The Left wants Fox News off the air.
Democrats want to go back to the media environment where leftists controlled every outlet and there were no dissenting voices.
And now Democrats tried to cancel Fox News with this insane lie.
MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan exemplifies the new model of left-wing activists who claim to be journalists.
Hasan is a left-wing ideologue who presents left-wing talking points as “news” and derides any attempts at fairness in the press for the Republicans as “false equivalence” or “both sidesisms.”
On Monday night, Hasan took aim at Fox News in his comments on the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell from COVID even though Powell was fully vaccinated.
Hasan attacked Powell and the Bush administration for misleading the country into the Iraq War – which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths – and also the Trump administration by falsely claiming Trump lied to the public about COVID.
“The first [irony] is that Colin Powell was part of an administration that misled the American people into a war that cost hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. And then today he dies from complications from a disease that spread unchecked through America because another Republican administration misled the American people. That’s the first irony,” Hasan began.
Hasan then outrageously claimed Fox News was at the center of killing people from both the coronavirus and the Iraq War.
The entire corporate-controlled media supported the Iraq War.
There was no news outlet more central to the Bush administration making the case for war than The New York Times, which acted like an agent of the state in the runup to the war.
It is false for Hasan to say Fox News was at the heart of a propaganda campaign by the Bush administration when the entire corporate-controlled media readily promoted the Deep State’s false claims about Iraq possessing WMD.
But then Hasan pivoted to Fox News being a menace to public health citing dodgy Fake News Media polling claiming Fox News viewers were uninformed about the pandemic and Iraq asserting that watching Fox News literally kills people.
“A few years ago, Chris, there was a poll that came out which showed even in 2015, 52 percent of Fox News viewers believed that we had found WMDs in Iraq, in 2015, compared to 14 percent of MSNBC viewers, I would just point out. So it’s very important to point out here that the same lies that were told about Iraq that were believed on a completely different level by Fox viewers compared to everyone else. Same thing on Covid. You see it with the studies down with the study done of Sean Hannity’s viewers at the start of the pandemic. Again and again, Fox News is this misinformation machine, and we go, ‘Hahaha, look how silly they are. Hahaha, look how eccentric they are.’ No. People actually die as a result of watching Fox News, whether it’s going to war in Iraq or the pandemic,” Hasan stated.
In 2021, the desire to censor all dissenting political views is one of the main guiding principles on the American Left.
Leftists claim every view they disagree with is “misinformation.”
And now Mehdi Hasan claims the “misinformation” on Fox News is killing people.
You can expect to hear more leftists adopt that line as they pressure cable companies to drop Fox News.
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