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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
He's still no Halle Berry.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 1 May 2023 21:22 (eleven months ago) link
More like Heil-y Berry amirite?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 13:30 (eleven months ago) link
Hail ye Taxi
― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 09:35 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
Did they not realize he was racist until now?
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 11:09 (eleven months ago) link
they realized he was a liability.
― c u (crüt), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 12:53 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
White turds don't flush like that.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 13:47 (eleven months ago) link
Josh only shits on rollercoasters
― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:27 (eleven months ago) link
loop de poop
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 14:29 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
Antifart
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 15:23 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven months ago) link
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 19:14 (eleven months ago) link
Very much so. It wouldn't be hard, either.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 19:28 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (ten months ago) link
Tucker going the Olbermann route
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 21:38 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (seven months ago) link
the resurgence of the "I had gay sex with Obama" guy in 2023 is an unexpected plot twist I've been enjoying
― mh, Thursday, 7 September 2023 14:37 (seven months ago) link
Remember that alien who kept switching his vote in 1992? What's that dude up to?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 September 2023 14:39 (seven months ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 7 September 2023 14:47 (seven months ago) link
What we really should be talking about is the Texas Air National Guard
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 September 2023 14:48 (seven months ago) link
ok this Obama crack cocaine sex orgy thingWas scrolling up confusedly for months to try and find this thing before I noticed the dates
― vashti funyuns (sic), Friday, 8 September 2023 02:17 (seven months ago) link
who gives a fuck
the shrunken, tattered remnants of his FOX NEWS audience. iow, no one of sound mind.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 8 September 2023 03:19 (seven months ago) link
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.
― honey badger drinks when he wants (stevie), Friday, 8 September 2023 08:08 (seven months ago) link
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Far-right pundit and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson confirmed on Tuesday he was in Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin, and said he will air his conversation with Russia’s president to counter what he described as pro-Ukraine “fawning pep sessions” by western media covering the war.
Speculation had been growing for days that Carlson, who was dumped by Fox last year for “getting too big for his boots”, had traveled to the Russian capital to meet Putin, whose reasons for invading Ukraine he says have a right to be heard by the American public.
But his visit, which reportedly has included visits to the Bolshoi ballet and dining in fine restaurants, has drawn accusations he is acting as a propaganda tool for Putin, whom he has frequently defended. Russian media, meanwhile, has hailed Carlson as a celebrity “who speaks the truth”.
Bolshoi & Beluga, dude knows how to party
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 23:29 (two months ago) link
Riding the caviar train
The hustle never stops.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 23:30 (two months ago) link
I like picturing him unable to sleep in a Moscow hotel suite, sweeping the room for hidden mics and cameras.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 23:32 (two months ago) link
Imagining tucker on a tramp steamer out of turkey hoping to find safe passage to moscow via oxcart
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 23:36 (two months ago) link