On the Efforts to Silence Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity

 Brad Bird January 23, 2021 

Fox News Channel’s political commentators Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are under attack, with many calling for their removal from the airwaves.  While this is perhaps a predictable extension of cancel culture’s ongoing persecution of those who uphold traditional values, the attack on these men is a particularly offensive attempt at censorship—a line in the sand.

This is because they’re among the few remaining voices in North American journalism with the courage and commitment to report views and facts that challenge the wisdom of progressive thinking. They also defended and respected President Donald J. Trump, who was endlessly and unjustly attacked and maligned by most in the media who betrayed the tradition of fair and balanced reporting.

Carlson and Hannity have been accused, among other things, of spreading “harmful propaganda and downright fiction,” according to one source.  This is rich, considering what the mainstream media has been doing in recent years. We need to understand this clearly: Carlson and Hannity make no pretense of being objective newscasters such as the late Walter Cronkite or the current Lester Holt. They’re commentators who present their opinions in the same way the acclaimed William F. Buckley once did.

The problem is that people who want just the facts can’t get them anymore in the legacy media, such as The New York Times, because it’s so tainted by wokeness, political correctness, and the anti-Trump parade. So they turn to Carlson, Hannity, and others such as Laura Ingraham for relief and common sense...........You don’t have to agree with all that Carlson and Hannity say. I don’t, and they don’t expect us to...........

Today the situation is reversed. It’s progressives, some clearly sympathetic to the Antifa-Marxist fringe of the Democratic Party, who are doing the persecuting, and they do so with impunity. We saw this last summer when Antifa and related groups toppled statues, injured hundreds of police officers, burned cruisers and private businesses, and actually took control, for many weeks, of portions of inner cities such as Seattle. Yet they were allowed this rampage in direct violation of the law. The mainstream media insisted these were “peaceful protests.” Thanks to Carlson and Hannity, we got some sanity on this madness.............To Read More....