When Taylor Lorenz & Fox News Pundits are precisely the same
Spoiler alert: When they lean heavily on GEC-Ukraine infrastructure to criminalize publicans for their legal (though reprehensible) speech.
No matter how reprehensible it is to apply public support for a criminal like, Osama Bin Laden or news distraction du jour, Luigi Mangione, the man who allegedly killed the CEO of United Healthcare it is perfectly legal. Destructive words to land hard on people are still legal to say in America. While people in public positions of cable news media always want to control the narrative, they oftentimes want more to control line production and the competition.
It sounds like, “Anyone who listens to [COMPETITON] should be [HELLBANNED FROM PUBLIC LIFE/SANCTIONED].
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That is why I sat unsurprised watching people adjacent to Tomi Lahren on political chatter shows ask/demand Taylor Lorenz be fired for her atrocious speech and her followers criminalized. First, Lorenz has been atrocious in luxury position for years. Ten car pileups from a head on collision are click bait. Click bait guttersnipes always go for it because it rolls in the dollars. Everyone is guilty of watching consecutive train wrecks to benefit ad revenue titans, raking people for data & attention.
FOX can do a lot of things, but it can’t pull Lorenz’ digital advertising. If WaPo is done with the click-bait cookie crumb trail to juvenile-hell paving the exchange of bad behavior for monetized attention, that’s a business decision. The CIA Ozs are controlling US Cable media using GEC and InQTel grants to monetize and lead the Internet to their desired conclusion. Kick. Them. Out. Revoke all prior authority now, or stop expecting good things, like unfettered journalism, from censorship programs ready to drop the sword on a US citizen.
However, FOX News has little moral outland to exercise what it has been doing for years; which is using strategic intelligence license to spy on competition, pill out Blobaganda and terrorize the public for not believing what they “should”. There are people in their ranks who still retain deep state security clearances, as migrated members of the press from prior administrations, they shouldn’t be able to strategically exercise. They have used the same GEC controls to extort their political enemies as other networks and they have never relinquished the tools of weaponizaion on their peers. I am waiting for their denial. I am waiting for them to fire the former intel contractors in their newsrooms.
I have heard a lot of things. I have heard “well, the narcissists don’t really care if they’re spied on,”. As if extending that, as some sort of rule to people who are news consumers, will be greatly justified using the very same Ukraine/GEC guns turned inward on Americans as the other networks.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If those sanctionist tools were used illegally and in bad faith by MSNBC & CNN, than FOX News, NewsMax and other conservative networks do not deserve a special pass.
So what gave them away?
The immediate pitch to the viewership to criminalize people who supported Luigi Mangione, as a criminal for his apparent motive position against United Healthcare. They forgot that all of these would-be influencers are throwing their “current-thing” click rounds out there to make rent. Their next move was to make criminals of the speaking-competition class. I noticed right away. Who else did exactly the same thing? The people in cable news who used GEC criminalization language to go after Donald Trump, for perceived crimes that were in fact not crimes.
This hearkened to an earlier era during the Bush Administration to make any US citizen who objected to George W. Bush’s foreign and national security policies as designated terrorist. This included his ill-conceived pitch to mass surveil the US publican. They sought to make identity a requisite to fly everywhere in this country while not purging those with overstayed VISAs. Those with known terrorist ties were hanging around in America, used to generate federal excuse for things like a domestic terror watch list, a no-fly list and other anathemas like the USA Patriot Act. All the while sending US soldiers into wars in the Middle East under falsified pretenses.
I am not defending Lorenz or her claims or her prior bully-pulpit beat. I am merely saying that when you seek to criminalize the public for legal things, as Lorenz clearly does now, using the hanging sword of digital sanctions, job loss or some other covert criminal patterning of a federal “list” you are the same animal. The same. I won’t celebrate you. As the publican, your petty license to abuse this sanction power has been revoked because it was used against political enemies prior to the election of 47- DJ Trump.
I am surrendering your weaponization infrastructure for you today, if I don’t shoot you down with it directly. Cable News never should entertain the delusion of special powers to enforce government propaganda. The people who understand that the best now have cabinet seats. The petty tyrants yelling “sanction the enemy” are left doing TV editorial. If we aren’t going to take if from the insufferable Global-EuroBlob, we are definitely not going to take it off of basic cable.
Cable news ratings are based on public viewership, not surveillance of the public. Whoever instructed you otherwise is a criminal who failed to grasp the US Constitution.
You want a challenge? Prove you are done with consumer weaponization by adding Mike Benz as a special correspondent. This is globalist Bush/Obama/Trump/Biden failed policy.
Trump is done with anything failing this public.
Mainstream cable news media has no legal means to criminalize this US public. They’re not a bank, a legal arbitration group for legal US speech. They are no one’s special HR operations group.
You’re done with US weaponization using Ukraine and GEC.
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