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The right-wing media machine has a new villain: Disney.
Right now Fox News, conservative talk radio, and a constellation of right-wing websites and influencers are all training their firepower on the entertainment giant. Disney CEO Bob Chapek's belated stand against Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill has given way to right-wing media portraying the company as a "woke" organization seeking to "groom" children with what they characterize as a radical LGBTQ agenda.
Yes -- really -- Disney. The family-friendly, fun-for-everyone, intentionally inoffensive brand is being challenged like never before, largely by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other GOP politicians who are playing to the cameras to raise their own profiles.
"They have a s*xual agenda for six-year-old children," Fox host Tucker Carlson declared on Wednesday night. "You'd think that's illegal in some way. It's certainly immoral. It's creepy as hell. And yet they are the country's leading purveyor of children's programming. That's a problem, no?"
Later in his show, Carlson spoke about executives at Disney who have sought to normalize LGBTQ lifestyles by representing them in movies and other projects. "Sounds like the behavior of a s*x offender," Carlson said. "Normal people do not s*xualize underage children."
Carlson's rant is just one of many examples. An hour earlier, Fox host Jesse Watters made similar arguments, dubbing the company's theme parks as "The Wokest Place on Earth." The truth is that characterizing Disney as a creepy company which aims to morally bankrupt kids -- an extreme position -- has become quite mainstream in GOP media circles.
While Disney (DIS) employees and others initially hammered Disney for not taking a strong stance on the "Don't Say Gay" bill, the opposite is now true on the right...