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Fox News GOP WTF?!

Constitutionally Clueless MT Greene Says Firing Of Tucker Carlson Is The ‘End Of The First Amendment’

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.

 

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Congress GOP

WATCH NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell School Jim Jordan On The First Amendment

Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan got his head handed to him on Wednesday by National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell when Jordan tried to trip up Goodell on the subject of the First Amendment and free speech.

Specifically, Jordan said he was upset that Goodell had fined Washington Commanders Jack Del Rio for downplaying the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot that left five people (including a Capitol Police officer) dead.

Jordan began with a confrontational tone, asking Goodell:

“You made this statement. ‘We the National Football League encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest.’ Did you really mean that when you said, Mr. Goodell?”

Goodell replied:

“Yes, I think people are responsible for what they say and what they do. Yes.”

Jordan:

“When you said you encourage all to speak out, you meant all, not just some?”

And that’s when Goodell reminded Jordan that the First Amendment isn’t absolute:

“That’s correct, congressman, but you are responsible for what you say. There are consequences for what you do, and say, and write.”

Jordan’s wan response was “Yeah.”

Keep in mind this is the same Jim Jordan who spoke via phone with failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump as the attack on the Capitol was taking place and may have also helped plan the attack.

Also, Jordan has steadfastly refused to give testimony to the January 6 committee unless they agree to show him all of the evidence they have in advance. Sounds like the sort of thing a guilty person would demand, doesn’t it?

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Donald Trump WTF?!

Trump Gets Supremely Mocked For Saying He’ll Be Making A ‘Major Announcement’ About The First Amendment

Even though he hasn’t been president for nearly six months now, failed, one-term former President Donald Trump seems to be under the mistaken impression that he can still change things by making speeches or firing off press releases.

The latest proof that Trump is living in an alternate reality where he’s still head of state comes in a tweet sent out by his “spokesperson,” Liz Harrington:

So next Wednesday in New Jersey, Donald Trump is going to regale us all with his “efforts to protect Americans’ First Amendment rights.”

Donald Trump and the First Amendment don’t exactly go together. After all, he spied on reporters while serving as head of state and suggested that Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms be shut down when the put warnings on his postings. In other words, Trump is the last person to protect the right to free speech and a free press, establishment of religion, or the right to assemble.

Remember when protesters were in Lafayette Park and Trump ordered them teargassed so he could go hold up a Bible in front of a church? How about when he called members of the news media “enemies of the people”?

The only person Trump thinks the First Amendment applies to is him or one of his demented surrogates. If he’d gotten a second term in office, the right to free speech would have been destroyed by his Justice Department and his handpicked asspuppet, William Barr.

Let the online mockery begin!

Don’t be surprised if Trump’s big “announcement” turns out to be him whining about being banned from Facebook and Twitter. He’s so damn pathetic.