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

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?

He's still no Halle Berry.

More like Heil-y Berry amirite?

Hail ye Taxi

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

Did they not realize he was racist until now?

they realized he was a liability.

This asshole has been failing up and down for decades. He's like a big turd that just can't be flushed.

White turds don't flush like that.

Josh only shits on rollercoasters

loop de poop

Like popcorn kernels hitting hot oil in the saucepan, you are on a timer when those turds hit water. Better get that lid down.

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

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?

cool that it was Antifa who took down Tucker

Antifart

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

maybe the 3 Trump kids really were Antifa kids

Someone needs to tell the KKK that teaming up on an individual is not how white people fight.

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

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

lol no from San Francisco upper class

In Tucker's world a Trump supporter would have a servant carry a card to the Antifa kid demanding satisfaction.

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

tucker could definitely use a good ass kicking

Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously

https://i.imgur.com/mMn8dy2.png?1

lol no from San Francisco upper class

tucker could definitely use a good ass kicking

Very much so. It wouldn't be hard, either.

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.

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.”

Ryan Broderick's Garbage Day newsletter:

Tucker Carlson’s First Twitter “Show” Is Bad

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.

Tucker going the Olbermann route

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.

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.

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

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

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

the resurgence of the "I had gay sex with Obama" guy in 2023 is an unexpected plot twist I've been enjoying

Remember that alien who kept switching his vote in 1992? What's that dude up to?

carlson reviving a dead , disproven lie from years ago about a political figure who isn't even in office on a platform no one looks at any more is some zombie shit. who gives a fuck.

What we really should be talking about is the Texas Air National Guard

ok this Obama crack cocaine sex orgy thing

Was scrolling up confusedly for months to try and find this thing before I noticed the dates

who gives a fuck

the shrunken, tattered remnants of his FOX NEWS audience. iow, no one of sound mind.

No-one watches his Twitter stuff, despite Musk's desperate gaming of the system, do they? Guff like this feels like some kind of last gasp, before the churn of what I'll laughing call the "culture" sends Carlson through the u-bend to his inescapable destiny next to Glenn Beck and all the rest of the tired and wrung-out ghouls. None of the "stars" are bigger than the structure in this world of right-wing media demegoguery, and even that structure seems to be degrading in the face of Newsmax et al, who are, in their moment of cannibalising the mothership, making the whole thing more atomised and cliquey, which is surely not their point.