Republican Compares Losing Newsmax to the Holocaust

[Behind the Aegis]

A Republican congressman has compared the dropping of Newsmax from cable TV due to a dispute over fees to the Holocaust, claiming that cable provider DirecTV was aiming to "silence conservative speech"—a claim the company has denied.

Eric Burlison, a Missouri representative, said, without naming the cable provider, that DirecTV was first responsible for "eliminating" One America News and "now they're going after Newsmax." He was one of several Republicans to make speeches in support of the network.

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Speaking on the House floor on Tuesday—four days after Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday—Burlison said: "Now we see entities, businesses that the federal government has given special privilege to, to provide over the air television, cable television, right away, to deliver entertainment to the homes of individuals across America, these companies choose to silence conservative speech—by first deplatforming or eliminating One America News and now they're going after Newsmax."

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"There's a famous quote about what happened during the Holocaust, when the Nazis first came for some, and people said nothing," Burlison continued. "And then eventually they'll come for you. And I say this not as a Republican or a Missourian, but as a concerned citizen for a country who has these rights that were here because of the blood that was shed by thousands if not hundreds of thousands of patriots from the time of the American Revolution until today."

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[UTUSN]

1. Of course

[Kittycatkat]

2. These fasist fuckers have to ___! (fill in the blank)

[ZonkerHarris]

3. Nazi's were the government. DirectTV is a private company that can come for no one.

Burlison is a fucking idiot.
And a Nazi.

[Skittles]

4. they get pretty hysterical when their propaganda is disrupted

irrational, even

[C_U_L8R]

5. These clowns not only misinterpret the Constitution

... but, apparently, they have no idea how freemarket capitalism works.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. This is so very offensive

[EYESORE 9001]

7. They're trying to minimize the Holocaust

Every time they say, ‘such-and-such is just like the Holocaust.’

[Solly Mack]

8. Oh, sure. If only people had paid the asked fees to the NAZIs, all would have been well.

That's exactly the same. You bet.

Asshole idiot.

[karynnj]

9. Disgusting

Even if you ignore the appalling comparison, think about what they are asking. Why should a private company be required to pay more than they think it is worth for Newsmax? If they agreed, all the customers would likely bear at least some increased cost.

One solution if DirectTV offers add on pay channels, they should offer Newsmax that way letting Newsmax set the cost to be paid. Newsmax would then not be able to say they are silenced and will learn the economics related to price and demand.

[Kaleva]

10. There appears to be only a small minority of Rs who care about NewsMax

About 41 signed a letter to DirecTV.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. Shutting down an extremist cable channel resulted in millions of deaths?!

If that's the case, why isn't this front page news??

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. Millions of murders, slave labor, and horrific medical 'experiments'.

It's obvious that RWNJ doesn't think about reality, only his theatrical performance.