# Tucker Carlson is in Budapest **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 6, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139 "2021-08-06T02:07:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139/21 "2021-08-10T13:16:40Z")
> [@Kzbre5m](#): > > Found his speech (do a search for “tucker-carlson-hungary-speech”): > > > … architecture in Hungary is much different than the “dehumanizing” glass and steel of the United States, which he described as essentially demeaning to those who work and live in it. Contemporary U.S. structure are built for personnel and occupational capacity, which removes the importance of the individual: > > > > “Dehumanizing is the act of convincing people that they don’t matter, that they are less significant than the larger whole, that they are not distinct souls, that they are not unique, that they are not created by God, that they are merely putty in the hands of some larger force that they must obey,” Carlson said. > > > > “Mies van der Rohe architecture was designed to send that message not to uplift, but to oppress. And it is very noticeable and this is never noted in the United States, which unfortunately over time has had its aesthetic sense dulled. We’ve been told it’s not important,” he said … Has Tucker Carlso ever been to Kansas City? The downtown is a monument to brutal architecture. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139/22 "2021-08-10T13:32:44Z")
> [@Tucker Carlson](#): > > I wish I lived in a city full of bullet holes in the building You live in America, Tucker. Odds are, you _do_ live in a city with bullet-riddled buildings. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139/23 "2021-08-10T13:40:10Z")
Wait, didn’t his idol declare all federal buildings should be done up in neoclassical style? No accounting for taste but also no accounting for any sort of intellectual consistency, either. ---
**Author:** ![Kzbre5m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kzbre5m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kzbre5m)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139/24 "2021-08-10T15:13:24Z")
This is beginning to sound like The Fountainhead. Mies was more of a glass and metal architect in his prime. Brutalism was going the other way. Speaking of stories, > “Can we get them to keep him?” > “We’ll likely have to pay a very large reverse ransom.” You two quoting [O. Henry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief)? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139/25 "2021-08-11T12:20:03Z")
Apparently the company employing Tucker’s dad has done some lobbying work for Orban. So that’s nice. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139/26 "2021-08-12T02:40:21Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > You live in America, Tucker. Odds are, you _do_ live in a city with bullet-riddled buildings. I’m sure he lives in a gated community. I did live in a city full of bullet holes, Leopoldville now Kinshasha after independence, and Tucker is welcome to it. Tucker Carlson spouts in Budapest Where they have never seen a ruder pest. \< /My Fair Lady \> ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139/27 "2021-08-12T08:17:22Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Apparently the company employing Tucker’s dad has done some lobbying work for Orban. So that’s nice. Entitled rich white man gets an influential job in a foreign country thanks to his father’s influence. Hunter Biden wants a word, Tucker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tucker-carlson-is-in-budapest/948139.md?page=1)