Heather
Dagobah Resident
Well, the problem with Tucker Carlson isn't just his Sidney Powell bashing (the Venezuela connection aside, when you hear her version of what happened with Carlson, you wonder why he wouldn't have interviewed the "numbers" person she offered who could speak in copious detail to Dominion's ballot switching and deleting capabilities, as well as how such "glitches" were specifically traced), it's also the fact that Carlson has entirely resisted, and then dragged his feet on reporting on the entire topic of this massive voter fraud in all its aspects.Well, she's doing it with Trump's blessing. He has today tweeted out this report by OAN:
So this is strategy, not just Powell 'filling in the blanks'. Note that Santos in the above interview immediately likens the US election to "the recent one in Bolivia." What actually happened there is that false allegations of fraud were raised by the OAS, casting doubt on the result, and clearing a path for the coup d'etat against Evo Morales.
So they're really going with the narrative that the election was stolen and that 'winning it back' is synonymous with 'saving the USA from [Latin-American] socialism'.
Ironically, that the US election was so thoroughly and flagrantly rigged means it's the US that is now the biggest/worst 'banana republic' in the hemisphere! It would be so lucky to have the electoral integrity of its southern neighbors.
Spending around voting time is a parallel universe away from suggesting that the man only held power thanks to something comparable to what just took place in the USA. It's 'not even wrong'!
That's another shaky claim (specifically, that 'our forces' raided SCYTL offices in Germany). She's likely just repeating what Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert said he 'heard from a friend' last week. Heck, maybe such things are going on behind the scenes, but I'm with Carlson on this: 'cite your evidence or get outta here!'
As I pointed out previously, one of the first times he dealt "seriously" with the issue at all, he actually uses as one of three pitiful examples: ONE DEAD PERSON IN FLORIDA VOTING. ONE DEAD PERSON. I'll always remember that bit, because I'd been waiting for weeks with bated breath for his finally getting around to some serious coverage of what was emerging all over the place concerning this massive, multi-tiered voter fraud. So, for him to finally present us with "one dead person voting in Florida" was like being slapped in the face, and told to go to your room without any supper. It's no wonder why people are leaving Fox in droves. What he did was pathetic -- even dissociatively pathological.
Oh, and when he does get around to Sidney Powell -- but only because so many others have gotten there before him -- according to her he is "very insulting, demanding and rude," ignores what she has to offer, and then makes sure to trash her on his show. Why not instead incorporate the interview with the tech expert within a larger framework of serious, in depth reportage on this issue?
I had also mentioned earlier that when Tucker finally showed footage of Giuliani during his first press conference, he didn't allow his viewers to hear ANY of what the prosecutor was actually saying, nor did he paraphrase any of it either. The question is, WHY did he cover up this press conference? The answer is actually quite simple: it's because, unlike the one dead person voting in Florida routine, Giuliani was presenting the legal case for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of illegal votes, and those are the kinds of election fraud numbers that are verboten on Fox -- or at least on their highest ranking news show (which of course airs on prime time). In other words, it's not just Tucker's demanding from Powell the type of evidence that he knows she is not going to disclose before going to court (as many knowledgeable lawyers have been saying on this specific topic*), it's that his hostile and dismissive attitude towards her supports the increasingly popular conclusion that Carlson is merely following the political line at Fox, which is to support Biden's win, and, in so doing, have his show rewarded with "expanded" coverage capability (with, one assumes, a nice pay raise in the package for himself).
* As to Powell's inability or reticence to disclose more details of the cases she is mounting, it also seems likely that the Trump team is deliberately keeping things especially close to the vest given the extraordinarily dangerous "enemy" apparatus they are confronting (including the threats being made to the lives of his lawyers and their children). In another context, Tucker might be sensitive to such nefarious goings on, and the obvious need for a defensive strategy -- but NOT if he's part of the controlled opposition. For, it's in THAT context that he's now the "big shot" playing hard ball, just as Powell is claiming. It's really quite a disgusting spectacle.
As for Powell, and the issue of foreign interference, particularly involving Venezuela, with the egregious history of U.S. foreign policy in South America, I think to bring this up at all is a huge mistake. But, as far as Tucker Carlson's poor treatment of Powell goes, that had more to do with Fox's decision to suppress even the possibility of systemic, algorithmic election fraud involving the "switching" of hundreds of thousands of votes from Trump to Biden, and the deletion of millions more. (Venezuela really has nothing to do with that.) But that's why Tucker is not going to lay out any coverage that speaks to the "real" numbers involved in Election Fraud 2020: it's part of the deal he made at Fox. It's also why the "one dead person voting in Florida" bit was, to me, the second serious nail in Tucker Carlson's lack of credibility coffin (the first being his virtual silence on the issue up to that point).
Still, just as Laura Ingraham on her Fox show The Angle seemed to change her tune on this topic, one can't help hoping that Tucker Carlson -- and his producers, presumably -- will start to question their approach seeing how it's not going over so well with certain viewers. I'm not holding my breath, but we'll see. Actually, I never watched the Friday show, which I have recorded... but since no one is commenting on that particular show, I'm pretty certain he didn't address the election fraud issue, or Powell's Friday morning response to his bashing her the previous night.
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