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FLASHBACK: Tucker Carlson, registered Democrat
Washington Post ^ | 04/10/2015 | Erik Wemple

Posted on 07/08/2021 6:40:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

About a year ago, Tucker Carlson, the Daily Caller’s top editor, joined famed conspiratorialist Alex Jones for a discussion about American society and politics. In an exchange that attracted some attention on the Internet, Jones spun one of his classic theories about how the country is changing:

The Democrats went from being the Ku Klux Klan party of race, with Sen. Byrd and all them, to literally going, ‘OK, we’re going to go race-politic with the minorities, make them the majority.’ And so basically they went from financing…La Raza, all the Ford Foundation. And that’s why you have this new race-based system where we all have been conditioned as Republicans or as Libertarians or as white people to be, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re loving, we’re not racist — yes, please, do whatever, I’m sorry I’m white, and beat ourselves with whips on the head. And then meanwhile, the Democrats have just recreated the Ku Klux Klan movement, but they’ve done it with minorities.

Presented with those thoughts (and others — Jones’s monologue was longer than the quote above), Carlson responded, “Yeah, there’s a lot of truth in that. I wish there weren’t. There’s no question that the country is more race-conscious than it was when I was a kid.”

Question: Why didn’t Carlson stick up for his party?

According to D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics spokeswoman Denise Tolliver, Carlson is a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia. His registration dates back to 2006. He has company: The District is three-quarters Democratic — some people whose politics align with a competing party register Democratic in order to assert their preferences in critical Democratic primaries.

The fast-talking Carlson likes to portray himself and the Daily Caller as bastions of independent thinking.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: 1partystate; 6yearsoldnews; democrat; erikwemple; fakenews; foxnews; gettucker; its4mayor; registereddemocrat; searchandfind; seekandfind; tucker; tuckercarlson; wealreadyknow
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To: SeekAndFind
The terms "Democrat" and "Republican" are very interchangeable these days and those labels mean little to me. The Republican Party is dead to me due to the way they treated Trump and as a result, I changed my political affiliation to "unenrolled".

There are patriots like us here, hard core leftists on the other side, and a bunch of people in between that don't care either way and just want to binge-watch television shows and play video games all day.

21 posted on 07/08/2021 6:56:21 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: 1Old Pro

“Carlson hit piece, perfect timing as he eviscerates the left.”

Tucker Rants for Ratings, but the second someone has a solution proposal he shuts them down. Tucker is a showman who rants to get ratings.


22 posted on 07/08/2021 6:57:59 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not only a Democrat but buddies with Hunter Biden.

https://www.yaacovapelbaum.com/2021/06/18/hi-my-name-i-tucker-carlson-and-im-a-swamp-creature/

Fox news is controlled opposition, it’s no wonder they went along with the fake election results and never expanded on Hunter’s laptop when they claimed to have the content in their possession.


23 posted on 07/08/2021 6:58:09 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: SeekAndFind

Perhaps an incorrect assumption; but still, it is felt that
ALL persons in the “News Industry” would be nothing BUT
registered in d’rat party. Consider the GOPe party and those registered as conservatives but show themselves to be commie liberals. Same difference, sheep’s clothing is in fashion
at the moment.


24 posted on 07/08/2021 6:59:37 AM PDT by V K Lee (Resist, we will! Remember, we must!)
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To: MattMusson; dfwgator

Yes, Tucker has had his home attacked and even had to move for the safety of his family.


25 posted on 07/08/2021 7:00:38 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. Winston Churchill pp)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kind of reminds me of the character that Steve Allen played in the movie “Warning Shot”. I hope Tucker isn’t the same.


26 posted on 07/08/2021 7:00:52 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: 1Old Pro

It’s a 6yo article.


27 posted on 07/08/2021 7:01:30 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: jimwatx

So is the release of the NSA spying on him just designed to restore his credibility with conservatives? Starting to look like that.


28 posted on 07/08/2021 7:01:42 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

He reminds me of Bannon, always telling the “deplorables” what the elite think of them—while themselves well ensconced among the wealthy elite.


29 posted on 07/08/2021 7:02:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

He has also called himself a “self-loathing” Episcopalian.” Maybe he is a “self-loathing democrat”, too. Who cares? As long as Tucker gives it out hard and fast and deep, he’s got my ear.


30 posted on 07/08/2021 7:03:24 AM PDT by yetidog
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To: SeekAndFind
Tucker Carlson is a strong voice we need on the Right.
He is paying a price as the deep state/left/media attempts to bring him down.

They wish to marginalize him as they have done with Jones that's why you see this association.

31 posted on 07/08/2021 7:03:48 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a smarter strategy by the wapo than just attacking him personally or his positions. They want to erode his support and the loyalties of viewers. Hit him where he is strongest is clever, because blatantly obvious attack pieces would probably actually strengthen sympathy among any loyal to him.


32 posted on 07/08/2021 7:04:44 AM PDT by z3n
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To: SeekAndFind

They are after Carlson. This is the WAPO. Ignore


33 posted on 07/08/2021 7:05:20 AM PDT by dforest (huh?)
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To: enumerated

As was Trump.


34 posted on 07/08/2021 7:05:31 AM PDT by gcparent (MAGA)
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To: conservative98

Exactly. It’s all about his ability to vote in local D.C. elections.


35 posted on 07/08/2021 7:06:44 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: conservative98

Yes. I know conservative New Yorkers who registered as democrats. NY primaries are closed.


36 posted on 07/08/2021 7:06:57 AM PDT by gcparent (MAGA)
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To: 9YearLurker

I admit I’ve always enjoyed listening to him and considered him an important voice of the right, but these revelations put things in a different perspective He along with Fox news is just controlled opposition.


37 posted on 07/08/2021 7:07:31 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

And he’s talked about it recently. He is hiding nothing. I don’t know what Seek and Find’s game here is.


38 posted on 07/08/2021 7:07:56 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: SeekAndFind

When did it become a crime to be a registered Democrat at one time or the other?
Wasn’t Ronald Reagan a registered Democrat at some time in his life?
Yup.


39 posted on 07/08/2021 7:10:11 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“Exactly. It’s all about his ability to vote in local D.C. elections.”

LOL, according to the emails he’s buddies with Hunter Biden, close enough to ask him for favors. Said the election results were valid and we need to accept that. Wake up and smell the coffee.


40 posted on 07/08/2021 7:11:44 AM PDT by jimwatx
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