The man telling the New York Times he’s sorry he supported Trump is the same man telling his brother last week that white Americans are the real victims.
I don't get the impulse to grab on to Tucker and hold him up as some kind of shining example because he says he's against the war. Most Americans are against the war. We don't lack for people who are against the war. You want to build an antiwar alliance, how about looking to the tens of millions of people who are truly sincere about it?
But as an old lefty with decades of antiwar experience (unfortunately) this is always the way it goes. The people who are already with us are never enough, are they? They're in the streets in their millions, they represent an actual majority of the population, but instead we imagine we're just one repentant Republican away from success.
Spot on, Parker. Was already thinking about Lyz's piece, and your previous work, and then you mentioned both. *ucker is a monster, always has been, and I don't trust him to ever be anything else.
Thank you Parker for your sane, well written analysis of the chameleon Carlson. I appreciate that you trace his M.O. over time and how the underlying tactic remains the same while the language shifts for the intended audience. I also appreciate that instead of vilifying individual print journalists you expose the underlying issue of framing while suggesting better questions that will give us different results instead of unwitting cooperation with his own agenda.
I don't get the impulse to grab on to Tucker and hold him up as some kind of shining example because he says he's against the war. Most Americans are against the war. We don't lack for people who are against the war. You want to build an antiwar alliance, how about looking to the tens of millions of people who are truly sincere about it?
But as an old lefty with decades of antiwar experience (unfortunately) this is always the way it goes. The people who are already with us are never enough, are they? They're in the streets in their millions, they represent an actual majority of the population, but instead we imagine we're just one repentant Republican away from success.
Tucker Carlson pretending to move left is even less believable than that like 6 weeks Megyn Kelly tried that.
Spot on, Parker. Was already thinking about Lyz's piece, and your previous work, and then you mentioned both. *ucker is a monster, always has been, and I don't trust him to ever be anything else.
Spot on, as always.
“Is that worse than killing kids?” For a second there, I thought he was going to talk about aborted fetuses.
"Nobody, in his telling, should be punished for the circumstances of their birth." OTOH, Obama "really hates white people." That's projection for you.
Thank you Parker for your sane, well written analysis of the chameleon Carlson. I appreciate that you trace his M.O. over time and how the underlying tactic remains the same while the language shifts for the intended audience. I also appreciate that instead of vilifying individual print journalists you expose the underlying issue of framing while suggesting better questions that will give us different results instead of unwitting cooperation with his own agenda.