It's on, MF'rs !! VoteVets on getting Tuckface and Friends off our bases' TV screens

[Pluvious]

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

1. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

Fox as a network should never be on bases.

[DENVERPOPS]

25. These assholes have free reign

Ever since Reagan got rid of the Fairness Doctrine??????????


Hell, these assholes might as well broadcast the Russian, State Owned, News channel....(PRAVDA)

[Celerity]

45. the Fairness Doctrine had nothing to do with cable television nt

[BComplex]

2. It's about friggin' time!!! Now get them out of any prison that takes federal money!!

Those prisoners literally CANNOT get away from hearing whatever the guards put on the tv. Fuz Nooz has got to be banned, as many of those prisoners are already fairly militant.

[HUAJIAO]

24. Get them off the tvs in the gym too !!!!!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Great video

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

34. There is a much longer version of this video,

you can find if you dig around. It's about 2 minutes long.

Vote Vets !! Donate if you can.

[Captain Stern]

4. How would that work?

How would they ban particular programming, or even particular channels on military bases?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

6. The best they can do

Is put a ban on having those channels tuned in on TVs that are in work facilities. They can’t ban them from cable systems, nor can they stop military members from having Fox News in their homes on base.

[Grins]

37. Easy. "Sergeant! Change the channel."

“Fox is banned.”

See how easy it is!

[cbabe]

5. Good news. Pun intended.

[Talitha]

7. Also ban them from restaurants, waiting rooms, bars, etc....

[SickOfTheOnePct]

8. Private businesses

Can already do that…I have zero interest in the government mandating what businesses can or can’t show on their TVs.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

41. Interesting.

Who would do the banning?

[world wide wally]

9. Can we ban them from waiting rooms across the country as well?

[Ferryboat]

11. Just change the channel yourself

No one has ever objected, many have thanked me. Be Bold!

[SouthernDem4ever]

40. I do the same thing

Although I have been to a few offices where they hide the remote on purpose.

[republianmushroom]

10. like it

[Beachnutt]

12. Statements made with 'reckless disregard' are unprotected by First Amendment

St Amant vs Thompson 1968

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/604/st-amant-v-thompson

Court said 'reckless disregard' means person seriously doubted truth, published anyway

https://www.reuters.com/legal/fox-news-must-face-smartmatics-lawsuit-over-election-rigging-claims-2023-02-14/

[SickOfTheOnePct]

16. This case is related to libel

[Beachnutt]

18. Could the Government bring a libel suit

against fox for defamation of the United States Government based on lies and falsehoods under wreckless disregard for truth and ban fox from airing on all Government property and kick them out of the press pool ?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

19. I don't see how n/t

[Beachnutt]

20. Some of our DU attorney friends

should weigh in on this
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/604/st-amant-v-thompson

[onenote]

38. Yes, statements made with reckless disregard of the truth are not protected but ....

they would have to be defamatory to the reputation of an individual or organization to be actionable and....
the gov
more importantly, they can only be addressed "after the fact" via a suit for damages... the government can't "ban' a speaker from speaking in the future because of past unprotected speech (to say nothing of the fact that not every statement made by the speaker in the past was unprotected ).

So, no, bans by the government aren't going to work.

[Cherokee100]

13. Its the same

It's the same in some large corporations. Fox would on in our break rooms. I was the fantom, who would change the channel.

[InstantGratification]

22. Parental Controls

The owner of a local business almost always tunes to FOX. I joked told the owner's son that he should turn on parental controls and block that channel...

[jaxexpat]

14. I was at a base in Germany in 2001, visiting relatives.

Every TeeVee and radio on the base that I saw was tuned to Fox news, American talk radio and Limbaugh. When I asked Sgt. son-in-law why that was, he replied, "the base commander has requested that all personnel stay on the same page". They watched Fox at home and were emersed in it at their "office". It was like the inescapable backdrop to their lives. I observed no awareness on their part that they were being blatantly brainwashed. I saw no sign that they understood it was propaganda, because it was working just as Pavlov said it would.

I guess I was most shocked and disgusted when my stepdaughter and son-in-law said they preferred Fox because it was "more American". I was beyond words. Took a short hike through the German countryside to let the steam in my mind dissipate.

[Crowman2009]

33. Thank f*** we never had it on FAUX news in the MALS-13 Aviation Ordnance break room at MCAS Yuma.

It would either be that disaster video show "Caught On Tape" on local TV, a movie that received less than 5-stars on IMDB (because nobody would steal those, along with books & board games), or one of those variety programs on Univision or Telemundo. Nobody wanted to watch some dick in a suit read the news.

[FakeNoose]

15. I want the ENTIRE CHANNEL of Faux Noise off my cable

I don't want my $155 per month payment to Verizon Fios becoming a subsidy for Rupert Murdoch's lies.

Get them off the TV screens of America, unless the individual cable customers agree to pay EXTRA to receive that horrible collection of stations.

[Zorro]

17. Amen to that!

Time to get the cable providers to remove Fox News from their basic lineup and make it an add-on subscription for those who want to watch it. It can be done.

[onenote]

39. How do you plan to do that?

You say "it can be done." Please elaborate.

[Oppaloopa]

42. I just removed Fox from my spectrum but I still have the scientology channel

[onenote]

43. That's fine, but OP and others want cable operators to charge separately for Fox

And they say that it can happen. My question is how do they think they can make that happen.

[Zorro]

46. It requires a concerted effort from all offended to demand it

I've written to my service provider exactly that.

If there's enough of their customers who express their disagreement with enabling Fox News with their monthly payment, I think the carriers just might decide to make Fox a subscription add-on instead of being bundled with all the other programming. There's a good case being made that it's a misleading propaganda network, with all the revelations coming out in the Dominion lawsuit, and there's already a move afoot to get Fox News removed from the Armed Forces network.

After all, there's already plenty of free streaming content available that are great alternatives to making a monthly donation to maintain Fox on one's provider offerings.

[onenote]

47. Never going to happen.

The cable operator can't just "decide" to make Fox News a "subscription add-on". They have contracts -- typically multi-year contracts with Fox in which Fox licenses its services as a bundle that includes not only Fox News, but also other Fox-owned properties, including its owned and operated broadcast stations, Fox Business, and the Fox Sports channels. As a result, Fox has the leverage to demand basic tier carriage since cable operators aren't going to drop all of those services and watch a sizable portion of their customer base migrate to another provider that offers those services.

[SouthernDem4ever]

36. Same here

Youtube tv streaming just raised their prices. I told them to keep my prices the same and get rid of all Fux channels - that will save them more than enough.

[Codifer]

21. Also.

Keep faux news out f VA medical facilities. I remember faux constantly on at VA Mather during Shrub's administration. Fucking disgusting. I am not sure when this stopped. Now what I see in nature slide shows and in at least one clinic, Gunsmoke. No one, left or right can argue about Gunsmoke. The good guys always won. I grew up watching that morality and believing it.

It seems now that many feel that one is a "Good Guy" ONLY if one wins.... regardless of morality.

[librechik]

23. It's about effin time! n/t

[orleans]

26. i'm guessing this ad will not be running on fox

and because of that, the military won't be seeing it

[Initech]

27. Right wing bullshit is like glitter at Christmas time.

It's everywhere and it's damn near impossible to get rid of it all, and no matter how much you try to clean it up, you still find remnants of it months later.

[liberalla]

28. Good analogy!

[albacore]

29. Best $20 I ever spent...

Just be surreptitious about it, and you can turn the damn thing off. If they turn it back on... hit it again. They'll think the TV is broken.
Waiting rooms don't have to be infested with Fox.

[Cha]

30. TY & VoteVets!!

[whathehell]

31. Love it!

Do it!..Ban them!

[brewens]

32. i've been using "Tuckhead". Maybe I like "Tuckface" a little better. It hits just a little

harder.

[JETTBHEART]

35. About time.

This makes me happy. I

[keithbvadu2]

44. Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is "Essential" to Feature Tucker Carlson

https://democraticunderground.com/100216478964

Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson

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