Tucker Carlson goes nuts when a Dutch historian calls out his shit (this was unaired footage recorded by the historian’s team during his interview): Leaked Fox News Segment With Rutger Bregman Gets Out of Hand - Videos - NowThis
I can’t watch the video where I’m at; what does it say that makes Carlson go nuts? When was this from?
Feb 11.
Near as I can tell, Fucker starts off praising historian Rutger Bregman for calling out the hypocrisy of the Davos elites “flying private to talk about global warming and that none of them mention tax avoidance” (Carlson’s words).
Bregman, being exactly the sort of guy he’s always been and who was obviously incompletely vetted by Fucker’s producers, then goes on to note that the idea of increasing taxes on the wealthy is a very mainstream idea globally, including among US Republicans, but that neither the Davos attendees nor FOXNews are willing to discuss it. The reason? “Because most of the people in Davos, but also here on this channel, have been bought by the billionaire class.”
Fucker tries to redirect, but Bregman does the One Thing That Cannot Be Allowed on Fucker’s show–he interrupts Carlson better than Carlson can interrupt him. He doesn’t let Fucker get away with reframing and spinning away from tax increases.
And then he calls out Carlson as being a paid mouthpiece of Rupert Murdoch and the Kochs working to “scapegoat immigrants instead of talking about tax avoidance.” “You are a millionaire funded by billionaires…you’re part of the problem, Mr Carlson.”
“I mean, you’re probably not going to air this, but I went to Davos to speak truth to power, and I’m doing the same thing right now…you jumped the bandwagon, you’re all like, oh, I’m against the globalist elite, blah blah blah. It’s not very convincing to be honest.”
To which Carlson replies “I wanna say to you, why don’t you go fuck yourself, you tiny-brain–and I hope this gets picked up–because you’re a moron. I tried to give you a hearing, but you were too fucking annoying.”
Basically, he uses some very deft Dutch kung-fu (or possibly silat) and considerable research in a very polite and measured way to flip Fucker Carlson *completely *the fuck out.
I’m delighted. I’m about to go watch the old Jon Stewart on Crossfire clip again.
YT version (about 8 minutes long)
They are also going full-tilt on the Smollett case - 2 of the top 3 online articles right now are about him. There is an SMDB Great Debates about how the MSM is jumping all over it. I guess they mean the right-wing MSM is jumping all over it. It’s like a dog that picked up a rotting fish: You have to nearly beat the dog to get him to drop it.
It’s top story on CNN.
And top story on Slate.
Another very important and widely recognized public figure I’ve never heard of.
I live under a rock, where the only entertainment are things appropriate for seven year olds, and so I’ve only become aware of Jussie Smollet this week. This story sounds awful, and I guess I want this guy to be punished for filing a false report, and I’m upset that this will be used to discredit future stories of redhat violence… like, for example the fact that a motherfucking white supremacist Coast Guard guy was preparing a mass shooting targeting President Trump’s enemies.
The Daily Show has also absolutely roasted Smollett, FWIW. Trevor Noah noted the upside of the whole affair: previously the narrative was that people hated Smollett for being black and gay, whereas now they hate him for being a liar who has made it more difficult to report actual hate crimes - to wit, he’s being judged not on the color of his skin but on the content of his character.
According to Media Matters, Fox has been hemorrhaging advertisers. For example, tonight Sean Hannity’s show had no advertisers. It didn’t have a single commercial break.
To be fair, they might have run the show without commercial interruptions because they wanted to pack as much propaganda into the time slot as possible, and not because they didn’t have enough advertisers to go around. The possible explanations seem to be either that Hannity can’t generate revenue anymore, or that generating revenue is not Hannity’s role anymore.
That is odd. You would think that they would at least drop in a few promos.
I’m surprised there wasn’t one Catheter Cowboy ad.
I, for one, am very excited about the brain treatment properties first discovered in* jellyfish!*
The only thing the treatment does is make you think you have stingers.
Don’t ask me how I know.
Knee braces, mobility scooters, diabetic testing supplies. All “at little or no cost to you.” It’s like the Borderline Medicare Fraud channel.
A few years ago, they were full of adds for places that sold gold, because Obama was going to declare himself king or something. I had a friend that fell for it and paid a huge premium for gold items that were classified as collectibles - so she wouldn’t have to report the purchases to the gummint. But you don’t see that too much now that the President is white
No, the righties are investing in Iraqi currency.
Please tell me you continuously laugh at this friend every chance you get.
Foxnews had the Stormy Daniels hush money payment story. Before the election. And killed it to protect Trump.
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“But Falzone’s story didn’t run—it kept being passed off from one editor to the next. After getting one noncommittal answer after another from her editors, Falzone at last heard from LaCorte, who was then the head of FoxNews.com. Falzone told colleagues that LaCorte said to her, “Good reporting, kiddo. But Rupert wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go.” LaCorte denies telling Falzone this, but one of Falzone’s colleagues confirms having heard her account at the time.”*
That was actually revealed last year, in January 2018.