Tucker Carlson on Left-Wing 'Mob' and Media: 'They're Water Carriers for the Democratic Party'

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  1. perotista

    perotista Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I do agree most of the media are carrying the water for the Democratic Party especially on CNN and MSNBC. But Fox is doing the same for Trump and the Republicans. There isn't an objective voice or any reporting the news fairly, fully and accurately on any of the 24 hour news channels.

    I also think quite a lot of folks realize this. More than what one would think or suspect. you have this from Gallup up to the end of 2017: Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to new Low:

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx

    and an update from Columbia as of August 2018

    https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trust-in-media-down.php

    Perhaps the media is giving us what we want to hear. If on be a democrat, one knows you can tune into CNN and MSNBC and get your news slanted in favor of the Democratic Party. Fox is the reverse, slanted in favor of Trump and the Republicans. A sort of pick your own poison.
     
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    Any decent fact checker provides source material so readers can see for themselves the evidence behind their claims.

    So who checks the fact checkers?

    We do. (Or at least we can, if interested enough.)
     
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  3. MMC

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    Hmmmm…..CNN, MSDNC, NBC, CBS, and ABC. vs Fox News.

    It appears Fox News has much to make up for.
     
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    I watch MSNBC and CNN, and those two outlets are slanted left. They are however, like Fox News, more about commenting on the news than reporting it.

    I don’t watch NBC, CBS, or ABC network news. But i’m under the impression that they are more of the old school reporting about the incidents of the day and not indulging in endless punditry.

    You might be seeing through the same lens as trump, where negative news is considered biased against him, instead of seeing that he’s doing negative things that are making the news. That’s how I see it. Trump has shattered the record for being an impulsive, erratic, and irresponsible president. It’s not even close. It’s totally understandable why that’s reflected in the news.
     
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    I watched that debate. It was a good one, and civil, given Tucker was in it and was serious and not there to hurl bombs. This kept Cenk in check.

    After watching it, hell, Tucker talked like an old democrat, a liberal, from my younger years. If you want to know what the old democrats were like, listen to Tucker in this debate. And if you want to know why I despise the DP and modern liberals today, listen to Tucker, who sounds like what the DP once was, in large part. Lots of common sense there.

    The older conservatives and the older liberals could compromise because they were more along the lines of Tucker, and say Rubin(has a podcast and is on the liberal side). Reasonable people, with common sense and not so tribal to the core, with all of the pettiness that comes with that.
     
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    I find it quite amusing that so many only see bias on the left. All media is biased. And it's ridiculous to suggest that one side is more biased than the other. Face it, all we do is choose the sources that best match our biases.
     
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    They are actually worse. There is discernible slant in almost every one of the "news stories" they cover, yet they do it under the guise of reporting the news and journalism. At least Op-eds disclose what they are.
     
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    Coming from a guy who has spent his whole professional life carrying water for any idiotic action promoted by any Republican, his words ring very hollow. Carlson cheered Cheney/Bush war profiteers all the way and has been a Trump kiss ass ever since it became apparent that Trump won the nomination. Tucker is and always has been a joke.
     
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    I find it quite amusing that so many Complex Left apologists attempt and fail to create false equivalencies between the few nonleft sources of media and the vast gov-edu-union-contractor-grantee-trial lawyer-MSM Complex hegemony in not only cable news, but the Big Three, print newspapers and magazines, television talk-late night-drama-comedy, Hollywood, all filled to the brim with LW-statist/Democrat political messaging.

    My mother, for example, loves Rachel Ray and Ellen D. One is ostensibly a cooking show, the other talk-giveaway-variety. So why have I never seen a single episode of either that does not contain Complex/Democrat messaging, if not outright political advocacy? I was actually watching with my Mother when this atrocity was aired, couldn't believe it:



    "Ridiculous to suggest that one side is more biased than the other," what a steaming pile.
     
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    The Alphabet New Sources have been slanted longer than CNN and MSDNC. NBC was the Leader of that pack. Before they even had an MSDNC.

    Naturally Trump allows his mouth to overload his brain at times. But then in reality he is firing back against 5 corporations owned by the Leftness. Who have been playing their game long before Trump ever came along. Oh and that's just with televised media.

    Oh and one thing about Fox News.....they ask tough questions of Repubs and they do put Repubs in the Hot seat. Also Fox news has no trouble calling the Repubs out.

    When will the Lame Stream media finally get right and start doing the same to their Masters?
     
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    I get it now.Like BlackLivesMatter who putz checks on
    cops.Or - Occupy Wall Street - who putz checks on the 1%.
    We know that GOOGLE as a source is Partisan and compromised.
    Same with Wikipedia which uses what you suggest.That ordinary
    people can add to the Wikipedia site as further accredidation via
    If what you say is true which it manifestly IS NOT then explain
    how Tucker worked at both CNN { for years on Crossfire } then his own
    late night show at 11 Pm est at MSNBC. Which happened to be where Rachel
    Maddow got her start. Working on Tucker's MSNBC show from 2005-2008.
    As Devils advocate.
    Where exactly did you git this notion that Tucker Carlson at ANY time
    ever was a Trump " kiss ass ".? Plus how is it that many Liberals,Leftist and
    Democrats openly go on his show.Even California Brat Congressman Adam Schiff
    appeared on Tucker Carlson.Carlson took offense on the Bratty Schiff declaring
    that he's in the pocket of the Russians.
     
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    I contend that the viewer can also tune into ABC, CBS, and NBC/MSNBC to get leftist inundated regarding perspectives with anything Right of Center thrown in as an after thought and then sneered at. When NBC first went into the political propaganda game by owning MSNBC the jig was up; and especially when ABC and CBS failed to denounce NBC for essentially declaring that it was now working for the interests of the Dem Party.

    Or in other words ABC and CBS are just as politically corrupt as NBC and all three traditional broadcast networks function as the permanent propaganda arms of the DNC.
     
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    Although I agree the three major over the air networks give their news a leftest tilt, it certainly is as overt as cable.
     
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    Did you mean to say, “isn’t as overt”?

    It feels like typo—a very key typo—has just occurred.
     
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    Indeed. This news maker interview of Carlson was obviously an editorial opinion interview. I’m just glad we have another 24 hr cable news channel not a part of the msm.
     
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    Which is why they use so called Fact Checkers like Media Bias Fact Checkers in order to censor new alternatives like the source of this article on line. All companies who use MBFC to control content are pro censorship book burning companies. We need to support alternative internet social media and alternative news and opinion media.
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    trumpkins act like Donny isn't president, their views are somehow silenced, and the likes of ugly lil Tuckerboy isn't 100% mainstream.
     
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    Waitaminnit…..first the Leftness cries and whines. Tries to preach morality and standards about Trump Supporters while having none. Says they worship Trump due to being President.

    And now you want people to think that Trump supporters act like Trump isn't the President.

    When will the Demos and their Cult following learn to quit talking out both sides of their mouths?
     
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    Mainstream and mainlining fascism.

    More MAGAbombing up ahead.

    The insecure can bleat about lefties making the lone wolf do it all over again.
     
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    Well its all the Lame Stream media has to play. As they know they can't openly support Authoritarian Communism.

    Yeah I wonder how the leftness gets to all that snowflakery talk about those On the Right, that they whine and bleat about being in the Military. Or having all the guns.

    Knowing those of us who have served have no problem dealing with anything the left wants to bring.

    Whatever way they want to bring it.

    The leftness should dwell on that concept deeply before they act or speak, IMO.
     
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    Do you just lift various ridiculous screeds from bizarre conspiracy websites?

    It surely looks like it.

    Anyhow, good luck with the bringing it stuff and the guns. Whichever state exists when you decide now's the time will be happy to oblige, little service industry soldier boy.
     
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    Nah, I prefer to use the Lefts own Lame stream Media to show why they aren't able to focus on reality.

    Meh.....its the left bringing it. Mainly to Seniors, Women and children. Their usual.

    Yeah Right :roll: .....LMAO!
     
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    To the right, leftist spinners are a laugh a minute. To the left, right wing spinners are the same. Each sees the other as fiction.
     
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    I do not understand you (and the rest of the Trumspter's) obsession with fact checkers.

    Perhaps it is because you and your colleagues regularly find themselves parroting a false claim that they got fed by their media. It happens literally every day here now. Right wingers have provided us with a veritable cornucopia of conspiracy theories, false memes, ridiculous claims, inverted realities, and just plain lies.

    Which is what happens when you only choose sources that tell you what you already believed.

    I have no particular use for fact checking sites. I prefer to check facts for myself and walk back stories to the sources and know who the man behind the curtain is.

    Trumpsters do none of these things. It's far easier to parrot Trump's lastest lie or made up rant. And you all take what you hear and read at face value, and never fact check anything.

    Which is why you keep finding yourself spouting false claims and nonsense.
     
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    No, they are right wing propaganda mills run by political operatives.
     
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