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Isn't that the 'shtick' of ALL the Fox News primetime hosts, er um 'personalities'?noblepa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 11:42 amMr. Carlson doesn't need to go out of his way. Being an obnoxious asshole is his whole shtick.fierceredpanda wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:51 am I don't even understand the point of this except to go out of one's way to be an obnoxious asshole.
I feel so owned!p0rtia wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:24 pm IMO Fucker's latest bit of radical-right self-promotion checks quite a few of the greatest hits of propaganda:
1) It feeds the right-wing hatred of and desire to scorn anything remotely healthy.
2) Ditto climate change.
3) It fans the emotions of the Live Free and Die crowd (I'll lump in the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers and anti-sciencers with this one).
4) It takes a back-handed swipe at CPS: I'm sure the idea of CPS receiving thousands of crank calls about lib-tard parents fills a certain section of the right with glee.
5) It owns the libs--just look how they all took the bait and amplified.
6) It's so obviously untrue/facetious in the clear cool light of day that it fits exactly into Fucker's get-out-of-court-free card: it's just entertainment and not serious journalism.
I'm actually over this shit being amplified on Twitter.
This is exactly their point.fierceredpanda wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:51 am I don't even understand the point of this except to go out of one's way to be an obnoxious asshole.
Yes. I want a diagnosis code.fierceredpanda wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:56 pm I think accusing Tucker Carlson of being mentally ill is entirely too exculpatory.
Because mental illness is a sad, horrible thing that deserves compassion.
Video at link: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carl ... -shooting/Tucker Carlson Says Vladimir Putin’s Posing ‘Fair Questions’ About Ashli Babbitt Shooting
“We are living through the transformation of a formerly democratic republic into something else. We’re looking at growing authoritarianism. That’s not an overstatement,” he continued.
Carlson then invoked the Russian leader and said, “Vladimir Putin knows authoritarian systems very well, and he sees clearly what is happening in this country.” [Putin is protecting the U.S. from authoritarianism
Putin denied it and immediately went on to ask, “Did you order the assassination of the woman who walked into the Congress and was shot and killed by a policeman?”
He went on to say the rioters “didn’t go there to steal a laptop, they came with political demands.”
Carlson followed that up by saying that Vladimir Putin is raising “fair questions”:
Okay. So yeah, we just played tape of Vladimir Putin. Now, under normal circumstances, we would never play tape of a foreign adversary criticizing our government. But honestly those are fair questions.
“Who did shoot Ashli Babbitt and why don’t we know?” Carlson continued. “Are anonymous federal agents now allowed to kill unarmed women who protest the regime? That’s okay now? No, it’s not okay.”
He asked why “all those January 6th protesters” are in prison while “Biden voters who torched federal buildings” aren’t.
“If all that was going on in Russia, we would rightly call it scary. We would call Putin a dictator. In fact, we do call him a dictator,” Carlson added.
I was over the amplification 4 years ago. I rant about the amplification by the LW "Outrage Machine"p0rtia wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:24 pm IMO Fucker's latest bit of radical-right self-promotion checks quite a few of the greatest hits of propaganda:
1) It feeds the right-wing hatred of and desire to scorn anything remotely healthy.
2) Ditto climate change.
3) It fans the emotions of the Live Free and Die crowd (I'll lump in the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers and anti-sciencers with this one).
4) It takes a back-handed swipe at CPS: I'm sure the idea of CPS receiving thousands of crank calls about lib-tard parents fills a certain section of the right with glee.
5) It owns the libs--just look how they all took the bait and amplified.
6) It's so obviously untrue/facetious in the clear cool light of day that it fits exactly into Fucker's get-out-of-court-free card: it's just entertainment and not serious journalism.
I'm actually over this shit being amplified on Twitter.
Or Portland, where anonymous federal agents from the previous administration were disappearing protesters.sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:31 pm Obviously, stand your ground only applies if it's their house, not "the people's house."
"It's legally impossible."
@eliehonig
explains why Tucker Carlson's theory that the FBI organized the January 6th riot is "dead wrong."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/busi ... rlson.htmlTucker Carlson Calls Journalists ‘Animals.’ He’s Also Their Best Source.
His platform on Fox News made him a big player in Donald Trump’s circle. Off camera, he shapes the coverage of Trump’s world and Fox’s own internal politics.
Last month, I texted Tucker Carlson to ask him a question that was on my mind: “Did you get vaccinated?”
“When was the last time you had sex with your wife and in what position?” he replied. “We can trade intimate details.”
Then we argued back and forth about vaccines, and he ended the conversation with a friendly invitation to return to his show. “Always a good time.”
One question you may be asking, if you are a New York Times reader, is: Why are you exchanging texts with Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host who recently described the media at large as “cringing animals who are not worthy of respect”?
And if you are a Tucker Carlson viewer, you may also be asking: How can the guy who tells you every night that the media is lying be texting with the enemy?
The answer is one of Washington’s open secrets. Mr. Carlson, a proud traitor to the elite political class, spends his time when he’s not denouncing the liberal media trading gossip with them. He’s the go-to guy for sometimes-unflattering stories about Donald J. Trump and for coverage of the internal politics of Fox News (not to mention stories about Mr. Carlson himself). I won’t talk here about any off-the-record conversations I may have had with him. But 16 other journalists (none from The Times; it would put my colleagues in a weird position if I asked them) told me on background that he has been, as three of them put it, “a great source.”
When Trump reads this (or, more accurately, when someone reads it to him and explains the hard words), Carlson's going to be in the crosshairs. Ruh-roh!covfefe wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:11 amhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/busi ... rlson.htmlTucker Carlson Calls Journalists ‘Animals.’ He’s Also Their Best Source.
And if you are a Tucker Carlson viewer, you may also be asking: How can the guy who tells you every night that the media is lying be texting with the enemy?
The answer is one of Washington’s open secrets. Mr. Carlson, a proud traitor to the elite political class, spends his time when he’s not denouncing the liberal media trading gossip with them. He’s the go-to guy for sometimes-unflattering stories about Donald J. Trump and for coverage of the internal politics of Fox News (not to mention stories about Mr. Carlson himself). I won’t talk here about any off-the-record conversations I may have had with him. But 16 other journalists (none from The Times; it would put my colleagues in a weird position if I asked them) told me on background that he has been, as three of them put it, “a great source.”
