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PBS agitates to have Tucker Carlson taken off the air
American Thinker ^ | 4 May, 2022 | Russell Cook

Posted on 05/04/2022 4:15:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Accelerating the growing push for Tucker and Fox News to be taken off the air.

The taxpayer-funded national network PBS is pushing for less viewpoint diversity. No doubt intended to accelerate the growing push for Tucker and Fox News to be taken off the air. From the PBS Newshour, May 2, 2022

"Tucker Carlson’s influence and his increasingly extreme views" (Amna Nawaz interviews New York Times' Nick Confessore, who wrote the 4/30 "How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable"

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Nick Confessore: ... He's the highest rated cable show host in history.And it's also the most racist show in history. ... Every night, that show teaches fear and loathing. He may claim to be a person who opposes racism and prejudice, but what the show tells you every night is to be afraid, to be afraid of people who are in the street asking for police officers to not shoot Black people, be afraid of Afghan refugees who helped us in the war who are coming over here now, to be afraid of Dr. Fauci, and to be afraid of immigration in general, which he posits is part of a cabal, a plot to destroy Western civilization ...... it's not just the anti-white racism kind of rhetoric on the show. He's literally taking ideas that began on the very far right, on arcane corners of the Internet, on neo-Nazi sites ...

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; defundpbs; pbs
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1 posted on 05/04/2022 4:15:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Such compassion for diversity of thought.


2 posted on 05/04/2022 4:15:32 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

What should be absolutely clear is that these people will do anything - anything - to not hear or face truth. They have constructed their own separate reality and cannot have anything challenge their own make believe construct.


3 posted on 05/04/2022 4:19:15 AM PDT by Obadiah ("America is facing a winter of severe illness and death." Biden's own summary of his America.)
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To: MtnClimber

Another entry by the ‘everything I disagree with is racist or fascist and should not be allowed to be heard’ crowd.


4 posted on 05/04/2022 4:20:48 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: MtnClimber

Tucker has all the right enemies they should just answer the questions truthfully


5 posted on 05/04/2022 4:22:15 AM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: Obadiah

Same thing happening here regarding The Current Thing,


6 posted on 05/04/2022 4:22:37 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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When Carlson starts breaking big news damaging to Deep State, give me a ping.


7 posted on 05/04/2022 4:27:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: MtnClimber

Shut up or be called a racist. That’s all the Left has. And they use it constantly.


8 posted on 05/04/2022 4:30:15 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: griswold3

That is why we need the Ministry of Truth that was just created. The country needs to be rid of pesky opposing thoughts like those of Tucker. How can we have peace and harmony if everyone does not think what they are told to think?/s


9 posted on 05/04/2022 4:31:13 AM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: mewzilla

PBS and NPR should have been defunded from federal taxpayer money decades ago - Reagan had them funded at “zero” but the usual bootlickers like John Warner wanted to cozy up to the Georgetown types. When Trump was President, the Rs held both chambers of Congress but Ryan and McConnell did NOTHING to reduce the payments to these leftist mouthpieces. The arguments for PBS/NPR ended 40 years ago - that there needed to be a high end alternative to the networks - when cable tv and about 1000 specialized channels emerged. Now it is just welfare for otherwise unemployable leftists and WE pay their salaries to throw garbage in our faces.


10 posted on 05/04/2022 4:32:34 AM PDT by laconic
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To: laconic

I agree completely.

Meanwhile, FNC is why we cut the cord.


11 posted on 05/04/2022 4:34:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: laconic

Well said!
U.S. out of U.N.
U.N. out of U.S.
No more taxpayer funded propaganda from NPR and PBS!


12 posted on 05/04/2022 4:36:15 AM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: MtnClimber

A network almost no one watches, but taxpayers are forced to fund, demands removal of a program millions watch and no one is forced to fund. Leftist logic.


13 posted on 05/04/2022 4:36:25 AM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: MtnClimber

Ah yes, the Panhandler Broadcasting System and National Panhandler Radio, two Marxist mouthpieces paid for with our taxpayer dollars. Perfect.


14 posted on 05/04/2022 4:37:15 AM PDT by twister881
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To: MtnClimber

Our “guardians of democracy” have spoken. We must end freedom of speech. Only communist news outlets should be allowed to opine. Leave it to the professional liars. Don’t try it at home.


15 posted on 05/04/2022 4:38:42 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: griswold3

If I hear it from Tucker, experience has shown it to be likely true. They hate it when he laughs at them.

If I hear it from PBS, on the other hand... well, I’ve found their statements to be less than completely accurate. And it’s always what they don’t tell you.


16 posted on 05/04/2022 4:40:23 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: MtnClimber

Tucker has the highest ratings, simply because his opposition is freaks and nuts. Their shows are crap. Tucker is a real, normal, average guy. He’s clever, funny, goofy, laughs funny. Just like real guys behave. Tucker seems special only because those creeps on CNN and the rest are such idiots. I look forward to seeing Tucker every night.

CNN can put out good shows, I’ve seen them. They choose not to do it.


17 posted on 05/04/2022 4:40:48 AM PDT by Daaave ('You Nexus huh? I design your eyes.')
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To: MtnClimber
Maybe PBS is sensing its days are numbered via the coming shellacking the Dems get in November.

We can only hope.

18 posted on 05/04/2022 4:41:15 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: MtnClimber

IT is PBS that is the enemedia of the United States and should be cut off from all federal funding.


19 posted on 05/04/2022 4:42:51 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: MtnClimber
He's literally taking ideas that began on the very far right, on arcane corners of the Internet, on neo-Nazi sites ...

LOLOL!

20 posted on 05/04/2022 4:47:01 AM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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