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According to most news sources, it was a bad weekend for Fox News. One of their hosts, Jeanine Pirro, suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar, who wears the hijab, opposes the Constitution — a document, interestingly, designed to ensure freedom of religion. A few hours later, a watchdog website unearthed audio tapes of Tucker Carlson, an even bigger Fox News star, making dozens of misogynistic statements, including defending a man who is serving a life sentence for sexual assault against a minor.
If the talent from another major media outlet had said such things, they would have been fired in a matter of hours, and calls for a boycott of the network would have sounded. It's a fair bet the blow-dried demagogues at Fox would have led the charge.
But there’s a reason Carlson has thus far brushed off these revelations. And it’s the same reason that Fox News didn’t really have that bad a weekend: because the world of modern conservatism is shame-proof at this point.
If the talent from another major media outlet had said such things, they would have been fired in a matter of hours, and calls for a boycott of the network would have sounded. It's a fair bet the blow-dried demagogues at Fox would have led the charge.
But there’s a reason Carlson has thus far brushed off these revelations. And it’s the same reason that Fox News didn’t really have that bad a weekend: because the world of modern conservatism is shame-proof at this point.
The Immorality of Modern Conservatism
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There are former conservatives who are changing their political status based on how the movement is becoming more fringe. One example being Max Boot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Boot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Boot
Max A. Boot[1] (Russian: Макс Бут) is an American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.[2] He worked as a writer and editor for Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s. He is now Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and The...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
LTC Eugene Chu I'm a Reagan Dole Compassionate Conservative which makes Me a Flaming Liberal these days. I have no use for the Racist/Fascist that call themselves "Republicans" "Conservatives" These days. God Bless Democracy and Democrats!
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"If the talent from another major media outlet had said such things, they would have been fired in a matter of hours" Total BS. Acosta still has a job with the Clown News Network, and there are plenty of other "news reports" who perhaps should have been FIRE but were not. Now the liberals are crying because a Democrat who is openly anti-Israel is taking heat and should be accountable for her actions yet nothing is done. Hypocrites!
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