“The threat of right-wing violence against figures on the American Left is not new. It is not an aberration. It is not a violation of norms. It IS the norm,” Moore wrote in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter over the weekend.
“Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel and right-wing radio have preyed upon those who’ve seen their American dream go up in smoke, and they have helped to create a generation of angry and violent conspiracy theorists who will believe any lie that is perpetrated on those airwaves.”
“These angry right-wing men have been openly encouraged to act on those lies, even as late as this very morning, when Trump was tweeting his doubts that the bombs were real,” he added.
So in his thinking, because people watch a news outlet that leans to the Right ...that makes people “violent conspiracy theorists.”
...Moore also said that a “new and dangerous dynamic of political violence” is “now promoted and encouraged” by President Donald Trump..."
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