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has been fired. Did I celebrate? Yes and no, and I'll tell
you why in just a few now. I hesitated to add my voice to
the chorus of people who are going on and on and on about Tucker Carlson.
But I felt like this was an important conversation now for those who might
have been in a coma or visiting a foreign planet for the past several weeks.
Tucker Carlson, the most popular host on Fox News. He did his
finals show. He didn't know it was his finals show twenty second of April
Friday. He says, hey, and we're done for today. Have a
great weekend, and I'll see you Monday. And he did not see us
Monday. Fox News over the weekend fired Tucker Carlson. At first, it
was kind of lawyered language. Well, there was a parting of ways.
The two parted, Tucker and Fox they parted ways. Yeah, right,
we're all going uh huh. But what would cause Fox News to kick out
at the gate its own golden goose. At the beginning of this month,
there was the revelation of a text message that apparently set off a panic at
Fox News. He sent this to one of his producers right after the riots
of January sixth, that he was talking about how he had recently watched a
group of men Trump supporters violently attacking a quote Antifa kid. Then he expressed
his chagrin and dismay that the attackers were white people. Quote it's not how
white men fight. But he also found himself for a moment wanting the group
to kill the person he had described as the Antifa kid from the text to
his producer January seven, twenty twenty one, Tucker Carlson. It's not how
white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the
man, hoping they'd hit him harder kill him. I really wanted them to
hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then, somewhere deep in my
brain an alarm went off. This isn't good for me. I'm becoming something
I don't want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much
as I despise what he says and does, much as I'm sure i'd hate
him personally if I knew him, I shouldn't gloat over his suffering. I
should be bothered by it. What I hear in this text is the superior
white man should be above this. Of course the Antifa creep. This could
have been anybody from anywhere, and even when he expresses a kind of remorse,
it just comes off nauseatingly superior and condescending. I'm a white man,
I should be better than this. That's how I read it. The New
York Times has reported that just last month, these text messages came to the
attention the Fox Board of directors in some senior executives, and they had an
O shit moment, especially considering the dominion voting systems trial was looming. Right,
They're like, what in the world are we going to do? And
so the speculation is, and I don't think Fox News or anybody is confirmed,
but the behind the scenes reporting a few insiders in general speculation is is
that that text is the straw that broke the camels back. Anyway, I
wanted to put together just some of the stuff that Tucker has been responsible for.
Why we have been sounding the alarm about this tremendously toxic and destructive guy.
Now this is going to be, I think, an entertaining show,
but yes, it will be frustrating, right because it was frustrating to prepare
so much of this stuff would have been a fireable offense pretty much anywhere else,
I mean except for you know, o An or Newsmax, right,
some of the more Alex Jones's show, that kind of thing. But I
mean in the mainstream culture, he'd have been gone career wise, it would
have been unsurvivable. But Fox News said, we love the guy, our
audience loves the guy, and he continues unfiltered and we're talking about a guy
that has been in that slot in primetime since twenty seventeen. Remember he took
over from Bill O'Reilly, and Bill O'Reilly and Fox parted ways, meaning that
Fox booted him out when it came to light that he had been charged and
paid off five women over sexual harassment allegations. They settled I think for it's
like ten fifteen millions something like that, and a bunch of advertisers bolted when
they found out that Bill O'Reilly was a sexist pick. Fifty advertisers just left
and Fox, I think for financial reasons, right. I don't think they
cared about sexism. I think they were a culture of sexism. But you
know, Fox News said, Okay, fine, I guess we better do
something. And so Bill O'Reilly is gone. You're out of there twenty seventeen.
Who's going to fill that slot in prime time? Here comes Tucker Carlson.
Now in a strong field of awfulness. I've rounded up just a few
examples of Tucker being Tucker from various network speeches, monologues, call ins,
etc. From the past almost twenty years. So here we go, December
fourteenth, twenty eighteen. This is the monologue kicking off Tucker Carlson tonight,
and he was ranting about dirty immigrants, essentially bringing down American property values.
Can be welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. Here's a funny thing that we noticed
the other day. People debate all the time about mass immigration. What you
know, ever hear anybody do is make the economic case for mass immigration.
But as an economic matter, this is insane. It's indefensible, so nobody
even tries to defend it. Instead, our leaders demand that you shut up
and accept this. We have a moral obligation to admit the world's poor,
they tell us, even if it makes our own country poorer and dirtier and
more divided. Na. Na, No, we don't want to let in
the riff raff. Besides, they're all kind of dirty. September twenty twenty
one, we're still talking about immigration. Tucker Carlson says with a straight face
that President Biden was using immigration policies to replace legacy Americans. Now, when
you hear the words legacy Americans, who do you think he is talking about
an unrelenting stream of immigration. But why well, Joe Biden just said it
to change the racial mix of the country. That's the reason to reduce the
political power of people whose ancestors lived here and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans
newly arrived from the Third World. And then Biden went further. He said
that non white DNA is the quote source of our strength. Imagine saying that
this is the language of eugenics. It's horrifying, but there's a reason Biden
said it. In political terms, this policy is called the Great Replacement,
the replacement of legacy Americans with more obedient people from far away countries. They
brag about it all the time, but if you dare to say it's happening,
they will stream at you with maximum hysteria. And here do you have
Joe Biden confirming his motive on tape with a smile on his face. Okay,
now, let me do some backstory on the Great Replacement conspiracy. This
is a totally manufactured, bogus, made up crisis. And you can just
replace the word great with white. Okay, white replacement theory, and it
pretty much goes like this, There is a concentrated effort behind the scenes or
maybe overt effort to get rid of white people or at least make them powerless,
to erase their voices, right, to knock them out of the equation.
It's an attack on white people called legacy Americans, which is weird considering
Native Americans would be legacy Americans anyway. White people who have long enjoyed positions
of power, dominance, privilege, and authority are freaking out about the growing
diversity in the United States, and so to help protect themselves and preserve their
powers, they're broadcasting that it's part of a conspiracy knock out the patriotic,
free, legacy Americans and bring in these immigrants, who, by the way,
are more pliable and compliant, so that those who are pulling the puppet
strings would better control the population. This is the Great Lament theory. Honestly,
this reminds me a lot of Christianity in the United States. Right.
We're talking about a hugely privileged class, a spoiled, rotten bunch of cry
babies who don't want to share the sandbox. So instead of saying, oh,
great, there's room at the table for all of us, they look
around and they see the changing demographic and they realize that they may soon be
minority status, just organically, right, it's just happening, and they don't
see humanity. They cry conspiracy, and so they hit the panic button and
cry victim. What's that line? When you are accustomed to a position of
privilege, equality feels like oppression. How many freaking clan rallies right? How
many white supremacist organizations have been wailing since forever about the delustion and toxification of
this country's precious whiteness. Oh but wait a minute. August of twenty seventeen,
Tucker Carlson said himself, white supremacy is not a problem. If you
were to assemble a list, a hierarchy of concerns of problems this country faces,
where would white supremacy be on the list? Run up there with Russia?
Probably, It's actually not a real problem in America. The combined membership
of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a
college football stadium. This was just after a white gunman went in and massacred
twenty two people in El Paso. Remember that guy, He had written a
big manifesto that condemned his Hispanics. A white guy who hated Hispanics and massacred
twenty two people. Right after that happened, Tucker said that white supremacy isn't
really a problem in this country. And while we're at it, here's another
attack, quote quote attack on America. Now here in exceptionalist America, where
we know we're better than everybody else, but we can't really tell you why
except hashtag freedom. We like to take pride in the fact that we do
things differently than everybody else, even if it's less effective and less efficient,
which gets us into the metric system. And it's interesting. When I was
in school growing up, they told us get ready because metric is coming.
The rest of the world uses metric because it's more efficient, and it's coming
here. Of course, that big switch never happened. I think some of
the only stuff we use metric for. Drug dealers use it. How many
grams a coke did you smuggle in? We've got soft drinks, you know.
Hey, go to the store, pick me up a two leader,
a diet coke. So we're using leaders there, but you buy a gallon
of ice cream or a quart of milk. It's set. Somehow doing this
has become linked to national pride and true to form. A few years ago,
Tucker Carlson actually did a rant about the quote tyranny of the metric system.
Almost every nation on Earth has fallen under the yoke of tyranny the metric
system. From Beijing to Buenos Aires, from Lusaka to London, the people
the world have been forced to measure their environment in millimeters in kilo, grahams.
The United States is the only major country there's resisted. But we have
no reason to be ashamed for using feet and pounds. Don't ever let conservatives
tell you that liberals are the snowflakes. Don't let them get away with that.
Oh look it's Tucker carl syndrome. Last year, M and M's decided
they were going to do a tiny, very slight, almost unnoticeable design change
to their eminem animated mascots. I mean, if you showed me one picture
and then showed me the other, I wouldn't have noticed a difference. But
there were tiny differences, including the green eminem a female and she originally had
these thigh high boots, kind of Nancy Sinatra boots for those of my generation
or before, and the new design has her in tennis shoes. Oh,
no, tennis shoes on a piece of green candy is just another example of
woke liberal intolerance. Eminem's were pushing intolerance, but they were. They've been
changed. They're seeing the changes right now in your screen. The green Eminem,
you will notice, is no longer wearing sexy boots. Now she's wearing
sensible sneakers. Why the change, Well, according to Eminem's quote, we
all win when we see more women in leading roles because leading women do not
wear sexy boots. Leading women wear frumpie shoes. The front beer, the
better, that's the rule. The other big change is that the brown Eminem
has quote transition from high stilettos to lower block heels, also less sexy.
That's progress. Eminem's will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply
unappealing and totally androgynous, until the moment you wouldn't want to have a drink
with any one of them. That's the goal, when you're totally turned off.
We've achieved equity. They've won. Tucker Carlson is mad asexually frustrated because
apparently his favorite piece of green candy coated chocolate is not giving him an erection.
He needs the boots, not the tennis shoes to get his eminem Morning
glory, and it's just not there anymore because of those woke libs. Poor,
poor Tucker. Okay, we already know this guy and the entire Fox
News network has been a total nightmare on COVID nineteen. This was his broadcast
May fifth, twenty twenty one, when he was telling people there was growing
concern that the vaccine itself was killing people. Between late December of twenty twenty
and last month, a total of three thousand, three hundred and sixty two
people apparently died after getting the COVID vaccine in the United States. Three thousand,
three hundred and sixty two. That's an average of roughly thirty people every
day. The data we just cited come from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System
VEIRS. VERIRS is managed by the CDC and the FDA. Okay, notice
what he did. I think the number was just above thirty three hundred apparent
vaccine deaths in this or amount of time, And he cited his source the
US Vaccine Adversity Event Reporting Systems, but is not the CDC or the FDA.
It's affiliated, but it's an open public access site. It's just a
place where people can go and report what they think is going on. So
talk about correlation, causation, conspiracy, whatever. Anybody anywhere could log on
and file a report. Uncle Bob got the vaccine ten weeks ago and he
had a heart attack last night. I think it was the vaccine. And
then they go to their keyboards and they type it into the website. Right.
This is the source that Tucker Carlson was citing, and he went on
to pitch another conspiracy theory that vaccine requirements for the military were actually part of
a larger Borough plot to root out the Christians. They were going to go
in saying we're going to protect people, and then they would find people with
high testosterone levels, which apparently Christians have higher testosterone, and they would ask
you do you not like Joe Biden? Men with high testosterone levels and anyone
else who does not love Joe Biden and make them leave immediately. It's a
takeover of the US military. It just seems like a strange questionnaire. You
know, you set them down to give them the shot. Oh nice testosterone
levels, by the way, do you or do you not like Joe Biden?
And then this person mysteriously disappears from the armed forces within twenty four hours.
Oh them evil anti American traitorist, Joe Biden, loving secular libs.
Whatever, they're all coming. They're bringing their needles and they're coming. Not
only was he an opponent of COVID masks for you know, protecting our fellow
human beings, he felt that mask mandates were so offensive that anti maskers should
reverse the streams. Angry Biden voters will snort at you in judgment. How
could you, They're saying from behind the gause, How could you? That's
the question we should be asking of them. In return. The rest of
us should be storming at them first. They're the aggressors. It's our job
to brush them back and restore the society we were born in. So next
time you see someone in a mask on the sidewalker on the bike path,
do not hesitate. Ask politely, but firmly, would you please take off
your mask. Science shows there was no reason for you to be wearing it.
Your mask is making me uncomfortable. Okay. This was a few years
ago. The website Media Matters uncovered some old audio tapes of Tucker Carlson and
Oh they were revealing this is a series of interviews that Tucker Carlson did on
a shock jock radio program with a guy named Baba the Love Sponge. Baba
the Love Sponge sounds like Tucker's kind of thing, and he used to call
into the show all Locked between two thousand and six and two thousand eleven.
I'm gonna play, I'm gonna rapid fire some of these clips. The first
is of him defending a guy named Warren Jeffs. Now. Warren Jeffs was
on the FBI's ten most Wanted Fugitives list, and the reason he was on
that list is because he had been arranging illegal marriages between adults and underage girls.
With this, Tucker Carlson did not see the problem, but I'm really
he's on a prison for that. He didn't Warren jeff didn't marry underage Carlson.
Really, he's in prison for facilitation of child rate whatever the hell that
means. That means in prison. He's in prison because he's weird and unpopular
and he is a different lifestyle that other people find cream. Oh, he's
an accessory to the rape of children. That is a felony, and a
serious one at that. What do you mean an accessory. He's like got
some weird religious called where he thinks it's okay to, you know, marry
underage girls. But he didn't do it. Why wouldn't the guy who actually
did it, who ad sects with an underage bro he should be the one
who's doing life right. The rapist in this case has made a lifelong commitment
to live and take care of the person. So he is a little different.
I mean, let's just be honest about it. He's not accused of
touching anybody. He is accused of facilitating a marriage between a sixteen year old
girl and the twenty seven year old man. That's the accusation. So that's
what they're calling felony mat bullshit. I'm sorry now that this guy. Maybe
I'm just telling you arranging a marriage between a sixteen year old and a twenty
seven year old it's not the same as telling a stream drop the street LaPier
that bullshit. Now, many of us thought and find it all that surprising
that this man would essentially dismiss underage girls in this way because of his larger
attitude about women. For example, you want to know what gets women going,
Oh, Tucker has got an opinion on that. You know what in
my brief experience, you know, gets women going is arguing with them.
Really yeah, brand I never use it. It's true you debate politics with
a woman and just go, you know, just full blown out there,
especially feminism. If you're talking to a feminist and she's given you a well,
you know, men really need to be more sensitive. And now,
actually men don't need to be more sensitive. You just need to be quiet
and kind of do what you're told and lighten up a little bit. They
love it. Well, I love women, but they're extremely primitive. They're
basics. They're not that hard to understand. Do you want to fuck Sarah
palin Will, I'll agree with that. Sorry for unattractive women, I mean
something they did. You know what's better than hockey weed and whores? I
mean, but you know, first of all, there's no Canadian woman that
you want to pay to sleep. Well. Here's Tucker Carlson from the Bubba
the Love Sponge radio program. He was talking about Martha's Stewart's daughter, Alexis
Stewarts, and here's what he said. Alexas Stewart, we run into her
all the time. She seems like she seems. Yeah, she is very
they're very county. She seems extremely I like to hear that word out.
Oh yeah, I just I step over me. She seems right, now,
go ahead, she just does seem a little county. You said it.
I'm just agreeing with you. I don't use that word, right.
I love for Tucker Carlson. Tonight, I'm MSNBC A girl that's comes across
kind of contact she does. I mean, I heard her. I mean,
I know I'm a Brent fan, so okay, I'm to state my
bias right out front here, but I heard her on with him, and
I just wanted to give her the spanking she said, I actually want.
Now, remember this is the same guy who interviewed Lauren Duca of teen Vogue
magazine back in twenty sixteen, and the context is this Lauren Duca, who
normally writes about the stuff that young teenagers want to read about. Fourteen Vogue
was also commenting about Ivanka Trump, criticizing Ivanka Trump on her Twitter page,
and she felt, you know, why are you empowering your father toward the
presidency when your father is just a nightmare when it comes to respecting and protecting
women. So He was peering down his nose at her, saying, wait
a minute, you're Lauren Duca of teen Vogue magazine, right, you just
write about the empty calorie stuff in this world. You should stick to skirts
and shoes and hairstyles and food and celebrity sightings and movies and music and pop
culture. Well, why in the world. He tried to discredit her by
saying, you know you're over here trying to talk politics, But you're the
same person who once tweeted about Ariana Grande rocking her thigh high boots. You
know what I did write about Ariana Grande, and I did write about the
abusive, biggest sovereignty of a whole religion. All Right, I gotta go.
You should stick to the thigh high boots. You should stick to the
thigh high boots. And I think we all have the same looks on our
faces right now. Okay, back to these recently uncovered Bubba the Love Sponge
tapes, Tucker Carlson credited white men for creating civilization, and he was sounding
off on the Iraq War because Iraqis are I'll just let him say it.
I'm just gonna let Tucker Carlson words speak for themselves. These Arabs and Iraq
aren't playing. We're the only ones that are playing. Don't like we are
the only ones that are playing over there, They're not playing. So just
there animals, Dude, awful they are. I'm talking about the war.
I have not you know, I'm not defending the war in anyway, but
I just have zero sympathy for them or their culture, a culture where people
just don't use toilet paper or forks, and the way they treat women.
You know, I agree with you their culture is, but you're in their
homeland and you're over there as an American who they hate, and they want
nothing more than the Americans off of their soil. So they're not going to
play the second week. I mean, they can just shut the fuck up
at obey, is my view. And you know, the second we leave,
they're going to be calling for us to return. I just they can't
govern themselve. I mean, if a rock turns out to be a great
thing, how can it turn out to be great? How could you salvage
your rock? At this point, I don't, you know, it's beyond
our control. I mean, if somehow the iraqis decided to behave like human
beings or something. I mean's just beyond the weekend. I think we can
control. I think that's that's the whole lesson of Rock if it is very
difficult to control other people's countries and people of Canada. Please don't please understand
that Tucker is a very good friend of mine, but I in no way,
shape or form share his views of how he feels about people from Canada.
I love Canada. They're great people up there. Tucker feels if you
guys are a bunch of assholes an he said, I totally disagree. I
didn't like Canada. I wouldn't consider it worth invading now. I mean,
Iraq is a crappy place filled with a bunch of you know, semiliterate monkey
work. In Canada is a solid place with you looking women and go fishing.
You will be no compassion for the good Iraqi people, oppressed by their
own government long under the boot of Saddam Hussein or whoever. No empathy for
the people who simply wanted to live their lives and raise their families and be
liberated and free. That's all they really wanted known. Oh No, the
iraqis They're all a bunch of freaking animals. All right, how you holding
up your teeth clenched, got a big vein popping out of your forehead.
Oh We're not done. I have plenty more of the tuck coming up next,
continuing our consolidation of some of the low lights of Tucker Carlson from the
past. I don't know how for many years those of us who have been
waiting for Fox News to speak honestly about the insurrection of January sixth, if
we've been holding our breath, we'd have been dead a long time ago.
Right, there's no way this network is going to cover the reality of the
insurrection of January sixth. And Tucker Carlson took some footage from January sixth,
and he just sliced out a couple of these really really really small sections where
people weren't being violent, and they weren't throwing tear gas. They weren't dragging
Confederate flags and screaming and blowing their horns and carrying on. They were just
walking and standing in the halls of the Capitol after they had broken in.
And he attempted to sell the lie that these were at domestic terrorists. These
were just peaceful patriots. The crowd was enormous. A small percentage of them
were hooligans. They committed vandalism. You've seen their pictures again and again,
but the overwhelming majority weren't. They were peaceful, they were orderly and meek.
These were not insurrectionists. They were sightseers. Footage from inside the Capitol
overturns the story you've heard about January sixth. Protesters queue up in neat little
lines. They give each other tours outside the Speaker's office. They take cheerful
selfies, and they smile. They're not destroying the capital. They obviously revere
the capital. They're there because they believe the election was stolen from them.
They believe in the system. By the way, I find it interesting how
few Fox News viewers have actually watched footage from January six They certainly didn't watch
the hearings, right, but if you ask them about it, they go
blank. They obviously don't really know what happened that day. I have tried
showing some of that footage to a few Fox News Trump supporting people, and
you know what they say. They don't want to watch, first of all,
and the second thing they say is, well, that footage has been
edited, and I don't trust edited footage. I mean even the congressional footage
that followed a timeline where you would go from the big rally and then everybody
walking to the Capitol, and then you see different camera angles of what was
going on. Of course you're going to edit that because you are showing different
vantages minute by minute. But they are totally not interested. Is it's edited
footage? The implication as it's manufactured footage and these people are just patriots or
they are fringe, or better yet, it's Antifa or crisis actors hired by
the government to promote liberal stuff. Okay, Tucker Carlson giving his perspective an
opinion on trans people. Tucker has called trans people a quote cancer on the
country and suggested on his own broadcast that fathers of students should walk into classrooms
and beat the shit out of teachers who discuss gender orientation. I don't understand
where the men are, like where the dads? You know, some teachers
pushing sex values on your third grader. Why are you going to thrash the
teacher like this isn't agent of the government pushing someone else's values on your kid
about sex like, where's the pushback. Oh, yeah, that's all we
need, isn't it. People already stoked up with fear and terror and bigotry
and conspiracy and satanic panic and whatever. And they decide the solution to whatever
danger quote unquote danger they see is to just go into a classroom, close
your fists, and weigh along a teacher. Yeah that's what Tucker wants.
Okay. So now we come to the big dominion voting systems settlement, and
man, I wanted this thing to go to court so bad. Donald Trump
loses the twenty twenty presidential election and immediately soils himself, and so does Fox
News and Fox News and their major player hosts like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity
and Laura Ingram, Janine Pierro, Fox and Friends, etc. They are
fueling rigged election, voter fraud, dead people voting, destroyed ballots, duplicated
ballots, whatever conspiracy theories. They're stoking this false notion that the whole thing
was rigged. And we've all seen the hashtag Stop the Steal their posters made.
There's Donald Trump's face looking serious, draped in the colors of the American
flag, stopped the steal. The election was stolen. Fox News was a
big parts of fueling this conspiracy. But what was happening behind the scenes,
Fox hosts, including Tucker Carlson, We're emailing and texting each other and saying,
ah, this is a bunch of crap. And there's no evidence that
there was any voter fraud whatsoever. But the damage to Dominion voting systems and
Smartmatic voting systems, I mean, essentially they had been libeled and slandered as
being companies unreliable and perhaps even in on the fix. Will Dominion and Smartmadic
said, okay, fine, here's a defamation lawsuit. On the day the
trial was supposed to start for Dominion, they settled with Fox and Fox News
in an amazing display of obvious innocence, agreed to pay Dominion three quarters of
a billion dollars. But they didn't have to correct the record. They didn't
have to apologize publicly to Dominion, and they didn't have to apologize or explain
to the audience they deceived and people like you and me, we were rightfully
pissed. But the other lawsuit by Smartmatic looms, and they have sued for
even more money Dominion one on one point six billion, Smart Maddox said,
Nana, we want more than that. Let's call it two point seven billion.
And they have said they won't settle, which means that Fox hosts like
Tucker Carlson might end up on the stand in a court of law, on
the records, squirming under the questions of the prosecution, and faced with their
own behind the scenes private texts and emails. Please please let this happen.
It would be Christmas. Every day of the trial would be Christmas, was
the whole dominion thing. Part of the reason that Fox News decided to cut
ties with Tucker Carlson. I mean, part of me wonders if distancing themselves
from him, and maybe even some others who are worried about their jobs.
It's come to light that Janine Piero and some of the other hosts are thinking,
oh hell, if they can fire Tucker Carlson, all of us are
on the bubble. Another interesting piece of this puzzle is the lawsuit by a
former booker for Tucker Carlson. She was hired to book guests. Her name
is Abby Grosberg, a Jewish woman who said that when she worked in Tucker's
office as the booker for his show. She was the victim of sexism and
harassment. She said misogyny was everywhere and she was harassed because she was Jewish.
She also said that attorneys from Fox News pressured her to lie about the
stuff that was going on at the network. So it's going to be interesting
to watch that lawsuit. Okay, So with all this stuff blowing up all
around Fox News, people have been saying yes, and many been cheering.
I have found myself saying yes and occasionally cheering up to a point, but
only to a point. And here's why. First, for the moment,
Tucker does not have that particular bullhorn for all of his toxic nonsense. That's
good, right. Secondly, I just love watching Fox News viewers losing their
minds right now. They are turning on the network and they're screaming about conspiracy
and they're all scattering, well, where is he going to go? And
where are they gonna go? And will they support Fox? And who will
be the replacement? We don't really know when it's just pandemonium, and I
rather enjoy that the rattlesnakes are turning on each other. And then finally,
I just have to laugh out loud at the satanic panic that is going on
in the wake of Tuckers firing. There was an article in Rolling Stone April
twenty sixth that said this, right wing Christians who claim to have prophetic insight
into America's spiritual warfare are declaring Fox News's decision to sack Tucker Carlson a victory
for Lucifer. It's awesome. Preachers and prophets across this great country they're calling
this an End Times level events. And of course we don't have to guess
their religion or whether or not they are white people. Okay, here's where
I stop cheering. Tucker Carlson is just awful beyond description. He's just awful,
poisonous and says theopathic and cruel and horrible. Yes, so he's gone,
But the millions of viewers who joined him every single weeknight on Fox News,
they are still around. And they loved the guy for a reason.
They made him the most popular host of the network for a reason. They'll
probably follow him wherever he goes, like he's a great shepherd or whatever.
They're going to follow him for a reason. So all of their revelations and
the investigative reporting and the video archives and the audio clips and whatever. Right,
all of this about Tucker. This is just a black light at a
crime scene. We are talking about an entire culture of people, including an
alarming number of evangelical Christians, who somehow believe Tucker Carlson is both the hero
and the victim in this story. You know, he was telling the truth.
He dared to tell the truth about vaccines and women and foreigners and immigrants
and trans people. He was brave and now he has paid a price for
telling it like it is. Millions of people who made him famous are still
there. And let's just say Tucker Carlson falls in a man hole tomorrow,
right, you know, he's hit by a truck. You know, he's
no longer with us for whatever reason. He was just the visible part of
the cancer. He's just the part that rose up above the surface. There
is root rot far beyond Tucker Carlson, and that cancer runs deep. Okay,
I've got to take one more real fast break, but I've got a
great clip queued up for you. John Stewart of The Daily Show joined Tucker
Carlson on the classic CNN debate show cross Fire and John Stewart pulled no punches.
I love this clip. I'm gonna play you this clip after this.
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commercial free Patreon dot com slash Seth andrews. Okay, here's what I want
to leave you with. This was back from two thousand and four. There
was a show that Tucker Carlson was co host of on CNN. It's called
Crossfire, and he was on with Paul Begala, And I think Paul Begala
was the representative, the Democrat or the liberal, and Tucker Carlson was the
conservative and the whole freaking show was every weeknight, these guys would sit at
the table and just shouted each other about political stuff. John Stewart of The
Daily Show from Comedy Central is a special guest on Crossfire in two thousand and
four. And this was around the time that John Carey was challenging George W.
Bush for the presidency, around the election was going on, and so
you're going to hear Carrey invoked. It's hard to listen to in a few
ways because Tucker Carlson doesn't want to let John Stewart make his point. But
I think it's a revelation because Tucker was awful and he was being called out
by John Stewart even nineteen years ago. Check it out today. Crossfire is
very different. We have just one guest at your bookstores. Everything about President
Bush. He'll be unemployed soon, A very good person. We enjoy it.
Let me ask you a question, Well, let me ask you a
question for it. Is John Carey John Terry really the best? I mean,
I think you know John Carrey, donerable best. You know, thought
Lincoln was good? Is he the best the Democrats can do? Is he
the best the Democrat has this year? I'd always thought of in a democracy.
And again I don't know. I've only lived in this country. That
there's a process is what they call them primaries, And they don't always go
with the best, but they go with whoever want is it? So?
Is he the best according to the process? Right? But of the nine
guys running, the music was best, the key was the best, the
most impressive, the most impressive. Yeah, I thought Al Sharpton was very
impressive. I enjoyed his way of speaking. I think oftentimes the person that
knows they can't win is allowed to speak the most freely. And because otherwise
shows with titles such as Crossfire, Crossfire, or Hardball or I'm Gonna kick
your ass or Will will jump on it. In many ways, it's funny,
you know. And I made a special effort to come on the show
today because I have privately, amongst my friends and also in occasional newspapers and
television shows mentioned this show as being bad and and I wanted to I felt
that that wasn't fair, and I should come here and tell you that I
don't. It's not so much that it's bad as it's hurting America. So
I wanted to come here today, let me and say wait, wait,
just let me. Hair's just wanted what I wanted to tell you, guys,
stop stop stop, stop stop hurting America. Okay now, and and
come work for us, because we as the people pay the people not not
well. But you can sleep at night to see the thing is we need
your your help. You're right now, you're helping the politicians and the corporations
and we're left out there too. The when you make mistakes. No,
no, no, you're not too rough on them. You're part of their
strategies. You're partisan. What do you call it? Hacks? Wait?
Wait, let me tell you something valuable that I think we do that.
I'd like to see something valuable. Yeah, well it's it's like, wait,
I would like when I'll tell you when politicians come on, Yeah,
it's nice to get them to try and answer the question. And in order
to do that, we try and ask them pointed questions. I want to
contrast our questions with some questions you asked John Carry. If you want to,
if you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more
than here's here's the point. If it doesn't hit, that's your goal.
It's not. I wouldn't name for this. I think for here's the problem.
That's Carry will come on this show. He will come on your show.
Let me suggest why he wants. Well, we have civilized discord.
Well here here, here's here's an example of the civilized discordse here are three
of the questions you asked John. Yeah, you have a chance to interview
the Democratic nominee. You ask them questions such as a quote, how are
you holding up? Is it hard not to take the attacks personally. Have
you ever flip flopped, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, didn't you
feel like you got the chance to interview the guy? I want to ask
him a real question instead of just suck up to him. Yeah, how
you're holding up is a real suck up. And h I actually was giving
him a hot stone massage. That's where you're doing. You know. It's
it's interesting to hear you talk about I felt the more responsibility to the you
know, I didn't realize that. And maybe this explains quite a bit of
the opportunities that the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity.
So what I would suggest is, when you talk about you're holding politicians
feet to the fire, I think that's disingenuous. I think, how are
you holding up? I mean, come on, no, no, no,
no, no, I don't But my my role isn't I don't ask
him a real question, don't you think instead of saying, you know,
I don't think I happened, by the way, I also asked him,
you know where you am Cambodia, But I didn't really care because I don't
care because I can so stupid. Well, but my point is this if
your idea of confronting me is that I don't ask hard hitting enough news questions
weren't bad shape, fellas. We're here to love you, not confront you.
No, no, no. But but what we're saying is this,
I'm not I'm here to confront you because we need help from the media and
they're hurting us. And it's the idea is if they've got it. Let
me get this straight. If they're indict if the indictments and I've seen you
say this that crossfirouses everything, as I said the intro to left Right Black.
Yes, well, it's because we're a debate show. It's like single
one debate, twenty four hour day where we have each side on as best.
No no, no, no, no, that would be great.
Have them fight it out to do a debate would be great. But that's
like saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic contrompetition. I think you're a
good comedian. I think your lectures are boring. Let me ask you,
let me ask you a question on the news. Now this is theater.
I mean, it's it's how old are you? Thirty five? And you
wear a bow tie? So I so this is I know, I know
you're on a bright let me just go listen. I'm not I'm not suggesting
that you're not you're not a smart guy, because those are not easy to
time, but they're different. Is that this you're doing theater when you should
be doing debate, which would be great. It's not honest. I'm honest.
What you do is perfect partisan hackery. And I'll tell you why.
I carry on your show and you sniff his throne and you're accusing us of
partisan hackery. Absolutely, you're got to be kidding day. The show that
leads into me is puppets making crank phone call. What is wrong with you?
Well, I'm just saying there's no reason for you, when you have
this marvelous opportunity not to be the guy's butt boy, to go ahead and
be as mud boy. Yes, it's embarrassing. I was absolutely as butt
boy. I was so far you would not believe what he ate two weeks
ago. You know the interesting thing that I have You have a responsibility to
the public discourse, and you failed miserably. I think you need to go
to one. The thing that I want to say is when you have people
on for just knee jerk reactionary talk. Well I thought you were gonna be
funny. Come on, No, I'm not going to be your monkey.
Um what go ahead. I watch your show every day and it kills me.
I can tell you what. It's so oh, it's so painful to
watch. Um. You know, because we need what you do. This
is such a great opportunity you have here to actually get politicians really try of
their marketing and strategy. It's someone who watches your show and cannot take it
anymore. I just can't like to have dinner with you. It must be
excruciating. Do you like lecture people like this? Or do you come over
their house and said lecture? You know they're not doing the right thing,
that they're missing their opportunities of eating their responsibilities. If I think they are,
look, I would want to eat with you. Man. That's horrible,
I know, and you won't. But the thing I want to get
promise naked pictures of s. Yeah we did, let's get to those.
Please. I beg of you guys. I think you want Crosby. We're
gonna take a quick no, no, no, no, We've got we've
got commercials. Please next trying to stop in the rapid Fire. Please now
you missed the part in the next segment where Tucker was shouting over John Stewart
and John Stewart just called him a dick, just a dick. And six
months after this interview, CNN canceled Crossfire, And I have to think maybe
John Stewart had something to do with it, right, because he exposed them
for what they were, and he exposed Tucker Carlson for who he is.
More of this please. In fact, hey, Fox News, if you're
looking for someone to fill the chair, I will bet John Stewart would at
least guest host if he was given the opportunity to speak his mind without filters,
and I might even watch. Thank you for listening. I will see
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