Posted on 05/22/2022 10:35:26 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A former correspondent with Fox News suggested on Saturday that law enforcement agencies will have to take action against Fox News and Tucker Carlson to "stop the lying."
Carl Cameron, Fox's former chief political correspondent, told CNN's Jim Acosta that Carlson in particular has been "screaming fire in a crowded movie house for years."
"The fact of the matter is, if you disturb the peace by starting a riot in a movie theater, cops are going to arrest you and you might end up in jail or you might end up in something worse," Cameron said.
"And that kind of stuff absolutely has to stop, whether it's the antitrust bill to take down and deplatform people who lie and put out falsehoods that cause damage and violent, violent hate — there ought to be something done about it," he continued.
Cameron was referencing Carlson's remarks on the Buffalo shooting suspect from earlier this week.
As Insider's Connor Perrett and Kieran Press-Reynolds reported, police say they found a document belonging to the Buffalo shooting suspect that was rife with conspiracy theories such as the white nationalist "replacement theory," which claims immigration by non-white people is an attempt to replace the white population in the US.
Carlson latched onto that theory in his coverage of the Buffalo shooting, said Cameron, adding that the US government has to take action against people who spread and amplify misinformation.
"Democrats have to kick it in," he said. "The president has to be more forceful and sooner or later the law enforcement and the US government is going to have to stop the lying because it's causing people's deaths."
"It's not just Fox, it's social media in general," he added. "It's on the internet.”
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FOX : With zero votes reported, we call Biden the winner in AZ.
Carl Cameron.
He spent years lying to his employers. He spent years lying to his first wife and family.
He was an addict before it was cool to go to rehab. He was an opportunistic jerk who would throw anyone under the bus to get what he wanted. In a business full of egos his was the biggest.
The man is a immoral, disgusting POS. I would not believe a word he says.
FOX : With zero votes reported, we call Biden the winner in AZ.Yep you got it.
And that was the last we ever heard, to this day, from Fox News on the 2020 election.
If I’m thinking of the right guy, this is really hard to
fathom. This guy has never seemed like that big of an
airhead to me.
Granted I don’t have cable so he may have gone south in the last decade or so.
It’s not against the law to yell Fire in a crowded movie theater if there is a fire.
This guy is an enemy to the first amendment. Very disturbing. If it’s fueled only by his hatred of TC, that’s pretty disgusting that a personal vendetta would trump (no disrespect to our great 45th) our country and the founding tenets that have made our country so unique in world history. And it’s especially disturbing that this is coming from a profession he holds that is specifically mentioned in the first amendment. Weird and disturbing, but I guess not surprising.
Don’t forget stupid, unprincipled, and un-American.
Saying it on CNN, son of the Father of Lies no less!
+1. Authoritarian dorks like Cameron invariably despise and envy red-blooded Americans.
He’s pining for scary poppins to come back
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