Thought he was a clown back in his CNN bowtie days and never changed my mind.
Posted on 12/07/2018 10:53:41 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Without the Washington Post hype, Carlson, in reality, is just another talking head whose fame has gone straight to his wobbly head. And not a very impressive one at that
Two years on, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson has jumped aboard the full-to-the-gunwales Anti-Trump boat.
The news of Carlson’s having jumped aboard the louder than any protest Anti-Trump boat surfaced one day after the mainstream and social media used the funeral of President George H.W. Bush to gang up on the president the media live to hate.
That’s also the sound his ratings will make after his stupid comments.
Tucker’s a libertarian. I don’t care what he thinks
He had been smart enough to keep his mouth shut until now. I wonder why he lost his discipline now?
Is Tucker one of the loudest and most high profile supporters of the border wall and Trump's fight against ILLEGAL immigration or not?
He’s done, for me. I’ll never listen to the millionaire geek again. He doesn’t live in my world.
Maybe he thinks that if he is nice to the libtards, Antifa will quit trying to break down his door & yell at his wife & kids.
His show on Fox surprised me for being rather more “red meat” than I thought he ever was. Is the anti-Trump pull of his employers or the mob attack on his household a factor in his new outspokenness?
Oh, and he is of course correct re: Trump’s limited effectiveness re: Congress and campaign promises.
His perpetual “concern eyebrows” give me a headache.
Unless I hear a credible explanation of his quotes to that German reporter, he has lost my viewership.
Sad, really...
You have to look at the reasons POTUS hasn’t been able to get some things done... obstruction from both rats and rhinos. The investigation by mueller is doing one of its jobs...to make life hell for Trump. Plus his bull in a china shop style doesn’t work with a lot of people he needs to help him. However I am an ardent supporter and hope he can work through this. I think coming from the real world into the scum of politics was worse than he expected.
I seldom watch Fox anymore. It is clear everyone has their marching orders to bash President Trump.
He’s a paid TV actor. He plays a conservative/libertarian on FOX for millions of dollars.
Not a good career move speaking out as he did in that interview.
He used to wear a bowtie - enough said.
When his children come home one day and tell Carlson that they are ashamed to be White, maybe then he’ll appreciate Trump.
An ANTIFA gang arriving at his house and breaking in the door might have something to do with this. (frightened wife threatening divorce??)
Tucker, keep the faith. POTUS DJT is all we’ve got to keep USA as GOD & our FF intended us to be.
Thought he was a clown back in his CNN bowtie days and never changed my mind.
I think she is right on, but you can make up your own mind from the full interview and the key excerpt below.
The full interview is at
https://www.weltwoche.ch/ausgaben/2018-49/artikel/trump-is-not-capable-die-weltwoche-ausgabe-49-2018.html
The key excerpt.
Do you think he has kept his promises? Has he achieved his goals?
No.
He hasn't?
No. His chief promises were that he would build the wall, de-fund planned parenthood, and repeal Obamacare, and he hasn't done any of those things. There are a lot of reasons for that, but since I finished writing the book, I've come to believe that Trump's role is not as a conventional president who promises to get certain things achieved to the Congress and then does. I don't think he's capable. I don't think he's capable of sustained focus. I don't think he understands the system. I don't think the Congress is on his side. I don't think his own agencies support him. He's not going to do that.
I think Trump's role is to begin the conversation about what actually matters. We were not having any conversation about immigration before Trump arrived in Washington. People were bothered about it in different places in the country. It's a huge country, but that was not a staple of political debate at all. Trump asked basic questions like' "Why don't our borders work?" “Why should we sign a trade agreement and let the other side cheat?” Or my favorite of all, "What's the point of NATO?" The point of NATO was to keep the Soviets from invading western Europe but they haven't existed in 27 years, so what is the point? These are obvious questions that no one could answer.
Apart from asking these very important questions has he really achieved nothing?
Not much. Not much. Much less than he should have. I've come to believe he's not capable of it.
Why should he be not capable?
Because the legislative process in this country by design is highly complex, and it's designed to be complex as a way of diffusing power, of course, because the people who framed our Constitution, founded our country, were worried about concentrations of power. They balanced it among the three branches as you know and they made it very hard to make legislation. In order to do it you really have to understand how it works and you have to be very focused on getting it done, and he knows very little about the legislative process, hasn't learned anything, hasn't and surrounded himself with people that can get it done, hasn't done all the things you need to do so. It's mostly his fault that he hasn't achieved those things. I'm not in charge of Trump.
The title of your book is “Ship of Fools”. You write that an irresponsible elite has taken over America. Who is the biggest fool?
I mean let me just be clear. I'm not against an aristocratic system. I'm not against a ruling class. I think that hierarchies are natural, people create them in every society. I just think the system that we have now the meritocracy, which is based really on our education system, on a small number of colleges has produced a ruling class that doesn't have the self-awareness that you need to be wise. I'm not arguing for populism, actually. I'm arguing against populism. Populism is what you get when your leaders fail. In a democracy, the population says this is terrible and they elect someone like Trump.
When did you first notice that this elite is getting out of touch with the people?
Well, just to be clear, I'm not writing this from the perspective of an outsider. I mean I've lived in this world my whole life.
Which world exactly?
The world of affluence and the high level of education and among-- I grew up in a town called La Jolla, California in the south. It was a very affluent town and then I moved as a kid to Georgetown here in Washington. I've been here my whole life. I've always lived around people who are wielding authority, around the ruling class, and it was only after the financial crisis of 08 that I noticed that something was really out of whack, because Washington didn't really feel the crisis.
If you leave Washington and drive to say Pittsburgh, which is a manufacturing town about three and a half hours to the west, you drive through a series of little towns that are devastated. There are no car dealerships, there are no restaurants. There's nothing. They have not recovered. I remember driving out there one day, maybe eight or nine years ago and thinking, boy, this is a disaster. Rural America, America outside three or four cities is really falling apart. I thought if you're running the country, you should have a sense of that. I remember thinking to myself, nobody I know has any idea that this is happening an hour away. That's kind of strange since we're the capital city in charge of making policy for everybody else... Massive inequality does not work in a democracy... You become Venezuela.
You write about vanishing middle class. When you were born over 60 % of Americans ranked middle class. Why and when did it disappear?
If you make above a certain income, or if you live in my neighborhood, you have zero physical contact with other Americans. In other words, the elite in our country is physically separated in a way that's very unhealthy for a democracy, very unhealthy.
I’m looking at you Tucker with a semblance of your own incredulous look.
He seems pretty pro-Trump to me.
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