Republicans Hate Cancel Culture—Except When They Can’t Watch OANN

On Monday, Senator Rand Paul did something bold. “@DirecTV is cancelling @OANN so I just cancelled my home Direct TV,” he tweeted. “Why give money to people who hate us?” Paul’s outraged missive was in response to the news that DirecTV, a subsidiary of media conglomerate AT&T, would drop far-right and ardently-Trump-supporting One America News Network (OANN) from its lineup—news that caused right-wing politicians and media figures to dissolve into paroxysms of outrage. DirecTV attests that it made the decision “following a routine internal review.” But OANN’s defenders see its axing as an overt hit job. Representative Jim Jordan described… Read Full Article