Veterans Group Urges Pentagon To BAN Fox News Propaganda On Military Bases

The veterans group VoteVets has put out a new ad calling for the Pentagon to stop allowing Fox News to spread propaganda on military bases. The ad is powerful - highlighting the series of lies that certain hosts told about the 2020 election and then contrasting them with the behind-the-scenes conversations that have been revealed through court findings. But could the Pentagon actually ban the outlet from bases? Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins answers that question.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

A veterans group has, uh, basically put out a new ad calling on the Pentagon to stop allowing Fox News propaganda on military bases. The group is Vote Vets, which has been around for quite some time. They've done some wonderful work in the past, and they've put out a very powerful ad explaining why Fox News is nothing short of propaganda and that we shouldn't be allowing it on these taxpayer funded military bases. The ad is very long, so here's just a small piece of it. Uh, take a look. This is from Vote Vets.

The most valuable weapon to the enemy is disinformation. That's why the Pentagon spends hundreds of millions training our troops to resist it. Yet at the same time, the US military uses taxpayer funded facilities to broadcast disinformation on military bases, knowingly letting false propaganda infiltrate the ranks. Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingram, and Sean Hannity have open access to spread their conspiracy theories to US troops. And now we know they knew they were lies just to boost their ratings.

The outcome of our presidential election was seized from the hands of voter disturbing irregularities have been found. Every American should be angry. You should be outraged.

But behind the scenes, it was a different story. Carlson Trump is a demonic force. He can easily destroy us. Hannity Giuliani is acting like an insane person. Ingram, such an idiot, Bayer, there is no evidence of fraud. Rupert Murdoch, Carlson, Hannity and Ingram should independently or together say something like the election is over and Biden won, but they didn't just to boost their ratings.

Nothing in that ad is incorrect. Like it's a brilliant ad, and as I said it, it continues beyond that and it gets even better. But I wanted to show that, to show you how powerful this message is. They're showing that Fox News is filled with propaganda who don't even believe the things that they're saying. You know, they're saying one thing in private, they're saying a different thing on the air. And of course, all of that information came out in the recent Dominion Court filings. Now, the question is, can you actually ban a cable news outlet on military bases? The answer to that, I'm pretty sure is a resounding no. I'd love to see it happen. I think it should happen. I think Vote Vets is 100% right, but legally speaking, you know, first Amendment wise, can you do that? Probably not. I, I, I simply don't see a way that this would survive in court.

If the Pentagon did say, okay, pull the plug on, uh, uh, uh, Fox News on military bases, you just can't do that. Not to mention military bases where you have military housing, they have independent, you know, uh, uh, cable providers, they have satellite providers. They might be streamers. You can't like pull it off that I know you're mostly talking about in official buildings, but again, not much you can do because that would be seen as a violation of the First Amendment. What should happen, however, and this is the same thing I said about Move ons ad a couple days ago, you need to be running that ad on tv. You need to be running that ad all over. You know, the, the, the regular networks, your b, abc, N B C and CBS run it on Food Network, run it on tbs, run it on hgtv, on Bravo, on T L C, you know, in between 90 Day Fiance episodes. I wanna see that Vote Vet's at. I think it's powerful and you need to reach the audience that is not already watching Fox News. That's what needs to happen.

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