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Posted on 04/15/2021 2:47:27 PM PDT by Kaslin
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As we’ve reported on several recent occasions, the liberal media’s onslaught against Fox News host Tucker Carlson continues at full throttle as the left’s attempt to rid the airwaves of its most-feared — and fearless — enemy rolls on; an effort unequaled in recent times.
Sure, CNN went after Sean Hannity every now and then during the Trump administration, but Hannity lacks the depth of insight and foresight, critical thinking capabilities, and intellectual chops of Tucker Carlson, not to mention Hannity served as the hood ornament of the Trump fan bus every night without for fail for more than the four years, but I digress.
My point was, the left disdains Sean Hannity. But it fears Tucker Carlson.
As reported on Monday, the latest left-wing media frenzy over Carlson began late last week after an interview he did with conservative commentator and Fox News regular Mark Steyn, in which Tucker opined about “demographic replacement” —which the race-obsessed left refers to as “white replacement theory” — about which, CNN editor-at-large stooge Chris Cillizza published a ridiculous “analysis” titled “How the ugly, racist White ‘replacement theory’ came to Congress,” on Thursday, in which he used a featured image of Tucker.
The problem for Cillizza and like-minded leftists is demographic replacement is real, it has been occurring for centuries, and it will continue to occur long after these clowns have left the building. One wonders if they know that, or are truly that uninformed.
Demographic replacement happens when people in numbers from a demographic with one set of political views “migrate” into an area inhabited primarily by people with a different set of political views. If the migration continues, beyond the growth rate of the “current” inhabitants of the area, the demographics of that area — along with its voting patterns — change. This not rocket science. It is math. And it is not racist to state the truth.
Wait— never mind.
While nobody does silly histrionics better than The Most Trusted Name in News™, CNN ain’t got nothin’ on The Washington Post when it comes to torching Carlson — particularly over just the last week. As reported by NewsBusters, The Washington Post has published 11 hit pieces on Tucker in just six days — all in hyperbolic overdrive.
Obsession! The @washingtonpost has called for removing @TuckerCarlson from the air to the tune of at least 11 items over the past six days. https://t.co/IQzpPBSLjF
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) April 14, 2021
Let’s recap, via NewsBusters:
The onslaught started April 9 in the form of two articles, one of which was supposedly meant to be a news analysis article by the ever-pompous Philip Bump (disguised as an opinion) with the title “Tucker Carlson’s espousal of ‘replacement’ theory is both toxic and ahistoric.”
Eight hours later, fedora fool and “Biden Republican” Max Boot offered the exact same take: “How do the immigrants who run Fox feel about Tucker Carlson’s anti-immigrant rants?”
The first of two actual news articles arrived on Monday, April 12 with Jaclyn Peiser’s xeroxing of the Greenblatt’s CNN interview in which he demanded Carlson to [sic] be axed because of his “open-ended endorsement of ‘white supremacist ideology.’”
Need a breath? Bump is a fool, I have no words (actually I do) to describe Max Bott, and the Peiser-Greenblatt silliness is not based in reality. Anyway, also on Monday:
The PR campaign went into overdrive with three more stories, including a wire story from the Associated Press. Two of them were columns, including Hack Madness champion Jennifer Rubin demanding Carlson be punished for his “venom” that “propound[ed] White supremacist replacement theory” and fellow Never-Trump Michael Gerson saying that Carlson is a living, breathing example of “what mass-marketed racism looks like.”
Again, think about it. I watched Tucker say everything he said. Live. And I rewatched much of it as I wrote about it. Everything he said was demonstrably true. All of it. Yet, here we are.
Come Tuesday, come more Jennifer Rubin.
Rubin would further lampoon herself with another column on Tuesday claiming that the GOP has become a terrorist organization and that it’s an “instigator of…violence” and urged Americans to “spring into action” against them.
Then came three more shots at Carlson and Fox News for being greedy racists.
Three more pieces would follow thanks to Bump, “Plum Line” writer Greg Sargent, and lefty columnist David Von Drehle that, like the others, made the same point of Carlson and FNC being not only racists, but greedy racists.
Finally, a hit piece on Tucker’s “highly illogical case” for questioning vaccine effectiveness.
On Wednesday, The Fix’s Aaron Blake got in on the action with “Tucker Carlson’s highly illogical case for questioning vaccine effectiveness,” which took aim at his concerns with the coronavirus vaccines.
Tucker Carlson is without question the one person — the one thing, really — the left most fears: not only truth but also an audience of millions of Americans listening to that truth on a nightly basis. Truth to the left is holy water to a vampire. But the truth — and the reach — of Tucker Carlson? Like a stake through the heart of a vampire.
And perhaps the best part? Tucker laughs at their efforts, every night, and the laughter is genuine. How much must that reality sear the left?
Rush is gone
Next most effective target
They need somebody since Trump is no longer around.
Well he’s right the left fears Tucker....but Donald Trump terrifies them or they wouldn’t have literally tried to keep him from ever running for office again
The flak is always heaviest when you’re over the target.
His opening monologues are amazing. He’s the best political polemicist of his generation.
I’m shocked Fox has kept him on the air. I suspect the minute the old man kicks the bucket, Tucker will be yanked.
We all miss Rush, and how unfortunate it is we don’t have him here as the country is truly falling apart with Dementia Joe in the driver’s seat!
Tucker exposes the Left in a both a serious and humorous way. It’s the latter that bothers them the most. The Left hates to be ridiculed.
My only complaint with Tucker is that he often has Tulsi Gabbard on as a guest. She’s a lightweight who adds nothing of significance to the show. Some of his other guests on the Left are tolerable to listen to and at least have some command of facts. Gabbard’s knowledge of most things is thin at best. She’s just a politician looking for exposure.
When the Flak is heavy you are over the target.
“Carry on Captain Tucker! Fly back to home base, and refuel and load bombs and return to target!”
Tucker is just about the only significant rational voice on TV. He tells the truth, the American public watches, understands and believes him. He mercilessly deconstructs idiots and destroys delusions. The Left watches, listens to every word he says and is palpably fearful. No Democrat office holder or Biden official would dare or have the courage to appear on his show. The MSM that colludes openly with Biden as propagandists fear him the most. Tucker boldly tells the truth and the MSM shamelessly lies. People are now understanding what is happening.
Spot on.
Target... flak.
However I can only DVR 2 shows at your time slot and you are up against my mind candy Alaskan, forging and building reality shows. I will continue vote and believe conservative and did so even before I heard Rush.
I think JFK said that “if you make peaceful Opposition impossible, you make violent opposition inevitable”.
Don’t do it, just watch the clips on the internet. Tucker still does not acknowledge the existence of the Uniparty. Standard cucked Conservative MO is blame everything on the Democrats, while gently chiding the GOP establishment for not being strong enough.
F that sh!t! Let Fox be the network for Indie voters. Conservatives should only watch true Conservative outlets, not controlled opposition.
Is he really a target?
Or is Deep State just trying to get the asset it burned back in viewers’ good graces?
Q: When was the last time Carlson actually broke a big news story...?
If you’re taking flak, you’re over the target.
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