https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-gop-candidate-furries-schools/
A Texas GOP Candidate’s New Claim: School Cafeteria Tables Are Being Lowered for “Furriesâ€
The allegation isn’t true. But that isn’t stopping some politicians and right-wing activists from running with it
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-gop-candidate-furries-schools/A Texas GOP Candidate’s New Claim: School Cafeteria Tables Are Being Lowered for “Furriesâ€
The allegation isn’t true. But that isn’t stopping some politicians and right-wing activists from running with it
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-gop-candidate-furries-schools/A Texas GOP Candidate’s New Claim: School Cafeteria Tables Are Being Lowered for “Furriesâ€
The allegation isn’t true. But that isn’t stopping some politicians and right-wing activists from running with it
Why are they lowering the tables ?
Edit: I read the link and the tables don't lower wtf lol
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson slammed the network and its on-air personalities for spreading what she called "outright dangerous rhetoric.""Conservative television news is certainly not the conservative news that was out there, even just five years ago," Carlson told CNN's Jim Acosta in an interview Friday.
Since the Trump era, Carlson said conservative media had "morphed into eradicating any other point of view."
"It's gone from an opinion, which was fine, to completely devolving into non-fact-based conspiracy theories, and outright dangerous rhetoric, in my mind," she said. "And I think it's a complete disservice to our country."
A Fox News spokesperson did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on Sunday.
Several top Fox News anchors, including Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, were in contact with former President Donald Trump's team during the riot at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, asking the then-president to tell his supporters to leave the grounds, Insider previously reported.
Publicly, however, the on-air personalities took a different stance on the insurrection, suggesting groups like Antifa were responsible for the riot.
Carlson said it's possible that media figures on both sides of the political aisle have advised the White House "depending on who happens to be in the office" but still condemned the actions of her former colleagues.
"I think the bigger story coming out of that is how disingenuous it was to be sending those texts of warning while then going on the air to the American people and doing a complete injustice and disservice by saying something completely opposite and ginning up this whole reaction that it was just fine and patriotic for people to be there on January 6," Carlson said.
Carlson, who worked at Fox News for a decade from 2006 to 2016, said there was a "big difference" between having conservative opinions and supporting conspiracy theories.
In 2016, Carlson reached a $20 million settlement in a sexual-harassment lawsuit against the late Roger Ailes, who served as the network's longtime chairman and CEO. Carlson's story led a dozen other women to come forward and allege that they had also been sexually harassed by Ailes, including former star anchor Megyn Kelly.
"I wish more of them would have the courage to do what I did, quite honestly, and come forward and take on a behemoth," Carlson said. "For the safety of the Republican Party, and for our democracy, I wish more would because this is not going to end well."
Sean Hannity texted Mark Meadows to urge Trump to stop the rioters on January 6, but hours later suggested that 'radical groups' like antifa 'were there to cause trouble'Fox News host Sean Hannity tried urging Trump to stop the rioting at the Capitol on January 6.
"Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol," Hannity texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
The January 6 committee revealed the texts during a hearing on Monday.As a violent crowd descended on the Capitol on January 6, Fox News host Sean Hannity sought to get then-President Donald Trump to stop the chaos.
"Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol," Hannity urged then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, according to texts revealed by the House select committee investigating January 6.
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, vice chair of the committee, read the text aloud during a hearing on Monday, which reveals a difference between Hannity's private reading of the situation and public portrayal of the riot.
Although he condemned the violence, Hannity also floated the conspiracy theory that groups like antifa may have infiltrated the crowd.
"Then we had the reports that groups like antifa, other radical groups — I don't know the names of all of them — that they were there to cause trouble," Hannity said on his radio show.
On his TV show, Hannity suggested that "bad actors" could have been responsible for the chaos.
The FBI said its found no evidence that groups such as antifa had been involved in the riot. At least 719 people have been charged in connection to the riot so far.
Cheney also read out texts sent on January 6 by other Fox News anchors, including Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade, who similarly tried to spur Trump into action.
Kilmeade texted Meadows: "Please get him on TV. Destroying everything you have accomplished."
"Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy," Ingraham texted Meadows.
But on the air that night, both Kilmeade and Ingraham cast doubt on the fact that Trump supporters were behind the insurrection.
"I do not know Trump supporters that have ever demonstrated violence that I know of in a big situation," Kilmeade said.
"I've been to a lot of these rallies. I know you, you both have covered them. I have never seen that before. Ever," Ingraham said.
These messages, submitted by Meadows, were revealed as the committee recommended to hold him in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to appear before the panel. The House is expected to vote on the contempt charges on Tuesday.
A Fox News spokesperson did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Hannity and Trump had a reported falling out in late 2020 over the former president's election fraud lies.
"If you were hearing what I'm hearing, you'd be vaping too," Hannity reportedly told a colleague at one point.
Since his antifa comments in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol siege, Hannity has, like other conservative media personalities who initially floated the baseless theory, largely steered away from the topic of the insurrection altogether.
The notable exception at Fox News is Hannity's fellow primetime host Tucker Carlson, who has doubled down on his whitewashing of January 6. He even released a three-part miniseries, titled "Patriot Purge," that pushes a demonstrably false conspiracy theory that the US military and the FBI secretly plotted the attack.
Carlson, however, has mostly left his whitewashing of the Capitol riot within the confines of the FOX Nation streaming app — where ad boycotts are of no concern — with the exception of a June 2021 segment where he first rolled out the FBI "false flag" theory that later became the subject of the streaming miniseries.