Posted on 01/19/2021 7:40:03 AM PST by Altura Ct.
In a Monday op-ed, the Washington Post called on heavyweight telecommunications corporations to shut down conservative cable news outlets including Fox News, One America News, and Newsmax TV, comparing the need to do so with that of shutting down foreign terrorist influencers.
The essay, penned by prominent Trump critic Max Boot, a Post columnist and CNN global affairs analyst, begins by explaining how merely holding the president accountable for “his role in inciting this violent insurrection” is “insufficient.”
“There is a whole infrastructure of incitement that will remain intact even after Trump leaves office,” Boot writes. “Just as we do with foreign terrorist groups, so with domestic terrorists: We need to shut down the influencers who radicalize people and set them on the path toward violence and sedition.”
The essay then heaps praise on the recent purging of conservative voices on social media platforms by tech giants, hoping that broadcast media will follow suit.
“Anyone who cherishes our democracy should be grateful to the management of Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for their newfound sense of social responsibility,” the op-ed reads. “We should expect at least the same level of responsibility from broadcast media — and in particular from Fox News, which has the largest reach on the right.”
The essay then criticizes Fox News for not issuing an edict to stop “spreading false claims” regarding election fraud.
“Cumulus Media, one of America’s largest talk-radio companies, has ordered its hosts — who include some Fox News personalities — to stop spreading false claims of election fraud,”
The author then suggests that if key members of the Murdoch family, which owns News Corp and its sister company Fox Corp., won’t comply, then large cable carriers should have Fox News shut down.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Boot Max as a Wacko-bird.
From another thread!
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When you become concerned about ‘extremist’ on the left but if not GFY!<<<<<<
Was this personal to me?
No
Too little, too late, skidmark. We’ve already stopped watching.
I’m with Max Boot 100% on this. We should blacklist Fox News just like I’ve been blacklisting him for years.
Thanks for the clarification!
Take care........pilgrim
See how it works Fox. Pissing off your friends, doesn’t get rid of your enemies. Now you’ve got no one to defend you.
What a dumbass. Obviously hasn’t tuned in during the past 8-9 months. Hello, even cnn is beating them in ratings.
Please watch this short video.
This Leftist idiot Don Winslow is proposing an army of left-wing Stasi snitches to track down and report “domestic terrorists” aka Trump supporters.
This idiot is literally spraying gasoline over smoldering embers.
If you want to ignite CW2, aka Weimar vs Yugoslavia X Rwanda, this is how you do it.
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1351326993342627840
[Colonel] Moe Davis on Twitter.
{This Lefty wants to prosecute politicians who wanted to audit the stolen election as terrorists. Buckle up, folks, Soviet-style purges and political arrests are coming.}
“I was Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo for over 2 years and there’s far more evidence of Congressman Madison Cawthorn’s guilt than there was of guilt for 95+ percent of the detainees. It’s time we start a domestic war on sedition by American terrorists.”
https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/1351164251830935558
Fox News brought it on themselves. Can’t say I’m sorry.
And in today's environment he will be taken seriously and his ideas will be entertained as serious.
Max Boot is a chickenhawk Neocon. I can’t say here what should be done with this scumsucking grifter.
I looked for some info on Boot for a bit, but didn’t find any proof of a female wife. Just wondering how kooky he really is.
Kinda behind the curve ain’t he?
Fox has already flipped to the dark side.
Max Boot?
This dude is on the spectrum.
My pedophile alarm goes off when I hear him.
His parents are RUSSIAN.
hear hear
Boot’s inner Leon Trotsky, like so many neo-cons, is coming to the surface now.
Maybe he is saying this so the less informed, not liking what they are seeing now, will go to FauxNews thinking that they are getting the truth there.
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