Post by benson on Feb 15, 2022 9:25:09 GMT
REPUBLICANS HATE cancel culture—EXCEPT WHEN THEY CAN’T WATCH OANN
On Monday, Senator Rand Paul did something bold. “@directv is cancelling @oann so I just cancelled my home Direct TV,” he tweeted. “Why give money to people who hate us?” Paul’s outraged missive was in response to the news that DirecTV, a subsidiary of media conglomerate AT&T, would drop far-right and ardently-Trump-supporting One America News Network (OANN) from its lineup—news that caused right-wing politicians and media figures to dissolve into paroxysms of outrage.
DirecTV attests that it made the decision “following a routine internal review.” But OANN’s defenders see its axing as an overt hit job. Representative Jim Jordan described it as the latest phase in “The Left’s purge,” while Representative Lauren Boebert suggested the Joe Biden may have had a hand in DirecTV’s decision. “Pretty convenient that this comes within a week after Biden begged companies to silence ‘misinformation,’ meaning his opposition,” tweeted the Colorado Republican.
On Wednesday, Senator Steve Daines sent a letter to DirecTV CEO Bill Morrow urging the provider to change course. “There has not been sufficient justification from DirecTV as to why OAN’s contract was not renewed by your company,” Daines wrote in the letter, which was obtained by the Daily Caller. “A vague ‘routine internal review’ and the lack of transparency…in your decision making process is unacceptable and has the appearance of targeting supporters of former President Donald Trump.”
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/republicans-cancel-culture-oann
On Monday, Senator Rand Paul did something bold. “@directv is cancelling @oann so I just cancelled my home Direct TV,” he tweeted. “Why give money to people who hate us?” Paul’s outraged missive was in response to the news that DirecTV, a subsidiary of media conglomerate AT&T, would drop far-right and ardently-Trump-supporting One America News Network (OANN) from its lineup—news that caused right-wing politicians and media figures to dissolve into paroxysms of outrage.
DirecTV attests that it made the decision “following a routine internal review.” But OANN’s defenders see its axing as an overt hit job. Representative Jim Jordan described it as the latest phase in “The Left’s purge,” while Representative Lauren Boebert suggested the Joe Biden may have had a hand in DirecTV’s decision. “Pretty convenient that this comes within a week after Biden begged companies to silence ‘misinformation,’ meaning his opposition,” tweeted the Colorado Republican.
On Wednesday, Senator Steve Daines sent a letter to DirecTV CEO Bill Morrow urging the provider to change course. “There has not been sufficient justification from DirecTV as to why OAN’s contract was not renewed by your company,” Daines wrote in the letter, which was obtained by the Daily Caller. “A vague ‘routine internal review’ and the lack of transparency…in your decision making process is unacceptable and has the appearance of targeting supporters of former President Donald Trump.”
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/republicans-cancel-culture-oann