Since the economy is in the tank Democrats are trying to turn the midterms into a culture war (that they are losing) and their new flavor of the day is to silence free speech.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sent a scathing letter to Fox News exploiting the Buffalo shooting wanting them to silence Tucker Carlson.
“According to one measure by the New York Times, Fox’s top political pundit, Tucker Carlson, has spewed rhetoric that echoes replacement theory at least 400 hundred, 400 hundred times on his show since 2016. 400 times,” Schumer said during a speech on the Senate floor. “This is a poison that is being spread by one of the largest news organizations in our country.”
Chuck Schumer calls out Tucker Carlson and Fox News for “spewing” the “poison” of rhetoric echoing replacement theory pic.twitter.com/lRIhgThWJj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 16, 2022
“The message is not always explicit, but we’ve all seen the pattern,” Schumer said. “Every time MAGA Republicans or pundits vilify wrongly immigrants and call them ‘invaders,’ every time they falsely claim that millions of undocumented people cast ballots in our elections, every time loud, bigoted voices bemoan the disintegration of a ‘classic America’ the subtext is clear,” Schumer said. “These hard-right MAGA Republicans argue that people of color in minority communities are somehow posing a threat, a threat to the American way of life.”
The letter written by Schumer ordered that Fox News executives “immediately cease the reckless amplification of the so-called ‘great replacement’ theory” on the network’s broadcasts.”
In a letter to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, Fox CEO Suzanne Scott, and Fox president Jay Wallace, Chuck Schumer says he urges Fox News to “immediately cease the reckless amplification of the so-called ‘Great Replacement’ theory…” pic.twitter.com/9FbUYrMtBi
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) May 17, 2022
Tucker invited Schumer to appear on his show and discuss the letter asking for specific examples however, like a coward Schumer declined.
.@TuckerCarlson invited me on his show tonight to debate the letter I sent to @FoxNews.
I’m declining. Tucker Carlson needs to stop promoting the racist, dangerous ‘Replacement Theory’.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 17, 2022
Then he ramped up his rhetoric…
Tucker Carlson and Fox News promote dangerous, racist, white supremacist lies and conspiracy theories.
That’s cowardly.
Amplifying racist lies and propaganda is simply not debatable.
It should have no place in America.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) May 17, 2022
In February Nielsen MRI Fusion reported that Tucker Carlson has more Democratic viewers than Rachel Maddow.