Fox News host Tucker Carlson, texting a colleague on November 5 2020, following Donald Trump’s initial claims that the presidential election he was losing had been stolen:
What [Trump’s] good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong.
Carlson on his TV show on November 11 2020:
So, was there voter fraud last week? That’s a question we’ve been working on since election night. We’ve tried to be careful and precise as we report this out. In moments like this, truth really matters more than ever. False allegations of fraud can cause as much damage as the fraud itself. Jussie Smollett hurt more people with his lies than any actual hate crime. And the last thing America needs right now is more damage. So we want to be accurate. What we’re about to tell you is accurate. It’s not a theory. It happened and we can prove it.
(Carlson proceeds to read the names of supposedly dead voters, provided to him by the Trump campaign. Several news outlets are able to debunk this, finding many of these voters alive, well and registered to vote. Carlson issues a retraction.)
Carlson texting a colleague on January 4 2021:
We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait. I hate him passionately … We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for [the last four years] because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”
(On January 6, as Trump supporters, enraged by the election fraud story Carlson and his colleagues helped spread, attack the Capitol building, Carlson texts the same colleague, calling Trump a “demonic force, a destroyer”.)
Carlson explaining the texts on radio on March 23 2023:
Some idiot on the Trump campaign had sent us the name of these dead voters who had voted, and we went and I repeated them on air, and it turns out some of them were alive, so I was just … I felt humiliated.
Carlson to his audience, prior to airing an obsequious hour-long interview with Trump on April 11 2023:
For a man caricatured as an extremist, we think you’ll find what he has to say moderate, sensible, and wise.
Tucker Carlson talking out of both sides of his mouth. Would you expect anything else coming out of that particular network? I know I don’t.
Add to that he is also talking out of another orifice!
Hehehe
As well as to one.
Attention has been called to Trump’s small hands but look at the ugly puckered maw in the bloated orange mass that passes for a face – it’s more like a beak than a mamallian mouth.
Ah, Tucker. Hypocrisy knows no boundaries, no final depth, no level of shamelessness. One can only hope this creature gets to be cross-examined at the coming Dominion court case by a barrister who enjoys legal vivisection.
Do you think it is hypocrisy? I prefer mendacity. The lack of truth in public office and on public media has reached an alarmingly high level here, in the US and the UK.
He also platforms and praises the Hungary of PM ‘mini Putin’ Orban (De Santis too) with pro Putin agitprop, using Fox News, CPAC and Christian groups.
Meanwhile the same nation attracts a whole conga line of former Liberal Party, IPA and related media type, Koch linked institute visitors; called out by Anne Applebaum (on Twitter 3 April ’22), some embarrassed ‘reverse ferreting’ but others no shame……
May the Murdoch, Sky, Sty, Fox, scum and pack of lying lumps be sued into poverty and oblivion.
Presently I’m reading Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s book ‘The DIVIDER’ the historical account of Trump in the White House 2017-2021 and on page 345 insiders query his “mental condition and psychological state” indicating the official criteria for narcissistic personality disorder as per the official ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ with unnerving preccision on the table of nine counts.
During his time in office few staff were unaware of his deficits.
Who (or why) in Fox News were defending Trump’s proclivities?
Reports I read indicated that Fox News lost viewers every time they called a state for the Democrats, especially where it was a Republican loss. It really relies on eye balls for its income so they were watching their profits nose dive rapidly every time it was suggested Trump was losing. I am not sure they were defending Trump so much as trying to keep viewers watching.
Though, of course, such a suggestion may be merely hair-splitting.
The paradox here is that each time Carlson praises The Donald the more he will despise him. A perfect trap from which the Fox hypocrite cannot escape.