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Tucker Carlson Calls Journalists ‘Animals.’ He’s Also Their Best Source.
The New York Times ^ | June 20, 2021 - Updated June 21, 2021, 9:30 a.m. ET | Ben Smith

Posted on 06/21/2021 1:07:51 PM PDT by Bratch

Last month, I texted Tucker Carlson to ask him a question that was on my mind: “Did you get vaccinated?”

“When was the last time you had sex with your wife and in what position?” he replied. “We can trade intimate details.”

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One question you may be asking, if you are a New York Times reader, is: Why are you exchanging texts with Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host who recently described the media at large as “cringing animals who are not worthy of respect”?

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The answer is one of Washington’s open secrets. Mr. Carlson, a proud traitor to the elite political class, spends his time when he’s not denouncing the liberal media trading gossip with them. He’s the go-to guy for sometimes-unflattering stories about Donald J. Trump and for coverage of the internal politics of Fox News (not to mention stories about Mr. Carlson himself). I won’t talk here about any off-the-record conversations I may have had with him. But 16 other journalists (none from The Times; it would put my colleagues in a weird position if I asked them) told me on background that he has been, as three of them put it, “a great source.”

“In Trump’s Washington, Tucker Carlson is a primary supersecret source,” the media writer and Trump chronicler Michael Wolff writes in his forthcoming collection of essays, “Too Famous.” Mr. Wolff, who thanked Mr. Carlson in the acknowledgments of his 2018 book, “Fire and Fury,” explained, “I know this because I know what he has told me, and I can track his exquisite, too-good-not-to-be-true gossip through unsourced reports and as it often emerges into accepted wisdom.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bensmith; fakenews; hitpiece; michaelwolff; mockingbirdmedia; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nytimes; serialliarwolff; tuckercarlson
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1 posted on 06/21/2021 1:07:51 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch

I wouldn’t elevate the NYT to that level.

Insect, VD, something along those lines.


2 posted on 06/21/2021 1:10:14 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: Bratch

So?


3 posted on 06/21/2021 1:12:15 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: DoughtyOne

Insect, VD, something along those lines.

I was thinking parasite, although technically a parasite is an animal.


4 posted on 06/21/2021 1:12:46 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Bratch
Last month, I texted Tucker Carlson to ask him a question that was on my mind: “Did you get vaccinated?”

“When was the last time you had sex with your wife and in what position?” he replied. “We can trade intimate details.”

The author either stupidly or maliciously mistakes the obvious intent to inform him the vaccination question is considered to be private information, IMO.

5 posted on 06/21/2021 1:14:00 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: Bratch
I wouldn't be so cruel, as to call animals "reporters"!

Animals are far and above in a higher ethical sense of being than reporters.

6 posted on 06/21/2021 1:16:04 PM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: Bratch

This guy Wolff soiled his reputation and probably himself with his last “Book”. I wouldn’t trust this guy with anything he has to say.


7 posted on 06/21/2021 1:17:23 PM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Bratch

It appears Tucker is directly over the target.


8 posted on 06/21/2021 1:17:44 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Bratch

Sounds like reporter attempted to hurt Tucker’s credibility with most likely innuendo. Typical of the corrupt news.


9 posted on 06/21/2021 1:18:08 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Skunks, parasites, snakes, and the modern evolved media journalist. All creatures that snuck out of testing in God’s lab.


10 posted on 06/21/2021 1:21:18 PM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: Bratch
Bombs away, Tucker!


11 posted on 06/21/2021 1:21:18 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Bratch

Carlson threw in the towel with Hunter Biden. They have something on him.


12 posted on 06/21/2021 1:22:00 PM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: Bratch

Tucker Carlson has more influence than any twenty so called MSM journalists. He tells the truth. They collude openly with the Biden Administration and refuse to cover stories objectively such as their self censorship of the Hunter Biden/corrupt Joe Biden laptop hard drive. Tucker can gossip with them and bait them for his amusement all he wants. However he frightens them as a good person wielding a sharp wooden cross scares vampires. The MSM is doing whatever they can to discredit and silence Carlson. Yet his audience and influence continues to grow.


13 posted on 06/21/2021 1:25:50 PM PDT by allendale
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To: 1Old Pro

The new york times now belongs to the back of the tabloid rack.


14 posted on 06/21/2021 1:25:50 PM PDT by z3n
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Mockingbird Media is suddenly targeting Tucker Carlson, in unison.

What does that tell ya’ ?


15 posted on 06/21/2021 1:25:55 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Bratch

“Ben Smith”

“New York Times”


16 posted on 06/21/2021 1:26:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: z3n
The new york times now belongs to the back of the tabloid rack.

it's a parody of itself. Hate filled Leftist activist writers writing hate filled Leftwing drivel.

17 posted on 06/21/2021 1:28:56 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Bratch
The reply should have been “Thanks for your inquiry. Unfortunately I only talk to reputable news journalists like from Mad Magazine, or Weekly World Globe. Sorry just can't be seen associating with lowlife lying crap like The NY Times."
18 posted on 06/21/2021 1:32:45 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less)
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To: Flick Lives

Yeah, you could be right.


19 posted on 06/21/2021 1:33:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: blackdog

Seems like it.


20 posted on 06/21/2021 1:34:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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