Fauci says regional vaccine disparities could create ‘two types of America’ – as it happened




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‘Anti-white mania’ and comparisons to Nazis: right-wing rhetoric intensifies

The extremist rhetoric from rightwing news networks and some elected Republicans is “intensifying”, experts have warned, after a Republican congressman compared Democrats to Nazis and a hard-right news host suggested tens of thousands of Americans should be executed.

On his Fox News show on 24 June, Tucker Carlson, seated in front of a screen blaring the words “anti-white mania”, raged that the US could “become Rwanda”, apparently referencing the 1994 genocide in the country, when hundreds of thousands of Tutsi people were slaughtered.

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“The Fox base prefers propagandistic opinion shows [rather] than any semblance of news. People want to be lied to, and it’s above my head to know what to do about that. What do we do about that, when millions of people want to be lied to every day?”https://t.co/WwL8XqbkKy


July 2, 2021

Brian Stelter, CNN’s chief media correspondent, whose newly released book Hoax explores how Fox News covered Trump, told an interviewer in June that the US had entered an environment “where the Fox base” prefers “propagandistic opinion shows [rather] than any semblance of news”.

“People want to be lied to, and it’s above my head to know what to do about that,” Stelter told the Washington Post. “What do we do about that, when millions of people want to be lied to every day?”










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