{"id":1478366,"date":"2022-05-17T14:44:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478366"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T18:44:55","slug":"this-is-a-poison-chuck-schumer-uses-senate-floor-to-berate-fox-news-after-buffalo-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-a-poison-chuck-schumer-uses-senate-floor-to-berate-fox-news-after-buffalo-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Is A Poison\u2019: Chuck Schumer Uses Senate Floor To Berate Fox News After Buffalo Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthis-is-a-poison-chuck-schumer-uses-senate-floor-to-berate-fox-news-after-buffalo-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1478366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1240609006.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Majority Leader Chuck Schumer used his time on the Senate floor on Tuesday to berate Fox News and popular host Tucker Carlson, claiming that the network\u2019s \u2014 and specifically Carlson\u2019s \u2014 coverage was influencing people like the man who killed ten people over the weekend in Buffalo, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson has suggested on his show that the Democratic Party favors an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-shreds-biden-over-bidens-border-crisis-this-is-an-intentional-policy-rooted-in-an-open-borders-ideology\/\">open southern border<\/a> because they believe the influx of illegal immigrants will benefit them politically by diluting the political power\u00a0of those who oppose them \u2014 and Schumer argued that because the suspect in the Buffalo shooting wrote about Replacement Theory in a lengthy and heavily-racist diatribe, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/cant-we-spend-two-fing-minutes-mourning-megyn-kelly-blasts-people-blaming-tucker-carlson-for-buffalo-shooting\/\">people like Carlson<\/a> and networks like Fox News that were truly responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time MAGA Republicans or pundits vilify wrongly immigrants and call them invaders \u2026\u00a0Every time they falsely claim that millions of undocumented people cast ballots in our elections \u2026\u00a0Every time loud bigoted voices bemoan the disintegration of an imagined \u2018classic\u2019 America \u2026The subtext is clear: these hard-right MAGA Republicans argue that people of color and minority communities are somehow posing a threat \u2014 a threat \u2014 to the American way of life,\u201d Schumer began.<\/p>\n<p>He then pivoted to address Carlson and Fox News directly, claiming that they were responsible for propagating the message that had allowed people like the Buffalo shooter to stew in his own racist hatred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd let\u2019s be clear: it\u2019s a message that has also found a special home in several right-wing outlets, and on one cable news channel in particular: Fox News.\u00a0In a craven quest for viewers and ratings, organizations like Fox News have spent years perfecting the craft of stoking cultural grievance and political resentment that eerily mirrors the messages found in Replacement Theory,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say that Carlson had mentioned Replacement Theory on his popular prime time show over 400 times since 2016, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour hundred times. This is a poison that is being spread by one of the largest news organizations in our country,\u201d Schumer continued, noting that the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board had called on politicians and media personalities to condemn the theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are right, condemning racist ideologies and violence is necessary but hardly sufficient,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not enough for outlets like Fox News to simply condemn Saturday\u2019s violence, and condemn the shooter\u2019s racist views, and then return to their regularly-scheduled programing.\u00a0To have an impact in the fight against domestic violent extremism, Fox News and their hosts need to actually stop spreading dangerous ideas like replacement theory on their shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single media pundit, every single elected politician\u2014and indeed every single voice of influence in this country\u2014should band together to stomp views like replacement theory out of existence,\u201d Schumer concluded. \u201cThese views should have no place in American society and certainly no place in the segments of our most-watched news channels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Schumer sent a letter to Fox News \u2014 urging that the network \u201cimmediately cease the reckless amplification of the so-called \u2018Great Replacement theory\u2019 on your network\u2019s broadcasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Schumer letter to the Murdochs and Fox execs: &#8220;I write to urge you to immediately cease the reckless amplification of the so-called &#8216;Great Replacement theory&#8217; on your network&#8217;s broadcasts&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ykeIa8Be3o\">pic.twitter.com\/ykeIa8Be3o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1526568386448306176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority Leader Chuck Schumer used his time on the Senate floor on Tuesday to berate Fox News and popular host Tucker Carlson, claiming that the network\u2019s \u2014 and specifically Carlson\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1483447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}