On Monday, Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told “Prime News” that DirecTV dropped Newsmax because certain people simply cannot tolerate alternative views. Of course, he’s talking about the Left.
“There is only one reason why we are seeing this cancel culture affect telecommunications, and it’s because they don’t like what you have to say,” Gaetz explained to Jenn Pellegrino, the show’s host. “It’s not a business case. It’s not some sort of entrepreneurial play. It is content-based censorship, and we need a multi-vector attack on this.”
Concerning censorship, the Florida congressman recommends that “the antitrust division of the Department of Justice look into this.”
Don’t hold your breath on that with the current DOJ.
“The FCC, should open an investigation into this,” Gaetz went on. “And, of course, the United States Congress should speak loudly about such an infringement” on “the rights of Americans … to obtain diverse viewpoints.”
“We didn’t use to be so afraid of diverse viewpoints in America. And like it wasn’t that long ago. It was the left that championed this notion that we needed a great marketplace of ideas, but increasingly, they’re scared of anyone who reflects an America First or conservative thought.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELOn Friday, journalist Matt Taibbi broke the story that the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank co-opted by neoconservatives and neoliberals, was responsible for many misleading reports that caused the dividing of political dialogue.
According to Taibbi, the think tank produced an artificial list of “Russian bots” made up mostly of ordinary people to support the Democrat’s political agenda. The think tank’s bogus report on Russian bots was responsible for numerous bogus news stories across multiple mainstream media platforms, including the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign, the #ReleaseTheMemo affair, Donald Trump’s election, Senator Bernie Sanders’ (D-VT) campaign, calls to fire National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, attacks on the Mueller investigation, and many more.
During an episode of “America This Week,” which he co-hosts with Taibbi, author Walter Kirn commented on Taibbi’s report, saying, “One of the problems that this week I’m having talking — even with my friends — about what’s about going on with Ukraine-Russia and our arming of them is that everyone now is trained unconsciously with this sort of dominatrix in the back of their head whipping them every time they depart from approved discourse.”
“So it’s not just that a bunch of news organizations ran hundreds of news stories based on this spurious research, it’s that it leaked out into the public mind and created a set of sensitivities, fears, apprehensions, and habits around discussing everything.”
Kirn said, “we find ourselves with … this new layer of calculation: ‘Can I discuss this without being accused or laying myself open to the accusation of subversion, of Vladimir Putin-loving, of whatever it might be?’ This is automated McCarthyism. I don’t ever want to hear again about the 1950s until we’ve dealt with this.”
