Fox News accused of stoking violence after Tucker Carlson 'revolt' prediction

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/31/fox-news-tucker-carlson-revolt-violence

Fox News is driving political violence in the US, a media watchdog warned, after the primetime host Tucker Carlson predicted “revolt” against the Biden administration.

In a Monday night monologue targeting the White House and military leaders over the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Carlson demanded resignations. He also said: “When leaders refuse to hold themselves accountable over time, people revolt. That happens.

“We need to change course immediately and start acknowledging our mistakes. The people who made them need to start acknowledging them or else the consequences will be awful.”

Angelo Carusone, president and chief executive of Media Matters for America, a progressive group, said: “When there’s another big violent rightwing flashpoint that captures attention, way too many in media will wonder out loud: ‘How did this happen?’ ‘Were there the signs?’

“You don’t need to wade into the online fever-swamps to see the cauldron of extremism simmering. Fox News is ratcheting up heat and legitimising nightly.

[2naSalit]

1. He is most certainly doing just that.

And those Mf'ers are congregating in the west with their madmax mobiles and big radio (bilinear) radios and other coms. It's looking a little scary out here these days.

[Firestorm49]

2. I'm sorry, maybe I missed something.

It sounds a lot like he’s talking about TFG?? 😜

[SergeStorms]

3. So who's going to stop them?

Certainly no one in the conservative stacked Supreme Court. No one in the FCC.

Until someone starts standing up to these fascist thugs, nothing will ever change. They're taking over this country passively right now, but will use force at a moments notice, and without a second thought.

[Mr.Bill]

4. Everybody take a deep breath

and remember on a good night maybe 1% of the population is watching Carlson.

[Richard58]

7. Yeah but---

--that's still almost 4 million people. Even if only 1% of them decided to turn to terrorism that's 40,000 potential terrorists in our midst. They could do a LOT of damage. Add to that the many more who would sympathize with them and provide them food and safe houses among other things and we would have a real problem!

[Evolve Dammit]

5. Ingraham is too. Ever since her Nazi salute in Cleveland at GOP convention 2016. Seditionists.

[Jimvanhise]

6. IGNORING THE OBVIOUS

Fox News and the other right wing drones keep ignoring that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was started by Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo in 2020 when they set May 2021 for the withdrawal date and forced Afghanistan to release five thousand Taliban prisoners. Trump actually withdrew all but 2500 American soldiers and Biden had to send in more to make the evacuation run smoothly. Without Trump's "peace agreement" with the Taliban in 2020, America would still be entrenched in Afghanistan for some time to come.