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The bill from 2018 finally came due. Bring on the lawsuits
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-gop-republican-party.html
...Days earlier, Mr. Carlson had set off an uproar, claiming on air that mass immigration made America "poor and dirtier." Blue-chip advertisers were fleeing. Within Fox, Mr. Carlson was widely viewed to have finally crossed some kind of line. Many wondered what price he might pay.
The answer became clear that night in December 2018: absolutely none.
When "Tucker Carlson Tonight" aired, Mr. Carlson doubled down, playing video of his earlier comments and citing a report from an Arizona government agency that said each illegal border crossing left up to eight pounds of litter in the desert. Afterward, on the way to the Christmas party, Mr. Carlson spoke directly with Mr. Murdoch, who praised his counterattack, according to a former Fox employee told of the exchange.
"We're good," Mr. Carlson said, grinning triumphantly, as he walked into the restaurant.
In the years since, Mr. Carlson has constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news and also, by some measures, the most successful. Though he frequently declares himself an enemy of prejudice "We don't judge them by group, and we don't judge them on their race," Mr. Carlson explained to an interviewer a few weeks before accusing impoverished immigrants of making America dirty his show teaches loathing and fear. Night after night, hour by hour, Mr. Carlson warns his viewers that they inhabit a civilization under siege by violent Black Lives Matter protesters in American cities, by diseased migrants from south of the border, by refugees importing alien cultures, and by tech companies and cultural elites who will silence them, or label them racist, if they complain. When refugees from Africa, numbering in the hundreds, began crossing into Texas from Mexico during the Trump administration, he warned that the continent's high birthrates meant the new arrivals might soon "overwhelm our country and change it completely and forever." Amid nationwide outrage over George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer, Mr. Carlson dismissed those protesting the killing as "criminal mobs." Companies like Angie's List and Papa John's dropped their ads. The following month, "Tucker Carlson Tonight" became the highest-rated cable news show in history.
His encyclopedia of provocations has only expanded. Since the 2020 presidential election, Mr. Carlson has become the most visible and voluble defender of those who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol to keep Donald J. Trump in office, playing down the presence of white nationalists in the crowd and claiming the attack "barely rates as a footnote." In February, as Western pundits and politicians lined up to condemn the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, for his impending invasion of Ukraine, Mr. Carlson invited his viewers to shift focus back to the true enemy at home. "Why do I hate Putin so much? Has Putin ever called me a racist?" Mr. Carlson asked. "Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him?" He was roundly labeled an apologist and Putin cheerleader, only to press ahead with segments that parroted Russian talking points and promoted Kremlin propaganda about purported Ukrainian bioweapons labs.
Alchemizing media power into political influence, Mr. Carlson stands in a nativist American tradition that runs from Father Coughlin to Patrick J. Buchanan. Now Mr. Carlson's on-air technique gleefully courting blowback, then fashioning himself as his aggrieved viewers' partner in victimhood has helped position him, as much as anyone, to inherit the populist movement that grew up around Mr. Trump.
At a moment when white backlash is the jet fuel of a Republican Party striving to return to power in Washington, he has become the pre-eminent champion of Americans who feel most threatened by the rising power of Black and brown citizens. To channel their fear into ratings, Mr. Carlson has adopted the rhetorical tropes and exotic fixations of white nationalists, who have watched gleefully from the fringes of public life as he popularizes their ideas. Mr. Carlson sometimes refers to "legacy Americans," a dog-whistle term that, before he began using it on his show last fall, appeared almost exclusively in white nationalist outlets like The Daily Stormer, The New York Times found.
He takes up story lines otherwise relegated to far-right or nativist websites like VDare: "Tucker Carlson Tonight" has featured a string of segments about the gruesome murders of white farmers in South Africa, which Mr. Carlson suggested were part of a concerted campaign by that country's Black-led government. Last April, Mr. Carlson set off yet another uproar, borrowing from a racist conspiracy theory known as "the great replacement" to argue that Democrats were deliberately importing "more obedient voters from the third world" to "replace" the current electorate and keep themselves in power. But a Times analysis of 1,150 episodes of his show found that it was far from the first time Mr. Carlson had done so.
Russian TV lamented his demise.
Sadly, Fox will find someone as bad or worse to replace him.
They're slaves to the addled audience they created.
Yes, being anti-war is sadly no longer a liberal value these days. All of their talking heads on MSNBC and CNN are strongly pro-war with Russia. It's remarkable.
My teen years occurred during the height of the Vietnam War years from the latter half of the 60's through the early 70's and I vividly recall the passionate "anti-war" sentiment on the left often expressed through mass protests during that era. It really is incredible to see how all of that has flipped with today's left enthusiastically cheering on involvement in foreign wars (like Ukraine) for largely the same types of reasons they disdainfully mocked back in the 60's, as they wildly celebrate Fox's dismissal of Tucker Carlson who is one of the most anti-war political commentators you'll ever find. Never saw that one coming - but here we are.
The Left was always full of hypocrites who hated Conservatives more than they loved peace.
As soon as they felt the institutions of the United States were in their hands (SCOTUS, Congress, Pentagon, CIA, Wall St.) they began to go from "screw the man!" to "hey we need to trust the man!"
The CIA used to have serious trouble recruiting at the Ivy League (Columbia even kicked off the ROTC from campus for being "anti-gay" by not allowing homosexuals to be open while in serving in uniform)....now working for one of the secret security services of the American Empire is an acceptable and celebrated career path for upwardly mobile progressives.
The only principle that Left-Liberals really have is that they hate conservatives and the institutions they think are controlled by conservatives-right wingers.
The reaction of the American Left to Covid was another example. Forcing vaccines and unquestioning trust in Government, Corporate, and Media sources....that would not have been a Left-Liberal thing to do 50 years ago. But today Liberals fell right in line...and were the loyal foot soldiers in the war of compliance.
Its was right-wingers engaged in resistance and protest to Covid.
