Howard Dean Calls for 'Boycott' of Fox News and Deportation of Murdoch Family: 'They Are the Enemy'

[Mr. Sparkle]

Howard Dean said on MSNBC Thursday that Americans should “boycott” Fox News and primetime host Tucker Carlson. He also said he believes the entire Murdoch family should be deported. Dean joined The Beat with Host Ari Melber. The duo blamed Fox News for last week’s racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. They also discussed the “great replacement theory,” which Carlson has endorsed.

Melber reminded Dean Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Wednesday the network’s viewers see the it more as “an America media brand” than “news.” Dean reacted to the comment by calling for the Murdochs to be deported. He also accused Fox News of “murder.” “I see the brand of Fox being hate, anger, dishonesty and now murder,” he said. “That’s the brand, that’s the brand that the Murdochs have chosen to be their flagship.” Dean added,

[Rupert Murdoch] has harmed this country more than any other human being in my lifetime, and he and his family should never should have been given citizenship. The one thing I would change about our immigration policy is to send Murdoch back to Australia and keep him there with the whole family.

If you cause that much trouble, you spread lies and hate and anger and tear the united States apart with your crappy TV shows, simply to make money, you do not belong, you do not deserve American citizenship.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/howard-dean-calls-for-boycott-of-fox-news-and-deportation-of-murdoch-family-they-are-the-enemy/

[MacKasey]

1. Totally agree!

Governor Dean needs to be on these shows more often

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Biden should publicly invite Murdoch to the White House

and ask him what his end game is.
Is it just money or does he also want to destroy our democracy.
Take him on directly and publicize what he said or if he turns down the meeting.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. IMO, Murdoch is both a nihilist and a media czar.

Look at his record in the U.K. and Australia. The institution of the monarchy has been his target since he bought his first newspaper. He's used his media to attack, to erode confidence, to antagonize the Royals (not that he's needed much help lately).

When Murdoch got a foothold in the U.S. with Reagan, same thing: to erode confidence in American democracy and the institutions of government.

The money's nice. The power is more seductive.

[Raine]

3. Not going to happen, no way in hell. 🙄 nt

[sop]

5. If the Murdochs had been cooking meth and selling their poison throughout the country,

they would have been shut down long ago. Unfotunately, the 1st Amendment has become a suicide pact, and the Murdochs' poison is constitutionally protected speech.

[wildman76]

6. Howard Dean is crazy bastard lol, but he's right

[Icanthinkformyself]

7. A person who speaks his mind

Dean has always been willing to say things without mealy mouthing it. We need more Dean type Democrats. Counter Republican lies with brutal honesty. We should deport the Murdochs and the assets of News Corp should be considered proceeds from criminal activities (accessary to murder) liquidated and the proceeds used to feed the hungry, house the homeless and provide a base income to millions of people. All billionaires should be taxed out of existence. A dream, I know.

[Lucky2367]

8. Time to rethink 1st amendment

tRump started this. Time to redefine 1st amendment. Disinformation board was a good start. I don’t trust news sources unless the (democrat) government approves

[The Jungle 1]

19. IMO the Ist amendment is just fine

Yelling fire in that theater is not fine.
He is clearly causing Americans to die. Arrest him.

[KS Toronado]

27. Welcome to DU!

[Dial H For Hero]

36. Absolutely not. Imagine such a policy under Trump.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

48. LOL,

I see what you did there.

[jaxexpat]

11. Great ideas whose time is coming. Perhaps not so much a "mere dream" as you think.

Welcome to the forum.

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[Casady1]

10. Deport Theil and Musk

[dameatball]

12. Democrats already boycott fox news. Republicans will not. But glad Dean is speaking out anyway.

I doubt I have watched an hour of actual fox news in the past few years. However, I see tons of clips on other networks, FSTV, MSNBC, CNN, local news broadcasts, even on DU here and there. It is pretty hard to escape really.

DO many DUers really watch much fox news? I guess so, in order to know one's enemy, but I generally let someone else do that crappy job.

I would love to see the Murdoch's gone, but even if that unlikely event would happen I doubt the network would be gone with them.

[IronLionZion]

15. My Dad sometimes watches to get his blood boiling and he yells at the TV

It might be an old people thing. They like to watch or listen to things that make them mad for some reason.

[dameatball]

17. I am old too, but don't need that aggravation. The political ads are bad enough really. My remote

gets a workout sometimes.

[The Jungle 1]

21. The advertising explains who the audience is.

The evening news has one pill ad after the other. Because the audience is me. An old fart.

[former9thward]

42. Elected Democrats do not boycott Fox News.--

Elected Democrats and high ranking appointees appear on Fox News everyday.

[dameatball]

45. Certainly true. I can watch that interview in some other venue if I choose to. It's out there.

[IronLionZion]

13. Make sure the Murdochs don't run Fox News from Australia either

because they don't have to actually live here to be a problem

I'd like to reform RW hate radio too, and do something about social media misinformation/disinformation. I just saw some nonsense with the Buffalo shooter's face and complete lies saying his parents saw the FBI trying to convince him to do a mass shooting. All lies. They just make stuff up and put it on an image and share it.

[dlk]

14. The First Amendment doesn't protect all speech in all circumstances

Rupert Murdoch is a clear threat to our democracy. His media empire is tearing our country apart.

[2naSalit]

28. A clear and present danger.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. The roots of domestic terrorism

began with ideas. That's the link, but in a court of law causality is elusive.

[spanone]

20. ...K&R...

[onenote]

22. Under current law there is no way he can be deported.

He's a citizen. And there is no basis under current law under which he could be denaturalized.

Want to defeat Murdoch? Do it at the ballot box. There are millions more people who don't watch Fox than those who do.

[Dial H For Hero]

37. +1

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

23. If it can be proven that Murdoch is deliberately working to overthrow

the US government, he can be denaturalized, and deported.

Heck, seems to me that any half decent prosecutor should be able to prove that about Murdoch.

[2naSalit]

29. Wouldn't take a lot of research...

To come up with proof that this was his intent for decades, actually. When I heard about it back in the 1990s, I didn't think he'd be able to accomplish his goal. Now it looks like he needs to be shut down completely and banished from interacting with the world.

[treestar]

33. only if it was before he became a citizen

the only way to undo naturalization is to nullify from the beginning, as in a person who lied saying they were not a Nazi and turned out to be. He'd have had to lie by saying he did not intend to overthrow the US government, and be proven that he intended that all along - very tough to do.

[onenote]

44. +1

You would think Dean would have researched the law before suggesting deportation.

[onenote]

38. Trying to get right wing republicans elected isn't overthrowing the government

And you can’t seriously think he started planing January 6 more than 25 years ago.

[The Grand Illuminist]

24. Realistically

Not gonna happen. Not by a long shot.

[samsingh]

25. yes

[Texin]

26. Deportation won't do any good. It's not like the Murdochs can't run their media

empire abroad. Hell, most of their media outlets are outside this country.

[wnylib]

31. If he is not a US citizen, then he can't own US media.

That's why he became a citizen in the first place, to own American media.

[onenote]

43. US Citizenship isn't required to own and operate a cable channel.

[wnylib]

47. Direct foreign ownership

requires citizenship. Indirect foreign ownership through investment is possible under certain conditions that require approval.

https://www.foster.com/newsroom-publications-The-Road-Map-For-Potential-Foreign-Investors

[onenote]

49. Those provisions apply to broadcast licenses not cable

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Murdoch needed us citizenship to hold licenses for over the air stations. He didn’t-and doesn't- need us citizenship to own and operate Fox News or his other non-broadcast cable networks (which aren’t licensed by the FCC).

[UCmeNdc]

30. Agree! Fox News propaganda is destroying the United States.

[Midnight Writer]

32. Murdoch has been crowding the plate. About time he gets a little brushback.

Republicans scream "Lock Them Up!" a million times a day to sway public opinion.

No reason we can't point out their perfidy in emphatic terms.

[Blue Owl]

34. DU's been saying it for years

Flush the turdoch

[mzmolly]

35. I've always loved Howard Dean.

More so now.

[The Wizard]

39. He's always been on the money.

He scares the establishment because he speaks to the issues directly. Remember when he said capturing Saddam Hussein didn't make us safer.

[myohmy2]

40. the good...

...doctor writes a perfect prescription...

...

[The Wizard]

41. Serving as a platform for Putin's propaganda

is over the line. They have to be sanctioned for pretending to be news, yet registered as entertainment. Wasn't Carlson's defense of a civil suit "People don't tune in to Tucker Carlson for the truth." Stephen Colbert is more honest than Carlson, and he's a much better entertainer and commentator than the troll Tucker Carlson. Q and the alternate fact weirdos watch Carlson like he's the oracle of all truth.

[onenote]

50. Fox News is not and never has been "registered as entertainment"

Apparently it doesn't matter how many times this myth is debunked, it eventually reappears on DU.

https://factcheck.thedispatch.com/p/fact-checking-a-claim-that-fox-news?s=r

[pressbox69]

46. I'm With Dean on This One