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Scrappy Fox News teaches Biden administration's censors a lesson
American Thinker ^ | 18 Sep, 2021 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 09/19/2021 4:03:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The Bidenites tried to shut down Fox News's video coverage of the chaos at the border by banning its drone but got thwarted.

In the crudest crypto-censorship since dictators made newsprint unavailable, the Biden administration tried to shut down Fox News's coverage of the border crisis by cutting off its drone access for camera shots, depriving the network of the ability to broadcast the actual news in pictures as it was happening on the ground. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has never been misused in this way, claimed its two-week shutoff was all about public safety. Thomas Lifson wrote about the sorry spectacle here.

Here's the real reason: Fox News's original reporting, done by Bill Melugin (a must-follow on Twitter), documented a historic crisis building at the border as tens of thousands of migrants swarmed into the U.S. near Del Rio, Texas. The photos were shocking and embarrassing to the Biden administration. The Bidenites wanted those pictures shut down. Coverage like Fox's was clearly making an impact on public opinion and had the potential to force the Bidenites to take action to halt the unprecedented invasion or else face voter consequences.

It was crude, disgusting, and unprecedented, a true example of a state attack on the freedom of the press and, right there in the same family of repressions, a dictator like Hugo Chávez would do.

While it was disheartening to many, the silver lining is that Fox didn't stand for it. Fox got someone else to get his cameras up there, effectively nullifying Biden's de facto censorship with the drone.

Wasting no time, Fox's Melugin got in touch with local law enforcement, made arrangements for a helicopter ride-along, and got the filming of the historic building border crisis done that way — no drones to howl about.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 09/19/2021 4:03:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The Bidenite handlers really want to turn the USA into a third world country.


2 posted on 09/19/2021 4:03:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

They said these immigrants are from Haiti and Angola!

No one reports on how these people are getting to Mexico. Are the swimming?


3 posted on 09/19/2021 4:06:22 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: MtnClimber

Looks like every single federal alphabet agency has been “weaponized” against America.


4 posted on 09/19/2021 4:08:49 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: MtnClimber

Its working.

Between the massive southern border invasion, Afghan resettlement and the selective harsh prosecution of political dissent, we are there.

By 2022 elections we will have been so nullified it will be pointless to even vote.

But RESIST anyway. Anyway you can. The hill worth dying on is right here.


5 posted on 09/19/2021 4:11:20 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: MtnClimber
I wonder which comes first

Headline:
FBI opens investigation into FOX reporter Bill Melugin.

Headline:
IRS opens investigation into FOX reporter Bill Melugin.

6 posted on 09/19/2021 4:15:50 AM PDT by Tupelo
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To: MustKnowHistory

Most of them are Haitians who have been living in Chili for some time.


7 posted on 09/19/2021 4:19:31 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Traitor Joe is NOT my president)
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To: Baldwin77

Did they hike from Chili to Mexico?


8 posted on 09/19/2021 4:27:57 AM PDT by MustKnowHistory
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To: MtnClimber

Melugin seems fearless.


9 posted on 09/19/2021 4:30:18 AM PDT by Guenevere (When the foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do t)
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To: MtnClimber

The article says (at the bottom) “to comment, go here” - a link to MeWe. Anyone know anything about MeWe?


10 posted on 09/19/2021 4:34:34 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: MtnClimber

Scrappy Fox News?!

The same network that refuses to cover The Steal?

SNORT.


11 posted on 09/19/2021 4:38:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: jeffc

MeWe is owned by the Chinese Government.


12 posted on 09/19/2021 4:39:34 AM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: MtnClimber

This may have actually had more to do with it…

https://www.rt.com/usa/535159-alex-jones-faa-lawsuit-migrants-drones/


13 posted on 09/19/2021 4:39:39 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (I refuse to submit to their psychological warfare, much less injections.)
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To: Tupelo

FNC is doing this because Deep State is trying to rehabilitate the asset it burned on election night.

Note to Deep State: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.


14 posted on 09/19/2021 4:40:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: jdsteel

So is Fox Corp.


15 posted on 09/19/2021 4:40:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: MustKnowHistory

Is Chili con Carne or without?


16 posted on 09/19/2021 4:41:04 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: MtnClimber
It was crude, disgusting, and unprecedented, a true example of a state attack on the freedom of the press and, right there in the same family of repressions, a dictator like Hugo Chávez would do.


It would be really instructive to know how the FAA's decision to ban the drone flying was made. Who made the phone call to whom?
17 posted on 09/19/2021 4:41:19 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The crowd was chanting "Death to America", but they were a mostly friendly crowd.)
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To: mewzilla
There seems to be fat fingers somewhere. An extraneous S.

SCrappy Fox New

Fixed!!

18 posted on 09/19/2021 4:47:30 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (Just taking a)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Perfect! Thank you! 😀


19 posted on 09/19/2021 4:49:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: MtnClimber

True dat.


20 posted on 09/19/2021 4:51:54 AM PDT by sauropod (Bidet was no prize before he put the “d” in “dementia.” - Schlichter)
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