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I've been offline a couple days so I know I'm a bit late to this but:

It is utterly unacceptable and dangerous for senior Pentagon officials to be opining on who should and shouldn't be on TV.

Tucker's targets were *senior officials* and US wars, not ordinary service members:
Beyond that:

1) These senior Pentagon officials are absolute cowards for only cheering Tucker's departure in media after POLITICO shielded them with anonymity.

2) Worth asking: why is Tucker the only TV host (at least not on Fox) whom senior military leaders wanted off the air?
The answer:

Both CNN and NBC/MSNBC have their payrolls stuffed with former operatives of the US Security State (the career path is CIA/FBI/NSA/DoD ---> NBC/CNN contract).

*All their hosts* are loyalists of US foreign policy and wars.

They're valuable. Tucker was a key critic.

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Apr 25
Exactly. Liberals find Hannity totally unthreatening because he plays the standard media role: he's a GOP loyalists, supports Biden's proxy war in Ukraine, and unlike Tucker - who was the highest rated cable host among young Dems - speaks only to old Republicans with GOP dogma:
In 2003, liberals were furious that the only steadfast anti-war TV host - Phil Donahue - was fired by MSNBC despite its highest ratings.

There are a couple hosts skeptical of the proxy war in Ukraine (all on Fox), but removing Tucker got rid of the most vocal.

Also key: Image
Here's Vox today on why the establishment wasn't threatened by Hannity or others who spew GOP establishment ideology (including supporting Biden's proxy war).

They saw Tucker as unique because he was one of the only actual dissidents on TV:

vox.com/politics/2023/…
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Apr 24
Como sempre, as opiniões dominantes no Brasil sobre a política e a mídia dos EUA vêm da CNN e do NYT, repetidas sem pensar pela Globo, pelo Estadão e pelo grupo centrista de acadêmicos de elite desesperados para serem populares nas capitais ocidentais.🇧🇷

Sobre Tucker Carlson:👇 Image
Em 2021, escrevi para @cartacapital sobre os equívocos falsos sobre Tucker e Fox, tudo devido ao fato de que a grande mídia corporativa brasileira - liderado pela Globo - copia tudo o que ouve de grandes mídia nos EUA quando se trata de política dos EUA.

cartacapital.com.br/glenn-greenwal…
É um fato que Tucker foi o dissidente mais assertivo contra Biden alimentando a guerra na Ucrânia - enquanto AOC, Bernie e a mídia neoliberal financiaram e aplaudiram a guerra.

Ou seja: Tucker foi um dos poucos jornalistas na TV que tinha a mesma visão de Lula sobre a guerra.
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Apr 24
There is no comparing these two stories.

One was the most-watched cable news host in the history of the medium.

The other was someone who - despite having one of the most powerful corporate brands promoting him - couldn't get anyone watching him or interested in what he says.
One reason there's so much hatred among left-liberal media types toward Tucker is petty jealously: that goes without saying. They always hate most those who succeed in journalism.

But he's also hated by that crowd because he holds up a mirror to the failures of their heroes. Image
Left-liberals don't mind Hannity because he's a standard-issue Republican: they're comfortable with those who stay in their partisan lane.

Tucker was uniquely threatening because he vocally opposed US militarism while left-liberal heroes voted to fund Biden's proxy wars. And: Image
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Apr 24
Tucker was the cable host who most:

* Opposed US proxy war in Ukraine;

* Denounced CIA, FBI and DHS for its systemic lies and corruption;

* Devoted himself to a pardon for Julian Assange;

* Objected to regime change efforts in Cuba;

* Criticized Trump Admin's militarism. ImageImageImageImage
From 8pm to 9pm on Fox, there was extreme, even fundamental, disagreements between Tucker and Hannity on those key issues - the kind of internal debate unthinkable on any other network: in lockstep.

I'd wager the new 8pm host will be far more aligned with Hannity: standard GOP.
I'm not making claims, yet, on what caused this separation. I'm just noting: the removal of Tucker means the elimination of the only real, sustained dissent on US militarism, the US Security State and more 👆(Laura & Jesse Waters are the only others in prime-time near that).
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Apr 24
A bill in Brazil is rapidly lurching toward approval that would vest the government more power to control social media than any country in the democratic world.

We'll report on it tonight on @SystemUpdate_: it empowers the state to decree Truth, and censor/punish dissent to it. Image
The bill would create something similar to what Homeland Security tried to implement with its own Ministry of Truth and #Resistance fanatic @wiczipedia.

But Brazil's bill makes even that extremist effort seem mild. And Europe is looking to Brazil to see how far they can go.
I've repeatedly reported on the radical censorship powers seized by Brazil's Supreme Court - one so extreme that even the NYT and AP expressed grave concern. I wrote about the multiple ways this law is dangerous for @folha - here's the English version:

www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/…
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Apr 23
The excuse that the 2020 election would not have been affected had CIA, Dems and corporate media not lied about the Hunter Biden laptop is laughable -- in part because nobody can prove this counter-factual, more so because the CIA, Dems and media were desperate to discredit it:
The hegemonic force in US politics is the union of left-liberal Dems, the US Security State, neocons, and the corporate media.

The lies they jointly spread about the Biden laptop is one vivid example, and thus condition their followers to ignore it:

Obama's CIA Director and ardent Hillary supporter Michael Morell admitted: the reason 51 former senior intelligence officials issued a false letter about the Biden laptop was because the Biden campaign/Blinken requested it.

What % of Dems do you think are even aware of this? Image
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