War Tucker Carlson is uncancelable

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Tucker Carlson is uncancelable​

Bonnie Kristian
Fri, April 23, 2021, 8:14 AM
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson isn't going anywhere.

You might expect him to, given his sudden, strange laughs mid-broadcast — the sort of thing that could have taken him off air for a while in the "Dean scream" era. Or you might think he'd resign over a college yearbook image circulating in which a much younger Carlson appears to make an inside joke about the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Macone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the latter of whom was California's first openly gay elected official.
You'd be wrong. We're in a weird space, culturally, with public shaming and what used to be called "gaffes." I think there's something real to the charge of "cancel culture," though the concept is much abused. Yet, as New York Times columnist Ross Douthat observed in10 theses on the subject, its threat "is most effective against people who are still rising in their fields." For those who have reached the top, particularly in politics, the threat is increasingly empty.

Indeed, in that elite realm — which obviously includes Carlson, for all his railing against the elite — we're rapidly approaching a point where anything short of tattooing Nazi symbols on your face on live television is not disqualifying for anyone willing and able to ignore the haters for a few weeks or months. Memories are short. Forced resignations aren't what they once were. Now, you can just refuse to be embarrassed and keep on trucking. Former President Donald Trump was a big part of this shift, but so are Democratic Govs. Ralph Northam (Va.) and Andrew Cuomo (N.Y.), who have steadfastly refused to resign after major public scandals.

Carlson, who last year had the highest-rated program in cable news history and is a rumored 2024 GOP contender (he denies interest), will do the same. The playbook is very simple. He's already using it, just as he has with scandals past. When his show's lead writer resigned after getting caught writing pseudonymous, racist posts online, Carlson took a vacation he said was "long-planned," then simply moved on from the subject. This month, he walked up to the line of advocating "replacement theory," then doubled down, with network support.

This is just opposition research, he'll tell his fans of the yearbook. Our shared enemies are attacking me because I'm telling the truth, and because they hate you. It's all tribal. It's all dishonest. It's all games. It's all irrelevant. And it will be.
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Geralt of Rivia said:
Tucker shoots his own foot numerous times in my opinion. The right absolutely despised him for a good amount of time after the whole Hunter Biden thing got swept under the rug and after the Capitol Boomerstock meeting.

Not that it really matters, conservatards forget things at the drop of a hat or forgive all when someone tries to milk them with some empty promises.
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I didn't know conservatards were bernie supporters
 
Geralt of Rivia said:
Tucker shoots his own foot numerous times in my opinion. The right absolutely despised him for a good amount of time after the whole Hunter Biden thing got swept under the rug and after the Capitol Boomerstock meeting.

Not that it really matters, conservatards forget things at the drop of a hat or forgive all when someone tries to milk them with some empty promises.
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He's a talking head. Most don't care if he has a few bad episodes if he delivers good content more than 80% of the time.
 
... we're rapidly approaching a point where anything short of tattooing Nazi symbols on your face on live television is not disqualifying for anyone willing and able to ignore the haters for a few weeks or months. Memories are short Forced resignations aren't what they once were. Now, you can just refuse to be embarrassed and keep on trucking.
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People start figuring out that the way to disarm narcissists is to just ignore their guilt trips and smear campaigns. Narcissists not happy about this one bit. News at 11.
 
Jetpack Himmler said:
I suspect that this campaign against Tucker stems from the fact that he has the highest-rated cable news program and their rating are sinking now that Trump is out of office. They are desperate for cash and they need someone as their Emmanuel Goldstein to keep the rage views and advertising dollars. Tucker is the only candidate of any note, except it will not work. His viewers will not watch their putrid programming (like they would ever criticize Biden after the effort they put into cheerleading for him) even if they succeeded and would still be left in a hole.
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The other networks don't give a shit about ratings for money. They're propped up by rich backers who know that they're more useful for advancing their pet political causes than they ever have been or will be for money. They're only pissed because he's espousing a narrative that goes against such political causes, even if it's done in the most roundabout and milquetoast manner possible, and even though he otherwise toes the party line on other topics.
 
ITT: The internet is a cycle and twitterthots found out people get bored of CURRENT INTERNET TREND (#isoverparty/cancelled/idc) quickly.

You'd think their forefathers: whatever the hell those women in ye olde social media sites were (you know the ones, the lolz teh randum rar xd types), would've warned them. But I bet they're the same women.
 
The left: Cancel culture is an istaphobic conspiracy theory REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Also the left: Why can't we cancel this guy REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
 
I wonder if the journoscum writing "cancel Tucker" articles had anything to say about Joe Biden's racial jungles.
 
DeadFish said:
I ceased to care about tucker Carlson after 2020 election
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I don't suggest trusting him either, he's probably just a stress relief valve, but he's influential enough that he can move the parameters of acceptable discourse in the mainstream "right" in the US. Countless "the left are the real racists" tier boomers just felt like they got the green light to start caring and talking about demography.

It's still filtered through a cuckservative mindset ("THE LEFT are the ones trying to use race as a tool! Race shouldn't matter but the left makes it matter!"), but normalfags making babysteps toward an authentic nationalism/populism in America has measurable value.
 
inception_state said:
His segment that prompted the kvetching at the bottom: "This month, he walked up to the line of advocating "replacement theory," then doubled down, with network support." was pretty solid. Particularly the bit where he called out the ADL for their double standard between the US and Israel when it comes to immigration policy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h0e4QjoJ4wc
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Holy shit that's insanely based.
IAmNotAlpharius said:
If anything him being fired from Fox would result in him getting more attention and views, not less. Fox needs him more than the other way around.
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I imagine Tucker has enough clout to have his own network
 
Recently bought into the 'Fox Nation app' specifically for the interviews he's doing there. They also released a new show 'Tucker Carlson Originals' and its focus was on Chicago and the surging violence and lack of action from Soros-Backed DA Kim Foxx.

it's pretty fire and really tugs on the heart strings. 10/10 would recommend.
 
Geralt of Rivia said:
Tucker shoots his own foot numerous times in my opinion. The right absolutely despised him for a good amount of time after the whole Hunter Biden thing got swept under the rug and after the Capitol Boomerstock meeting.
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He did at least cover the Hunter Biden story and interviewed that guy regarding some of the emails, but there was also that dumb "UPS lost my documents" thing. From what I recall, he has done a pretty good job of documenting how the Capitol "insurrection" narrative has fallen apart though. Particularly in covering how the Sicknick story morphed from him being bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher, to a bear spray induced stroke, to the ME officially ruling it a death by natural causes (coincidentally at the peak of the Floyd trial, when it was guaranteed to get minimal media coverage).

Tucker isn't perfect, but he's generally pretty good on most issues and is willing to touch issues other hosts wouldn't with a 10 foot pole. The fact that Fox went to bat against the ADL for him is honestly remarkable, and shows how they seem to consider him too big to fail.
 
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