Goodbye First Amendment: Far-left think tank demands next Democrat in White House dismantle Fox News

Joe NewbyFebruary 22, 2019

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It seems that liberals truly do not support the First Amendment right to a free press. On Friday, Newsbusters reported that the founder of Data for Progress, a radical far-left think tank that — surprise, surprise — endorses socialism and the Green New Deal — a scheme designed to destroy the U.S. economy for an entire generation of Americans — wants the next Democrat administration to dismantle and silence Fox News.

“[T]he next democratic presidential administration must dismantle fox news,” tweeted Sean McElwee, in response to another insane claim that Fox viewership somehow makes judges more punitive.

the next democratic presidential administration must dismantle fox news https://t.co/iqcT7gdyzp

— a left-leaning but high-quality polling outlet (@SeanMcElwee) February 20, 2019

“Even New York Magazine admitted that this was a little extreme, saying, “as awful as Fox News might be, would be incompatible with small-d democratic government,” Corinne Weaver said, adding:

Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?

Yes

Data for Progress was founded in response to President Donald Trump’s election win in 2016. In its about section, it starts “Hillary Clinton decisively won the popular vote in 2016. She did not win the presidency.” One of its latest blog posts insinuates that U.S. voters are not aware of any female Republicans in office, and criticizes the GOP for its lack of female representation.

In another tweet referencing his desire to remove Fox News, McElwee slammed the network, “The existence of an explicitly white nationalist media channel that spreads virulent misinformation is a far greater threat to democracy than getting rid of it.”

The study he posted was presented on January 26 by Columbia University researchers Elliott Ash and Michael Poyker. It determined, based on the data selected from nine states, that “Higher Fox News viewership increases incarceration length, and the effect is stronger for black defendants and for drug-related crimes.”

While such a move would not only be a direct violation of the Constitution and “incompatible with small-d democratic government,” it seems to be quite compatible with and acceptable to the current cabal of socialist tyrants that make up the current Democrat Party.

McElwee, according to his Twitter bio, happens to be a contributor at the far-left “The Nation.” Somehow, that doesn’t surprise me.

One person noted that this kind of thinking can cut both ways:

https://twitter.com/Cchris12/status/1098986775593156615

Sadly, most of the tweets we saw at the time of this writing were completely in favor of this heavy-handed action. Either they’re not aware of the First Amendment right to a free press, or, like so many other leftists these days, they simply don’t care and want something that resembles the former Soviet Union.

If I were a betting man, I’d probably pick the latter.

Welcome to “1984.”

Exit question: How long before Democrat presidential candidates actually consider this? After all, California Democrat Ted Lieu once said he’d love to control the content of speech…

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