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Ohioboy

(3,248 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 12:25 PM Feb 2023

We have the third in line to the president helping propagandists at FOX

That is how bad it has become in this once great land.

Is there nothing we can do to stop this madness? Kevin McCarthy has openly facilitated the altering of history by giving Tucker Carlson everything he needs to distort the truth about Jan 6. Instead of remembering Jan 6 as a warning to how close we came to losing democracy, the notion that it was just a "tourist visit" will become even more reinforced in the minds of the MAGA cult.

I personally don't want to ever live in Orwell's 1984, where history gets altered to suit the party in charge, but that is where we are heading. I am so pissed!

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We have the third in line to the president helping propagandists at FOX (Original Post) Ohioboy Feb 2023 OP
McCarthy is, unfortunately, second in line dlk Feb 2023 #1
Yes, you are right Ohioboy Feb 2023 #2
This is not a surprise to anyone cutroot Feb 2023 #3
I fully expected McCarthy to make the information public, but... Ohioboy Feb 2023 #4
They are desperate cutroot Feb 2023 #11
As Colbert shows... GreenWave Feb 2023 #5
The President did not do this. Trump did. patricia92243 Feb 2023 #6
Actually Fox News did this. Initech Feb 2023 #7
Not "becoming an inherent threat to this country"... pandr32 Feb 2023 #10
When Nancy Pelosi was second in line, Bayard Feb 2023 #8
And the only threatened legal opposition to McCarthy's act comes Sneederbunk Feb 2023 #9

dlk

(11,578 posts)
1. McCarthy is, unfortunately, second in line
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 12:30 PM
Feb 2023

Harris is first in line to for succession. What McCarthy is doing is horrifying.

Ohioboy

(3,248 posts)
2. Yes, you are right
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 12:34 PM
Feb 2023

I don't know why I think of it as third. I guess it's because of the 3 people at the top he would be the third.

cutroot

(876 posts)
3. This is not a surprise to anyone
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 12:39 PM
Feb 2023

They are being openly treasonous. Not even trying to shroud it at all.

Ohioboy

(3,248 posts)
4. I fully expected McCarthy to make the information public, but...
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 12:48 PM
Feb 2023

how is he allowed to keep the information from others while only allowing it to go to the likes of Tucker Carlson? What gives him the right to choose one media over another?

That is where I am surprised.

Initech

(100,107 posts)
7. Actually Fox News did this.
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 01:06 PM
Feb 2023

That network owns that damn party and they're using them to write national policy. Ever notice how things that are being talked about on Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity one night start getting written into law the next night? That network is becoming an inherent threat to this country.

Bayard

(22,170 posts)
8. When Nancy Pelosi was second in line,
Sat Feb 25, 2023, 01:32 PM
Feb 2023

It was comforting--you knew she was competent. With McCarthy, its terrifying.

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