{"id":385148,"date":"2018-11-15T14:14:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tucker-carlsons-epic-takedown-of-cnn-one-of-free-speechs-greatest-enemies\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:14:55","slug":"tucker-carlsons-epic-takedown-of-cnn-one-of-free-speechs-greatest-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/tucker-carlsons-epic-takedown-of-cnn-one-of-free-speechs-greatest-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson\u2019s Epic Takedown Of CNN; One of \u201cfree speech\u2019s greatest enemies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018CNN almost single-handedly led the campaign to have Alex Jones banished\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Watson<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>November 15, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tucker Carlson delivered a stunning monologue Wednesday, slamming CNN for posing as a champion of free speech, after the network spent months trying to have competitors silenced and banned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carlson addressed CNN\u2019s lawsuit against the Trump administration for revoking Jim Acosta\u2019s White House access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past couple of days, you\u2019ve heard a lot of pumping and puffing about free speech and freedom of the press, and how those freedoms are currently imperiled by the White House, and to be clear, we are for free speech. Unfettered, absolute free speech.\u201d Carlson urged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we cannot help but notice that some of free speech\u2019s greatest enemies are now posing as its defenders, all of a sudden.\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FleTQr4kX38\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s when the smackdown commenced, with Tucker providing examples of CNN\u2019s total hypocrisy when it comes to free speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake CNN, for example. It was a CNN that almost single-handedly led the campaign to have broadcaster Alex Jones banished from the Internet, on the grounds that they didn\u2019t like what Jones had to say,\u201d Tucker continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, CNN succeeded in doing that. The network convinced every major tech platform to ban Jones and his outlet, Infowars. You don\u2019t have to like Alex Jones to see that as a terrifying loss for free speech, because it was exactly that. But CNN was not done trying to silence its critics.\u201d Carlson further explained.<\/p>\n<p>CNN is \u201cclaiming to defend free speech only when it is their free speech.\u201d Tucker declared, noting that CNN also didn\u2019t devote any airtime to even report on the US government forcing RT to register as a foreign agent under threat of imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, Russia Today is owned by a foreign government. So is the BBC,\u201d he said. \u201cBut because RT is owned by Russia, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/watch-tucker-carlsons-epic-takedown-of-cnn-one-of-free-speechs-greatest-enemies.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018CNN almost single-handedly led the campaign to have Alex Jones banished\u2019 Steve WatsonPrison Planet.comNovember 15, 2018 Tucker Carlson delivered a stunning monologue Wednesday, slamming CNN for posing as a champion of free speech, after the network spent months trying to have competitors silenced and banned. Carlson addressed CNN\u2019s lawsuit against the Trump administration for revoking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}