Osodecentx said:Realitybites said:Mothra said:Realitybites said:
Tucker is a facilitator, not a gatekeeper.
You'll understand what he does better if you start there.
And then the last of the groypers and Tucker apologists makes an appearance.
Batting 1.000 on this thread.
Tucker only seems to ask the difficult questions of his "fellow" conservatives. If you're a racist or despot, you apparently get a pass.
But he's just a "facilitator" and all...
I am a Tucker apologist. He has done more to turn the political right into a movement and inform people than almost any other media figure. He's certainly done more than clowns like Hannity, Shapiro, Levin, and the two successors to Rush Limbaugh. Yeah he gets a pass.
I oppose this: Foreign Lobby Watch
I oppose Israel using AIPAC to circumvent FARA.
I oppose giving foreign nations aid when we have a debt to GDP ratio of 130%.
And yes, I believe that the Church is the Israel of God and the Mosaic covenant is done (Hebrews 8:13).
Apparently this makes me an anti-Semitic Hitler figure or something.
I am not a groyper. And while I disagree with some - possibly even much - of what Fuentes says, the two of us have this in common...after living our adult lives under the political orthodoxy enforced by the political establishment we are both well past caring what those who represent it care about what we think.
Ben Shapiro in WSJ"
The American right is at a crossroads. A group of white supremacists known as the "groypers" is maliciously attempting to subvert the conservative movement. The main agent of their normalization within the GOP is Tucker Carlson, who is now being aided and celebrated by one of the key organizations of the traditional right, the Heritage Foundation.
Nick Fuentes, the groypers' 27-year-old leader, urges his followers to "kill, rape and die" for him. He proclaims that a lot of women want to be raped, praises Jim Crow and insists that "perfidious" Jews should be expelled from America or be killed. He claims the MAGA movement is a "scam."
Mr. Carlson, who interviewed Mr. Fuentes last week, has recently reinvented himself as a conspiracy peddler and apologist for America's enemies. He's defended Vladimir Putin, massaged Iran's dictatorship, praised Venezuela's, and minimized Hamas's atrocities. He claims Christian Zionists have a "brain virus" and calls Jews who care about Oct. 7 "un-American."
Mr. Carlson's most common tactic is ideological laundering: He hosts guests with ugly ideologies, soft-pedals their views and launders them into mainstream respectability. He claims he's "just asking questions," and that's precisely what he did last week: Mr. Carlson ignored Mr. Fuentes's most toxic views, providing him a signal boost while making him palatable for a broader audience. Never mind that doing so betrayed Mr. Carlson's friends. Mr. Fuentes spent years attempting to destroy Charlie Kirk, assailed his grieving widow and says that Vice President JD Vance's interracial marriage ought to invalidate him for higher office.
Mr. Carlson didn't ask about any of thatto do so would have undermined his mission, which is to legitimize Mr. Fuentes and co-opt his audience.
The Republican Party, like the Democratic Party before it, is at risk of being eaten alive by fringe actors. To allow it is both morally unjustifiable and politically obtuse. Americans reject this garbage. If Republicans cower before Nazi apologists and their popularizers, the GOP will loseand deserve to.
Our answer must be no. No to the groypers and their publicists like Mr. Carlson. No to demoralization. No to bigotry and antimeritocratic nonsense. No to anti-Americanism. This is our country, our party and our conservative movement. We can't stand by while it is fractured by those who betray our most fundamental principles.
If we lose the right, then we will surely lose to the leftand either way, we will lose our country.
Ben Shapiro
I don't listen to Shapiro, but it's hard to argue with any of the above.
