CPAC Hungary: Far-Rt Orban Tells GOP Audience Path To Power Is Having Your Own Media, T Carlson 24/7

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- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses a keynote speech during an extraordinary session of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Balna cultural centre of Budapest, Hungary on May 19, 2022. (Salon).
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- Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media.’ The Guardian, May 20, 2022.

Hungary's leader also tells Republicans at Budapest conference that shows like Tucker Carlson’s should be broadcast ‘24/7’

The Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán, has told a conference of US conservatives that the path to power required having their own media outlets, calling for shows like Tucker Carlson’s to be broadcast “24/7”. Orbán, recently elected to a fourth term, laid out a 12-point blueprint to achieving and consolidating power to a special meeting of the US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), under the slogan of “God, Homeland, Family”, held in Budapest.

The Hungarian prime minister said that with his fourth electoral victory on 3 April, Hungary had been “completely healed” of “progressive dominance”. He suggested it was time for the right to join forces.

“We have to take back the institutions in Washington and Brussels. We must find allies in one another and coordinate the movements of our troops,” Orbán said. He told Republicans in the Balna conference centre on the banks of the Danube that media influence was one of the keys to success. In Hungary, the prime minister and his allies have effective control of most media outlets in Hungary, including state TV.

“Have your own media. It’s the only way to point out the insanity of the progressive left,” he said. “The problem is that the western media is adjusted to the leftist viewpoint. Those who taught reporters in universities already had progressive leftist principles.” He portrayed the US media as being dominated by Democrats, who he claimed were being “served” by CNN, the New York Times and others.

“Of course, the GOP has its media allies but they can’t compete with the mainstream liberal media. My friend, Tucker Carlson is the only one who puts himself out there,” he said. “His show is the most popular. What does it mean? It means programs like his should be broadcasted day and night. Or as you say 24/7.” Carlson had been billed as a key speaker at the CPAC conference, but the Fox News talk show host sent only a 38-second video message, in which he extolled Hungary under the Orbán government as a model for the US...

- More, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/viktor-orban-cpac-republicans-hungary



- Tucker Carlson broadcast from illiberal Budapest, Hungary in August 2021.
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- SPLC: 'Why Is CPAC Travelling To Illiberal Hungary?' April, 2022,
vhttps://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/04/05/why-cpac-traveling-illiberal-hungary
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- 'CPAC Hungary, Day 1: Conservatives embrace plan for "vast right-wing conspiracy" Salon, May 20, 2022,
Global right opens Budapest gathering, vilifies media and vows left will be "exposed, demonized and crushed"

On Thursday morning in Budapest, the first Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to be held in Europe began with a flourish. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered the opening keynote address, laying out a 12-point "open source" plan for right-wing advocates around the world to replicate the "Christian conservative success" of his nation. Hungary, said Orbán, "is the laboratory where we have come up with the antidote to progressive dominance." One key ingredient of this "antidote," Orbán said, was that conservatives must decide to "play by our own rules."

He also advocated the values of "national conservatism" (a central theme on the right these days —more on that tomorrow); a foreign policy based on national interests — a clear reference to the criticism Hungary has received for its tepid and uncertain condemnation of Russia's war on Ukraine; and preemptively "expos[ing] the intent of your enemy," a defense of Hungary's "don't say gay" law barring minors from accessing LGBTQ books or other content. In a tribute to CPAC itself, he also called for building institutions that can pass on conservative principles and crafting alliances with other right-wing actors around the world.

For the past several years, Hungary has increasingly taken on the dimension of a right-wing utopia among American conservatives, particularly as a number of movement intellectuals and media figures have made pilgrimage to Budapest on academic and think tank fellowships or thanks to speaking invitations... ('Orbanization').
https://www.salon.com/2022/05/20/cpac-hungary-day-1-conservatives-embrace-plan-for-vast-right-wing-conspiracy/

[msongs]

1. there is no mainstream liberal media. repubs have their own media, dems do not nt

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3. That big lie about a dominant 'Liberal Media' has been

fixed in the brains of millions of Americans for years thanks to Hate Radio Rush, Fox founder Roger Ailes, Nixon's campaign manager, the Murdochs and more.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Introducing Captain Obvious

As corrupt as these right wing clowns are, they just aren’t very bright.

[TheRealNorth]

4. What Orban really means....

Is that there is no other media but their media.

[slightlv]

5. No round trip tickets honored back to the U.S.!!!!!!

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6. I like it!

[FloridaBlues]

7. If you look to how many ultra conservative outlets we have is overwhelming

ESP utube, podcast etc versus what the left has, we are already there. This is very scary with how much influence Christian Right is gaining at the moment.

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8. True, so many media outlets in all formats reaching millions.

[Lucky Luciano]

9. Hungarian people must be total shitstain scumbags.

I would presume those from Budapest are mostly decent, but anyone rural is probably full scale evil and I wish terrible things upon them.