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(79,302 posts)mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)he was easier to handle when he wore the bow tie...
Raster
(20,998 posts)trueblue2007
(17,232 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)LakeArenal
(28,835 posts)Wont watch Fux for 8 minutes.
Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)This was a taped segment that Fox wouldn't air.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,334 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)it's about 7 minutes long
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)So you won't be giving them "clicks". It's a video recorded (likely on someone's phone) from the Dutch studio where the historian was sitting for the interview. And you mostly don't have to look at Fucker's little face - it's just his audio with subtitles.
The Dutch historian was talking about how we need to address taxation for the uber rich and eliminating "tax paradises" as we had under Eisenhower back in the day. Carlson was somewhat reasonable for the first part of the discussion - albeit snarky - but when the Dutch fellow started reminding him that he is a millionaire paid by billionaires (Murdoch and the Kochs) he got very defensive. Ended up using some profane language. I especially enjoyed the part where he reminded Carlson that he works for the Cato institute and takes their "dirty money". It's particularly fun when the Dutch fellow stays calm and on point and Fucker goes nuts!
Hope that gives you a flavor of the clip.
ProfessorPlum
(11,267 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)Watch the video.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,389 posts)Most of the time, I can't watch twitter videos. This was one of those times.
ooky
(8,926 posts)Bwahahahahahahahah!!
MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)And stupid to boot.
His mother must clench knowing she raised an ignoramus.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)and smiling throughout. He did his homework.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Can't wait to get home tonight and see this!
jalan48
(13,878 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,590 posts)Stewart: "How old are you?"
Carlson: "Thirty five."
Stewart: "And you wear a bow tie."
Crossfire was cancelled just a few weeks after Stewart's interview. In case you haven't seen it before, enjoy:
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jalan48
(13,878 posts)malaise
(269,132 posts)Destroyed!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Carlson is a call-in guest on what seems to be a radio program?
leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)But it was recorded by someone (maybe on their phone) in the Dutch studio where the historian was sitting. Faux Noise elected not to air the interview so the person who recorded it from the other end released it to the public.
I was just glad that we didn't have to look at Carlson's smarmy little face.
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... side of the conversation when Carlson did an interview for his show. Bregman was the interviewee, but he recorded it at his end. Thats what your seeing since Carlson and fox never aired it for his show.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)re-invention.And it's about goddamn time someone called him out on his fake ass populist bullshit. Which is really white supremacy sprinkled with talk of "the little people". White people that is.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,334 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)who I first heard call him that back in the douchey bow tie days. I don't think it was Jon Stewart. At least not when he tore him a new one to his face.
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progressoid
(49,992 posts)Poor Tucker.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Carlson broke down and his argument went down the tubes right then and there. Eight minutes spent well, thanks.
Dem2theMax
(9,652 posts)Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)Isn't THAT an interesting way to say it.
Well, Tuckles, it DID get "picked up," just as you hoped. Happy now?
How many times does the public have to see this little cretin get owned on camera before they drop him in the bin?
rurallib
(62,433 posts)just in time for dinner.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I'm not sure he has the emotional balance for the job he's in. Maybe he should quite and let his wife take care og him until he gets better.
Thoughts and prayers, you little Tucker.
leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)to spend more time with his family.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)I used to watch Crossfire some. I kept hoping someone would smack that little smirk off of little fucker tucker
erronis
(15,324 posts)Well worth it. Thank you.
leftieNanner
(15,137 posts)They didn't earn any "clicks" from you! Bravo.
yonder
(9,669 posts)He was completely owned there, the Dutchman not giving any ground. Carlson also had some curious turns of phrase, such as the poster just above pointed out: "given a hearing"? Come on. If that doesn't show the importance Carlson give himself and his show, nothing does.
Funny also how Tucker's voice, when not backed up by his Fox megaphone and despite the poor quality of the recording, turns out to be a squeaky, little thing. Kind of like the difference between the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain or not. It's just not what you'd expect from a radio/television person. Bowtie or not, he doesn't have a big boomer.
FuzzyRabbit
(1,969 posts)"Millionaire funded by billionaires."
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)the baby he is. FOX IS THE PROBLEM!
KPN
(15,647 posts)I hope this gets exposure everywhere. The simple truth. Its what the oligarchs are most afraid of ... and its why they deliberately sought to own the media.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I loved the way he remained so calm and composed, while Tucker just got more and more enraged until he completely flipped out at the end. That was a thing of beauty!
Gothmog
(145,478 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)By Erik Wemple
Media critic
February 20 at 4:01 PM
Tucker Carlson Tonight is a binary production. Heres how it breaks down: The host, Tucker Carlson, either welcomes a guest with whom he agrees, in which case the segment is a facile lovefest, or he welcomes a guest with whom he disagrees, in which case the segment is a gutter-scraping slugfest.
A chat with Dutch historian Rutger Bregman was supposed to fall in the former basket, a nice, easy segment in which the host and guest find common ground on the hypocrisy of the worlds elites. In a display of common-sense advocacy, Bregman had appeared at the World Economic Forum in Davos and hammered all the rich people there for avoiding taxes. The Post explained, "He started by saying that he found the conferences mix of indulgence and global problem-solving a bit bewildering. ... I hear people talking the language of participation and justice and equality and transparency. But then almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance. And of the rich just not paying their fair share. It feels like Im at a firefighters conference and no one is allowed to speak about water.
With that, an invite to Tucker Carlson Tonight was hatched. In a careful effort over the past two years-plus, Carlson has attempted to cast himself as the anti-elite elite, a guy who understands the hypocrisy of the ruling class because he was born into comfort in La Jolla, Calif., and Georgetown followed, eventually, by a well-paid career on cable news.
But Carlsons interview with Bregman didnt go well, as we learned last week from Bregmans Twitter account.
Also included in Bregmans tweets was an email from Carlson alleging that Bregman had turned out to be far dumber, more dogmatic and less impressive than I expected. The combative cable-news host also called Bregman an a------. In any case, Carlsons show declined to air the segment, a move that senior executive producer Justin Wells blamed on Bregman, who turned an opportunity to have a substantive, informative discussion into an obviously calculated personal insult campaign. We were disappointed in the segment and respect our audiences time too much to consider airing it.
Now the whole world can judge whether Fox News was respecting its audiences time or just suppressing a segment that embarrassed a star host.
Heres the fascinating part of this clash: Carlson starts out by bathing Bregman in praise for his remarks at Davos, which the video replays. Thats one of the great moments maybe the great moment in Davos history, Carlson said, chuckling about the hypocrisy of the folks who travel by private jet to talk about the worlds problems in Switzerland. If I was wearing a hat, I would take it off to you, Carlson said.
Thus was established the planned rhythm of the interview. Bregman, you see, was brought in as a friendly voice, a fellow who would presumably play along with the host. That very status gave Bregman enough space to turn the whole conversation into a referendum on Carlsons own hypocrisy. The vast majority of Americans, for years and years now, according to the polls, including Fox News viewers and including Republicans, are in favor of higher taxes on the rich. .?.?. Its all really mainstream but no ones saying that at Davos just as no ones saying that at Fox News, Bregman said in the discussion. Folks at Davos and at Fox News, he alleged, had been bought by the billionaire class.
Carlson didnt immediately anger, though he did try to steer the discussion elsewhere. When Bregman persisted in his critique of Fox News, Carlson said it would be interesting to know how much Fox News the historian had watched.
After some more back-and-forth, Bregman showed that hed really, really studied the programming values of Tucker Carlson Tonight: I think the issue really is one of corruption and of people being bribed and not talking about the real issues. What the Murdochs really want you to do to is scapegoat immigrants instead of talking about tax avoidance, he said.
As Bregman continued showing a command of Fox Newss pro-elite advocacy, Carlson blew up. He called Bregman a moron and couldnt figure out how this fellow had even viewed the networks programming. Fox doesnt even play where you are, said Carlson. Well, have you heard of the Internet? replied Bregman. I can watch things whatever I want.
By this point, Bregman, thousands of miles away, was sitting where Carlson usually sits in complete command of the interview, setting the pace, putting his interlocutor on the defensive. The host was verily gasping for air. The most telling words of the interview came when Carlson said, Wait but, but can I just say? That was just shortly after Bregman said Carlson was a millionaire funded by billionaires.
Someone had to blow the whistle on Carlsons high-wire attempts to portray himself as a hero of the regular guy, even as he enjoys the fat paycheck of a Fox News host. So scandalized was Carlson about the situation that he could resort only to nastiness, which he commonly deploys, and profanity, which rarely makes it onto Fox Newss air. Why dont you go f--- yourself, you tiny brain.
underpants
(182,861 posts)and sad.
THE network of "American exceptionalism" and "makers vs. takers" now thinks populism is the way to go. The media has convinced themselves Trumps a populist.
The other big them in right wing world now is the "liberal identity politics". The Reagan Revolution (Let Atwater) creates and championed that with their "God Guns and Gays"
WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)I love when he asked Tucker if he had ever heard of the Internet. Too funny.
In It to Win It
(8,274 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)underpants
(182,861 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,315 posts)Mr. Frost
(75 posts)He overall doesn't give a shit. A wise man has said , a person who doesn't care is a person who has nothing to lose.