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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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To: Bratch

This is so obviously an attempt to discredit a man that is doing real damage to the Left.

The problem is they always use the same playbook. Make up anything at all and attribute it to unnamed sources. The folks who eat this crap up are those who badly want it to be true.


21 posted on 06/21/2021 1:38:04 PM PDT by billyboy15 (')
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To: Bratch

Don’t believe anything written in the NY Times, ever.


22 posted on 06/21/2021 1:39:44 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: MortMan

Has their been any entity anywhere which has slid backwards so far as the New York Times?


23 posted on 06/21/2021 1:40:38 PM PDT by blackdog (Joe Biden, Deep State Cuckold.)
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To: Bratch

This story from the NYTimes has all the hallmarks of classic disinformation. They’re trying to sully Carlson’s reputation with Trump Deplorables and the R base. Again, don’t ever believe anything printed in the NYTimes.


24 posted on 06/21/2021 1:42:32 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: ProudDeplorable

I once had the displeasure of helping Wolff put on his jacket after a TV interview we did with him; he’s a smarmy, foggy, and discourteous little man.


25 posted on 06/21/2021 1:43:26 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Fido969

The Hunter story was going no where and Tucker saw that. He’s not like Hannity who beats a dead horse for months on end. Tucker also has old school manners and it was getting close to the election.


26 posted on 06/21/2021 1:43:49 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: blackdog
Has their been any entity anywhere which has slid backwards so far as the New York Times?

The NYS republican party.

27 posted on 06/21/2021 1:46:11 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: DoughtyOne

Michael Wolff is a unrepentant liar.


28 posted on 06/21/2021 1:46:33 PM PDT by sauropod (The smartphone is the retina of the mind's eye.)
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To: fatman6502002
...don’t ever believe anything printed in the NYTimes.

Bingo! And it bears repeating:

DON'T EVER BELIEVE ANYTHING PRINTED IN THE NYTIMES!!!

29 posted on 06/21/2021 1:51:55 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke)
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To: Bratch

How about posting from an article that doesn’t require a subscription????............Sheesh!


30 posted on 06/21/2021 1:56:08 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I just sold my homing pigeon on Ebay for the 19th time......)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Sorry. I didn’t need one when I clicked on the link.


31 posted on 06/21/2021 2:33:14 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch; P-Marlowe

I stopped watching fox altogether. My take is that they are the diversion task force for the establishment. They get us focused on the details of items the establishment intends never to do anything about. We argue and argue and bluster. Then they narrow it down to 2 candidates and all goes on as it ever was. Then rinse, wash, repeat.


32 posted on 06/21/2021 2:35:32 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: Bratch
Tucker vs NYT. Tucker won last year. Tucker won last week. Tucker wins today. Tucker will always win. It's like taking candy from babies *sshats.
33 posted on 06/21/2021 2:37:48 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Is there anyone who believes the TImes?
34 posted on 06/21/2021 2:40:58 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Bratch

I could have sworn Tucker said on his show (early on when vaccines were opened up to everyone) that he had been vaccinated but he was dismayed by the left criticizing anybody who asks legitimate questions. Maybe not.


35 posted on 06/21/2021 2:52:03 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: xzins
I stopped watching fox altogether.

Who cares but most importantly, why even post on these threads then?

You got your moment of attention, so enjoy it........Sheesh!

36 posted on 06/21/2021 3:11:47 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I just sold my homing pigeon on Ebay for the 19th time......)
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To: Bratch

Here’s a line from the article: “But his decades of Washington relationships have produced a tiresome conversation among Mr. Carlson’s old friends about what he really stands for, whether he’s really a racist or whether he cynically plays one on TV.”

Some friends.

By the way, if anyone couldn’t read the article without signing up, you’ve probably visited the NYTimes site sufficient times (two or three) to activate that message. Clearing the NYTimes cookies can fix that. It worked for me. But search engines seem to keep making it difficult to find the cookie files, so that can be a problem in itself.


37 posted on 06/21/2021 3:13:15 PM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

And here I thought it was a free speech forum. Evidently, only for those following your party line. Had you read the article, you’d realize it was closely aligned with my post.


38 posted on 06/21/2021 3:26:24 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: blackdog

Satan, by a whisker.


39 posted on 06/21/2021 3:32:43 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: xzins

I haven’t watched Fox since November3, 2020. An in law came to visit and said he is a Fox news Junkie... LOVES Tucker! I turned him on to the WarRoom months ago and he does enjoy that. A former CA/ now GA resident.

Told him to wake up and smell the coffee!


40 posted on 06/21/2021 3:47:39 PM PDT by acapesket (all happy now?)
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