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<\/p>\nThe state of Texas is the latest to pursue a strategy of blatant voter suppression in order to reinforce their right-wing stranglehold on power. To that end their Republican dominated legislature is frantically trying to pass laws that will make it harder for communities of color and low-income (i.e. Democrats) to cast votes.<\/p>\n
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So naturally, the GOP Ministry of Disinformation (aka Fox News) is doing its part to clamp down on free and fair elections. Fox News Senior White Nationalist, Tucker Carlson, entered into the fray on this issue with his signature faux outrage and perpetually furrowed brow. Not content to deliver his customary hate mongering tirade, Carlson reached deep into his rhetorical repertoire of sarcasm, arrogance, and dishonesty to contrive a bizarre mangling of reality.<\/p>\n
Facing the Republican autocrats determined to tilt all future elections in their favor, the Texas House Democrats left the state in order to deny their oppressors a quorum. And in an Olympic-grade feat of projection, Carlson lambasted the Texas Democrats saying that “they committed what amounted to an act of, yes, insurrection.”<\/em> He elaborated…<\/a><\/p>\n “Democrats in the state don’t oppose voter fraud. Nor critically do they believe in multi-party politics. So they stopped the entire process cold. Now preventing lawmakers from making laws, shutting down the vote, would not seem like a defense of democracy. In fact, it would appear to be just the opposite. It would appear to be an assault on the very core of democracy, which is the legislature, the people\u2019s house.<\/p>\n “Even diabolical old Vladimir Putin never attempted to do that. But according to Joe Biden, this time it’s necessary. Sometimes you’ve got to end democracy in order to save democracy. That is, if you’re not a racist. ‘Requiring people to prove their identity when they cast a vote,’ said the President, ‘is an unrelenting 21st century Jim Crow assault.’ Really? How so? Biden never explains, but he didn’t need to. His bootlickers on cable television jumped in to do the talking for him.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Whereupon, Carlson played a few seconds of excerpts from MSNBC and CNN hosts discussing the GOP’s anti-democracy crusade. After which he complained that they didn’t explain why the Texas bill constituted voter suppression. They actually explained it thoroughly, but Carlson’s clips were purposefully chopped so as to remove all of the relevant context. Then, in a another display of projection, he refers to them as “brainless shills,”<\/em> when that is a far better description of Carlson and his television flock.<\/p>\n Carlson’s twisted take on insurrection is typical of how he abuses language<\/a><\/strong>. Fox News has been denying for months that there was any insurrection at all<\/a><\/strong>. And now Carlson wants to be taken seriously while suggesting that a peaceful boycott of a legislative session is equivalent to the violent and deadly riots that evidence shows Donald Trump incited<\/a><\/strong> in Washington, D.C. on January 6th (and continues to do so). Carlson is equating lawful public servants with criminal seditionists.<\/p>\n Contrary to Carlson’s flagrant fallacies, the Democrats are actually exercising the liberty that democracy guarantees them. If he wants an example of subverting democracy. he can refer to how Mitch McConnell refused to even allow a vote on over 400 bills passed by the House of Representatives. Or he might weigh in on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s totalitarian threat to arrest the Democrats when they return to the state.<\/p>\n Carlson also felt compelled to malign President Biden, whose speech on voting rights<\/a><\/strong> the day before was profoundly moving and informative. Which might explain why Fox News was the only cable news “news”<\/em> network that refused to air it. Instead of a timely and newsworthy presidential address, Fox chose to cover<\/a><\/strong> such crucial stories as Bill Gates’ divorce, a Fox Nation promo, and the “woke”<\/em> military.<\/p>\n That’s just more proof that Fox is most definitely not a news network. Which makes it the perfect place for a lying propagandist like Tucker Carlson to spew his factless bullpucky for an audience of glassy-eyed cult followers. Where else could he get away with idiocy like his paranoid delusion that the National Security Agency (NSA) is spying on him<\/a><\/strong>? Or his baseless accusation that the FBI orchestrated the January 6th insurrection<\/a><\/strong>? Or his claim that health authorities know that vaccines don\u2019t work<\/a><\/strong> and they aren\u2019t telling you? That’s just how Fox News rolls.<\/p>\n UPDATE:<\/strong> Fox’s Peter Doocy once again found a way to introduce the stupidest perspective possible on this matter:<\/p>\n Doocy: And maybe that\u2019s funny to think about it that way.. — Acyn (@Acyn) July 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
Psaki: I don\u2019t think anything about this is funny pic.twitter.com\/nRB0gXDxFf<\/a><\/p>\n