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Whether full of spleen or in support of Tucker Carlson, the commentariat, as usual, was dead wrong about the effects of his firing on the Fox News network.
The disposable clowns at The Dispatch echoed the gleeful sentiment, coming from the left and the pseudo-right. Posted on Nick Catoggio’s crudely (and cruelly) titled “Boiling Frogs” blog was a number titled “Tuckered Out: Be careful what you wish for.”
Catoggio, formerly of Allahpundit, belched, May 9, that, “On the day Fox News parted ways with Tucker Carlson,” he “doubted …the network would suffer much, if at all, in the 8 p.m. hour. ‘For all the hype about Carlson’s ratings, the truth is that any dogmatic right-wing figure airing at 8 p.m. on Fox News will attract an enormous audience.’”
This reflexive, Freudian “Wish fulfillment”—“the satisfaction of a desire (for Tucker’s demise) through an involuntary thought process”—encapsulates the cowardly gloating Tucker received following his professional garroting by Fox News.
From her self- referential and reverential perch, Megyn Kelly insisted that, just as in her case, the perch (Fox News) would always outlive the anchor (Tucker Carlson). Well, of course. Ms. Kelly would say so. She has plenty cognitive dissonance to reconcile: She is not Tucker Carlson. No sooner had she fled Fox News for more progressive media climes than Tucker stepped into her stilettos—and nobody remembered Kelly.
Before she abandoned her “Kelly File” Fox News show, Ms. Kelly had firmly aligned with members of the Murdoch Media for a Marco Rubio victory. Side by side with lightweights like Dana Perinno, and other egos in the anchor’s chair, Ms. Kelly had made manifest, in February of 2016, that she was hoping someone like Rubio would slay The Donald dragon.
Kelly is a lot smarter than Kayleigh McEnany (whose hard-to-spell names one has always to cut-‘n-paste) and simpleton Lawrence Jones, both of whom have attempted to fill-in on Fox at 8 p.m. Neither, however, is in Tucker’s league. Kelly was also more politically independent than these two tools and others considered for the peerless Tucker’s slot.
Most all at Fox New are party operatives, certainly not one is as nimble intellectually, or has the elemental intellectual curiosity of a Tucker Carlson.
Your columnist’s April 25, live, “HARD TRUTH” podcast, recorded a day after Tucker Carlson’s dismissal, got it right. Tucker, like Trump, we contended, is transformational. Fox was finished (we chuckled). This forecast was echoed in a column whose lead said it all, “Fix News is finished, having just fired their only attraction, Tucker Carlson!” Clearly, if not “finished,” Fox News is sorely diminished. Joy!
I mean, who, pray tell, wants to watch Bret Baier’s “Common Ground” sanctimony—where the neoconservative anchor gloms Democrats and Republicans together? What treacle! MAGA men and women—we’re a “minority” said Asa (Who?) Hutchinson to CNN’s Erin Burnett, on May 30—will only ever reach across the aisle if it is to grab a member of the Treason Class by the scruff.
“Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News’s ratings,” The Economist finally admitted, on May 16, when the truth could no longer be withheld. The consensus is that, “Fox News is currently down by more than a million viewers per show per night.”
King Tuck clearly carried the network and its nits.
Newsweek puts the loss of viewers during Tucker’s time slot at “50 percent, while the network’s audience among 25- to 54-year-olds had shrunk by two thirds.” On May 5, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, sibilant riffs and all, was all in with 145,000, among viewers aged 25-54. While Mr. “Carlson’s former 8:00 p.m. ET slot attracted an audience of 90,000.” Tucker’s “final show on Friday, April 21, had [drawn] more than 2.6 million viewers.” He averaged “just over 3 million viewers across 2022.”
A total of two minutes of a cheerful Tucker Carlson on Twitter, come April 26, orienting The Idiocracy to what matters, netted more views at the time of the broadcast—seven million to start—than the sum of all concurrent programming on Faux News, CNN, MSNBC. That Twitter segment now has 85 million views. Unstoppable.
Tucker Carlson is planning to launch a new show on Twitter in the service of unfettered speech and a search for truth. That announcement on Twitter has been viewed 133.1 million times to date.
Rupert Murdoch will be remembered as the Money Man who fired Tucker Carlson and, by so doing, sank his network.
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Ilana Mercer has been writing a weekly, paleolibertarian think piece since 1999. She’s the author of Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa (2011) & The Trump Revolution: The Donald’s Creative Destruction Deconstructed” (June, 2016). She’s on Twitter (barely), Gab, Gettr YouTube & LinkedIn; banned by Facebook, and has a new video-podcast
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King Tuck?? Good Lord Ilana! Are you trying to come up with some new bathing suit line for Target?
Ilana – Remember, no good deed goes unpunished…
Too bad Tucker is, at best, totally milquetoast!
…Surely, Tucker is better than ANYONE at “Conservatism, Inc.” – due to being relatively more ‘politically independent’ and having some ‘intellectual curiosity’.
These (((news))) anchors are soulless robots reading scripts that someone else wrote for them. Look at gay blade, Anderson Cooper’s face when he delivers (((fake news.))) Cooper looks like a cyborg. Look at Erin Burnett, a co-worker over at (((CNN))) always looks like she is going to fall asleep. You can tell this broad hates her “job.” Remember Brooke Baldwin at CNN? This lady had that thousand mile stare. Must suck to sell your soul. “You suck enough ass, pretty soon you start choking on shit.”
Cue: Thousand Miles From Nowhere by Dwight Yoakam
“King Tuck” was (((controlled opposition.))) The recurring guest speakers on his program were some older White gentleman regurgitating the same old false history they teach in “skoo.” The others were some lesbian conservative, a gay Jew, and an overweight all knowing Black dude from (((ESPN.))) King Tuck was a (((civic nationalist))) who was born with a golden spoon and like others before him wouldn’t touch the Jew Problem.
IF King Tuck was still on today he would tell that Allied forces liberated the world starting at 6 am on the 6th day of the 6th month in 1944. Weird, huh? Some ancient dude about 98-100 years old would tell how he stormed the beaches. Lol. Holocaust victims, guys who fought on D-Day? Will they outlive sea turtles? Last time I checked, 10 million 70-80 year olds claimed to have attended Woodstock in 1969.
looks like the Issacsohn-Mercer’s favorite Zionist tool
may have to run for ZOGprez from a jail cell:
http://zerohedge.com/political/trump-charges-unsealed-heres-whats-them
Carlson, like Trump, is a transitional, not a transformational figure. Prof Kevin MacDonald illuminated this with his articles on Trump. Within the constraints of the American MSM and political system at the time, they attempted to defend the interests of White Americans. However, these constraints are very severe and killed Trump’s Border Wall and Rapprochement with Russia policies, for instance.
On the other hand, they hold views and have intellectual baggage that does not support the general interests of White Americans. This doubly makes them transitional figures. Trump’s grovelling to Israel and Carlson’s cucking on same sex “marriage” are but 2 examples.
The USD will lose its status as world reserve currency shortly. This will result in economic, political and social collapse, and civil war and partition. 20 years from now Carlson will be almost entirely forgotten, and Trump remembered as a transitional figure towards the new reality.
You know a great deal more about the characters inhabiting the “news’ space than I ever cared to track. I dropped their “news” years ago. Somebody gotta do it I guess.
I enjoyed your Hard Truth podcast. Yes, my biggest disappointment with Tucker is that he was a onetime supporter of the Iraq war, but his regret and openness about it are significant. I remember when I voted for Ralph Nader in 2004 as a protest vote against Bush’s folly. As a conservative, I felt awkward (and a little slimy) in the company of neo-hippie leftists who also opposed the war, but the Iraq conflict and my aversion to it ultimately put me on a path towards Pat Buchanan, so there was a silver lining.
As far as Tucker’s departure from Fox goes, there are a couple of different perspectives that should be taken. First, there’s the perspective of Tucker-as-pundit. In this respect, he’s an astute and courageous political observer who was always going to be stifled and reined in by Fox. Also, he was becoming part of the network news hysteria machine that typifies a place like Fox. Seeing Tucker getting outraged about the latest covid related issue was getting a little tiresome. In this sense, his departure is good as he will presumably be less corrupted by the environment he ends up in.
Then there’s the perspective of Tucker-as-symbol. Tucker’s place at Fox was a sign of hope to millions of viewers. It gave them hope that the discussion of extremely important (but uncomfortable) topics like US non-interventionism in Ukraine, demographic replacement and black crime and social dysfunction have a place in “polite society” aka, network news. In this sense, Tucker’s departure from Fox isn’t good. Tucker’s first twitter presentation hasn’t been very well received, from what I can tell. Will he end up being just another Megyn Kelly without Fox? We’ll see.
there will be no “civil war” in Jew-ruled ‘Murka:
the Jews own the military and the police. Even
the remnant handful of “white” militia units are larded
with FBI agents and other narcs. By 2030
via boomer die-off, collapsed birthrate, and vaporized borders,
Whites go to full minority status, and the decline
toward extinction will thereafter accelerate violently.
the Jews will see to it.
Fake gay White Nationalist Haxo says;
resistance is futile, the Jews will win.
But that’s what you would expect
from a fake gay White Nationalist.
Your efforts at free verse
are crap, please stop it.
“you efforts @ free verse…please stop”
No.
I am going to keep trying. Cf.
http://seductivejewess7.com/type-iv-jj199-linda-sarah-gamble/
note that the text includes at least 3 perfectly cadenced rhymes.
it’s one of my best.
and BTW, junior…let me know when you and your ilk
overthrow the ZOG.
I”ll be the first
to applaud.
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https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Tucker+Carlson+Live+Today&&view=detail&mid=2A7C7C5FFBD0B3E1834B2A7C7C5FFBD0B3E1834B&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DTucker%2BCarlson%2BLive%2BToday%26FORM%3DVRMHRS
As you are discussing Carlson, you might listen to him, to get a better idea of what he does for a living.
As for Casino (Hollywood) Trump, “You’re fired.”
Fascinating former member of Parliament
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=george+galloway+workers+party+of+britain&&view=detail&mid=DF125D00FF500D58D46ADF125D00FF500D58D46A&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dgeorge%2Bgalloway%2Bworkers%2Bparty%2Bof%2Bbritain%26qpvt%3Dgeorge%2Bgalloway%2Bworkers%2Bparty%2Bof%2Bbritain%26FORM%3DVDRE
When it was approved/OK to oppose the Vaccine & Boosters.
Video Link
Listen to whole video.