You do realize it’s hard to take you seriously when you try to cast a multibillion dollar industry full of multimillionaire star commentators around the world as “struggling lone voices” in the wilderness against a global behemoth”, don’t you?
About 20 protesters gathered in front of Carlson’s home Wednesday night, chanting loudly and using a bullhorn, according to a police report obtained by CBS News. Carlson said he was at his Fox News office, preparing for his 8 p.m. show, and his wife Susie was home alone at the time. The couple’s four children were not there.
Carlson’s wife said she heard “loud banging and pounding on her front door,” the police report says. When officers arrived, they found politically-charged signs left on cars in the driveway, a sign on the front door and the anarchy symbol spray painted on the driveway.
The police report describes the protest as “anti-political” and a “suspected hate crime.” Police are investigating an offense of defacing public property, but the department told CBS News no arrests have been made.
A group called Smash Racism D.C. posted messages on social media encouraging the protest and revealing Carlson’s address. “Fascists are vulnerable. Confront them at their homes!” the group wrote in a Facebook post. In a tweet, Smash Racism D.C. said Carlson spreads “fear into our homes” every night and would be reminded “that you are not safe either.”
Let me know when a mob shows up at the Stephanopolous estate…
I remember that…Carlson accused the protestors of damaging his front door…however, pics of the door showed NO damage. He just can’t help lying to play the victim.
It shows there are groups of people who understand how influential conservative media is…enough to engender such a protest.
If conservative media had zero influence, nobody would bother.
The backlash against mainstream media is different…instead of using protests, conservative media stars use their clout to tell their audience the mainstream media is “fake news”.
Different tactics…similar goals…devalue what the other is saying in favor of your message.
That conservative media is “an insurgency under attack” rather than a global behemoth in its own right is part and parcel of the message.
They understand, in ways a lot of liberal pundits don’t, the power of connecting with your audience and how the message is more believable because of that connection.
Absolutely. But there is another glaring difference as well. They don’t mind flat out lying to their audience, to promote their dark propaganda that is designed to generate fear and paranoia in them, which has them wanting to come back for more as their confirmation biases grow out of control, and they lose all connection to objective reality, because the outright falsehoods promoted by the conservative punditry class keeps them in a froth. It is almost formulaic.