediamatters.org/fox-news/why-f…
What does this do for Fox's ratings? Hannity's been losing his time slot to Maddow for weeks, by up to ~1 million viewers. Does this put him back on top? Does he beat Tucker for Fox's top show?
Right-wing media remembrances of Rush Limbaugh seem curiously short on quotes from the show that he did for several decades.
Fox News, for example, has repeatedly aired clips from his 2009 CPAC speech, not particularly revealing comments he made on his radio show..
The FoxNews.com obit quotes the CPAC speech, his final 2020 broadcast in which he discussed his prognosis, some autobiographical quotes he made on-air, and this reference to the McNabb incident. foxnews.com/media/rush-lim…
Daily Caller obit: 2020 prognosis quote, CPAC quote, "resigned [from ESPN] after comments he made about an NFL quarterback sparked backlash." dailycaller.com/2021/02/17/rus…