The leftist/Democratic Party War Against Fox News: constitutional expert and media critic Andy Martin explains why free speech is endangered
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Andy
Martin defends Fox News against attacks from Democrats and leftist extremists
Andy
says he had a bad experience with Fox, where they abused him and stabbed him in
the back but, as a matter of constitutional principle, he still defends the
network
Andy
says we cannot return to the social mores and practices of the 1950’s and 60’s;
society has moved on
Andy
also says Bill O’Reilly got a raw deal from Rupert Murdoch’s sons, who are in
the process of dismembering Fox News; allegations of “sexual harassment” are
only the visible aspects of a clandestine agenda to neuter the conservative
network
Andy
says Sean Hannity is only the latest victim of what is going to be a protracted
“War Against Fox News”
(New York , NY April 25 2017 )
Dear American:
Sixty-five years ago U. S. Senator Joe McCarthy terrorized
the media and liberals in general by accusing them of being infiltrated by
“communists.” McCarthy’s supporters tried to remove individuals and reporters
from appearing on TV and radio, and threatened media that refused to bend to
their demands. They also used pressure tactics against advertisers, many of
whom quickly caved.
When CBS refused to be intimidated, the network became a
liberal icon for staring down and standing up to McCarthy’s accusations.
Today the tables are reversed.
Liberals are trying to intimidate the media and seeking to
force the removal of conservative voices by threatening boycotts against
sponsors. A demonization campaign again Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, based on
stale accusations of sexual harassment, caused the sons of Rupert Murdoch to
panic and remove O’Reilly.
As I made clear in my earlier column on O’Reilly, I strongly
oppose sexual harassment and condemn abusive behavior by men or women seeking
to extort sexual favors based on their positions of corporate or media
authority. Almost fifty years ago I stood up at the Federal Communications
Commission for the equal employment rights of women.
But I believe Murdoch’s sons are hell bent on destroying the
legacy of their father. Rupert Murdoch was a swashbuckling and often abrasive corporate
operator who built a worldwide media empire. I have followed him since the
1970’s. Rupert was “good” and “bad” and “in between.” His own moral behavior
was immoral.
But in 1996 he gave conservatives a voice in the United
States , the Fox News Network, conceived by
Roger Ailes. Murdoch’s sons have not built anything; they are destroying their
father’s legacy and trying to dismember Fox News as a conservative voice.
O’Reilly was only the first casualty.
O’Reilly became a victim of McCarthyism of the left,
liberals using the same sorts of malignant tactics they had condemned when they
were employed by Senator McCarthy in the 1950’s. Instead of “doing a CBS” and
standing up for O’Reilly, the Murdoch boys panicked at the first sign of
sponsor resistance. I don’t know what O’Reilly did or didn’t do with the
various women who accused him. They said he had engaged in boorish behavior; no
one ever said O’Reilly attacked them or physically manhandled them. If the
allegations were proven, they were still stale, long out of date and stretching
back a decade in some instances, during an era when standards of corporate
behavior were steadily strengthened to condemn aggressive behavior.
Some form of discipline against O’Reilly may have been
appropriate; dismissal was not. But I knew the attacks on O’Reilly were only
the first stage in a liberal/leftist plan to destroy Fox News. I said to
myself, “How long before Sean Hannity is next?” I didn’t have long to wait.
Over the weekend a woman surfaced and denounced Hannity.
I have to be honest and state that while I have no
hesitation to defend Fox News, I was treated badly by the network. They took
advantage of my research, used me as a guest, and then smeared me when I became
the target of leftist attacks (sound familiar?). Rupert Murdoch and his minions
have no loyalty to anyone but themselves. Hannity stood by silently and failed
to defend me, so his defense of free speech ends where his paycheck begins. But
despite my own personal experience with Fox, I see an important constitutional
principle in the way the network has been targeted for destruction by leftist
activists and agitators.
Democrats are in a bind. They lost an election for the White
House to someone they considered a clown. Congress is in the hands of
Republicans, especially conservatives. In the days ahead, Democratic cities are
going to lose massive amounts of federal funding as they persist in the
nonsense that they are “sanctuary cities” free to defy federal law. And so
Democrats have chosen to try to win with the media some sense of power that
they have not been able to obtain from voters.
“The media” are only too happy to accommodate
Democrats/leftists, because the media are marbled with liberals and extreme
leftists. And so we have the War Against Fox News, breathlessly covered by
also-ran competitors CNN and MSNBC.
Hannity has denounced his accuser and says he has assembled
a powerful legal team to fight back against false accusations. Hannity’s
accuser has already walked back her claims and says they do not amount to
sexual harassment (please see links [1] and [2] below). Where does all of this
end?
When I went to college in the 1960’s, men and women could
only meet on the first floor of dorms, with three feet on the floor. Later,
doors had to be open when a male visitor was on the floor a women’s dorm.
Within a few years, everything was topsy turvy and social morals had radically changed.
Are we about to return to the moral standards and practices of the 1950’s? I
hope not.
Women have made unbelievable strides in the workplace in the
past decades. Will businessmen and businesswomen only be able to meet in glass
rooms?
I don’t think sexual harassment is a joke. I take it
seriously. Ironically I went to Capitol Hill, initially as an intern, soon
after “sex” had been added --as a joke-- to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Over
a lifetime I have seen the progress women have made. I also grew up in a
single-parent home where we depended on mom’s paycheck from “The Aircraft”
every two weeks.
But we need to distinguish between genuine workplace
harassment and the types of accusations that were hurled against O’Reilly and
are now being asserted against Hannity. How can anyone distinguish fact from
fiction years later, when two adults met alone? And, when sexual accusations
are proffered as part of a coordinated campaign against a news organization to
destroy that entity, are we are straight back in the 1950’s, with leftists now using
the same tactics they condemned when Joe McCarthy was terrorizing America
and abusing public figures?
Fox News is not a sympathetic organization, as I know from
personal experience and the manner in which they abused me. But I have no
hesitation to defend Fox from a campaign to destroy conservative speech and
free speech in America .
The left lost the 2016 election. Democrats are trying to win back on TV what
they lost on the political battlefield. We can’t let them do that. Attention
must be paid.
Andy
LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not
just the underlined portion):
[1]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/sean-hannity-calls-sexual-harassment-accusation-100percent-false/2017/04/24/f2432c90-28e7-11e7-9081-f5405f56d3e4_story.html?
[2]
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sean-hannity-denies-right-wing-blogger-s-sex-harassment-claim-n750211
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