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
― anvil, Thursday, 14 March 2019 04:35 (five years ago) link
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
― anvil, Sunday, 14 April 2019 10:28 (four years ago) link
Don't go on the white nationalist happy hour show. This is not difficult.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 14 April 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
I've not actually been asked yet but I'll bear that in mind for sure!
― anvil, Sunday, 14 April 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
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
― anvil, Tuesday, 16 April 2019 05:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
please change name of thread to fuck fucker carlson
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
I think the NYT story is about sexual harrassment claims. I wonder why Tucker might want to talk about who's doxxing whom instead
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
those protestors who got so much shit for bothering this nazi pervert at his house a while back deserve apologies from many people
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11:13 AM bookmarkflaglink
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
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
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
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.”
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
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:40 (ten months ago) link
Wait, he can't go to the Snake River Grill in Jackson Hole anymore because angry white women? that's just not right
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:59 (ten months ago) link
can you FP a 20 year old post?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:01 (ten months ago) link
He's still no Halle Berry.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:22 (ten months ago) link
More like Heil-y Berry amirite?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 13:30 (ten months ago) link
Hail ye Taxi
― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:35 (ten months ago) link
A text message sent by Tucker Carlson that set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox on the eve of its billion-dollar defamation trial showed its most popular host sharing his private, inflammatory views about violence and race.
The discovery of the message contributed to a chain of events that ultimately led to Mr. Carlson’s firing.
In the message, sent to one of his producers in the hours after violent Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Mr. Carlson described how he had recently watched a video of a group of men — Trump supporters, he said — violently attacking “an Antifa kid.”
It was “three against one, at least,” he wrote.
And then he expressed a sense of dismay that the attackers, like him, were white.
“Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously,” he wrote.
“It’s not how white men fight,” he said. But he said he found himself for a moment wanting the group to kill the person he had described as the Antifa kid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/business/media/tucker-carlson-text-message-white-men.html
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:54 (ten months ago) link
Did they not realize he was racist until now?
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 11:09 (ten months ago) link
they realized he was a liability.
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 12:53 (ten months ago) link
This asshole has been failing up and down for decades. He's like a big turd that just can't be flushed.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 12:57 (ten months ago) link
White turds don't flush like that.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 13:47 (ten months ago) link
Josh only shits on rollercoasters
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:27 (ten months ago) link
loop de poop
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:29 (ten months ago) link
Like popcorn kernels hitting hot oil in the saucepan, you are on a timer when those turds hit water. Better get that lid down.
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:35 (ten months ago) link
because I am built the way I am internally I have a deep desire for a guy like this to fall hard, to feel some pain and regret over how the choices he's made about how to look at the world have resulted in both 1) a worse world for others and 2) a waste of potential, which is to say, I am kind of a simpleton who doesn't accept the actual realities of the world, which are that he was born rich and will die rich and 100% does not give a shit where he has to peddle his grift at this point because the mechanisms for converting setbacks into gain are all right there for him, and yet I can't rid myself of the desire for him to be thinking, I fucked up, I fucked up, perhaps I am the problem
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:43 (ten months ago) link
I was tempted to feel that way when I read this story too — I don’t actually watch his show, so my first reaction was that it was a surprising moment of introspection. but others more familiar with him see through it:
This text is emblematic of Carlson’s rhetorical strategy on his every show: overtly pushes hate, racism, encouraging brutality, but then he rhetorically stands back from it, as if to say, but of course, I am a good person and am not advocating this very thing I relentlessly push. pic.twitter.com/ylzgd8DlCq— 𝙼𝚊𝚡𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 (@maxapotter) May 3, 2023
also, what kind of lunatic sends an essay like this via text message?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:50 (ten months ago) link
cool that it was Antifa who took down Tucker
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:55 (ten months ago) link
Antifart
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:23 (ten months ago) link
gee i wonder if tucker would have aired that video on his show if it were 3 "antifa kids" beating the shit out of a trump supporter instead
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:25 (ten months ago) link
maybe the 3 Trump kids really were Antifa kids
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:26 (ten months ago) link
Someone needs to tell the KKK that teaming up on an individual is not how white people fight.
― BrianB, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 16:48 (ten months ago) link
the “how white men fight” comment is so fucking crazy
i can’t stop thinking about it
i mean it is racist in the literal sense. but like.. what does it even mean. “white men usually fight with ‘honor’”? tu think that? to write it down?? the mind reels
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:06 (ten months ago) link
Is Tucker southern? I know I could find that out easily but I refuse to. anyway, ime a few people were still saying "that's mighty white of you" in Georgia in, at least, the 90s
― rob, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:19 (ten months ago) link
lol no from San Francisco upper class
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:22 (ten months ago) link
In Tucker's world a Trump supporter would have a servant carry a card to the Antifa kid demanding satisfaction.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:22 (ten months ago) link
lmao at “white men don’t fight like that”
I guess this is the worldview you from when it only takes one person to beat you up
― Marvel Puzzle Quest is my favorite gasm (DJP), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:26 (ten months ago) link
tucker could definitely use a good ass kicking
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:30 (ten months ago) link
Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously
https://i.imgur.com/mMn8dy2.png?1
― MoominTrollin, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 18:54 (ten months ago) link
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 19:14 (ten months ago) link
Very much so. It wouldn't be hard, either.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 19:28 (ten months ago) link
Other than the ones that self owned themselves with Covid almost all these crazy right wing media blowhards have profited well and had near zero blowback for the damage they have caused.
Journalists standing up to real tyranny get chopped up, blown up, poisoned and these Fox a$$holes just go golfing. I wish a plague of cancer and fire upon them all.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 20:17 (ten months ago) link
I guess his Twitter show debuted last night.
NYT:
The 10-minute video, Mr. Carlson’s first extended commentary since Fox took him off the air in April, was similar to a stripped-down version of what his roughly three million Fox viewers would have seen on his nightly program.There were no guests or produced segments — only a monologue from Mr. Carlson, in which he hit some familiar themes. He expressed sympathy for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and mocked President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. He accused the mainstream media of lying. He wrapped up by declaring that U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial life are “actually real.”“As of today, we’ve come to Twitter,” Mr. Carlson said in the video. “We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave.”
There were no guests or produced segments — only a monologue from Mr. Carlson, in which he hit some familiar themes. He expressed sympathy for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and mocked President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. He accused the mainstream media of lying. He wrapped up by declaring that U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial life are “actually real.”
“As of today, we’ve come to Twitter,” Mr. Carlson said in the video. “We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave.”
Ryan Broderick's Garbage Day newsletter:
Tucker Carlson’s First Twitter “Show” Is BadTo be clear, I don’t mean it’s “bad” ideologically. It’s genuinely a poorly made and extremely pathetic attempt from a production standpoint. It’s boring and ugly and would not do well on a platform that had real metrics. If it wasn’t being heavily promoted by Elon Musk and his cronies I’m not even sure it would do well on Twitter.Carlson’s video is 10 minutes of meandering ranting and archival footage and I honestly couldn’t even tell you what it’s about. It doesn’t even have graphics, apart from a “Tucker On Twitter” watermark. Bro, hire a teenaged MrBeast fan to give you some fun subtitles or dynamic zoom cuts or something.
To be clear, I don’t mean it’s “bad” ideologically. It’s genuinely a poorly made and extremely pathetic attempt from a production standpoint. It’s boring and ugly and would not do well on a platform that had real metrics. If it wasn’t being heavily promoted by Elon Musk and his cronies I’m not even sure it would do well on Twitter.
Carlson’s video is 10 minutes of meandering ranting and archival footage and I honestly couldn’t even tell you what it’s about. It doesn’t even have graphics, apart from a “Tucker On Twitter” watermark. Bro, hire a teenaged MrBeast fan to give you some fun subtitles or dynamic zoom cuts or something.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 19:34 (nine months ago) link
Tucker going the Olbermann route
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:38 (nine months ago) link
Thing is, dipshits like him genuinely believe that every brain dripping that trickles out of their feedholes is so important and mesmerizing that they don't need production values.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:43 (nine months ago) link
did you know that nancy grace is still doing her dumb show, only online? these bullshit artists no longer suddenly vanish, they just fade away.
― formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 8 June 2023 01:03 (nine months ago) link
honestly intrigued about how he managed to shed his past as a bow-tie guy
look at this upsilon dog
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/09/30913fb4-c4d2-11ed-ae04-d7271ea9596d/64147d2656efa.image.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 June 2023 01:40 (nine months ago) link
A company that makes YouTube videos w/ titles like "Asleep in Taco Bell drive-thru" & "Hooters Waitress Tells Cop: 'I Can Take It All Off'" is suing the Daily Caller — saying the conservative website has been stealing its videos. Videos such as: "Man on Peyote Baptizes Himself." pic.twitter.com/XIpSgum3TX— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) June 8, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 June 2023 16:21 (nine months ago) link
ok this Obama crack cocaine sex orgy thing is pretty hilarious apparently Tucker says the guy is credible because he took a lie detector test but doesn't mention he actually failed it lmao
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 September 2023 14:35 (six months ago) link