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Fox News introduced on Jan. 10 that Jesse Watters would turn out to be the everlasting host of their 7 p.m. hour in two weeks. No one was extra disgusted than CNN, the place Erin Burnett has been thumped by Fox in that hour by a rotating solid of substitute hosts for the final yr.

Brian Stelter tweeted, “Jesse Watters is a logical selection for Fox’s 7pm time slot — the night schedule is now stuffed with flame throwers — from Watters by to Greg Gutfeld.” Oliver Darcy joined in: “The installment of Watters into the 7pm time slot cements a method Fox initiated quickly after Trump misplaced re-election: Even extra right-wing commentary, even much less information.”

Permit me to repeat that Stelter put an “skilled” on his “Reliable Sources” present who proclaimed Donald Trump would kill extra folks than Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong mixed. CNN has in contrast Trump to Hitler so usually that it sounds just like the Fake History Channel.

The night time earlier than the Stelter/Darcy flame-fest, this was the Sunday night time schedule on CNN:

First, at 9 p.m.: “Fareed Zakaria’s Special Report: The Fight To Save American Democracy.” Then at 10 p.m.? “CNN Special Report, ‘Trumping Democracy: An American Coup.’” At 11 p.m., one other hour: “Attack on Democracy: The Roots of Trump’s Insurrection.”

Somehow, it’s by no means “flame-throwing” to claim that Trump’s echoing Hitler. Zakaria introduced, “Donald Trump isn’t Adolf Hitler. But Weimar’s demise highlights a hazard for all democracies, particularly the best way conservative elites, decided to maintain the disregarded of energy, align themselves with an anti-democratic demagogue. The story in Germany started with an enormous lie.”

Zakaria and his chosen voices name-checked Hitler 24 instances. At one level, Zakaria proclaimed, “Within weeks, Adolf Hitler made himself a dictator. And quickly, he was killing off enemies and rivals, together with lots of the right-wing insiders who had enabled his rise. Democracy in Germany was lifeless.”

Right subsequent to that? A soundbite of Trump: “They’ll by no means take again our nation with weak spot. You have to indicate energy and it’s important to be robust.” This implies Trump endorsed killing off enemies and rivals. Zakaria added: “Its classes for America are sobering.”

Then, he aired Harvard professor Steven Levitsky smearing the conservative motion: “The willingness of mainstream conservatives to again into probably authoritarian choices, due to worry of their rivals, is one thing that I feel we’re seeing taking part in out within the United States as we speak.”

That’s some critical flame-throwing.

This is a pattern. In 2019, Zakaria dragged the conservatives with one other Sunday night time ragefest titled “State of Hate: The Explosion of White Supremacy.” Explosion?

In 2016, Zakaria hosted a Sunday night time particular lauding Barack Obama and roasting his enemies as racially hostile fanatics. He preposterously concluded the present by claiming Obama’s administration “was largely scandal-free, and he did it all of the whereas below a microscope, as a result of he appeared totally different.”

Benghazi, Fast and Furious, IRS abuse, Hillary Clinton’s electronic mail server? Never occurred.

The silliness and dishonesty didn’t cease there. Van Jones underlined alleged Republican racism by claiming, “I can’t identify one factor that this Congress supported this president on in eight years. You should have a rare clarification for this stage of obstruction.”

So, taking down Osama bin Laden — the Republicans didn’t assist that? In reality, Congress below Republicans handed lots of of legal guidelines that Obama signed.

Wildly exaggerating historical past would match the CNN system, to borrow from Darcy: much less and fewer information, an increasing number of left-wing rage.

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