Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene rails against Fox News: “Fox News wants to control what Republican voters think”
“Fox News wants to make sure that you ... only have the opinion that Fox News tells you to have, and that's why Fox News attacks Steve Bannon. That's why Fox News attacks Charlie Kirk, and that's why Fox News would love to murder Tucker Carlson.”
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Citation From the May 10, 2024, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
REP. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE (R-GA): So you got to remember Fox News that literally fired Tucker Carlson, the number one cable TV news host in the nation. Tucker, who was basically the voice of everyone, that's the Fox News that refused to cover me calling the motion to vacate. The Five never switched gears, they never changed, never went to anything different. Fox News wants to control what Republican voters think and the control and the information that they give you is the establishment Republican Party view, the Bush view, the Cheney view, the same view that led us into the Iraq War claiming that there was weapons of mass destruction.
They want to make viewers, their viewers think that we have to fight for Ukraine, that we have to stop Putin because he's gonna steamroll across Europe just like Hitler did even though there's no evidence of showing that. The same Fox News refuses to say, hey, let's call for peace. Peace for these people in Ukraine instead of wiping out an entire generation of Ukrainians. Think about that.
This is the same Fox News that wants to infuriate you every single day while Republicans go down to the border, drag out the podium once again, point it, oh, look. Look. They're crossing the border. Oh my goodness. Oh my. But, yeah, Republicans don't do a damn thing to actually stop it. Nothing. We could have stopped it in our appropriations. We could change all kinds of things. We have the speaker of the house, the most powerful position in the Republican Party, third in line to the president, third in line to the president. The speaker can do anything he wants to do if he's willing to do it, but we have a speaker that's weak that a man — an 80-year-old man with dementia is able to fool him. This is where we are.
And Fox News, Fox News wants to make sure, make sure that you guys don't have your own opinion, that you only have the opinion that Fox News tells you to have, and that's why Fox News attacks Steve Bannon. That's why Fox News attacks Charlie Kirk, and that's why Fox News would love to murder Tucker Carlson, and that's the reality. And that's why Fox News is losing viewers because I think you guys are smart. The American people are too smart and you're tired of being fed outrage TV – outrage TV and watching and voting and donating to Republicans that don't do a damn thing about it. And I think that's where we're turning the corner, Steve, and I hope to God we continue turning that corner.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): No it's Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Tucker — it's not us saying it. It's Politico has a huge piece on how Fox News saved Johnson. Rupert Murdoch stepped in to save Johnson because you had Tucker Carlson, you had the Real America's Voice War Room guys, you had Charlie Kirk, you had Jack Posobiec, of course, all the Real America's Voice hosts all over it. Why have we not used our leverage? Remember, if you submit to the Democrats, you're going to get good press from the mainstream media.