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'Radicalized' GOP And 'Twisted People' On Fox News Called Out In Damning New Ad

  

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Via:  tessylo  •  5 years ago  •  25 comments

By:   Lee Moran, HuffPost

'Radicalized' GOP And 'Twisted People' On Fox News Called Out In Damning New Ad

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'Radicalized' GOP And 'Twisted People' On Fox News Called Out In Damning New Ad













· Reporter, HuffPost

Sat, May 1, 2021, 2:54 AM





Progressive PAC MeidasTouch  is calling on people to reject the “radicalized” GOP ― and spotlights the harmful influence that personalities on right-wing media such as Fox News can have on Republicans ― with its latest viral ad.




The narrator in the 90-second spot released online Saturday notes how alienated people worldwide “are drawn to extremist leaders promising to take on the enemies of their people.”

“In America, some of our lost souls respond in a similar way to the call of influential voices,” he continues. “But instead of militant preachers or radical clerics, every single night in America they can listen to our own angry advocates of division and conspiracy” on right-wing media.

Fox News ’ prime-time host   Tucker Carlson , for example, has in recent weeks pushed   white supremacist rhetoric , downplayed the deadly U.S. Capitol riot and   sowed doubt   about COVID-19 vaccines.

“The radicalized Republican party and the twisted people on TV who speak for them use the very same language of intolerance and rage to provoke those alienated people,” he concludes. “And until we all reject these poisonous voices, the result will inevitably be escalating violence and tragedy.”


It’s unclear if the ad will air on television. The effect that this kind of online political attack ad has on influencing voters has also come under increasing scrutiny in recent years .


But on Twitter, the clip has already garnered   more than 400,000 views .

The PAC was created before the 2020 election by attorney Ben Meiselas and his two brothers. Meiselas represented former San Francisco 49er   Colin Kaepernick   in his   settlement with the NFL .

The siblings often attack ex-President Donald Trump and pro-Trump GOPers with their ads, many of which rack up millions of views online.









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JBB
Professor Principal
3  JBB    5 years ago

What outrageous lies will Fox News think up next? That Biden is outlawing the 4th of July and hamburgers?

Wait! They already did. Fox News is shameless bullshit!

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
4  Hallux    5 years ago

Call it what it is ... Trumpist Wokism.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
Professor Quiet
5  Ed-NavDoc    5 years ago

What I see is the usual diatribe hit piece by the extreme leftist liberal biased publication called the Huffington Post. Hardly credible except to extreme left leaning liberals. At least try to use something in or near the center of the spectrum.

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
5.1  Hallux  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @5    5 years ago

Trumpists call everything 'fake news', what are your suggestions?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
Professor Principal
5.1.2  JohnRussell  replied to  Hallux @5.1    5 years ago

I saw someone call Vox "far left" the other day.  To some people anyone to the left of Mitch McConnell is a "far left extremist".

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
Professor Quiet
5.1.3  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Hallux @5.1    5 years ago

I am no Trumpist nor did ever use the words "fake news".

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
5.1.4  Hallux  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @5.1.3    5 years ago

I didn't call you one nor did I say you used the words 'fake news'. I merely asked you for a list of publications that you would consider as being non-biased. Do you always melt and take umbrage so easily?

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
5.1.6  cjcold  replied to  JohnRussell @5.1.2    5 years ago

The far right hates everybody to the left of Attila the Hun.

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
Professor Quiet
5.1.7  Ed-NavDoc  replied to  Hallux @5.1.4    5 years ago

You answered my post with your statement and I took it as you equating me as such. Please accept my apologies for misinterpreting your comment. I'm not in a good frame of mind right now as I had my dog of 13 years pass away during last night.

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
5.1.8  Hallux  replied to  Ed-NavDoc @5.1.7    5 years ago

All dogs go to heaven.

 
 
 
Hallux
Professor Principal
5.1.10  Hallux  replied to  MonsterMash @5.1.9    5 years ago

I thought that was where they came from.

 
 
 
bbl-1
Professor Silent
6  bbl-1    5 years ago

GOP is not 'radicalized'.  GOP has the affliction of kompromat. It is something about the money and the origin of that money.

 
 

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