TUCKER CARLSON’S EPIC TAKEDOWN OF CNN: ONE OF “FREE SPEECH’S GREATEST ENEMIES”~BUT FOX NEWS SUPPORTS CNN AGAINST “ANTAGONISTIC TONE” OF TRUMP

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Tucker Carlson delivered a stunning monologue Wednesday,
slamming CNN for posing as a champion of free speech, after the network
spent months trying to have competitors silenced and banned.
Carlson addressed CNN’s lawsuit against the Trump administration for revoking Jim Acosta’s White House access.
“In
the past couple of days, you’ve heard a lot of pumping and puffing
about free speech and freedom of the press, and how those freedoms are
currently imperiled by the White House, and to be clear, we are for free
speech. Unfettered, absolute free speech.” Carlson urged.
“And we
cannot help but notice that some of free speech’s greatest enemies are
now posing as its defenders, all of a sudden.” he added.

And that’s when the smackdown commenced, with Tucker providing examples of CNN’s total hypocrisy when it comes to free speech.
“Take
CNN, for example. It was a CNN that almost single-handedly led the
campaign to have broadcaster Alex Jones banished from the Internet, on
the grounds that they didn’t like what Jones had to say,” Tucker
continued.
“Ultimately, CNN succeeded in doing that. The network
convinced every major tech platform to ban Jones and his outlet,
Infowars. You don’t have to like Alex Jones to see that as a terrifying
loss for free speech, because it was exactly that. But CNN was not done
trying to silence its critics.” Carlson further explained.
CNN is
“claiming to defend free speech only when it is their free speech.”
Tucker declared, noting that CNN also didn’t devote any airtime to even
report on the US government forcing RT to register as a foreign agent
under threat of imprisonment.
“Yes, Russia Today is owned by a
foreign government. So is the BBC,” he said. “But because RT is owned by
Russia, which the left believes got Donald Trump elected, it is fine
with CNN if they are bullied and silenced.”
“Call CNN what you will,” Carlson said. “But don’t pretend they are defenders of the First Amendment. They are not.”
“To
see a channel that has lobbied against the right of others to say what
they think is true, to all of a sudden emerge as this defender of the
First Amendment is nauseating.” Tucker added.
Carlson and his guest Victor Davis Hanson then discussed how the Obama administration actively spied on reporters.
“This is a violation of press freedom,” said Hanson. “We didn’t hear that.”
“CNN
has argued that others should lose their voice, should be silenced,
because they’re quote conspiracy theorists, but you’re listing
conspiracy theories that they have promulgated on their air.” Carlson
told his guest after Hanson cited examples of various attacks on the
President by CNN talking heads.
Turning back to Acosta, Hanson
addressed the CNN reporter’s infamous ‘chop’ to a female White House
intern’s arm, and noted that “this particular time you went over the
edge, you were disruptive you were rude, you took over an optional press
conference. Nothing in the constitution says he has to have a press
conference.”
Despite the tone of Carlson’s broadcast, Fox News
released an earlier statement expressing support for CNN’s lawsuit, for
which CNN thanked their rival network.