Post by LFC on Oct 6, 2021 17:40:57 GMT
Tuckums's lies are more and more blatant. Not that the right-wingnuts and the Republican Party care. Actually they're probably thrilled that he's moving away from his childish "questioning" and going straight to no apologies propaganda.
In his primetime opinion hour Tuesday night, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson told his millions of viewers to prepare for a crackdown from federal law enforcement on parents’ complaints at school board meetings.
The host, and several Republican politicians eager for another bankable culture war, seemed to smell blood in the water — in the form of a one-page memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland published the day prior.
“If you are one of the troglodytes who thinks you should have some say in what your children are taught in the schools that you pay for, you should know that the Biden administration now views you as a domestic terrorist,” the Fox News star said.
“They are fully willing to use armed agents of the state to compel you to shut up.”
Carlson’s viewers never actually heard what the memo was about. He never told them.
Specifically, Garland announced a federal law enforcement effort to address “threats against public servants” — specifically school administrators, school board members, teachers and staff — and to “prosecute them when appropriate.”
In other words, criminal behavior. And amid right-wing anger at school mask rules and bogeyman issues like “critical race theory,” examples of potentially criminal behavior aimed at educators and public health officials at school board meetings are abundant, including reports of pushing, throwing things, alleged battery, numerous reports of threats, and comments like “we will find you” and “we know who you are.”
Garland’s memo explicitly noted that he wasn’t concerned with “spirited debate,” which he described as constitutional.
But Carlson and other conservatives looking for a wedge issue ignored that entirely. The Fox News host said at various points during his broadcast Wednesday that Garland was targeting “parents who complain about their school board” and “people who are committing wrongthink.”
“This basically puts normal parents, who are distressed by the propaganda their kids are being subjected to, in the same category as terrorists,” the host said of Garland’s memo.
That sort of bad faith mischaracterization of the memo was widespread on the right.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Garland was using the DOJ to “target & persecute his political opponents.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Garland was “weaponizing the DOJ by using the FBI to pursue concerned parents and silence them through intimidation.”
The list of Republican elected officials mischaracterizing the memo to fit their own political priors is extensive and ever-growing, as Breitbart News gleefully catalogued.
The host, and several Republican politicians eager for another bankable culture war, seemed to smell blood in the water — in the form of a one-page memo from Attorney General Merrick Garland published the day prior.
“If you are one of the troglodytes who thinks you should have some say in what your children are taught in the schools that you pay for, you should know that the Biden administration now views you as a domestic terrorist,” the Fox News star said.
“They are fully willing to use armed agents of the state to compel you to shut up.”
Carlson’s viewers never actually heard what the memo was about. He never told them.
Specifically, Garland announced a federal law enforcement effort to address “threats against public servants” — specifically school administrators, school board members, teachers and staff — and to “prosecute them when appropriate.”
In other words, criminal behavior. And amid right-wing anger at school mask rules and bogeyman issues like “critical race theory,” examples of potentially criminal behavior aimed at educators and public health officials at school board meetings are abundant, including reports of pushing, throwing things, alleged battery, numerous reports of threats, and comments like “we will find you” and “we know who you are.”
Garland’s memo explicitly noted that he wasn’t concerned with “spirited debate,” which he described as constitutional.
But Carlson and other conservatives looking for a wedge issue ignored that entirely. The Fox News host said at various points during his broadcast Wednesday that Garland was targeting “parents who complain about their school board” and “people who are committing wrongthink.”
“This basically puts normal parents, who are distressed by the propaganda their kids are being subjected to, in the same category as terrorists,” the host said of Garland’s memo.
That sort of bad faith mischaracterization of the memo was widespread on the right.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Garland was using the DOJ to “target & persecute his political opponents.” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Garland was “weaponizing the DOJ by using the FBI to pursue concerned parents and silence them through intimidation.”
The list of Republican elected officials mischaracterizing the memo to fit their own political priors is extensive and ever-growing, as Breitbart News gleefully catalogued.
