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Tucker Carlson descends ever further into the muck

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Here is Tucker Carlson following the mass shooting in Nashville at a Christian school:

The trans movement is the mirror image of Christianity and therefore its natural enemy.

How appalling does Carlson have to get before Rupert Murdoch finally pulls him off the air? Is there literally nothing he can say that crosses the line on Fox?

19 thoughts on “Tucker Carlson descends ever further into the muck”

    1. different_name

      ^^ This.

      We know it is true based on what's coming out of the Dominion suit.

      They're both unredeemable nihilistic whores who deserve to be homeless and despised.

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  2. Brett

    I'm pretty sure he's already alienated any advertisers for his show that aren't MyPillow or "Gold scam company #34342". But as long as he's driving traffic for the Fox News watchers who would otherwise decamp for some worse conservative TV channel, they'll keep him.

  3. drickard1967

    " Is there literally nothing he can say that crosses the line on Fox?"
    No. This has been another simple answer to a stupid question.

    1. Austin

      Maybe if he raped some infants on air. Then maybe - assuming said infants weren’t “asking for it” in some way - Rupert would dump Carlson.

      Everybody else that considers themselves decent though should be shunning Carlson. All the time and everywhere.

    2. GrueBleen

      Yeah. After all the time and effort spent with Tuckyo Carlson, could anybody seriously ask if Roopie would consider he's "crossed the line." What line ? Fox doesn't have lines.

  5. mudwall jackson

    tuckums is an empty, soulless shell of a human being. i doubt he believes one percent of what he spouts on the air but as long as it attracts viewers, he'll continue to spout the vilest nonsense. gotta keep bringing in the green.

  6. Doctor Jay

    You know, I have spent time with several trans people where they talk about their faith and how they have reconciled it with their condition. They quoted scripture, they talked about praying over it. They talked about what their pastor said.

    There's nothing incompatible between the conditions of being trans and being Christian.

    Nothing.

    1. Austin

      Of course there isn’t. Also completely not the point. “Christian” is just another cudgel to bash other people with.

  7. Joseph Harbin

    The headline in the graphic is from a Rupert Murdoch newspaper. Why would Murdoch fire Carlson? For promoting one Murdoch property on another? It's pretty clear that Carlson and the Post are covering the story with Murdoch's (at least implicit) approval.

    The relevant issue here is the demonization of transgender people. "Transgender Killer Targets Christian School" is a story the right-wing covers practically with glee. Christian victims, trans perpetrator, a terrible tragedy. Check, check, double check.

    It's right in line with the Turning Point USA columnist Benny Johnson's tweet "One thing is VERY clear: the modern trans movement is radicalizing activists into terrorists." That got many millions of views and an approving reply from Elon Musk, among other things father to a trans child.

    In case you think that was an honest, innocent headline, how did Fox cover the Club Q mass shooting? Not with sympathetic coverage of the victims of the attack at an LGBT club that left 5 dead and 25 injured, but by highlighting the attacker's "non-binary" status.

    Murdoch and the right-wingers are doing to transgender people what Nazis did to Jews, among other examples. They're calling them terrorists and driving up fear of a group who are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.

    If gender were relevant, of course the most important fact would be that mass shooters are almost always male. All but 4 among mass shootings going back to 1966, according to this article in the New York Times. Why is it that roughly 50% of the population is responsible for nearly 100% of mass killings?

  8. cld

    This is exactly right,

    'They're ready for executions': Author sounds alarm after interviewing 'ordinary' conservatives,

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-supporters-civil-war/

    'They're ready for executions': Author sounds alarm after interviewing 'ordinary' conservatives

    Author Jeff Sharlet has spent years interviewing conservatives and found many unassuming Americans are ready and eager for violence against their political enemies.

    Sharlet's latest book, The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, is the result of more than a dozen years of reporting on the religious right, compiling numerous interviews conducted throughout the Midwest and Great Plains, and he's more worried than ever about the possibility of civil war, reported The Guardian.

    "I’ve been writing about the right for a long time," he told the newspaper. "I’m always interested in the margins of things that tell us about what’s happening at the center. An undertow is a metaphor for that, for the force that’s been pulling us to this place for a long time. If you’d asked me 10 years ago if I ever thought another civil war would be possible in the United States, I would have said no. But to think so [now] is to not understand that the right in America is as dangerous as it is."

    He cited a "nice-looking" family he met near Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who seemed like "ordinary" conservatives, as the newspaper described them, but harbored bloodthirsty fantasies rooted in extreme conservative politics.

    "[The father said] he had a 'Let’s go Brandon' sticker because he didn’t want to swear around his son," Sharlet said. "They’re a middle-class dad and mom. They were always gun people, but not a lot of guns. Now they’re up to 36, now they are arming up. The father had always been anti-abortion. But now it was like a dream had moved into his and his wife’s mind. He described, in incredibly violent detail, the process of abortion. Then he described, in incredibly violent detail, the punishment he thought he and others were going to give to abortion doctors. They were ready for executions."

    The current political moment was rooted in a decades-old struggle against fascism, and Sharlet said Donald Trump, intentionally or instinctively, used its "dream logic" to spellbind his followers, who fill in the unfinished thoughts in his pronouncements with their own beliefs -- and that creates the illusion that he's speaking their truth into existence.

    "The free association that happens at Trump’s rallies, the ways people make connections that make no sense – it has dream logic," Sharlet said. "One minute, a scary man is crawling into the window to rape your wife, and then the next minute we’re laughing at windmills, and then the next minute we’re sad for the birds that were killed by windmills. And then, in the next minute, we’re yelling, 'Lock her up.'"

    "This is dream logic, and there’s vanity in it, right?" Sharlet added. “'I will interpret what they’re saying and I will bend it.' It’s the vanity of the base, the vanity of the mob, the aggregate grotesque imagination of power. It becomes a spinning whirlpool that pulls more and more people in. These are people for whom reality is not enough."

    The illusion that's created for Trump and his followers feels interactive and very real to them, Sharlet said, and that's where the twice-impeached former president gains his power.

    "This is why the right feels they are more democratic than the left," he said. "The intellectual rightwingers are like, 'F*ck democracy, we don’t need it.' But the everyday people, they’re like, 'This is the most democratic I’ve ever felt. I am not only receiving – I receive, I interpret and then I transmit back.'"

    Sharlet sees a similar dynamic at work within the anti-abortion movement, which the left sees as an effort to control women's bodies, but the right sees as a cause so righteous that violence is necessary.

    "Yes, the project is misogynist to the core," he said. "But it is not experienced as such by many on the right. Once you make that move, that we’re talking about children, what kind of person are you if you don’t want to save that child?"

    "It’s astonishing there hasn’t been more violence," Sharlet added. "I think we’ve had a shield from that violence for a long time and now that shield … I sound like Jerry Falwell saying the hand of God is being removed from America."

  9. zic

    Well, if it helps to discomfort I can send you photos of his summer office behind the Woodstock, ME town hall. It's not far off, and we know it peeves him when we express our 1st amendment rights in that way. And I can tell you that his summer island retreat has an affliction of noise from Rt. 26 and from motorboats on Lake Christopher; it is not peaceful place due to the noise of diesel engines in big rigs on the highway. And it's most likely got an outhouse, not indoor plumbing.

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