1Doug1943
I very seldom watch Fox News, but I've started to look at some of Tucker Carlson's broadcasts on YouTube, on the Afghanistan fiasco.
The guy is brilliant! Highly recommended to all. Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXtwuO-ZUR0
Future historians of America's decline and fall will use him as a primary source, assuming we have a future with historians.
The guy is brilliant! Highly recommended to all. Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXtwuO-ZUR0
Future historians of America's decline and fall will use him as a primary source, assuming we have a future with historians.
2prosfilaes
I don't know why conservatives can't read, but I'll point out again that this is a library site, and I'm not interested in spending 10 times as much time listening to something I could reading it. Nor am I really interested in listening to sources whose lawyers defended him on the basis that no one would credibly believe he was speaking the truth.
Yes, Tucker Carlson, like George Wallace, is an important primary source in America's decline and fall, as people who used their words to tear down the US.
Yes, Tucker Carlson, like George Wallace, is an important primary source in America's decline and fall, as people who used their words to tear down the US.
3CurrerBell
>1 Doug1943: I know Tucker from his interviews with TULSI GABBARD during her Democratic presidential primary campaign. I also liked his respectful treatment of DENNIS KUCINICH in a recent interview.
There's a lot I disagree with Tucker on; but as to foreign policy, he's a rare anti-interventionist in the mainstream media. Rumor has it that, having Trump's ear, Tucker got the message across to Trump not to get into boots-on-the-ground fighting with Iran.
There's a lot I disagree with Tucker on; but as to foreign policy, he's a rare anti-interventionist in the mainstream media. Rumor has it that, having Trump's ear, Tucker got the message across to Trump not to get into boots-on-the-ground fighting with Iran.
4margd
Tucker Carlson Has Found a New Scapegoat: Afghan Refugees
Caleb Ecarma | August 17, 2021
In the aftermath of the Afghan government’s collapse this week, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling on the Joe Biden administration to evacuate the thousands of U.S.–allied Afghans whose lives are now in danger under Taliban rule. Much of the coverage of the United States’s exit after two decades of war has looked critically at Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw so hastily, leaving Afghans literally clinging to planes in hopes of escaping. But turn on Fox News in prime time and it’s a different story, with Afghans desperate to flee violence portrayed as invaders.
Top-rated host Tucker Carlson accused politicians of allowing the United States to be “invaded” by “millions” of Afghans. “The people who made the Afghan occupation possible would like to see a lot more of our southern border, much more unrestrained immigration to the U.S.,” Carlson said during his Monday night’s program. “‘Bring in the refugees,’ they’re screaming, ‘tonight!’ That’s the only lesson they’re taking from this debacle.” The Fox host took aim at Senator Mitt Romney for saying the U.S. “must urgently rush to defend, rescue, and give and expand asylum to its Afghan allies,” as well as other politicians and pundits like Representative Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol. “These are the architects of the disaster we are watching unfold on television. They should be groveling for our forgiveness,” he added. (Notably, in 2001, Carlson—who, at the time, served as one of CNN’s pro-war voices—took aim at Biden after the then senator merely questioned the U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan, while claiming that “Joe Biden destroyed his political career.”)
“If history is any guide—and it’s always a guide—we will see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in coming months, probably in your neighborhood,” said Carlson. “And over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions. So, first we invade, and then we’re invaded. It is always the same.” This narrative—of scary others coming to America—should be familiar to Carlson’s viewers, as the host has promoted the racist replacement theory, ranting in April how “the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people—more obedient voters from the third world.”
Carlson isn’t the only right-wing media figure stoking fears about refugees...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/tucker-carlson-scapegoat-afghan-refugees
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Mehdi Hasan (MSNBC) @mehdirhasan | 9:07 PM · Aug 17, 2021
"I don't know what's worse: Listening to people who backed these wars refusing to accept the consequences of them, or listening to those people use these wars as an excuse to push white supremacy."
My #minirant on Ingraham & Carlson's anti-refugee BS:
2:19 ( https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1427799366333571072 )
From
All In with Chris Hayes
Caleb Ecarma | August 17, 2021
In the aftermath of the Afghan government’s collapse this week, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling on the Joe Biden administration to evacuate the thousands of U.S.–allied Afghans whose lives are now in danger under Taliban rule. Much of the coverage of the United States’s exit after two decades of war has looked critically at Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw so hastily, leaving Afghans literally clinging to planes in hopes of escaping. But turn on Fox News in prime time and it’s a different story, with Afghans desperate to flee violence portrayed as invaders.
Top-rated host Tucker Carlson accused politicians of allowing the United States to be “invaded” by “millions” of Afghans. “The people who made the Afghan occupation possible would like to see a lot more of our southern border, much more unrestrained immigration to the U.S.,” Carlson said during his Monday night’s program. “‘Bring in the refugees,’ they’re screaming, ‘tonight!’ That’s the only lesson they’re taking from this debacle.” The Fox host took aim at Senator Mitt Romney for saying the U.S. “must urgently rush to defend, rescue, and give and expand asylum to its Afghan allies,” as well as other politicians and pundits like Representative Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol. “These are the architects of the disaster we are watching unfold on television. They should be groveling for our forgiveness,” he added. (Notably, in 2001, Carlson—who, at the time, served as one of CNN’s pro-war voices—took aim at Biden after the then senator merely questioned the U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan, while claiming that “Joe Biden destroyed his political career.”)
“If history is any guide—and it’s always a guide—we will see many refugees from Afghanistan resettle in our country in coming months, probably in your neighborhood,” said Carlson. “And over the next decade, that number may swell to the millions. So, first we invade, and then we’re invaded. It is always the same.” This narrative—of scary others coming to America—should be familiar to Carlson’s viewers, as the host has promoted the racist replacement theory, ranting in April how “the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people—more obedient voters from the third world.”
Carlson isn’t the only right-wing media figure stoking fears about refugees...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/tucker-carlson-scapegoat-afghan-refugees
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Mehdi Hasan (MSNBC) @mehdirhasan | 9:07 PM · Aug 17, 2021
"I don't know what's worse: Listening to people who backed these wars refusing to accept the consequences of them, or listening to those people use these wars as an excuse to push white supremacy."
My #minirant on Ingraham & Carlson's anti-refugee BS:
2:19 ( https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1427799366333571072 )
From
All In with Chris Hayes
5Matke
>1 Doug1943: Here’s a link to an article on how and why Tucker Carlson changed his views about our current wars, in his own taped words:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/racism-made-dove-out-tucker-ca...
Feel free to revel in his “brilliant” analysis.
And a quote from the judge in the case referred to in >2 prosfilaes:
“The ‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform the viewer that Carlson is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he is discussing and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal’ commentary.
Fox persuasively argues that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer “arrives with an appropriate amount of skepticism” about the statements he makes.” (emphasis added)
So, here we are. He will indeed be used as a primary source. Historians will cite him, and others like him, as some of the main movers trying to take down democracy in the United States.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/racism-made-dove-out-tucker-ca...
Feel free to revel in his “brilliant” analysis.
And a quote from the judge in the case referred to in >2 prosfilaes:
“The ‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform the viewer that Carlson is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he is discussing and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal’ commentary.
Fox persuasively argues that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer “arrives with an appropriate amount of skepticism” about the statements he makes.” (emphasis added)
So, here we are. He will indeed be used as a primary source. Historians will cite him, and others like him, as some of the main movers trying to take down democracy in the United States.
6kiparsky
>1 Doug1943: Future historians of America's decline and fall will use him as a primary source
This much is true, but I'm not sure it means what you think it means.
This much is true, but I'm not sure it means what you think it means.
