Posted on 05/03/2022 4:17:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
I first met Tucker Carlson in 2008 at the Vanity Fair after party for the White House Correspondents Dinner. It was held at the apartment of Christopher Hitchens, who was a friend and nice enough to lower the qualifications for entry to let me and my date into the exclusive private party. The only person that night nicer than Tucker was the cast of The Wire, especially Jamie Hector, who played violent drug dealer Marlo Stanfield. Little did I know I was hanging out with a horrible white supremacist.
What’s funny about the idea of this is how absurd everyone parroting it knows it is. Many of the media pearl-clutchers professing outrage over Tucker’s existence now were at that party that night, and none said a thing or stormed out of the room. If memory serves (it’s been a while and I had been drinking), they were all laughing together. Weird, right?
After that night, I had Tucker on a podcast I was doing with a friend at the time (and eventually went on to be the first person he hired when starting what became the Daily Caller). He couldn’t have been nicer to someone he had absolutely no reason to be nice to at all. He could have politely declined or said he had better things to do, because in 2008 pretty much everything was better to do than agree to be interviewed for a podcast. It never occurred to me that he only agreed to do the show because our skin colors closely resembled each other.
Of course, that’s a joke. It’s such a stupid idea that even the people who thought CNN+ was a good idea recognize it as dumb. But the New York Times would have you believe that under the bowtie was a Klan robe the whole time. They know it’s a lie, but the point of stories like this about anyone not on the progressive side of the ledger isn’t to tell the truth, it’s character assassination.
The problem for the Times is the people who believe them already hated Tucker for existing, no one else believes them. And there are a lot more people in the latter group.
Tucker isn’t a racist, he isn’t a sexist, he isn’t whatever else the left slaps an “ist” or “phobe” suffix onto in an attempt to weaponize. He’s exactly what he seems like on TV. Having met many famous people I can tell you few live up to what you think they’re like, Tucker is one of those who do.
Being transparently yourself all the time makes some people uncomfortable, especially when you’re a fraud. And that’s who the people behind this latest failed hit are.
Part of the Times hit piece goes into how Tucker has “stopped” having on people who disagree with him. This is somehow presented as evidence of how he’s “gone extreme!” Has Rachel Maddow ever had anyone who disagrees with her? Serious question, I can’t think of one time. Tucker does try to get Democrats on his show, they stopped doing it because they got sick of being exposed. Why do Tucker when you can slide under the warm blanket of CNN or MSNBC?
Of course, the last time the New York Times ran an opinion piece that strayed from the progressive thought plantation the opinion page editor was fired as “journalists” at the Times whined that the opinions of Senator Tom Cotton made them “unsafe,” “especially” the non-white staff. If uniformity of thought is a sign of trouble, what does that say about the Times or Maddow?
Nothing they claim in the piece holds up to common sense to the point that you almost feel bad for the people who were assigned to write it. At least until you remember they did so willingly. That they can watch Maddow deliver a monologue for a half an hour and think nothing of it while finding conspiracy in Tucker’s monologue getting longer (though not anywhere near as long as Maddow’s).
If I had to guess, and keep in mind that I’m no New York Times “reporter,” but the length of the monologue might have something to do with there being fewer commercials during the show because the leftist mob chased off advertisers, which is funny because the show’s popularity caused the remaining ad times to be more valuable, more than making up the difference of “lost” revenue and then some.
Anyone who believes the Times already didn’t like Tucker, anyone who likes Tucker isn’t going to believe the Times. What the Times may end up doing is making Tucker more popular as its casual readers decide to check out the “modern day Father Coughlin” for themselves, because who wouldn’t want to watch, if only to condemn, this monster? Once they do they will discover he’s not as the Times portrayed him, which could lead to them questioning the validity of other things the Times told them. It happened with the hit piece the Washington Post tried on LibOfTikTok, with the account’s following doubling by the end of that week.
Of course, the most absurd part of this whole “Tucker is a white supremacist” garbage is a simple fact I haven’t bothered to mention – his best friend since high school, and business partner in the Daily Caller back when we started it, is not white. Neil Patel is an Indian-American. You can hear leftists responding with what they always say when someone accused to being a racist says, for example, that they can’t be racist because they have black friends – “That’s exactly what a racist would say!”
Actually, that’s exactly NOT what a racist would say. A racist wouldn’t have a carve-out for some people with the skin color they supposedly hate. If Tucker is a white supremacist, he’s really bad at it.
But the New York Times is really bad a journalism. No one need this three-part joke of a hit piece to know that.
Would have been a great piece of rant if Derek Hunter hadn’t written it in a sleep lab.
With Tucker, the thing i can’t get past are the emails where he is asking Hunter Biden for help getting his kids into some school.
I would _never_ go to a person who I have made my public enemy for assistance with anything. My guess is that most people feel the same way. The only way to reconcile this is to think that the public front is different than the reality. That is to say, its just theater on TV and what happens behind the scenes is the reality.
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My understanding is that they knew each other from University. At the time Hunter wasn’t what we know of him now, or at least wouldn’t have been known to Tucker at the time. That he is targeted like this is all I care about at this point - it says everything about the left.
There is no such thing as bad publicity. Especially today the ubiquity of media means that individuals increassingly have cemented their opinions. A predisposition to hate tucker carlson is unaffected by a slanderous multipage NY Times Column. Tucker Carlson fans are unaffected by the rancid Times column because they are accustom to the Times lying about almost everything.
So, the times column only serves to broadcast the existence of tucker carlson show. That will increase his visibility to the ones who’ve never heard of him before. Many of those will be curious enough to go see if he’s the MONSTER that he’s advertised to be. Some of that subset will stay for the content. So his viewership will increase. And thus the times elevated tuckers media posture with their editorial!
Good Job!!
So when’d that happen then?
Links?
A friend of mine is white. He shared a stage with Tucker Carlson and Phil Robertson a few weeks ago.
He must be a white supremecist.
I’m literally shaking. I’ve deleted his email and phone number. I’ve also resigned from the ministry we both work with.
Huh?
Are you sure you are even awake yourself? Or in your right mind?
That’s exactly what I believe to be true. Tucker was clueless about the perversions and crimes easy back then. (I could be wrong, of course.)
Joe, you usually are not this lazy.
It took me one search to find the article in Vanity Fair, 12/3/2021 by Bess Levin.
Go and read it and write a book report for the rest of the lazy FReepers that do this crap all of the time, and then NEVER take the time to read it.
Hell, if it were linked to the story, most FReepers would never read it before giving it an ignorant...IMO.
Fat, old and lazy is no way to go through the end of life.
Joe, you usually are not this lazy.
It took me one search to find the article in Vanity Fair, 12/3/2021 by Bess Levin.
Go and read it and write a book report for the rest of the lazy FReepers that do this crap all of the time, and then NEVER take the time to read it.
Hell, if it were linked to the story, most FReepers would never read it before giving it an ignorant...IMO.
Fat, old and lazy is no way to go through the end of life.
From Goodfellas, Goodfellas, Vinnie two times, two times.
Thanks for excising the “l” in your Freeper handle and using it for a much needed “lol”.
:)!
Twenty-thousand words in an attempted character assassination of Tucker Carlson?! The Times never did that against Stalin or Mao or Pol Pot or even Hitler.
Got nothing to do with laziness.
When you post an obvious left wing troll attack on Tucker, its reasonable to ask you to back it up.
It took me one search to find the article in Vanity Fair, 12/3/2021 by Bess Levin.
When did Vanity Fair become a trusted source for anything? I don't read it. Haven't for over a decade.
But be that as it may, a quick internet search on other sites came up with:
“Another email from 2014 the news anchor thanked Hunter for writing a recommendation letter for his son's Georgetown University application “
So we are talking about 2014 here, long before any of Hunter Biden's scandals came up. It's perfectly normal for two people living in DC to know each other.
What more you got?
Not sure what you mean
Don't know why ... but it makes him look 'Nancy Boy' ... which I know he is not.
I assumed your post yesterday was “tongue in cheek”, so when I saw your Freeper handle, I (hopefully not wrongly) connected that post to
what I feel so many abortion-activist rants are—psychotic.
And, that would read the same as your handle—”cyclotic”— without the “l”.
Did NOT mean any offense!
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