Former Bush 41 Treasure Official: Fox News Is ‘Brainwashing’ Conservatives

‘They are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again’

STELTER: “Let me read one line that I thought stood out to me and a lot of other people. You said: ‘It can almost be called self-brainwashing. Many conservatives now refuse to even listen to any news or opinion not vetted through FOX and to believe whatever appears on it as the gospel truth.’ Self-brainwashing.”

BARTLETT: “I don’t think that word is too strong. I think many conservatives live in a bubble, where they watch only FOX News on television; they listen only to conservative talk radio, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, many of the same people. They -- when they go on to the Internet, they look at only conservative Web sites, like ‘National Review,’ Newsmax, World Net Daily. And so they are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again. And that’s -- that’s brainwashing."

 

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