To hear Democrats and their buds in Hollywood tell it, the era of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his Communist witch hunts were some of the darkest days in American history.
What they hated most about McCarthy and his era was his use of “lists” on which to put those suspected of being Commies.
But today, times have changed. Now left-wing Democrats and their allies are all about putting conservatives and especially Trump supporters on “lists” so they can be officially persecuted. And in fact, one leftist lunatic wants to put the entire Republican Party on the domestic terrorism watch list because of the unhinged rantings of a single member, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Writes Harold Meyerson for the prominent leftist rage American Prospect:
Go to Greene’s Twitter account and you’ll find her liking tweets that called for shooting Nancy Pelosi and executing FBI agents for their “deep state” persecutions of Donald Trump. I suppose the equivalent of that would have been Democratic members of Congress applauding the shooting of House Republican Whip Steve Scalise—except, no Democratic members of Congress did that; rather, they all expressed horror and condemnation.
But the Republicans’ indulgence of the Greenes in their ranks—and there are many such—is of a piece with their overwhelming refusal to hold Trump responsible for the insurrection at the Capitol, much less their own current colleagues, such as Arizona’s Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs, who also encouraged the January 6 rioters. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution says that no government official can hold office “who, having previously taken an oath … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” That surely applies to Trump, but it increasingly appears that it should apply to most Republican members of Congress as well.
Myerson isn’t the only goofball making these kinds of crazy, obviously unconstitutional suggestions about his political opponents.
A recent op-ed in the establishment’s establishment paper, the Washington Post, headlined, “What the 1798 Sedition Act got right — and what it means today,” actually discussed the danger of “misinformation” and how First Amendment free speech protections weren’t adequate to sort fact from fiction. The piece also claimed that opponents of the Sedition Act “were wrong to conclude that the truth would necessarily prevail in an open exchange of information.”
Meanwhile, “The Dwarf King,” as Tucker Carlson refers to him, is busy telling his limited audience that Fox News must be taken off the air because “liars” or something — and that doing so is actually not a curb on free speech.
“…[R]reducing a liar’s reach is not the same as censors freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is different than freedom of reach,” Brian Stelter actually said this past weekend.
Adds Alex Stamos, the former head of security for Facebook said conservative outlets like Newsmax, Fox News, and One America News should be deplatformed following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot (that they had nothing to do with).
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“We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences. There are people on YouTube, for example, that have a larger audience than daytime CNN, and they are extremely radical and pushing extremely radical views,” Stamos said.
Remember when CNN/MSNBC/ABC/NBC/CBS/Washington Post/New York Times/L.A. Times/etc. were all reporting that Trump-Russia collusion was real — when it wasn’t?
Does that mean Stelter & Co. should be deplatformed and censored?
