Posted on 02/22/2021 12:22:41 PM PST by lowbridge
Two House Democrats on Monday questioned 12 television and content providers about why they carry Fox News, One America News Network, and Newsmax, blaming the right-leaning outlets for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.
Democratic Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney, both from California, sent letters to television content providers such as AT&T, Roku, Comcast, and Verizon asking them why they carried the three "purported" news outlets that they say function as "misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm."
The Democrats asked the content carriers if they plan "to continue carrying Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN," and if so, why.
The letters represent Democrats' latest reactions to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack by supporters of former President Donald Trump, many of whom, Democrats say, were influenced by Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax.
“Right-wing media outlets, like Newsmax, One America News Network (OANN), and Fox News all aired misinformation about the November 2020 elections,” McNerney and Eshoo wrote. “These same networks also have been key vectors of spreading misinformation related to the pandemic.”
Republicans responded to the letters, saying they were calling to limit free speech rights and marked a departure from First Amendment norms.
"Democrats are sending a message that is as clear as it is troubling — these regulated entities will pay a price if the targeted newsrooms do not conform to Democrats' preferred political narratives," said Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission.
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Of course they are pushing, just like Hitler did.
Censorship expanding.
We have almost nothing. Almost nothing.
And the demonic Dems want to take away that.
I pray that God will turn His face back toward us, the good people (not perfect and free from sin) and will help us again.
Just think these Hitlers have another 3 years and 11 months to do whatever they want to all of us
Why carry Fox? Uh...ratings?
Along as they end like him in the end
They’ve already got the presidency, they have infested schools, hospitals and numerous privately owned industries.
That’s still not enough?
Look up the term Megalomaniac and you’ll probably find a Democrats’ smiling/ grimacing picture there.
From:
“Give me liberty or give me death!”
To:
“My truth or NO truth!”
the Bill of Rights: “Congress shall make no law...”
Dems in Congress: “They didn’t say nothing about holding no hearing...”
And big media will watch this happen and won’t raise a fuss. But god help us when the republicans tried to defund NPR.
They are cable channels. The government can go pound sand..................
“You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.”
- Saul Alinsky
Go pound sand, dipstick dims. Leave my TV alone.
The authoritarian Dems only want propaganda agencies on TV approved by the DNC. Why should we see these people as different from the Soviets exactly? They just haven’t kicked into high gear yet.
It’s getting worse. Look up “Christian nationalism;” there are tons of new articles this week and last about this “topic.” They won’t even leave us alone in this area, our Christianity.
The left wants to tax churches, call private Christian schools terrorist training camps, and is managing to convince pastors to tell their church members that it’s sinful to watch Fox news.
I’m sure my days of being able to use my 529 funds for my daughter’s Christian high school tuition are numbered (for a start).
Politicians need to stay in their own lane and out of the entertainment industry and vice versa.
“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;”
I put that in just to show how the marxists tend to cancel everything, including the Constitution, which is supposed to be the nerve center of the country. Hence they are in process of cancelling the finest country ever conceived; in favor of WHAT? “The Science”? The science fiction? The political science? The yellow brick road?
OF COURSE I realize they care not one whit about the Constitution — not the letter, not the spirit. They’ve got something else in their minds: it’s called manure.
The normal response to a coup is a countercoup. Not asking God to strike our enemy down.
Even when Israel entered the Promised Land, God expected them to fight for it.
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