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Panicked CNN Guest Wonders “How We’re Going To Control The Channels Of Communications In This Country”
Zubu Brothers ^ | 5-2-2022 | Steve Watson via Summit News

Posted on 05/02/2022 5:38:24 AM PDT by blam

A CNN talking head declared Sunday that if Elon Musk is allowed to buy Twitter, the platform will have to be government regulated to prevent ‘discourse’ being open and free, and not subject to establishment controlled censorship.

While discussing the Musk take-over on CNN’s potato time with Brain Stelter, “media analyst” David Zurawik proclaimed that Musk is “dangerous” and shouldn’t be allowed to restore free speech on the platform.

Zurawik suggested that the U.S. look to Europe, which has recently brought in new laws to limit social media, and even threatened to ban Twitter if Musk doesn’t play ball.

“There’s a bigger problem here about how we’re going to control the channels of communications in this country,” Zurawik frothed, panicking at the notion of the likes of CNN not being able to dictate what Americans think.

“This is dangerous! We can’t think anymore in this country!” Zurawik whined, adding “I’m serious! We don’t have people in Congress who can make regulations, that can make it work.”

“I think we can look to the Western countries in Europe for how they are trying to limit it. But you need controls on this,” the talking slap head continued.

“You need regulation. You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country or we are headed to hell,” Zurawik further suggested.

“We are there,” he added, further claiming that “Trump opened the gates of hell and now they’re chasing us down.”

“We gave over what amounts to our airwaves or our internet waves to Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and we are in so much trouble because those guys believe in making money,” he said.

Watch:

CNN’s David Zurawik: “Dangerous” with Elon Musk buying Twitter, we need to look to Europe.

“You need regulation. You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country or we are headed to hell. We are there. Trump opened the gates of hell and now they’re chasing us down.” pic.twitter.com/QubyKZwVCQ

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) May 1, 2022

Zurawik repeated a talking point that Hillary Clinton raised last week, championing Europe for cracking down on ‘disinformation’:

They got it done! https://t.co/Wc4kA9DPsb

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 25, 2022

And now, just a week later, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has rolled out a literal Ministry of Truth, headed up by a deranged partisan who truly believes that anything she disagrees with is hate speech.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: bias; cnn; communications; control; elonmusk; freespeech; mediabias; musk; truthsocial; twitter
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1 posted on 05/02/2022 5:38:24 AM PDT by blam
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2 posted on 05/02/2022 5:43:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Freedom of Speech is a fine thing — as long as the government can tightly control what people are allowed to say.


3 posted on 05/02/2022 5:44:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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One thing a lot of people might be missing.....the lefts belief that truth IS NOT absolute.......that’s some dangerous 5h!t right there....not to mention it’s straight out of hell.


4 posted on 05/02/2022 5:45:51 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Red Badger

The rats are showing their true authoritarian colors. They are called rats for a reason-the similarities are striking.


5 posted on 05/02/2022 5:47:31 AM PDT by muskah (Loose lips sink ships)
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It’s amazing, Democrats have fully become the Republican Party of the 1960’s, who want to control every aspect of your life and dictate what you can and cannot see or hear. Crazy that the Right is now more liberal than the Left.


6 posted on 05/02/2022 5:49:24 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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Some of us would be for burdening CNN with some regulation...like no more lectures....no more anti-Trump-chatter for 12 hours a day....just plain regular news without 12 experts trying to pretend to know something.


7 posted on 05/02/2022 5:49:48 AM PDT by pepsionice
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8 posted on 05/02/2022 5:49:55 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Wow, a potato head wetting his panties on national TV! The lefties need to wake up and smell what they’re shoveling.


9 posted on 05/02/2022 5:51:08 AM PDT by Migraine ( )
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Reminds me of what happened when people in the old Soviet Union and East Germany and elsewhere like that kept on watching episodes of Dallas or Dynasty and bought Levi jeans on the black market. I recently looked at a map of far eastern Russia and I can imagine it wasn’t too difficult for people living in that area to listen to radio stations and watch TV from Alaska back then. This sort of thing is likely spooking the globalist politically correct.


10 posted on 05/02/2022 5:52:28 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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CNN Translation: How are we going to keep covering up the crimes of the Democrat Party, if we don’t control the other channels?


11 posted on 05/02/2022 5:53:25 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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“We are there,” he added, further claiming that “Trump opened the gates of hell and now they’re chasing us down.”


That is what it looks like in their eyes.

Looks quite different to us.............................

on 2nd thought, maybe that is clear vision. Keep chasing.


12 posted on 05/02/2022 5:54:08 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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LOL! Some things just never lose their shine for me, like seeing the face of a lunatic, and realizing how much in common they have with Democrats...


13 posted on 05/02/2022 5:54:48 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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Musk could sell off the foreign bases of Twitter.

Imagine Etweet (Europe), etc.


14 posted on 05/02/2022 5:55:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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With these people (Leftists) all you have to do to understand them is to listen to them talk long enough.

They try to hide their real intentions, but...they just cannot keep from revealing themselves in a variety of ways, because they need to boast, or in their consternation, lose their filter, whatever.

But if you listen, they will tell you exactly what they believe in and what they intend to do.


15 posted on 05/02/2022 5:57:12 AM PDT by rlmorel (Democrats running things is termite infestation, and the exterminator won't be here for 3 years.)
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Bullet point of the day for MSM emphasis = All panties must be in a twist and worn as a wedgie. That is all.


16 posted on 05/02/2022 5:57:24 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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They’ll do anything to defend the Almond-Lippman consensus.


17 posted on 05/02/2022 5:58:57 AM PDT by oblomov
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Good God man, you might have to actually work to convince people to listen to your opinion and some people never will. It is the way of life.

These clowns are not self aware in the slightest. Reading that rhetoric embarrassed me for them.

This is why the left needs the use of force in the first place. Force is all they have to “control” people. Notice how he uses the word control. He is unaware that promoting good things can control a narrative. These people are plain lazy. They haven’t had a good idea in all of history. They need to lie and it is easier and less work if everyone else is forced to shut up.

We are headed to hell alright, but it will be because of their control, not for their lack of it.


18 posted on 05/02/2022 5:59:14 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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“We are there,” he added, further claiming that “Trump opened the gates of hell and now they’re chasing us down.”

Well, that's where they belong.

19 posted on 05/02/2022 5:59:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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It’s worth noting that these are the SAME PEOPLE pushing for WW3 in Ukraine.


20 posted on 05/02/2022 6:01:39 AM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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