Posted on 03/21/2022 3:22:02 AM PDT by RandFan
In 2016, Donald Trump showed that a Republican candidate can run, and win, without swearing fealty to the permanent war party. He ran on a platform of “America First,” and since that moment almost all Republican politicians and commentators have at least paid lip service to the idea.
Yet now, all of that is being thrown aside for the sake of Ukraine.
In 2019, would-be America First Senator Josh Hawley delivered a speech about “Rethinking America’s Foreign Policy Consensus,” condemning “endless wars” and “metastasizing commitments” to far-off countries, and demanding a new narrower focus on keeping America and Americans safe and prosperous.
And then Ukraine came along, and Hawley suddenly looked like any other Republican from 2006.
It is one thing to see the Democrats eagerly join the CIA, State Department, and Pentagon in demanding the escalation of U.S. involvement in the Ukraine-Russia conflict. That alignment makes perfect sense politically—why wouldn’t the left align with the same national security state that embraces all of its values, and which has repurposed itself to target the left’s domestic political enemies on the right?
Seeing lawmakers on the right take the same stance, though, is both puzzling and pathetic. The relationship between the national security state and most GOP lawmakers and pundits increasingly resembles the relationship between an abusive husband and his battered spouse. Like a wife who believes her husband still loves her even as he sends her to the hospital, the same lawmakers and Fox News figures who claim to have embraced the Trump realignment are yet again letting themselves get played by a Regime that hates them.
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Tucker is still a shining light in my eyes.When he utters one word about election fraud or anything 2020 election, do what you do best, let us know.
Until then he's Fox News junkie's red meat.
Just more Fox News bread and circuses.
Hanity is a swamp rat - have not watched him since November 2020
As to Hannity calling for an anonymous NATO strike on the Russian convoy, well, yes that would be a stupid idea. Let's be honest, if you've listened to his program, Hannity isn't the brightest guy out there.
Not that Hantity can hold a candle to Rush (and my analysis is that he’s tired of even doing radio, just by listening to his voice)), but he does have the luck of being right after Rush’s old show.
...and so, like so many wokesters before him in the GOP and Soros, and Democrats, and Media, and WEF, he’s now joining the chorus for WW3.
Let’s watch his ratings and see how that plays out.
Thought he said that last part in jest about Chyna.
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called for the U.S. to attack Russia but make it look like it was actually China — by flying American planes with a Chinese flag on the side.
“Tucker said he really has no corporate sponsors who advertise on his show.”
Interesting, and sad. So Tucker is a loss-leader who gets people to watch Fox, and more importantly fight to keep on cable/satellite. I guess for Fox, they only need one ‘Tucker’ for that purpose, so they put a leash on everyone else there.
“I listen to Hannity and agree, he’s against putting any troops into the middle of that mess. Support yes but anymore involvement that that no.”
I guess I got my answer of the rating impacts of going all-out for WW3 on Fox. Thanks!
I don’t like Hannity, but the article uses Media Matters as a source.
I watch Tucker regularly and actually paid attention to the commercials 2-3 times and saw very few big dollar National advertisers, mainly Mike Lindell, he might have a few others but it was noticeable to me considering he has the highest rated show on cable TV
Interesting scenario. Makes one go “Hmm?”.
Trump wants to be President again, so he will say what he needs to say. It may or may not work.
He can’t though and you know it. He’d be fired.
We have FR to discuss it and history will note the big steal.
What else can we do...
On everything else Tucker is great and I enjoy watching his clips and monologues.
The next time Sean Vanity has an original thought will be his first.
There are so many more interesting voices to listen to. I just started to listen to Sebastian Gorka’s radio show which is on at the same time as Vanity (3-6 pm ET) and it is just so much better. I get Seb on 1420 WHK. “BloomDaddy” on WTAM in Cleveland also does a good job, although his show is a mixture of sports talk, guy talk and conservative talk.
Hannity watched Trump remove the conservative camouflages from one Republican/conservative after another, showing they were true leftist and in cahoots with the Democrats for four years. Yet Hannity has learned nothing from Trump in that time. Hannity jumped right back into bed with Conservative Inc., the RINO’s like the Bush’s, Linda Graham and the deep state scum he still calls patriots(not one of these patriots blew the whistle on the illegal activities in their agencies when Trump was being mauled by their co-workers—NOT ONE!)-—knowing all the dirty crap they have done to the USA.
Hannity blows in the wind...
Hard to believe any Freepers actually watch/listen to Hannity. I couldn’t stand him even when W was President. He’s an idiot carnival barker.
For Republicans, projecting toughness on Ukraine or any other foreign question is a coping mechanism to demonstrate phony strength and hide (from voters, and perhaps from themselves) how impotent and weak they have been against a genuine existential threat: The non-stop cultural assault on the American people.
Meanwhile, Hannity won’t dare consider boycotting companies who are acting completely antithetical to America’s interests, or even children’s interests (Disney, Hollyweird, etc.). Free speech, you know.
Hannity don’t want to play Rollerball.
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