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The distinction you’re making is irrelevant to me. Like Trump, like Bernie Sanders who in past decades apologized for the behavior of leftist dictators, Tucker is performing the role of “useful idiot”, and doing a fine job of it. He is despicable.
He didn't apologize for anything. Did you watch the clip or are you just speaking out of your you-know-what? It's impossible to watch that clip and draw any different conclusion unless you're inferring a whole lot that isn't there.
Tucker never once talks about literacy rates in Russia or apologizes for Putin like Sanders did for Cuba and the Sandinistas. I know this because every day somebody is reminding me how much he hates everything not in America.
Let's start with him minimizing it as a "border dispute." Then the whole, "you've been programmed to hate Putin" rant. What do you think he means when he's essentially saying, "hey, Putin's never done anything to you personally, so why do you have a problem with him." Christ, rock. You're going to ignore the subtext?
Wrong clip, -fish-.
Where does he say he supports Putin or that people shouldn't hate him? He's pointing out things that have an actual impact on the average citizen, who barely gave Putin a second thought until now. He's also linking it to the whole Hunter Biden/Ukraine storyline, which I don't particularly agree with.
Make sure you call it right this time then, Allen. Mahomes just gonna march down there and score if you don't.
I think I know exactly when it should be used. It should be used here. And you’re wrong, he does apologize for Putin all of the time.
You also linked a video of the same quote you posted. Surely you can find another of the many segments where he shows support for Putin.
Yeah, I assumed that people were talking about the clip that Russian state TV is using as propaganda. There are three different days of commentary. Day 1 is the clip you were talking about. Day 2 is the one that was being discussed previously as apologist. Day 3 he tries to walk back day 2.
I haven't really spent any time listening to Carlson, but I suspect he does the same stuff Hannity does with Covid. He will have some anti-vaxxer on his show, he'll slobber all over them as they sow doubt and misinformation, then at the very end he'll say "hey nobody is more pro-vaccine than me. I'm vaccinated, but people should find a doctor that they trust if they are nervous about putting something unknown into their body"
Unsurprisingly your suspicion is wrong. Like most of the folks in here who seemingly have very, very strong opinions about Tucker Carlson while also not having ever really watched his show.
That clip isn't bad;-- I watched most of it --- I've seen excerpts from other clips that are more problematic IMO. I can't stomach the guy so don't know if he got pushback for the pro Putin stuff
You watch The View daily? Tucker is pretty formulaic so I don't think that you have to watch him regularly to judge his show.
I do not, but am aware of, like I said, provably false statements they have made.
Can you give me a single example of this?
Tucker’s the worst of the worst. He’s a trust fund kid who grew up going to elite private academies and now makes millions playing on white resentment and white grievance politics. It’s despicable and transparent but there’s an insatiable appetite for it in modern America as Rupert Murdoch and Robert Ailes know.
This thread is a great illustration of why FoxNews is so successful. Several really smart posters somehow fooled by this stuff. Those posters are far smarter than the average American, so no wonder the Republican Party is such a #### show.
I never really grokked how the heartland types have cottoned to him. Don't seem to be a matched pair.
Not a match at all, which shows how little that matters, as long as the message is what the audience wants.
Still waiting on another segment showing Tucker's love of Putin. Or are you basing your entire theory of that on 30 seconds from one segment.
People need something to be mad about. My Dad watches him pretty regularly. My Dad is retired, fairly healthy for his age, and makes more after retirement than when he was working. He has absolutely nothing to be mad about. Tucker gives him something to worry about or get angry about. It's like that for people all over the country.
I had to Google who Joy Reid even was.... assumed she was one of the people on The View.
Alrighty then. If you did actually watch the whole clip and that's what you got out of it, there's not much to talk about. I don't see it that way at all.
I have watched his show, but haven't in a long time. Sometimes I'll watch 9-10 minute segments that get posted on my Twitter feed. It's not like those clips take one sentence out of context and you can still get a good idea of the amount of BS he spews.
Seriously, I need you to unpack this. What in that entire segment do you take issue with as "could have been written by Putin?"
1. In November of 2019 Tucker said “In the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, why shouldn’t I root for Russia? Which I am.” Later on he claimed he had been joking, but only a few days later he said that in the event of a military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the USA “should probably be on the side of Russia.”
I stopped listening when in a clip, Tucker said in response to being labeled a white supremacist, "White supremacist? What's worse than that? The phrase evokes images of burning crosses and lynchings. It's awful." And Oliver followed that statement by saying, "...'I don't burn crosses or lynch people, so I can't be a white supremacist' is a pretty weak argument."
My responses are in bold.
So when I type, "White supremacist? What's worse than that? The phrase evokes images of burning crosses and lynchings. It's awful." you hear, "I don't burn crosses or lynch people, so I can't be a white supremacist"?
