Posted on 03/18/2021 5:10:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
John Oliver Celebrated for Providing Less Evidence of Tucker Carlson’s White Supremacy Than Joe Biden Has Given Proving His Own
Over the past most it has become apparent that the media, in a desperate attempt to replace Donald Trump as an inspired subject of political scorn, have settled upon Tucker Carlson as their replacement target. The primetime Fox News fixture has dominated the outrage headlines of late, over any number of ridiculous claims. Taylor Lorenz declared she was violently attacked because he spoke her name out loud on the air, and CNN recently claimed that his segment about European countries blocking one of the Covid vaccines made him an anti-vaxx voice who wanted his audience to die.
Right on cue, over at HBO, John Oliver joined in the fray. Oliver, who hails from The Daily Show, occupies that comfortable strata of former host John Stewart, where he is either to be taken as a serious pundit, or when called out as being incorrect on a matter is permitted to seque over to ‘’I’m just a comedian’’. He dedicated his entire ‘’Last Week Tonight’’ episode Sunday evening to Tucker, and it was resoundingly applauded by those on the left. Oliver had so impressed that at CNN John Berman even stole his ‘’Just asking questions’’ schtick the next day. But in looking at the episode you come away with two things; the claims he makes are backed up more by insistence than evidence, and what he holds up as proof shows racism with more obviousness in the character of Joe Biden.
Oliver opened his show by highlighting a few of the stories that saw Tucker embroiled in on-line shriekfests -- the women in the military controversy, and the Dr. Seuss books cancelled. From there he launched into the obvious conclusion; Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist. If you are having trouble drawing where that distinction comes from off those stories fear not, because Oliver does little to explain himself in the show.
Getting underway he plays a few clips of Carlson wondering about the parameters of white supremacy, as he had been accused of prior. Thus begins the suppositions and reinterpretations of his words. Oliver says, ‘’I don’t burn crosses or lynch people, so I cannot be a white supremacist is a pretty - weak - argument.’’ A weaker argument however is what Oliver delivers. His main thrust is that even though he has not done the worst of racist behaviors he is still a supremacist.
His primary piece of evidence is shown next, a guy who is a former white supremacist who says he and his family watch Tucker’s show. Something that would be tossed out of Judge Judy’s courtroom as irrelevant is held up here as definitive proof, and it is a touchstone that is brought back up throughout the program. Then we begin with a deep exploration of Carlson’s entire career, starting with one of his first TV appearances. In that clip we are curiously served up a sound bite that is decidedly non-racist..
Oliver exposes his desperation when he makes a deeply strained explanation. You understand that in order to grasp Tucker’s white supremacy it is not arrived at as a result of the evidence but by starting off with the belief that he is a supremacist. ‘’The filter through which he processes the world for his audience,’’ Oliver explains for his audience, ‘’becomes painfully apparent. Because he is smart enough not to openly say into a camera that certain races are more deserving of scorn, or less worthy of respect -- he just heavily implies that, depending who he is talking about.’’ So, you do not have direct examples of him saying offensive racism, it is all interpreted -- by John.
The next obvious thing Tucker does not say is supposedly veiled behind his common refrain of ‘’Western civilization’’. We do not get anything approaching a clear explanation as to why this is racist, let alone an example of white supremacy. We just have to take him at his word. ‘’Again, he will be careful, not to link race and civilization. But he will occasionally dance incredibly close to it.’’ This basically an admission that he has little to go on.
The lone example you can find of truly objectionable comments were from the recording of Carlson’s call-in appearance on the Bubba The Love Sponge radio program. This previously exposed audio was some uncomfortable words, delivered 15 years ago on a shock jock station. But it is the most profound thing Oliver comes up with after combing through Carlson's entire career. The rest is rooted in ‘’We all know what he REALLY wants to say!’’
What Oliver trips up on here is that this flimsy insistence that there is enough supposition found over the past twenty years of Carlson’s commentary to piece together a narrative of white power, he has just made the case for Joe Biden being a far worse example. For starters, if an endorsement from unknown years ago by a former white supremicist is proof of something, when it comes to political support from white supremacists Biden was endorsed by Richard Spencer, a current white supremacist, this past election. Whoops.
Then there are Joe’s own words. In an Iowa speech regarding education he said, “We should challenge students in these schools. We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids. Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids — no I really mean it, but think how we think about it.’’
Then there was his infamous radio appearance, telling POC voters, "Well I tell you what, If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black." In a video conference with black and Hispanic journalists he said, "What you all know but most people don't know, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things."
During another video conference he was asked by black reporter Errol Barnett, of CBS News, about his having taken a cognitive test, Biden got agitated. “That's like saying you, before you got in this program, if you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not, what do you think huh? Are you a junkie?”
All are rather blatant examples of racist behavior, and they come with a significant difference to the leaps and stretches found in Carlson’s commentary; It did not require a decades-long Nexus search to filter through countless hours of video -- the oldest example is less than one and half years ago. These do not require interpretation. We do not need the John Oliver method of tying hand-plucked examples from over 20 years and connecting them with red yarn on a conspiracy wall.
If we are to be told the strained evidence given leads to what unspoken words actually mean and that becomes proof that Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist, then Richard Spencer candidate Joe Biden’s collection of glaring reductive quotes should prove he is a Grand Wizard in The Klan. The press, after choosing to ignore Biden’s direct quotes, are now applauding John Oliver for deciphering what Carlson is really saying when he does not say racist things.
With Joe Biden we do not need someone to tell us what he means -- we merely have to listen.
What?
Over the past most it has become apparent that the media, in a desperate attempt to replace Donald Trump as an inspired subject of political scorn ...
What?
Getting underway he plays a few clips of Carlson wondering about the parameters of white supremacy, as he had been accused of prior.
What?
The “racist” card is over limit, so they got a new card called “white supremist”. It’s just the new ad-hom label du jour.
It’s Okay To Be White.
Why do whites and the right always play defense?
How about laughing in their faces? How about when the left and all the anti-white Marxist concede that race and so called ‘racism’ is not just a white thing then maybe we can talk but otherwise shove it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Black power=goodness and justice.
White power= racist haters of persons of color.
Is that about right?
John Oliver is just another “Great Divider” with a megaphone. This whole racist and White Supremist talk is toxic for the whole country.
Yo, OliverIdiot, got on you knees on national television and asked for forgiveness for being white yet? Yeah, I did not think so.......
Words: It's what the salad is made of.
Oliver did a masterful job proving beyond doubt he is shallow, no talent, megalomaniac.
What sort of fool watches HBO anyway?
Was wondering that myself. He dont deserve this much written about him. Oliver is a small and weak minded person who, if it wasnt for HBO, would be on the BBC talking about gardens.
They never define “white supremacy.” That’s because it’s a BS concept made up to shame people into compliance, just like “racism.”
Is it a belief that white people have a higher IQ than some other racial groups? That is undeniable reality. The reasons can be debated, but the reality cannot. Groups differ in all sorts of ways, even if there is great overlap. That’s what diversity is.
Is it the hatred of skin color? That’s so stupid that it’s painful. Hearing a Leftist make that case would be hilarious.
Is it a desire by white people to associate mostly with other white people? That’s like literally every other group. Whites seem to have a greater affinity for other groups, if anything.
Is it a desire by white people to live in an area with the most white people they can afford? If so, that’s the entire world. There’s just not enough of us to give them all the lives to which they are entitled, though the Biden Regime is going to try.
Is it an alleged desire by white people to oppress others? If so, why do white people seem so eager to move away from the others? You know, for “good schools” and “safe neighborhoods” and so forth. Do white people who live in places where there are only other white people lose purpose in the absence of victims to oppress? Such places exist, though the Left is hard at work eradicating them.
Is it an alleged desire by white people to murder all others? If so, they don’t do a very good job of it. Whites are less than 10% of the world’s population and less than 60% of the American population. Whites commit relatively few violent crimes compared to other groups.
Is it a desire by some white people to not see their heritage and culture erased? Now we might be getting somewhere. The Left is actually pretty upfront about their desire to see as few white (European) people as possible. Resist your extermination, or even just disagree with it, and you are a White Supreemist. Welcome to the klan. We have cookies.
There seem to be a lot of professional writers these days, who can’t write at all.
And, of course, they’ve fired all the editors. Spell Check is good enough, right?
Bkmk
Exactly. Why would anyone pay for such drivel.
I don’t burn crosses or lynch people, so I cannot be a white supremacist is a pretty - weak - argument.
When the left has no answers or facts they always flip the race card a sign of no logic and only hate.
Some never awake from the fog of an idea that utopia isn’t real.
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