Counterpoint: Tucker Carlson and the conservative circular firing squad; Someone who agrees with me 80% of the time and disagrees 20% is not my enemy. But many conservatives are, for understandable reasons, purists

American Thinker ^ | 11/25/2020 | Thomas Lifson

[LS]

For some reason, I never trusted the Tuckster. Possibly because Rush Limbaugh, who has excellent antennae for libs, always referred to him derisively as “Chatsworth Osborn Jr.”

If you look at the business model of Faux, and how it’s shifting under Lauchlin and James, it is NOT a conservative network and isn’t even fair any more.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I’m not trying this case in the court of public opinion” — while you’re sitting there doing on interview on a cable news channel whose sole purpose is to convey your allegations to a public audience.

In fairness to Sidney Powell, she offered the following to Tucker:

1) A written SWORN affidavit from a relevant person for him to read out loud in his show.

2) Since she is not a detailed numbers person, she offered to bring a data analyst who looked at the election numbers to his show, together with herself to present the evidence of fraud.

Sidney tells us that these were not enough for him and he was quite insistent and rude to her.

[OldGoatCPO]

As opposed to what, your brand of conservative that leaves us bound to a party that abuses us the way Democrats abuse minority voters. So we are sanctimonious because we realize that as a group we are powerful separate we are laughed at and rejected for our outdated beliefs. FOX began this switch when the Murdoch boys took over. They use Carlson, Hannity and Ingraham to bring on advertisers and to keep us sanctimonious types watching. We are acting for possibly the first time as a powerful bloc demanding that we be heard and you deride us. Carlson is no friend of mine, he is more libertarian then conservative and has never struggled in his life the way the vast majority of conservatives have. But he is somehow a sacred cow to those who would refer to the rest of us as sanctimonious. Sounds like the hubris is strong in your post.

[seetheman]

Finally turned off Tucker mid show last night. Too little, too late. Turned on Newsmax and heard about Sleepy Joe’s new cabinet picks and climate czars. All I could picture was the return of Isis, the poor citizens of Iran who probably thought they had a chance with Trump in charge and having to look at and hear “horse face” again. Obama term #3.

Yeah, Happy Thanksgiving! NOT!!!

[AAABEST]

Good post.

Tucker is conflating betrayal and malfeasance with “disagreement.”

Everyone is starting to realize he and people like him are just overpaid metro talkers who have gone from useless to *dangerous.

[bert]

Blah blah blah yada yada yada pointless carrying on

[Maris Crane]

Seems to me that FOX is doubling down like they don’t care about the loss of viewers.

Well, I thought I would be sad about not seeing FBN all day long...I discovered that I am doing fine for three weeks now and all I remember is that there was a decided change in the way Varney talked about President Trump.

He started pointing to the rotten polls...FOX polls...and it was depressing. Bye, Stewart.

[OldGoatCPO]

Great argument, glad to see you are intellectually up for the fight.

[OldGoatCPO]

Great argument, glad to see you are intellectually up for the fight.

[littleharbour]

Tucker is making the same fatal mistake as others before him, attacking those who won’t swallow the whole bottle of his snake oil. He is thin-skinned and he’s lashing out at conservatives for abandoning Fox and affecting the ratings of his show. He was put on a pedestal by conservatives and started to think that he could walk on water, and that his audience would remain no matter what he said. He’s learning the hard way that conservatives are not sheep, and will not slavishly follow anyone if that person or group abandons them. There is clear evidence of fraud and Tucker is at the “can’t we all just get along” stage of surrender. That may be fine for the GOP Establishment, but it’s not fine for the millions of voters who are trying to save America from permanent fixed elections.

[cranked]

Someone let the idiots running FAUXNews that hemorrhaging can not be stopped or halted by slapping on a Band-Aid.......

[fortheDeclaration]

Anyone ignoring the clear fraud isn’t on our side, as well as those who say Trump should ‘concede with grace’ to the greatest fraud in history.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I don’t need Tucker on my TV.

I don’t need to hear what he says. Hell, I don’t even care what any TV personality says.

I don’t need to spend even a minute of my life watching him. He brings nothing of value to my life.

I don’t need to help him make a living.

So I don’t and I won’t. He can fend for himself...or not...I don’t care.

[bert]

There is no fight

There is merely sanctimonious conservative zealot blather from the rightmost 10%

[jmaroneps37]

Gee Tommy thanks for straightening me out. And here I thought that since Fox had acted like an enemy they are one. But now thanks to your keen observation I see the light. Fox isn’t pissing on my leg, I’m standing in the middle of a rainstorm.

[kjam22]

Tucker will be working for a local station in Cleveland in a couple of years....

[jmaroneps37]

Gee Tommy thanks for straightening me out. And here I thought that since Fox had acted like an enemy they are one. But now thanks to your keen observation I see the light. Fox isn’t pissing on my leg, I’m standing in the middle of a rainstorm.

[Hulka]

Forgot my sarcasm tag after that statement.
Apology for that.

[OldGoatCPO]

Must be a huge 10% to drive Carlson below -30%. Hard to fathom why Carlson is such an important part of people’s lives, it’s like they need to be told what to think and cannot learn or think for themselves. I mean Carlson is just a pundit after all.

[OldGoatCPO]

I am very proud of conservatives right now. We stood together and are becoming a force be reckoned with. The way we have let FOX know of our displeasure is something we need to continue.

We have amazing financial power and make-up the majority of the country. I remember before Chik-Fila went all woke, how we stood up for the former owner. The GOP is not conservative, they just feed off of us.

The left does not fear us, we need to make them fear us as a collective force for change!