Why Tucker Carlson Is Defending Alex Jones

[douglas9]

Earlier this week, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson, the host of the top-rated news show on cable, rose in defense of the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

“Jones is often mocked for his flamboyance,” Carlson said, “but the truth is he has been a far better guide to reality in recent years—in other words, a far better journalist—than, say, NBC News national-security correspondent Ken Dilanian or Margaret Brennan of CBS.”

Flamboyance is a rather interesting word to apply to Jones; there are others.

Last month Jones, the host of Infowars, was found liable for damages in a defamation lawsuit brought by parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, whose victims included 20 young children. Jones claimed that the shooting was a “false flag” operation carried out by “crisis actors.” He mocked grieving parents, saying, “I’ve looked at it, and undoubtedly there’s a cover-up, there’s actors, they’re manipulating, they’ve been caught lying, and they were preplanning before it and rolled out with it.”


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/why-tucker-carlson-defending-alex-jones/620906/

[ShazamIam]

1. The reason I gathered from the link of the article seems to be, Tucker is another Jan 6 conspirator.

[2naSalit]

6. +1

[dutch777]

2. Hyperbolic slimeballs supporting each other and making money doing it

The sad thing is that there are probably a good number of people that think the judgements against Jones just PROVE there is a giant anti-right or some such conspiracy. I do hope the $$$ judgements against him are huge!

[Bristlecone]

3. A preemptive campaign for himself would be my guess

[marble falls]

4. When the bottom falls out, all Tucker's got to do is pull an "Alex Jones" and say he was ...

... misled and apologizes for anyone he or his employees and venue may have inadvertently offended.

[2naSalit]

5. +1

[Carlitos Brigante]

7. He thinks he's the next Trump. nt