I see from reading Tucker Love (Australia) Central - one of the "new" Catallaxy blogs - that they are spitting chips over not only Tucker Carlson being sacked by a Murdoch, but also Andrew Bolt opining that the move was not without justification. Some examples from the sad sacks:
Bolt was pathetic, wasn’t he. There really is a crisis in US politics, and what Bolt was describing as crazy stuff was entirely credible. The crazy ideas are that Biden really won the election fairly, that Putin wasn’t provoked by US/NATO expansion, that covid wasn’t corrupt, that the global warming garbage is a genuine climate crisis. We’ve got the choice of toeing the party line or being intensely sceptical of the good faith and integrity of the ruling class.And the ever increasingly stupid Currency Lad:
I’m done with Sky. It’s a controlled opposition grift that uses woke wackiness as filler and is welded to the Liberal Party and security statism. Erin (?), Abbott government mastermind Credlin, Ukraine War loonball Bolt, leftist Kenny, faux everyman Murray, the Late Debate (where, not for the first time, Caleb – who pronounces trans as ‘trarns’ – last night swore “for Christ’s sake!”), bla bla bla. Sky is six hours of the same show. It breaks no stories and investigates nothing. We’re being conned as a boutique audience by a cynical corporation that when push comes to shove, signs on for the latest progressive thing every time.
I like Rita. She’s tough, funny, won’t back down, smart and cute. Even she, however, should move away from “lefties losing it” and be less reactionary.
Well, he's right that the evening line up is virtually 6 hours of the same content: but he's so far on the Steven Bannon Right that he thinks they are "progressives" when "push comes to shove". Ludicrous.
How's terminally cranky Cassie assessing the situation? My bold:
Tucker Carlson has been terminated because he speaks for middle America and he speaks truth to middle America. This made him dangerous and it made him a target of Washington scum such as Chuck Schumer .
Ahahahahahahahahahaha.
tucker Carlson was very big on the great replacement theory that was advanced during the Us 30s.
ReplyDeleteIt is inherently racist and it asserts immigration is making whites a minority.
It was and is complete bullshiy to anyone numerate.
I'd like to take credit for starting the Tucker rant because I posted in the dusk hours about the issue. Of course the old hag went after me, again playing Dr. Freud and demonstrating her total ignorance about the concept projection. However it was inevitable they would address this issue, though interestingly they had been studiously avoiding the Dominion case even though I had raised it some weeks earlier.
ReplyDeleteThey are doubling down. I expected that. I admire Monty's ability to persevere with them. I'm pretty much done with that lot.
Yes, Homer, you are correct about the foulness of his pushing "great replacement theory". He really is a despicable character in so many ways.
ReplyDeleteAs for his influence: it's pretty incredible that he was routinely lauded as high rating [with 3.4 million nightly viewers (on average)] but it's pretty rarely compared to the number of people who watch non-cable news shows. I see that the viewing figures for the big three "free to air" networks during the evening news time slot has been about 19 million. See here:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/190091/evening-news-audiences-on-us-television-networks-since-2008/
That's not to deny his influence, but as I have complained before about the Australian Catallaxy sites: the rise of the internet forum has led to people with actually marginal views on certain issues thinking that they are "mainstream" because they have online buddies who agree with them in real time.
Their major problem is that cannotl ie straight in bed
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