Washington Examiner Senior Writer Joe Concha discussed how free speech is under attack, following reports that people in the United Kingdom are getting arrested for liking social media posts.
Podcaster Joe Rogan said on his show Wednesday that people in the United Kingdom are getting arrested or investigated for liking or viewing social media posts. Rogan called it an attack on one of the most “fundamental principles of the Western world.”
Concha said that he agreed with Rogan and highlighted Charlie Kirk’s support of the First Amendment on an appearance on Fox News’s Hannity.
“No one believed in the First Amendment more than Charlie did,” Concha said. “He would literally embrace people who disagreed with him to come up and debate him at college campuses. The ones that debated him most were the ones who disagreed with him most, and that’s something that got him shot and killed.”
Concha also criticized what he called the hypocrisy of Democrats’ rhetoric, describing it as “31 flavors of delusional.”
“The difference is between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits,” Concha said. “What we’re seeing from Democrats right now is when they go off on Donald Trump putting up a sombrero video over Hakeem Jeffries, they go nuts about that, but yet they have no problem calling Donald Trump Hitler, authoritarian, a fascist that wasn’t a line, but apparently this is.”
Concha discussed free speech and trust in legacy media on Fox News’s Hannity, noting that it is reaching an all-time low.
More than seven in 10 Americans expressed distrust in the mainstream media, according to a new Gallup poll released Thursday.
Sean Hannity said he doesn’t support cancelling or boycotting a person because he lived through two decades of people trying to do that to him. Hannity also said it would be conservative voices that would be silenced and that the left would have no problem with that.
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“In terms of the First Amendment, Sean, you’re exactly right about that it’s coming from the left, not the right, as far as believing in just saying what you want,” Concha said.
“We saw it with Jimmy Kimmel, right, he has an opinion and suddenly, wow, everybody is like ‘oh boy, my goodnes,s gratuitous, that’s horrible,’ but in the end that’s where we are at this point,” Concha added.