Murdoch was also “concerned” about Carlson’s insistence that undercover government agents were involved in the January 6 insurrection, an allegation that has no factual basis, according to the Times. He was big and then the picture got small.19.03 BST Carlson fired on Murdoch's orders over discrimination suit: reportįox chairman Rupert Murdoch ordered Tucker Carlson’s firing over a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former producer on his show, the Los Angeles Times reports. Demagogues work best on the big screen or in torch-lit stadiums. Carlson’s followers on Twitter praised Tucker’s return, but some said it was real bummer to have the family gather around the iPhone in order to watch. His act works best when it is accompanied by the graphics and bombast of an actual network news program. As of today, we’ve come to Twitter which we hope will be the shortwave radio under the blankets.”Īnd that’s Tucker on Twitter’s central problem, well, besides the lies. It is unhealthy and it’s dehumanizing, and we’re tired of it. Think of it as the “Seinfeld” episode in which Jerry demands Kramer to actually “show me the levels” he could build in his apartment.Ĭarlson wrapped up by proclaiming our country is filled with well-meaning folks “manipulated by lies, silenced by taboos. No one has firsthand evidence and to believe this is to believe that the notoriously leaky Pentagon has been able to keep this a secret for my entire lifetime. If you have seven hours to kill, I wrote about it in 2020. The thing is the story is always a “heard it from a friend who heard from a friend” account. A mid-level bureaucrat claiming the Pentagon has aircraft and bodies stashed away is a well-versed song by UFO guys for over 30 years. “We know in a normal country, this news would qualify as a bombshell the story of the millennium, but in our country, it doesn’t,” said Carlson in his faux sad voice. No, it is the discovery that the Pentagon has UFO aircraft and the alien bodies of UFO pilots in their possession. The biggest news of yesterday isn’t climate crisis, transgender wars or Ukraine. The small problem is it has not been proven that Zelenskyy or Ukraine destroyed Nord Stream.įrom there it was the worst cover version of Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody Knows.” Everybody knows 9/11 didn’t go down as you believe, everyone knows Oswald didn’t mow down JFK, everyone knows some “skinny dude in a dress is a girl.” Carlson offered the Nord Stream pipeline explosion as precedent for Zelenskyy blowing things up. He then provides his own bullshit report from the upside-down world. His theory for Zelenskyy being responsible is that Putin isn’t dumb enough to do this and you’d know this if you, dear watcher, weren’t bought and brainwashed by corporate media. Lindsey Graham - for sculpting the conventional view that the dam explosion was a Putin operation. Instead he is a “sweaty and rat-like comedian turn oligarch, a persecutor of Christians.” Not nice! Notice the drive-by quality of the “persecutor of Christians,” which is a classic Carlson fact-free zone created by, uh, Tucker Carlson.Ĭarlson’s long-honed strategy is to call bullshit on his enemies - in this case Bill Kristol and Sen.
He said the largely held worldview that Zelenskyy was a courageous defender of his homeland was completely incorrect. Carlson argued that it was likely - surprise! - a Ukraine terrorist operation. It was less than 24 hours since the incident and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy denounced the act as Russian terrorism.Īnyone who has ever watched Tucker knew where this was going.
It’s not clear if the speech was preplanned or tied to the news of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River, but Carlson used the catastrophe as his gleeful jumping off point. He then provided his rote 10-minute grocery list of Greenwald-meets-Greene grievances.
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