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Why Tucker’s trip to Hungary has sparked outrage
Spiked Online ^ | 9 Aug 2021 | Frank Furedi

Posted on 08/10/2021 1:28:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Western elites are terrified that their smear campaign against Hungary will unravel.

Why is the Western media so exercised about Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s trip to Hungary? Led by the New York Times and the Washington Post, the mainstream American media have been outraged that Carlson decided to broadcast from Hungary last week, interviewing Orbán and generally sounding a positive note about the country and its government. Even BBC News carried a commentary piece with the title, ‘Tucker Carlson: What the Fox News host is doing in Hungary’.

At first sight, this extensive coverage devoted to denouncing Carlson for his trip, and in turn the Hungarian government, appears positively bizarre. The title of an article published by Insider protests that ‘Tucker Carlson did PR for Hungary’s authoritarian leader, presenting the country as “freer” than the US’. Adopting a tone of outrage, the author of the article is at a loss to understand how anyone could have anything good to say about the government of Viktor Orbán.

Anne Applebaum, whose hatred for the Hungarian government has an unrestrained, visceral quality, echoes this sentiment in the Atlantic. In her column, ‘Tucker Carlson’s Self-Loathing International Tourism’, she asserts that Carlson and ‘other conservatives who dislike today’s America’ have ‘happily assumed roles in an autocrat’s public-relations campaign’.

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Western elites are terrified ofanythng that goes against their prescribed narrative.

1 posted on 08/10/2021 1:28:16 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Orban is a good guy, and the commies foreign and domestic hate him


2 posted on 08/10/2021 1:31:03 PM PDT by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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To: Rummyfan

These are the same clowns that cheered when Obama visited Cuba.


3 posted on 08/10/2021 1:31:36 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: Rummyfan

Dennis Prager is there too.


4 posted on 08/10/2021 1:31:49 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Rummyfan

Outrage? and no outrage over what biden is doing to this country?


5 posted on 08/10/2021 1:31:59 PM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: BigEdLB

I have some Hungarian friends who are strong conservatives. (Naturalized US citizens)

They say Orban is very good in a few areas but a complete dictator in others.


6 posted on 08/10/2021 1:38:48 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: cyclotic

Those Hungarian friends should pack their bags and give France, the United Kingdom, or Germany a whirl, if “complete” dictatorship is a problem. /sarc


7 posted on 08/10/2021 1:43:43 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Rummyfan
Why is the Western media so exercised about Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s trip to Hungary?

Are they really? Does anyone really care where that guy goes?

Who pays enough attention to him to even be aware of such a thing?

Somebody needs to stop the hero worship and take care of their own business.

What's next? Following him into a bathroom?

8 posted on 08/10/2021 1:43:49 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Rummyfan

Tucker consistently provides the best and most important TV on a nightly basis. Way to go, Tucker!


9 posted on 08/10/2021 1:47:13 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: Rummyfan

Tucker’s trip highlighted Hungary’s successes and rationality to our failures and national dysfunction. They are progressing and we are regressing.


10 posted on 08/10/2021 1:47:30 PM PDT by Starboard
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Why is the Western media so exercised about Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s trip to Hungary?

Go to Russia, and watch them lose their minds.

11 posted on 08/10/2021 1:48:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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As Western Europe and North America sink inexorably into the horrifying quicksand of decadence, Eastern Europe ascends!


12 posted on 08/10/2021 1:50:58 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Contempt for truth is the evil most fundamental to the decadence of Western Civilisation.)
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To: Rummyfan

Orban has been calling out the Euro / Global elites for at least 5 years now, and they really don’t like it. Here’s a speech he made about uncontrolled Muslim immigration back then.

Orban’s Historical Speech Puts Hungary on a War Footing (speaks truth about Muslim immigration)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411401/posts?page=5#5

“Europe is not free,” as he says and supports in his speech, in much the same way the U.S. is not free. He was talking about Muslim immigration, but many of the same issue arise with Covid.


13 posted on 08/10/2021 1:57:40 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ptsal

They are now Americans and live here. Their concern is that this guy is seen as a good guy and he’s somewhat a wolf in sheep’s clothing


14 posted on 08/10/2021 1:57:50 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: humblegunner

Wow, who s**t in your cheerios. Tell us what you really think.


15 posted on 08/10/2021 2:01:52 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: cyclotic

Return to Hungray and VOTE.


16 posted on 08/10/2021 2:01:58 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Rummyfan

I wonder if these Western Presstitutes are the same one that proudly proclaimed Fidel Castro, Che Gueverra and Hugo Chavez were Great Humanitarians, Yep sure are!


17 posted on 08/10/2021 2:02:12 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: ptsal

They can’t. They are AMERICANS and renounced their Hungarian citizenship.


18 posted on 08/10/2021 2:03:43 PM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Rummyfan

WHO is Spiked-online?

Must be like our MSM.


19 posted on 08/10/2021 2:04:08 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Rummyfan

Orban has the demeanor and intellect of an old-fashioned college professor, and the politics of Donald Trump. That’s why he scares the sk!t out of the establishment.


20 posted on 08/10/2021 2:13:26 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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