Posted on 03/16/2021 5:57:22 PM PDT by Rummyfan
‘Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump.’ So said CNN’s Brian Stelter on his Sunday program, Reliable Sources.
Stelter was apparently handed his own TV show based on the principle that at least one CNN host ought to resemble the network’s target audience. Nevertheless, he is correct. Progressivism needs Tucker to be Trump, and so for the moment, he is.
To work in cable in the age of Donald Trump was to live life on easy mode. For years, channels tried desperately to hook viewers with endless updates on missing white women, murdered white women or murdering white women. Suddenly, with Trump, none of that was needed. Every day brought a fresh outrage, a new ridiculous statement or tweet or national policy. The news cycle shrank from a week to a day to mere hours in some cases.
Print journalism wasn’t spared. The New York Times abandoned its post of affected neutrality, discovering that it could dramatically expand its subscriber base and keep winning Pulitzers as a full-time resistance paper. Other publications followed.
But what can the #Resistance do without someone to resist? For five years, progressives shrieked for a Donald Trump Twitter ban. Now, the president is gone, out of office and apparently uninterested in appearing on any media platform he doesn’t own. While his press releases read exactly like tweets, they are few and far between.
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They need a boogeyman, Trump was it, now it appears Tucker is it.
They sure want to put up ALTERNATIVES to Trump. I’m sticking with Trump.
Winnie the Pooh is the new Brian Stelter. Silly willy-nilly old bear.
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to those who most creatively and convincingly persuade others to vote against their best self interest.
Participation in Twitter is a shameful waste of ones soul, a twittering away of God's gift of the life he gives us
New Trump? HAH!
Tucker isn’t worthy to carry Trump’s cigars.
LOL!
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to those who most creatively and convincingly persuade others to vote against their own self interest.
Tucker is a cardboard cutout person just like you find in the stands at professional sporting events, and whatever he says is just like the piped in cheers they play for you on tv while you watch those sporting events.
Tucker should have been smart enough to see that coming.
Notice, they said Tucker, not Sean Hannity.
I’ll bet Sean is steamed at being overlooked.
“I just don’t get it! I’ve been at Fox, like forever, and Tucker Carlson just walked in some months ago.
Now suddenly, HE is the ‘Heir Apparent’?”
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Tucker Carlson ran the story of Biden Family Corruption.
He ran...
That tells one all they need to know.
He will do this right before the Election and he made the calculation that his ratings would be much higher with Dems running the country.
It’s acting akin to Hannity pretending that IG Horowitz was something other than a lifetime progressive protecting the agencies he’s supposed to oversee.
Hannity sold those shows and people still tune in for the big FBi frog March.
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Nah. I watch Dan Ball and Greg Kelly. Tucker is great too but no Trump.
Tucker Carlson ran FROM the story of Biden Family Corruption.
He ran from it...
That tells one all they need to know.
He will do this right before the Election and he made the calculation that his ratings would be much higher with Dems running the country.
It’s acting akin to Hannity pretending that IG Horowitz was something other than a lifetime progressive protecting the agencies he’s supposed to oversee.
Hannity sold those shows and people still tune in for the big FBi frog March.
Tucker was on a couple of years and he did other channels too and he was contributing and hosting Fox and Friends weekends too. He created The Daily Caller as well.
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Tucker was in the right place at the right time.
Fox had to do something to reinvent themselves in the wake of Meghan Kelly and Gretchen Carlson dropping dirt on so many of the male hosts.
Meghan had to go, but to put another woman in there, might open them up to some other kind of revenge lawsuit.
So they took a chance on Tucker The Overlooked.
As in the Left needs enemies.....
gonna set the hopper for Tucker.
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