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<\/p>\nThere was some optimistic speculation a few months ago that with the exile of Donald Trump from the White House, the right-wing mouthpieces in the media who supported him would settle down and seek to moderate their flagrant sycophancy and propaganda. As it turns out, that speculation was way too optimistic.<\/p>\n
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If anything, the rightward drift at outlets like Fox News became even more extremist in the post-Trumpian world. This was a predictable path<\/a><\/strong> for the fundamentalist conservatives at Fox News. The CEO even publicly declared that being the opposition is “what our job is now with the Biden administration.”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> And the result is that Fox News is now a network that is indistinguishable from the wildest crackpot outposts on the Internet.<\/p>\n CNN’s media analysts, Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, noticed this and put together a video mash up that illustrated just how far down the rabid hole<\/a><\/strong> Fox’s top primetime host, Tucker Carlson, had descended. The video (posted below)<\/em> neatly juxtaposed comments by Carlson with nearly identical comments by freakazoid Alex Jones. For instance…<\/p>\n Carlson:<\/strong> The NSA has been reading our emails.” Carlson:<\/strong> It’s a lie to say there are no risks. There are risks in everything. Including in getting a vaccine. Carlson:<\/strong> So FBI operatives were organizing the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, according to government documents. What each of those clips have in common is the demented ravings of unhinged lunacy. Neither Carlson nor Jones can support what they’re disgorging with anything resembling a fact. Following the mash up, Stelter asked Darcy “Is it a stretch to say that Tucker Carlson is the new Alex Jones?”<\/em> to which Darcy replied…<\/p>\n “Tucker Carlson is the new Alex Jones. If you watch Tucker Carlson’s program, and you watch Alex Jones’ program, they might differ a little bit in antics and the way they deliver their message, but that message to viewers is consistent. And it’s pretty identical.<\/p>\n Whether it’s talking about vaccine conspiracy theories, false flag conspiracy theories, deep state conspiracy theories. The messages that Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones are sending are the same. […] These far-right conspiracy theories, they used to be confined to the Infowars section on the Internet. You used to have to seek them out.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The overriding theme is that both Carlson and Jones are among the media’s foremost promoters of utterly baseless, and demonstrably dangerous, conspiracy nutballery. And they share that compulsion to spread reckless lies with their messiah, Donald Trump, whose “Big Lie”<\/em> that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him just gets more deranged with every passing day<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Carlson has taken sides with Jones before. As recently as February he was defending Jones<\/a><\/strong> – along with Vladimir Putin and the Proud Boys – as truthtellers. At this rate Alex Jones should be getting his own show on Fox News by August, just in time to report on Trump’s imaginary return to the White House.<\/p>\n NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter recently suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n Tucker Carlson is Alex Jones. pic.twitter.com\/W2xIMHhQI1<\/a><\/p>\n — Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nJones:<\/strong> It’s not that I think the government spies on me. It’s admitted that they do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nJones:<\/strong> Everybody’s got family that got killed or got sick from a vaccine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nJones:<\/strong> It overwhelming the evidence that criminal elements of the federal government provocateured and staged January 6th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n