To Tucker With Love
THIS WEEK: Loving Tucker Carlson
Tucker Carlson was once deemed so racist even Fox News wanted some distance.
Then the mainstream media fell in love with Tucker, forgetting:
More of his racist rants
his friendly banter with misogynistic, anti-semite Nick Fuentes
his election denial
his support of the “Great Replacement” theory
Consider:
This adoring podcast
(Lulu, we love you! How could you do this to us?)
This glowing feature
This Economist look at The Tucker
This take-down, which reads like fan mail
This BBC take, which managed to confront Carlson much more aggressively than The NYT on his choice to platform an anti-semitic guest with a big space for Hitler in his heart
Should we be concerned? Is there no low that is too low? Is all prior bigotry forgivable?
Or maybe…it’s just okay to be kinda in the camp of white people, now that DEI is so out?
We, at Reporting Right, suspect that the NYT was feeling slightly queasy about its choices.
Doesn’t THIS read like a bit of a defensive rebuttal?
We also think that the NYT has a right-wing quota of sorts that it feels compelled to fill — considering its regular look at Trump-aligned (or once aligned) figures. Consider: THIS and THIS and THIS.
Still, not everyone is super excited about what Tucker has to say.
The SPLC thinks of him like THIS.
This Atlantic report moans: “Seriously, Tucker Carlson?”
At Reporting Right, we think there are many, many reasons to be shocked and disgusted by Israel’s behavior in the Middle East. But we question the judgement of a news outlet choosing a guy who has been so often accused of anti-semitic leanings/associations to platform as a leading voice against the Jewish state.
Do we want to hear everyone on every topic?
Maybe not.
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