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Why they hate Tucker Carlson
Spiked ^ | 29 Apr 2023 | Brendan O'Neill

Posted on 05/02/2023 6:10:13 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Woe betide the left-leaning hack who deviates from the narrative about Tucker Carlson. Tucker’s a fascist and any liberal who says otherwise should expect swift cancellation. Witness the troubles at the American Prospect. On Wednesday, the day after Carlson’s abrupt departure from Fox News, that young organ of pained liberalism made the grave error of publishing a piece suggesting Carlson might in fact be a complicated figure. Perhaps – whisper it – a rebellious one. Might this boisterous puncturer of the new elite’s ‘lazy pieties’, this primetime critic of war, free-market capitalism and Big Tech, hold some lessons for the left? Oh dear. Summon the mob. A liberal has made unapproved comments about Mr Carlson.

The irregular commentary was written by Lee Harris and Luke Goldstein. Yes, Carlson could be ‘obsessively nativist’, they said, not least by flirting with Great Replacement theories. But he also had a ‘willingness to challenge and mock ruling elites’ and he won a ‘wide audience’ by doing so. Which begs a question, said these reckless dissenters from Tuckerphobia: ‘Why other nightly news shows that attacked him didn’t raise the same critiques.’ It’s a good question. There was Tucker saying ‘You’d have to be a fool to worship [market capitalism]’ and roasting the DC elites for ‘spending tens of billions of dollars’ on war, while Trevor Noah was fluttering his lashes at war criminal Hillary Clinton and asking: ‘What does it feel like being the boogeyman to the right?’ Instead of mauling Carlson some more, why don’t ‘liberal media outlets like the Guardian’ do some of their own ‘skewering [of] comfortable pieties’, asked Harris and Goldstein?

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To: Rummyfan

It’s us they hate - Tucker (Trump) are just in the way.


21 posted on 05/02/2023 7:59:32 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: Rummyfan

Tucker Carlson exposes the reprobates and they don’t like it because it stalls their Marxists agenda.


22 posted on 05/02/2023 8:06:23 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Rummyfan

Spiked/Brendan O’neil are generally good. One big issue I disagree with them on is illegal immigration.

Illegal immigrants come in and get public services too. The same rich capitalists they decry for paying workers poorly such that they have to use public services despite working for Amazon are doing the exact same thing with illegal aliens. They want cheap labor.

The Democrats have not been shy about saying things like “demographics is destiny” and gloating endlessly about White people being a smaller percentage of the population and one day before too long will no longer be a majority, etc etc. Yeah, that’s because they lose with White voters. They assume Hispanics will always vote for them. So naturally, they want to bring in just as many of them as they can. It was DEMOCRATS who came up with the Great Replacement Theory. They did so publicly and they did it years and years before Tucker Carlson ever mentioned it.


23 posted on 05/02/2023 8:21:58 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Rummyfan

like Trump

Carlson brought clarity

in their contrast

to the established elite


24 posted on 05/02/2023 9:01:02 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: joshua c

Jonathan Cahn reveals the stunning reason behind Tucker Carlson’s removal that has to do with the dark principalities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRK5g1pIx-U

DEMOGRAPHICS ARE DESTINY - BIDEN FLOODS USA WITH ILLEGAL ALIENS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9h4QEC-Qo


25 posted on 05/02/2023 5:43:52 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Recovering_Democrat

What other kind of Republican is there? I leaned Democrat after voting for Nixon, after him I voted for Libertarians, I voted for Nixon, GW Bush because of AlGore, and then Trump. Otherwise I was anti establishment. Reagan didn’t earn my vote, because he was all talk and an OF.... first initial is OLD. Libertarians was my thing, because both parties have LONG been steeped in the ways of the Mob. Only with Trump has there been a politician who went out of his way to try and make real changes. Even now, I could go for RFK, or Ravik bawasasamai or however you spell it if push came to shove. At least they have the right talking points, but RFK will be shot, or destroyed, and Ravik may just be controlled oppo.


26 posted on 05/02/2023 6:23:30 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Repent, turn back to your first Love. If you do well you will be blessed, if not...America 2023)
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To: subterfuge

The NYTimes and the WaPo swear it is true, they alone have both sides of text convos. We must trust them. I would get tired of the same guy with every scandal for 6 years night after night. I was finished with him when he didn’t call out the armed forces and call for a new election. If Generals disobeyed, you haul them off to Gitmo for Insurrection. NEXT up...


27 posted on 05/02/2023 6:27:03 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Repent, turn back to your first Love. If you do well you will be blessed, if not...America 2023)
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To: Texan4Life

Jonathan Cahn, a false prophet, or should I say PROFIT. I remember what he said after 9/11 and he told us about Sabbatical years and this was going to happen blah blah blah. I read his first two books, he was wrong. You shouldn’t say things that do not come true, when you are talking religion. That is why the SDA went off the rails, they said the end would be in 1848 or something... now there is a pause in the timeline, like it says that in Scripture.


28 posted on 05/02/2023 6:31:28 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Repent, turn back to your first Love. If you do well you will be blessed, if not...America 2023)
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