Tucker Carlson is a dream boat (UPDATE: Tucker Carlson is an irredeemable asshole)

haters be hatin'

I've always been pretty surprised by how many people actually email GG back given his track record up putting up email exchanges on the web without asking them.

I find Greenwald admirable and annoying in equal measure but he isn't the first smug, sanctimonious egotist to do invaluable political work. It comes with the territory.

he says in his column that Carlson asked for part of this to be kept off the record and he complied.

xp

Morbz, I don't object to anything you've written here but I want to support your religious convictions and I believe posting on this thread may go against one of your self-declared principles. <3 much love enjoy pitchers & catchers!

no, anyone on CNN counts as showbiz

enjoy anemic Phillie offense

http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/2012/02/daily-caller-hit-piece-on-media-matters.html

Assuming all of the allegations in the article are true, Carlson and Coglianese fail to do one important thing. They do not rebut or even attempt to rebut any of the reporting that Media Matters has made regarding inaccurate or misleading comments in conservative media.

Alex Pareene lets it rip:

Here’s how dedicated Carlson is to producing quality journalism: He hired, as his executive editor, a former strategist for Berman and Co., the “communications firm” that specializes in the creation of shadowy front groups and biased “research” for their clients in major industries. A man whose job was to deceive journalists on behalf of corporations, as editor. He hired Ginni Thomas — the wife of Clarence Thomas, major Tea Party figure and complete weirdo — as a special correspondent, mere months after Thomas had explicitly lied to a Caller reporter.

Carlson is now engaged in giving the people — the idiotic, angry, paranoid people — what they want, which became incredibly apparent once the Caller began tackling the Trayvon Martin tragedy by launching a campaign to prove that Martin had been a thug. It was barrel-scraping racist garbage. Martin’s Twitter feed and social media presence were cherry-picked to make him seem scary because he engaged in adolescent macho posturing. It was convincing proof that Martin wasn’t as “innocent” as he seemed, if your definition of “innocence” is “not young, black and male.” Asinine race-related trolling is now a major Caller beat, naturally, because, again, it’s good for traffic. I don’t think Carlson is remotely as racist as he is sexist and homophobic, which just makes it even grosser that he’s willing to exploit conservative racism for fun and profit.

factoid the berman in berman and co is David berman of the silver Jews dad

lol yeah I remember the huge piece Berman wrote about that.

Also, Tucker Carlson is one of those people who is just so intrinsically horrible and bad for America that I would happily shove him, screaming, into a blazing furnace.

downtown California, exposed!

Check out part of my interview with Fabio! pic.twitter.com/vDbnswrV0t

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 30, 2018

i love the tone of tucker's voice. he sounds like he's trying to believe in real time what he's thinking / saying. you've got this, tuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAwvMI9JF20

I have a hard time caring about corporate advertisers boycotting Tucker Carlson when they've been boycotting progressive programming since the invention of commercial broadcasting. They've always had "the power to decide what ideas should be discussed." https://t.co/WffLZm4DGO pic.twitter.com/6Einu4Je3Q

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) December 20, 2018

this thread title looool

There was a time when I would've fucked him -- without the bowtie, of course.

he is white and has a penis.
― anthony, Monday, July 8, 2002 5:00 PM (sixteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm....not sure about the latter?

Cloaca surely

very surprising to learn that he’s the sort of guy who knows the age of consent in every state.

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2019/03/10/unearthed-audio-tucker-carlson-makes-numerous-misogynistic-and-perverted-comments/223092

Jesus h Christ

"Media Matters caught me saying something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago," he said. "Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I’m on television every weeknight live for an hour. If you want to know what I think, you can watch. Anyone who disagrees with my views is welcome to come on and explain why."

'something naughty'

i feel like the scales of cosmic justice would go some way to achieving balance if bubba the love sponge played a role in bringing down both gawker media and tucker carlson but i'm not holding my breath tbh

there are several points in those quotes where bubba is acting as the voice of reason to what tucker is saying, which is pretty incredible

see they never apologize, not sure why the left is so eager to apologize for even the most minor non-infraction when that high road thing just doesn't make a difference.

was carlson using basic before kreayshawn ?!

1. I don't like it when people say shocking things to shock jocks.

2. I like it less when we data-mine a person's past to blast them out of the marketplace of ideas. Were people actually outraged by Tucker's comments? Or vengefully gleeful to find them? https://t.co/p1ZxVoQ1VB

— David French (@DavidAFrench) March 11, 2019

¿¿¿¿PORQUE NO LOS DOS, CABRON????

anyone using the phrase ‘marketplace of ideas’ with a straight face should be dropped down a lift-shaft

fox news, the marketplace of ideas

i've never wanted to punch a haircut until Tucker came along

anyway, looks like he's going on "vacation"

he'll be an NFL commentator soon

doubt that

see they never apologize, not sure why the left is so eager to apologize for even the most minor non-infraction when that high road thing just doesn't make a difference.

― omar little,

I don't understand why he would apologize over this or why anyone would expect him to. Who exactly would he be apologizing to? His viewers? His viewers agree with him

I can't find it now but will look again later, but I saw a clip on youtube arguing that Leftist guests going on Tucker's show to use his platform are themselves being used by Tucker as a gateway to reach younger viewers. Tucker's no dummy, will give him that, and he knows his 'economic populist' argument can hit a chord outside his target audience. I'm on the fence about this, the almost fawning reception he gets from the likes of Jimmy Dore (and Glenn Greenwald) is dispiriting. Kulinski will be critical of Tucker on his show, but did give me pause for thought still - if you use a master propagandists platform, is there a price to pay (Tucker obviously thinks so, he never battles or interrupts his leftists guests, they have all the time in the world)

Ultimately, I think the value of going on outweights the price, but Tucker is an insidious operator, hmm

Don't go on the white nationalist happy hour show. This is not difficult.

I've not actually been asked yet but I'll bear that in mind for sure!

Bret Baier just polled the Bernie Town Hall audience who would be willing to switch to #MedicareForAll. It backfired spectacularly. pic.twitter.com/dQJ9gfQ137

— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 15, 2019

Thankfully Bernie didn't get the dont go on fox memo

Thread: obviously the NYT is not in the habit of doxxing the subject of its stories. So what’s going on here? Tucker was signaling to his followers to harass NYT reporters who are covering him, and any others reporters who might be thinking of doing so. https://t.co/vc4bUDJnf1

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) July 21, 2020

carlson told his viewers that an upcoming NYT story was going to reveal his address (which NYT denies - have they ever doxxed someone?), then his followers found the addresses of the reporter and photographer and doxxed him instead, while the right (including ken fucking cuccinelli) started blurring the the lines between fact, fiction, future, and present, vaguely telling their own followers that the NYT had plans to dox Carlson, or even that they had already done so.

please change name of thread to fuck fucker carlson

I think the NYT story is about sexual harrassment claims. I wonder why Tucker might want to talk about who's doxxing whom instead

those protestors who got so much shit for bothering this nazi pervert at his house a while back deserve apologies from many people

please change name of thread to fuck fucker carlson

― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11:13 AM bookmarkflaglink

I think the NYT story is about sexual harassment claims.

that is also a story (and includes other Fox assholes), but supposedly NYT were/are preparing to run a separate piece on fucker this week

Fox News host Tucker Carlson is fashioning something of a professional defense: Sure, he lies, but not the way those guys at CNN lie.

In a 2018 podcast appearance, he ripped into CNN “Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter. “He’s just such a pompous little guy. … I mean, he’s one of the falsest people I’ve ever seen on television. … He’s just so, like, self-righteous … but also lying at the same time. Like, I lie ’cause everyone does. But one thing I would never do, have never done in my whole life, is lie self-righteously,” said Carlson in a chat with Jamie Weinstein. Moments later, he reversed: “I don’t lie.”

Three years on, Carlson’s not even trying to correct the record. In a new interview on “The Rubin Report,” he fielded a question about CNN anchors who “just lie again and again.” Carlson came up with a memorable response: “Well, it’s — I guess, I would ask myself, like, I mean, I lie if I’m cornered or something. I lie. I really try not to. I try never to lie on TV. I just don’t — I don’t like lying. I certainly do it, you know, out of weakness or whatever, but to systematically lie like that, without asking yourself, why am I doing this?” (See video at 36:00.)

The highly rated Fox News host argued that CNNers lie to prop up the powerful people in American life. “You’re lying to defend Jeff Bezos? You’re treating Bill Gates like some sort of moral leader?”

The admission was bizarre in light of the context: Host Dave Rubin didn’t ask Carlson whether he lies, but Carlson came out with his confession nonetheless. Maybe he feels bad about it all?

Nor did Rubin follow up on Carlson’s newsworthy admission. The opportunity for just such a cross-examination may well arise in the future, however. The next time that Carlson decides to smear someone on air, that someone’s libel attorney will surely point out in a complaint that Carlson has freely admitted to lying. Fox News defended a previous suit stemming from Carlson’s show by arguing that he engages in “non-literal commentary.”

evening fascism

So let’s check in

Tucker doesn't know why 45 year old white ladies want to kill him when he's "never been yelled at by a Guatemalan housekeeper."

Thinks it must be because they have "weak husbands" which makes "angry women”

So close to getting it! pic.twitter.com/EF5CXm55ke

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) May 1, 2023

Wait, he can't go to the Snake River Grill in Jackson Hole anymore because angry white women? that's just not right

can you FP a 20 year old post?

Putin's a crackpot.

Tucker is only against funding the war because it's "not in America's interests." Otherwise he loves him some war.

Putin saying that Poland was at fault for Germany’s invasion in 1939 should be getting more press.

Putin saying that Poland was at fault for Germany’s invasion in 1939 should be getting more press.

Deserves to be repeated ;)

I figured this guy was a Beltway hack. But.

Hur did his version of Comey's "I have no case but need to slap 'em around a little" routine

as for Biden's mental fitness, I talked to him one-on-one at the White House 10 days before Hur did

here's the video; judge for yourselfhttps://t.co/uZHiWLjCo6

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) February 8, 2024