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hey it's Tucker Carlson you often hear
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people say the news is full of lies but
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most of the time that's not exactly
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right much of what you see on television
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or read the New York Times is in fact
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true in the literal sense it could pass
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one of the media's own fact checks
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lawyers would be willing to sign off on
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it in fact they may have but that
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doesn't make it true it's not true at
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the most basic level the news you
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consume is a lie a lie of the
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stealthiest and most Insidious kind
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facts have been withheld on purpose
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along with proportion and perspective
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you are being manipulated how does that
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work let's see if I tell you that a man
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has been unjustly arrested for armed
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robbery that is not strictly speaking a
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lie he may have been framed at this
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point there's been no trial so no one
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can really say but if I don't mention
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the fact that the same man has been
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arrested for the same crime six times
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before am I really informing you no I'm
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not I'm misleading you and that's what
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the news media are doing in every story
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that matters every day of the week every
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week of the year what's it like to work
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in a system like that after more than 30
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years in the middle of it we could tell
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you Stories the best you can hope for in
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the news business at this point is the
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freedom to tell the fullest truth that
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you can but there are always limits and
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you know that if you bump up against
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those limits often enough you will be
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fired for it that's not a guess it's
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guaranteed every person who works in
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English language meting media
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understands that the rule of what you
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can't say defines everything it's filthy
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really and it's utterly corrupting you
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can't have a free Society if people
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aren't allowed to say what they think is
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true speech is the fundamental
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prerequisite for democracy that's why
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it's enshrined in the first of our
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constitutional amendments amazingly as
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of tonight there aren't many platforms
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left that allow Free Speech the last big
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one remaining in the world the only one
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is Twitter where we are now Twitter has
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long served as the place where our
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national conversation incubates and
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develops Twitter is not a partisan site
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everybody's allowed here and we think
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that's a good thing and yet for the most
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part the news that you see analyzed on
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Twitter comes from media organizations
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that are themselves thinly disguised
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propaganda Outlets you see it on cable
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news you talk about it on Twitter the
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result may feel like a debate but
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actually The Gatekeepers are still in
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charge we think that's a bad system we
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know exactly how it works and we're sick
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of it starting soon we'll be bringing a
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new version of the show we've been doing
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for the last six and a half years to
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Twitter we'll be bringing some other
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things too which we'll tell you about
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but for now we're just grateful to be
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here free speech is the main right that
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you have without it you have no others
