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Feb 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
He said this on Tucker last night too, it's really strange.
Civil Rights movement activists got arrested (you may have heard of this Letter that MLK wrote from a Birmingham Jail). That was part of the activism -- you break an unjust law and pay the consequences as a way of calling attention to the injustice.
The convoys are not engaging in civil disobedience and being punished. They are using the threat or act of force to make swaths of the country ungovernable until they get their way. That's a great strategy in a dictatorship but loathsome in a democracy.
As it happens, I wrote about how Fox wants to make it impossible for governments to stop the mess it is about to unleash on them
mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-w…

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Feb 9
Fox’s propagandists have cheered on the truckers as “freedom fighters,” “civil rights hero[es],” and “the face of individualism and rebellion,” while denouncing the purported “totalitarianism” of the Canadian government.
Rather than encouraging their viewers to take shots that could keep them from dying, Fox stars have championed the truckers as culture war heroes their audience members should emulate.
As U.S. right-wing activists begin organizing for their own convoy on social media, this coverage may only be beginning.
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Feb 9
Fox News has all but ignored both Mike Pence's speech and the RNC's "legitimate political discourse" debacle. Sparse coverage on the "news" side, and none at all from the "opinion" propagandists. Why? mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-n…
Fox is something of a black box, and divining the meaning of what the network does or doesn’t run is difficult. But two things seem to be happening.
First, they are starting their upfronts push, when they sell the bulk of their ads. It's a vulnerable time when the brass becomes more worried about negative coverage.
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Feb 1
oh man
woooooooooooow
ALWAYS CHECK THE LAST NAME BEFORE YOU HIT SEND
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Jan 31
Fox News wanted viewers to hear an anti-vax trooper’s story – until he died of COVID.

The network has yet to mention Robert LaMay's passing, after turning him into a culture war hero for resigning rather than getting vaccinated. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
Fox News has tried to turn workers who refuse vaccine mandates into culture war heroes, even though the network itself voluntarily imposed a requirement that its own employees be either vaccinated or tested for COVID-19 daily.

LaMay became the latest such figure in October.
Fox hosts and others on the right promoted LaMay’s story and presented his refusal to take a lifesaving drug as an example their audiences could emulate.
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Jan 27
There's a large body of people who are qualified for SCOTUS, you pick the one you want who clears that hurdle.

There's no consistent standard by which conservatives can say Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett were each the most qualified person for the job.
Think of how many qualified judges conservatives rejected just because they were old, how can you expect them to rule properly on age discrimination cases?
Anyway here's National Review editor Ramesh Ponnoru explaining that the "main reason" he thought Trump should pick Barrett to replace Kennedy is because "she's a woman." chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen…
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Jan 24
There was a lot of news on my beat while I've been on parental leave, I think I'll do some mini-takes.
Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 special was particularly worrisome because it shows not only because he's basically in Infowars territory, but that Fox is willing to take the hit to let him do it.
In the wake of Carlson's Patriot Purge, Fox lost Stephen Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, and Chris Wallace -- each with more than a decade at the network. And that's after Carlson antics led to Shep Smith leaving the network a few years back. Fox brass prioritizes keeping Tucker happy.
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