Posted on 11/20/2020 8:26:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s a night full of Tucker Carlson news mentions here at RedState, but that’s not surprising given his current standing within the conservative media-sphere. The highest rated cable news host found himself on the opposite end of a lot of the right-wing chatter last night when he challenged Sidney Powell to come on his show and provide evidence for her extensive claims of voter fraud.
In a much talked about press conference yesterday, Powell laid out claims of millions of votes being switched through abuse of voting software. What she didn’t provide was much of any actual evidence, something Trump supporters are wanting to see produced as a path forward becomes more and more narrow.
(see Tucker Carlson Discounts Sidney Powell’s Election Claims, She Responds on Fox News)
Here was Carlson’s original commentary.
🚨 #Tucker on Sidney Powell: "We invited Sidney Powell on this show. we would've given her the whole hour…But she never sent us any evidence despite a lot of requests, polite requests, not a page. When we kept pressing, she got angry and told us to stop contacting her." (2/2) pic.twitter.com/MkiSjtb63L
CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 20, 2020
There are two ways to look at this. Those that are leaning towards believing her claims have said that she has no obligation to share anything until things finish in court. Others have pointed out that there’s downside to backing her narrative with something tangible and that her filings are not matching her rhetoric.
Here’s the problem though. After states certify their election results, which happened in the last day in several key states, there is essentially no going back on that. A judge is not going to overturn a certified election result, at least not without bombshell evidence reaching levels we’ve never seen before. Powell claims to have had this data since last week, yet the filings have been slow going. That hasn’t produced confidence in her odds.
Now, Powell is saying it’ll all be adjudicated in the next two weeks and that she’s confident she’ll be victorious presenting her case. Carlson responded and offered a bit of an olive branch.
#Tucker doubles down on his stance about Sidney Powell's voting machine claims. Citing other Trump lawyers, he says they haven't seen her "evidence either, no testimony from employees inside the software companies, no damning internal documents, no copies of the software itself." pic.twitter.com/35LSF26nwe
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 21, 2020
Below is #Tucker's comments in full from tonight about Sidney Powell and her claims about voting machines pic.twitter.com/DVWEsfEzRl
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 21, 2020
Some on the right got angry at Carlson for criticizing Powell’s dismissiveness last night, but I think he’s taking the right path. There is still time for Powell to prove her case and come out looking like a hero, though things look especially bleak now with so many states certifying results. Regardless, if she does prove her case, Carlson is not going to be against her, nor will anyone here at RedState or a myriad of other conservative leaning sites. But that case has to be proven at some point. Press conferences and fiery rhetoric only take us so far.
Patience is the right move here. Powell has made some very strong assertions, but it is not going to hurt anyone to let her see this through. Those screaming about decorum and the need to concede are the same people who spent four years calling Trump a Russian agent. I could not care less what their thoughts are on this matter. Meanwhile, in the next two weeks, if Powell can’t prove her case, then the electors will vote and this election will be over. The fight for the country will soldier on either way.
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Exactly...I like them both....all the others I just leave it.
He should stay on as the “Fox News Faux Conservative.”
CNN has one. MSNBC has one. Fox needs one.
Over 20 years of daily Foxnews. Turned them off on Nov 3 and never returned. Blocked both Foxnews and Foxbusiness from my direct tv to prevent accidentally tuning in either station.
NewsMax and OANN from here out for me.
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We pulled cable entirely because of Fox’s election night coverage. I refuse to fund the enemy anymore.
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Sometimes Tucker gets his head stuck where the Sun don’t shine........
What she didn’t provide was much of any actual evidence, something Trump supporters are wanting to see produced as a path forward becomes more and more narrow.
No, I think most of us don't need to see any more evidence. We know damn well what happened, and we don't need it proven to us on some talk show. We want her to get her day in court, and quickly. The more time she spends re-explaining this on news shows, the less times she spends filing and getting court dates.
All these journalists trying to step in and get the credit for exposing what the lawyers have discovered are getting me mighty irritated.
I think your comment is spot-on. I'd add this: why would Sidney Powell tip her hand to the media, only to give them several weeks of airtime on their networks to liberal news hacks who'll attempt to smear the evidence and sway public opinion against it?
Seems to me that'd be something a smart lawyer like Sidney Powell WOULD NOT DO.
Stay the course, Miss Powell. The reason she and the rest of the Trump legal team are catching so much flack is because they're over the target. Proof? Dominion packed up and RAN. I hope they're caught quickly and ARRESTED.
Who gives a rats ass about what Tucker thinks is a path forward. The evidence that Sidney Powell has will come out in due time. Carlson really let me down, I thought he was better than that.
Correct!
On Friday, 11/20/20, on Mornings with Maria (Bartiromo), Sidney Powell clearly stated that in response to Tucker Carlson’s request for evidence Powell sent a sworn affidavit that she had not yet even made public as well as contact information for an additional witness to explain the glaring statistical anomalies in the vote tabulations, proving malfeasance.
Carlson made no mention of this. Wonder why?
She has to follow the proper channels. The better the case she builds, the more likely she’ll get before SCOTUS.
Tucker is completely exposed as the controlled opposition scum that he is—and always was.
You know, Tucker notched the Bobolinsky rollout. It went over like a lead balloon.
Tucker was absent for his braodcvst on Friday night. Conservative Feminist Commentator Tammy Bruce filled in for him. Tucker must have gotten the “ease off” memo from the Murdoch brothers concerning his network’s return to liberal fascism.
F*cks Nudes, all the news that’s fit to stint: Snare, Valenced and Unbetrayed!
I watch Hannity sometimes, but to tell the truth, Fox News has gone to the dogs.
Commentator Alan Jones on why betting against Trump is not smart. Watch it.
American viewers finally get a chance to see how other countries realize the devastating effects a Biden presidency would have globally.
After this debacle the entire Fox lineup refrained from critisizing or even commenting on Chris Wallace's failure to make a weak attempt at impartiality.
To make sure the world was clear on the new direction of Fox News, they cooked up fake poll after fake poll in their attempt to bring Trump down. If this was not enough to make things utterly clear that the Murdochs are now part of the fake news club, they came out as the very first organization to call razor thin Arizona for their man Biden.
The next day Peter Ducey made the odd statement, âÂÂNow that it is official, President elect Biden.....âÂÂ
Fox Newsâ sister the Wall Street Journal immediatly began the âÂÂnothing to see here folks, the election is over fair and square, move alongâÂÂ.
I have been watching Fox News since day one and I have watched it slowly become just another left leaning fake news organization....with some exceptions. There are still good people at Fox, but with the majority owners having decided to merge into the fake mainstream media universe, you can expect to see more and more of the shocking turn-abouts this election has revealed. Tucker is turning even now, along with a good majority of the crew. The good ones that remain will be muzzled and move over to News Max, which will take the place of Fox as the number one channel.
I enjoyed Fox for decades, but Adios Fox.
I’m sure the Democrats in Washington and the Democrats in six states who can be expected to battle the Trump team would like to know what it has compiled.
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