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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
spanone
(135,844 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,943 posts)a turd is to a punchbowl.'
spanone
(135,844 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)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.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)samnsara
(17,622 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)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)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)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.