Acitivists Blackmail Companies To Silence Tucker Carlson For Saying Truth
By: Jordan Davidson (The Federalist)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Carlson was right about Hunter Biden, the BLM riots, and the media's treatment of Trump. And he's right about how D.C. and other corrupt institutions exploited and manufactured a narrative about Floyd's death to accomplish political goals. By Jordan Davidson By Jordan DavidsonFebruary 11, 2021
The cancel culture mob is after Tucker Carlson again, employing the help of big-name companies to punish him for his blunt refutation of the narratives spewed by Democrats and other people in power who don't want to hear them.
While Carlson has long been an arbiter of truth ready to stand against the swamp for the American people, a brand proven effective with his show's consistently high primetime ratings, his content is not liked by everyone. As a matter of fact, Carlson is often targeted by establishment figures and other people on the left who disagree with him.
During his Wednesday evening segment, Carlson pointed out that the left's attempts to control the narrative about the January Capitol riot strongly resemble the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in summer 2020.
In many places, the known facts bear no resemblance to the story they're telling. They're just flat out lying. … Think back to last spring, beginning of Memorial Day, BLM and their sponsors in corporate America completely changed this country. They changed this country more in five months than it changed in the previous 50 years. How'd they do that? They use the sad death of a man called George Floyd to upend our society. Months later, we learned that the story they told us about George Floyd's death was an utter lie. There was no physical evidence that George Floyd was murdered by a cop. The autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose, fentanyl, but by that point, facts didn't matter, it was too late. Cities had been destroyed, along with the fabric of this country itself. Scores of people had been killed. Democratic partisans used a carefully concocted myth, a lie, to bum rush America into overturning the old order and handing them much more power. It worked flawlessly. So why wouldn't they do it again?
Carlson's on-air statement is not really wrong; it was simply not what the leftist mob wanted to hear.
Documents released by the Minnesota Judicial Branch in August 2020, months after Floyd's death was used as a pretext for destructive and deadly riots across the nation, clearly demonstrate that the black man who died while in police custody in May had a potentially "fatal level" of fentanyl in his system at the time of death.
In one report, a medical examiner on the case even suggested Floyd had such a high level of fentanyl in his system that if he had been found dead at home, it would "be acceptable to call an O.D." While the medical examiner clarified he was "not saying [fentanyl killed Floyd]," he acknowledged it may have played a larger role in Floyd's death than first suspected.
Carlson's monologue and blatant description of Floyd's drug use shortly before his death outraged many people. Some called for Fox News to fire Carlson for his comments. Others said they hoped Floyd's family would sue the host and network for the public "smear."
The biggest ask, however, came from leftist activist group Sleeping Giants, which took to Twitter to call for Fox News advertisers such as Cadillac, Verizon, General Motors, Amazon, Sandals Resort, and other big-name companies to pull their business from Fox or risk allegedly enabling white supremacy.
"HORRENDOUS: If you're still advertising on Fox News, you are sponsoring and attaching your brand to conspiracies and racism. Full stop," the organization tweeted shortly after Carlson's segment, listing the various sponsors along with emotional social media appeals to satisfy the Black Lives Matter crowd.
"Advertising isn't just trying to reach audiences. It's an investment in more of the content you're paying for. These brands can't have it both ways. You're either FOR racial justice and against white supremacy or you're not. By sponsoring Fox News, you're not. In fact, you're making it a lot harder to achieve racial justice when you pay Fox to openly denigrate it like this."
HORRENDOUS: If you're still advertising on Fox News, you are sponsoring and attaching your brand to conspiracies and racism. Full stop.
As Fox rails against Black Lives Matter, let's see what their major advertisers said about it this summer.
Thread: https://t.co/joNOMbTvmh
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) February 11, 2021
In fact, you're making it a lot harder to achieve racial justice when you pay Fox to openly denigrate it like this.
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) February 11, 2021
In an appeal much like Brian Stelter's demand for enabling Silicon Valley giants to shut down conservative media, primarily Fox News, Sleeping Giants called out cable companies for taking peoples' money in exchange for "naked racism, this defense of white supremacy, and these horrifying lies" from the right-leaning television channel.
If you have @Xfinity@verizonfios@DIRECTV@att@CoxComm@GetSpectrum basic cable, you are paying up to $20 a year for this naked racism, this defense of white supremacy and these horrifying lies.
It's time for cable companies to stop making us pay for Fox. https://t.co/joNOMbTvmh
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) February 11, 2021
Tonight, Tucker Carlson said he DOESN'T know what happened at the Capitol a month ago, but he DOES know that George Floyd died of drug use.
Advertisers still sign their names to this network.
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) February 11, 2021
The Sleeping Giants campaign against Carlson and Fox News is nothing new. In 2018, the anti-conservative group organized a boycott of the TV host over Sleeping Giants' verifiably false narrative that sullied Carlson's critique of the Washington establishment's immigration policy. In its campaign, the Sleeping Giants successfully pressured some advertisers to bow to the group's wishes and abandon the network, granting them the power to be "gatekeepers of our political dialogue."
Despite the left's attempts to slander Carlson and throw Fox News under the bus with him, Carlson bounced back with a fervor that earned him the status of being one of the top cable TV hosts and granted him the ability to reach the American people from his familiar spot at a Fox News desk in front of the iconic blue background.
Carlson was right about Hunter Biden. He was right about last summer's destructive riots. He was right about the corporate media's treatment of former President Donald Trump. And he was right about how Washington, the corporate media, corporations, and other institutions exploited and manufactured a narrative about Floyd's death to accomplish political goals.
They cheat, they lie and they try to intimidate sponsors.
It's the American left.
Trump is off topic
I am off topic
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There is no 'American left.' It collapsed years ago.
Depravity predication is a whip used to demand deepened submission to the bourgeoisie faction of the ruling class..
With that I think I'll retire to bedlam!
The Truth? Fox admits Tucker should not be believed!
Hilarious. Now the commenting moderator is silencing comments because he believes them inaccurate right after complaining for months about how Facebook and Twitter is silencing those with claims the social media companies fact checkers claim are untrue. At least Twitter just adds a fact check note instead of just deleting the comment and only leaving the fact check claim the statement is untrue.
It is a silly abuse of power. Really quite childish.
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It's ironic that the people that keep crying about, "cancel culture", are the same people that tried to cancel the 2020 presidential election. Carlson is a lying POS.
Carlson is a lying POS.
Prove it.
Everything Tucker says proves that he and the truth have never met.
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There is a lot of hysteria immediately following incidents like the Floyd death, the attack on the Capitol, and back to Ferguson, Missouri. The hysteria derives from limited, often flat-out wrong information.
For a long time, people thought Michael Brown was murdered by a cop while trying to surrender. That wasn't true.
For a long time, people thought George Floyd was murdered by a cop who did the deed by crushing his neck with his knee so that Floyd couldn't breathe. It turns out, that's not why Floyd couldn't breathe.
For weeks, we have heard that a cop was beaten to death on the steps of the Capitol. The impeachment brief now before the Senate makes that claim explicitly. It now appears that wasn't true, either. He did die later, after sustaining no blunt force injuries, and telling people he was fine. Police are saying he may have had some kind of stroke that night.
That said, just because the information or the narrative might have flaws, that doesn't mean nothing bad happened. It doesn't mean police (or a mob) couldn't have behaved better.
We see this more and more, and I feel like this practice cuts against open-minded analysis and reform on both ends. The initial hysteria - shown to be somewhat false undercuts the claims that reform is necessary because it damages the credibility of any negative account of the moment. After all, it is usually the allegation of wrongful death - even murder - by police officers that drives the protests. Then it turns out the suspect may have killed himself, after a fashion.
On the other hand, pointing out the flaws can seem to dismiss the legitimate need for reform, which is why I think people are pissed at Tucker Carlson. Fentanyl or not, there is no scenario in which a cop should have his knee on the neck of a submissive man in handcuffs. And if he is saying he can't breathe, that might be true. It should be investigated immediately. It's not as if doing so is going to cause the suspect to run free in the streets. Many suspects visit a hospital on their way to jail. There is no justification for ignoring his cries for help.
We do need police reform in this country, but over dramatizing events - or flat out lying about them - doesn't help the cause. Neither does basically claiming we should stop talking about the incident because the protestors got something wrong.
The fact is Tucker Carlson distorts the truth, often portraying events as the exact opposite of what occurred by the careful parsing of words and injection of partisan dog whistles, with the ultimate effect being the incitement of anger at the opposition (to him and whomever he is talking about) and the raising of the emotional reasoning parts of the brain instead of the logical reasoning parts. He commits logical fallacies everyday, and these are overlooked because he is saying what his listeners want to hear.
He does not tell the truth.
His fervent listeners and supporters do not realize this is happening because it is happening. They just go along with the mob and chant, "Tucker Said," without logical analysis or investigation into what he actually said, because, when these operations are performed, one sees the resultant falsity and hypocrisy of his statements.
He is, in short, a propogandist.
More crocodile tears from the facetiously fainting right crying out to, "Stop beating me," when there is no one beating them.
Oh, BTW, the cop knelt on George Floyds neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, until he was dead, and showed no concern at all for the life of the person under his knee. That is called depraved indifference. All for passing a $20 bill.... Think about that. That is why America and the rest of the WORLD was so upset. That is what we should be focused on, not the kangaroo court of the Senate which will not do its duty to the CotUS and convict a lying piece of trash who also abrogated and violated his duty and oath to the CotUS.
Tucker Carlson is a proven liar and squirrel chaser.
It's always interesting when political types begin proclaiming themselves and their narratives as the Yahweh's inherent word.
It's that kind of talk that gets you respected. Methinks I've found material for another meme.
Then there are their internet 'repeater stations.' But they aren't as good at it.
This may be so, but I find the 'squirrel chaser' highly graphic and far more amusing.
Yet another potential meme. But it also raises a problem. I'm having difficulty deciding whether 'squirrel chasing' or 'crying out "stop beating me" when there is no one beating them' is more hilarious.
Either way, well done!
The biggest red flag in the history of flags that they are full of shit. When someone implies that you cannot find the truth/solution ANYWHERE else, that is the biggest sign that they are full of shit and just want your money.
Blackmail: noun - the action, treated as a criminal offense, of demanding payment or another benefit from someone in return for not revealing compromising or damaging information about them.
There is no "blackmail" going on in this case, this is a bald faced lie, much like most of the rest of this piece of shit "The Federalist" seed.
"The autopsy showed that George Floyd almost certainly died of a drug overdose, fentanyl" - Tucker Carlson
"Cities have been destroyed" - Tucker Carlson
"Carlson's on-air statement is not really wrong; it was simply not what the leftist mob wanted to hear." - The Federalist
The Truth?
"the medical examiner clarified he was "not saying [fentanyl killed Floyd],"
No, there were no "cities destroyed", every city where there was a protest is still there. There were a few buildings destroyed and that was reprehensible, but there is no need for this overinflated bullshit rhetoric.
So the claim of blackmail is bullshit, all that is happening is a good old fashioned legal boycott, Floyd was murdered by a cop, he did not die of an overdose and there were no "cities destroyed", conservative whiners just don't want to hear it and are again claiming victimhood.
The fact that some eat up this bullshit served cold by a dumb shit like Carlson says a lot more about them than it does about the guy dishing it out. Carlson wouldn't be making these ridiculous bullshit claims if he didn't have a crowd of dumb shits ready and willing to gobble it up and ask for second helpings.
Then call what the left does extortion. They are threatening that something unfortunate will happen to their companies if they don't comply with their (the lefts) desire.
Once you say that I dismiss anything else you may be whining about right off the bat.
It isn't "cancel culture" you are complaining about, it is "accountability culture". You are mad that all of a sudden people are calling you a dickhead when you act like a dickhead. You have gotten away with it for so long, just being a total prick with no consequences, that when someone finally says "hey man, not cool" you feel like you are being treated unfairly. Unfortunately for you, the world has change to where the people you are shit talking can talk back.
As I have said repeatedly, this is not a first amendment issue. Period, end of story. You have the right to say (mostly) whatever you want, but none of us have to listen to you. We all have the right to tell you to go fuck yourself. Social media companies have the right to ban you, I have the right to kick your ass off my property when you start babbling about election fraud. As long as the government isn't punishing you for what you say, all you are complaining about is that the rest of us are ignoring you.
Stop being a pussy, grow up.