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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts)
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 03:29 PM Jul 2019

Denigrating West Coast cities, a Fox News-Trump production

The nasty boy of Fox News, Tucker Carlson, claims immigration makes America "poorer and dirtier", defends Donald Trump, Jr., for retweeting a birther-style attack on Sen. Kamala Harris, and has described Iraqis as "semiliterate, primitive monkeys."

Such wretched excess has triggered an advertisers' boycott. But it hasn't kept Carlson from doubling down: Fox News has his back.

He has lately taken to denigrating West Coast cities, in particular going after California as a place with "needles and feces in the street, a dying middle class, the country's highest poverty rate, policies that prioritize illegal aliens over ailing American citizens."

Seattle is getting the treatment, too.

Carlson is welcoming such guests as KTTH radio host Jason Rantz talking of Metro buses smelling of poop, and the highfalutin hyperbole of writer Christopher Rufo, who writes of us: "Seattle is under siege... The city's compassion campaign has devolved into permissiveness, enablement, crime and disorder."


As noted by Media Matters, the liberal watchdog group, "Fox News has recently increased coverage of the problem of homelessness in America's cities, excuse to chastise Democratic politicians and criticized proposals aimed at helping undocumented immigrants."

Right-wing media in America is coordinated in propaganda delivery and message, and relentless. It steers clear of constructive solutions, but has no peer when it comes to sneering.

https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Connelly-Denigrating-West-Coast-cities-a-Fox-14070823.php?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletterspi&utm_term=spi

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Denigrating West Coast cities, a Fox News-Trump production (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2019 OP
carlson is to journalism as trump is to the presidency spanone Jul 2019 #1
'carlson is to journalism as...' Cirque du So-What Jul 2019 #2
that's what I just said!!! spanone Jul 2019 #3
LOL Johnny2X2X Jul 2019 #4
Meanwhile, the 10 poorest states are Trump supporting states. muntrv Jul 2019 #5
tuckers an idiot samnsara Jul 2019 #6
It isn't the homeless or the feces or the other stuff gratuitous Jul 2019 #7
God they suck. Initech Jul 2019 #8
And I bet there are 100 Hate Radio stations in CA and WA maxrandb Jul 2019 #9

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
4. LOL
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 03:42 PM
Jul 2019

I recently visited San Francisco, I live in MI. My FOX News viewing friends at work were asking about the homelessness and how dirty the city was.

I noticed no more homelessness than I do in MI, and the city is cleaner than most big Midwest cities. The one thing you will notice that is different is infrastructure, San Francisco has well maintained bridges and highways so although there are a lot of people, traffic isn't as terrible as it could be. And in Northern California they preserve their natural beauty, there are so many parks and people use them, and in the outskirts, if there is a beautiful forest with mountain side lakes, they don't necessarily let people build there, so there's more scenic beauty. You can be riding 15 minutes outside the city and see totally perfect lakes without a single house built on them. The lack of building permits preserves the natural beauty, but it probably drives up housing and rent prices too.

There's a reason so many want to live in CA, it's beautiful, the values of the state align with a modern society, and the economy is so strong it drives incomes to be very high.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. It isn't the homeless or the feces or the other stuff
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 05:43 PM
Jul 2019

It's that places like California and Washington produce Senators with funny-sounding names and decidedly non-male sexual organs. That's the real problem; you need Senators with names like Mitch or Rafael, I mean "Ted," and the right equipment, like good American states do.

Initech

(100,081 posts)
8. God they suck.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 06:06 PM
Jul 2019

We all know that it's a product of Trump - conservative billionaire policies that funnel all the money to the wealthy and allow for corporations to get away with brutal treatment of their employees unchecked.

maxrandb

(15,334 posts)
9. And I bet there are 100 Hate Radio stations in CA and WA
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 07:33 PM
Jul 2019

without one single person outside their studios protesting.

But I bet you can hear USC, UCLA, CAL, Stanford, University of Washington, Washington State, and University of Oregon football and basketball games on those stations each week.

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