Tucker Carlson "Unfiltered" now on PBS (This week Campus PC)

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[Stultis]

The PC Wars

First Up »

Stephen J. Trachtenberg

Plus 2 »

	Richard Cohen
	Amy Richards

Back Page »

Eric Weider

The controversy over free speech vs. political correctness on campus boiled over again recently, when Harvard president Lawrence Summers mused that more study was needed on the question of how gender differences correlate with the aptitude toward the hard sciences. Summers was forced to apologize repeatedly for what was seen as a decidedly insensitive observation. "First Up" Tucker interviews Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., about the on-going campus PC wars.

And on our "Plus 2" segment the PC conversation continues as Tucker is joined by Richard Cohen, columnist for The Washington Post, and lecturer and writer Amy Richards, author of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future and a leading feminist thinker. Do liberals really believe in free speech? And have feminists, in the quest for true freedom and equality, also sought to become a protected class, sequestered from harmful or critical speech?

How has the contemporary media affected the way wars are fought? Is the kind of brutality and carnage of past wars - which history shows is often necessary to bring the conflicts to their conclusion - even possible in today's media environment? On our "Back Page" Tucker addresses these issues in an interview with Eric Weider, editor of The Armchair General and a military historian.

[Stultis]

Just discovered this. On now in Dallas/Fort Worth.

[Stultis]

Just played a clip from Evan Coyne Maloney's excellent internet documentary Brainwashing 101

[dandelion]

I'm curious about this show, and I plan on tuning in - thank you for the "heads up"...

[Mamzelle]

I am reading "Hollywood, Interrupted"--excellent!--is there a running conservative book thread on FR. This book needs to be on it for Freepers who love to read good stuff.

[Stultis]

Still can't say I'm a big fan of Tucker, but I'm more likely to watch without Snakehead and "Nuts and Sluts" Begala. He'll also be a type that PBS viewers will be more likely to give a hearing to (if only because he looks and sounds like them).

[Gondring]

Unfiltered is a very good show. In his commentaries, Tucker Carlson brings up viewpoints that you don't hear anywhere else. And his questioning technique is to be fair and balanced, but force the interviewee to justify his position. I hope you enjoy it.

[Stultis]

Good show, but too short at a half hour. The military expert had an interesting point. Eisenhower had information before the Battle of the Bulge that the Germans might attack there, but due to "a number of complex reasons" (including that he wanted to remain on the offense elsewhere) he decided not to reinforce the area. The guest suggested that had we had a 24 hour news cycle then (and, my addition, seditious bastards like Kennedy and half the 'Rat party) there would have been a Battle of the Bulge inquest during the war, and Eisenhower would have been disgraced and forced to resign. This would have shaken American resolve just when the enemy was near defeat.

[Stultis]

Ah, it's been on since last summer. I had no idea. I assumed this was a post Crossfire creation.

[Stultis]

PBS does not have a national schedule. Different stations choose to air or not air different shows, and in varying time slots. There is a "when to watch" link on the Unfiltered webpage. Click and that and enter your ZIP to get the air time in your area.

[Gondring]

Not to mention Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor.

Another reason PBS viewers watch is that he generally states a (Devil's advocate) leftist position in lefties own terms, and allows his guests the opportunity to shred or support it with facts, rather than just spouting a conservative position. Of course, many PBS folks hate him anyway.

[Doctor Raoul]

If "Crossfire" were golf, Tucker's situation could have been described as, "Hit the ball, drag Begala...hit the ball, drag Begala..."

[slapshot]

carlson is a bona fide wussy girly man. No wonder dembots think they can run over Conservative people on these shows.

If I was called a D*** on national TV by some arrogant lefty, he's be eating his meals with a straw. Carlson just turtled; stood there like a deer in the headlights.

[MisterRepublican]

Rush calls Carlson, "Chatsworth Osborne Jr.". Lol.