rumitoid wrote:
Since late 2018, dozens of companies have stopped airing advertisements during his show.
Wasn't his show in third place for ratings that year?
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Here are the biggest controversies Tucker Carlson has been involved in, to name a few. (#3 is the worst.)
I love a good controversy...
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1. In December 2018, Carlson caused perhaps the biggest waves yet when he said immigrants would make the country "poorer and dirtier." At least 34 advertisers cut ties with Carlson's show in the months after his comments, including iHop, Red Lobster, and Samsung. Instead of apologizing, Carlson stood behind his comments and deemed the backlash an attack on free speech. How is someone voicing a disagreement not also free speech?
Didn't say immigrants...
Said illegals...
He's not wrong...
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2. A series of tapes that were leaked in March 2019 contain some shocking comments that Carlson allegedly made while calling into the shock-jock radio program "Bubba the Love Sponge" from 2006 to 2011. Carlson can be heard contesting the prosecution of former polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs, who was later convicted for child sexual abuse. The tapes also contained several different belittling comments about women, including Carlson saying he wouldn't have voted to confirm Supreme Court Elena Kagan because he didn't find her attractive, in addition to saying women are "extremely primitive" and "just need to be quiet." Carlson refused to apologize, saying he was "caught" saying "something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago." How does saying it a decade ago change its misogynistic content?
2. A series of tapes that were leaked in March 201... (
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Leaked tapes... Allegedly... Please...
I'm betting the context was humorous...
Have you ever heard the way he talks about his wife and daughters?
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3. In August, a few days after a mass shooting the FBI said was linked to a racist manifesto, Carlson described white supremacy in the US as a "hoax." He said like the "Russia hoax," white supremacy was a conspiracy used to divide the US, and keep a hold on power. "It's actually not a real problem in America," he told his viewers.
Correct...
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A) This so wrong and dangerous on so many levels, as well as either dumb or blind. What was Charlottesville? A confessed White Supremacist killed someone protesting the rally.
Muslim shot up a club in Florida...Muslim problem?
Nut job Sander's supporter shot up a congressional baseball game....Bernie problem?
There are some few white supremacist idiots out there... It's not an epidemic ..
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B) The Russian interference with our Election Process is proven, not a hoax. (And it was not the wild conspiracy theory that the Ukraine was to blame.)
Proven?
Remind me which government agency examined the evidence...
In any case... The Russian hoax that Tucker referred to is the one where there was collision between Trump and Putin...
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C) Undermining the FBI again by saying the mass shooting was not linked to a racist manifesto but was a "hoax": catchword of the GOP this year for all things negative against them.
So people are free to disagree with Tucker...But he had better not disagree back...
He didn't call the shooting a hoax... He called the fear mongering a hoax.... Which it is...
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4. Just recently, on air, he said that he rooted for Russia over the democracy of the Ukraine. 45 minutes later, no doubt after many calls of objections, he said he was kidding.
Russia is a democracy as well...
Why can't he have an opinion?
My take away from this thread is that by disagreeing with certain premises and supporting certain platforms Tucker has earned your ire....
I like the guy...
Have you ever watched his show?