War Tucker Carlson is uncancelable

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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[Blake Chortles]

I liked when Tucker called the military a bunch of pussies and that he had nothing to fear from them just like the Taliban.

 

[SBG]

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.

Every group is filled with retards that'll do this.

In Tucker's case he's helped out a great deal by there being no one in right wing media that'll call him out for his failings. Though he's mostly helped by a left wing media that keeps helping Tucker by suggesting he's terrifying to the left and bringing up either irrelevant bullshit or things Republicans would like. Doing a quick google news search we have them going at Tucker for having a joke in a highschool year book, promoting Fauci suggesting Tucker's pro-J&J vaccine comments were "a typical crazy conspiracy theory", criticizing Tucker bringing up Replacement Theory by saying it's real, and promoting Tucker's anti-college comments when that's viewed as wildly popular with many Republicans today.

So in all they promote Tucker joking, being pro-vaxx, anti-immigration, and pro-blue collar work, and these were attack pieces! It's like if right wing media was trying to take down Biden by saying he wanted to eliminate all college debt.

 

[Hüftpriester]

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

I, like many, completely tuned out conservative MSM after the election. I always thought of Tucker as above the rest of that lot but damn, this is some of the most based shit I've heard a prominent person say in a while, maybe ever. Godspeed, Tucker.

 

[Niggernerd]

When lefties see Tucker they have flashbacks of Derek curbstomping a nigger.

 

[L50LasPak]

Every group is filled with retards that'll do this.

In Tucker's case he's helped out a great deal by there being no one in right wing media that'll call him out for his failings. Though he's mostly helped by a left wing media that keeps helping Tucker by suggesting he's terrifying to the left and bringing up either irrelevant bullshit or things Republicans would like. Doing a quick google news search we have them going at Tucker for having a joke in a highschool year book, promoting Fauci suggesting Tucker's pro-J&J vaccine comments were "a typical crazy conspiracy theory", criticizing Tucker bringing up Replacement Theory by saying it's real, and promoting Tucker's anti-college comments when that's viewed as wildly popular with many Republicans today.

So in all they promote Tucker joking, being pro-vaxx, anti-immigration, and pro-blue collar work, and these were attack pieces! It's like if right wing media was trying to take down Biden by saying he wanted to eliminate all college debt.

That's because Tucker Carlson is on the same side as the left-wing journos writing attack articles on him. They're both members of the media. This whole adversarial thing they have going on is just a gimmick. Tucker acts as a boogieman to keep left-wing veiwers tuning in to the various attack pieces on him, while those very same attack pieces provide him with free advertising.

You know at the end of the day the producers of both conservative and liberal media share drinks and laugh about all the stupid people in the world who eat this shit up and make them ever more advertising revenue by tuning in to one show or the other. I'd hardly be surprised if Carlson himself participates in the festivities.

People in the media do not have principles. They do not have political positions. They do not have any loyalty, and the only morality they understand is what benefits them is good and everything else is bad. These people will tell you anything you want to hear, anything to get you to tune in the next day. Tucker Carlson is no different.