by Kyle Becker at Trending Politics
Tucker Carlson, in a must-watch segment on Fox & Friends on Wednesday, has perfectly encapsulated the biggest ‘crisis’ facing America today.
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“All right, what do you think about this whole thing, because more and more of the onion has been peeled back?” Ainsley Earhardt asked.
“Well, this, this is the core of the onion,” Tucker Carlson replied. “This story is not about some private company deciding what language is safe or permitted and what’s not. It’s not content moderation. It’s censorship being overseen by the U.S. government, which is a crime. It’s a violation of the First Amendment. It’s the core freedom that we have, the freedom to say what we think is true. That’s why this country is different from every other country. It’s not our economy, you know, that — that is American exceptionalism is the First Amendment, period. That’s the foundation of all freedom.”
“And so if you find yourself in a place where the government is censoring political speech, if the ruling party is preventing criticism of itself, which is exactly what’s happening, then you know, you’re in a crisis,” Carlson continued. “And we are. So this — this — this, Jim Baker was, of course, General Counsel over at FBI, the very center of the Russiagate hoax and disaster, an attack on human rights. It’s the guy who, who tried to put Mike Flynn in jail for knowing too much. That’s not an overstatement.