Proving that she’s just as utterly ignorant about the Constitution as she is of nearly every subject under the sun, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is now claiming that Fox News’ firing of primetime host Tucker Carlson on Monday is the “end of the First Amendment.”
Appearing on Wednesday’s edition of The Balance on Newsmax, Greene told host Eric Bolling, “I think it was devastating to our First Amendment. Our First Amendment is free speech, but it’s also freedom of press.”
Oh, and Carlson’s firing was also due to wokeness, Greene claimed: “They literally fired him because they caved to the woke mob. What we’re seeing is the end of the First Amendment.”
Later in the discussion, Bolling claimed that Fox was now pro-transgender:
“Fox is almost promoting it. They were pushing that agenda and here we are about a year–less than a year later and Tucker gets fired on the heels of a massive pushback against the trans Bud Light scandal that’s going on.”
It’s a giant conspiracy! That’s always the fallback position for right-wingers when they don’t get their way.
Greene joined the anti-trans diatribe, telling Bolling, “This is a very serious issue. Fox News shouldn’t be pushing the radical left’s trans agenda on children. That’s so wrong and now they fire Tucker Carlson? Yeah, the writing is on the wall for Americans. We completely understand what we’re seeing from Fox News. But I think it should concern everyone.”
It’s fact-check time.
The First Amendment doesn’t mean a media company can’t fire an employee for cause, which is the reason Carlson was terminated. Specifically, he was referring to female co-workers as “c*nts.” That is unacceptable in any workplace and will get you fired in a heartbeat no matter where you work.
Also, the First Amendment protects free speech by anyone from censorship by the government. Any publication, broadcaster, or online news site can censor whatever they want to. No one made Fox terminate Carlson. He did that to himself with his disgusting choice of words.
It really should be illegal for people as stupid as Marjorie Greene to hold office in this country.
