Tucker Carlson’s logic fail

https://twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1293339970732785664?s=21

Tucker is a smarmy douchebag, but he often makes clever arguments supported by evidence and logic. Not this time. The idea that mispronouncing Kamala Harris’s name is “holding a public official to account” is risible, as is the claim that someone correcting his pronunciation is equivalent to insisting that Harris be immune from criticism.‬ :roll_eyes:

That’s hilarious.

There’s an excellent response on that site:

In all fairness, I miss-pronounce Tucker

Yeah, I have a lisp that sometimes replaces Ts with Fs.

Fucker Carlson is a racist, smarmy douchebag.

FWIW, I keep the T, but assume that it’s a sly reference to his night job as a drag queen.

Ha! Nice one.

I read the whole exchange as just Tucker being one of those people who can’t bear to be seen to be wrong about anything. He isn’t thinking anything in that exchange but “if I bluster enough I don’t have to admit that I was wrong”.

No, he knows he’s wrong. He knows he’s lying. He doesn’t care because it’s the only way he can make a living.

Can you back up this statement in any possible way?

Back up or back track?

And as such, a legitimate Republican candidate for POTUS in 2024. That’s where the US is at this moment in history.

Gee, who does that remind you of? :roll_eyes:

I’m personally thinking of a certain incident with a sharpie and a hurricane track that allowed someone to avoid saying, “I guess it’s not actually projected to hit Alabama, my bad”.

But desperately avoiding admitting to even the most trivial error is nevertheless a common affliction among weak people who are obsessed with looking tough. I’ve certainly seen hundreds of examples IRL (and thousands at least on the internet).

Biden mispronounced her name too.

Biden immediately corrected himself - he used a slightly short “a” instead of an “ah” and immediately said it correctly. I have to stop myself when I say her name, as I have a friend with that name who pronounces it with a short “a”.

THAT’S the difference.

I’m a liberal democrat, but have you guys noticed that republicans are always right about everything? It’s weird.

Please come back to this thread and finish this thought. Did you mean to add that he corrected himself and didn’t go on some bizarre rant about how it’s OK to mispronounce her name?

No just sayin’

I don’t know. If I reply to a thread in one of the debate forums, it’s to add useful information along with the context about why it’s useful. You do you, I guess.