Has anyone worked out a good hypothesis yet on how Tucker Carlson gets to say what he says and get away with it constantly. He just keeps going on. I'm totally stumped how no-one is clamping down on him.
I have to admit that I don’t feel sorry for Joe Biden one bit. He’s as corrupt as they get and he and his whole family have scammed millions in their criminal activities for decades. One can be sure that his actions have caused a lot of suffering to others. Now he is being exploited, sure, but he has unscrupulously exploited others for half a century. In life you get what you give.The blink I had is that he's suffering the same effects as Hillary after decades of lying.
Has anyone worked out a good hypothesis yet on how Tucker Carlson gets to say what he says and get away with it constantly. He just keeps going on. I'm totally stumped how no-one is clamping down on him.
Maddow’s audience has dipped on her two days back on the air since Attorney General William Barr reported that special counsel Robert Mueller had found no collusion between Trump and Russia’s efforts. Her audience of 2.5 million on Monday was 19 percent below her average this year, and it went down further to 2.3 million on Tuesday, the Nielsen company said.
Meanwhile, her head-to-head competitor on Fox News Channel, Sean Hannity, saw his audience soar on Monday to 4 million viewers, a 32 percent increase from his average. It slipped to 3.57 million on Tuesday. One of Trump’s most prominent media fans, Hannity was to interview the president on Wednesday’s show.
Hannity and Maddow have run neck-and-neck atop the cable news ratings this year, with Maddow having the slight edge.
Fox’s Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham also saw their audiences top their averages both days, while other prime-time hosts on MSNBC and CNN saw their audiences plunge.
The phenomenon isn’t unusual; political camps are more interested in watching news when it reflects well on their favorites, and vice versa. Maddow’s ratings dropped sharply in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election, as many fans of Hillary Clinton couldn’t bring themselves to watch the news after Trump’s victory, but eventually rebounded. Similarly, Hannity saw some ratings weakness late last year as bad news piled up for Trump.
Well, hypothetically, here is a guess>Has anyone worked out a good hypothesis yet on how Tucker Carlson gets to say what he says and get away with it constantly. He just keeps going on. I'm totally stumped how no-one is clamping down on him.
Fox is the controlled opposition. It is theater.
1. Tucker says something you and I think is both true and controversial.
2, We hear it on the news and think somebody is actually doing something but in reality, nobody is really doing anything.
It defuses the outrage by hearing the outrage expressed. "He is telling what I think is true and wrong, therefore I don't have to!"
3. Furthermore - those who agree with Carlson will also tend to agree without thinking critically, when Fox is designated to deliver some propaganda that no one would believe if it came from MSNBC.
Just thoughts
Spy vs Spy
As controversies erupt over the primary votes in several states, influential media voices are calling for further cloaking the electoral process in obscurity — in the name of protecting candidates and voters alike from the ravages of the coronavirus, of course. The epidemic — and America’s fragile democracy — demands nothing less.
“It’s time to cancel the US presidential campaign,” a not-at-all-alarmist headline from Council on Foreign Relations alumna Laurie Garrett screamed in Foreign Policy on Wednesday. The New York Times concurred, offering a less hysterical primer on “How to protect the election from coronavirus” on Thursday (spoiler alert: “let everyone vote by mail”) from the American Civil Liberties Union’s Dale Ho. And a cascade of blue-checks have weighed in with their support for the idea on social media.
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Bringing the campaigns online provides an obvious advantage to the favored establishment Democrat, Joe Biden, whose energy and coherence on the in-the-flesh campaign trail have been noticeably flagging. The former vice president profanely lashed out at a Michigan voter as that state headed to the polls on Tuesday, and attendance at his rallies has suffered from the same “enthusiasm gap” that plagued the 2016 establishment pick, Hillary Clinton. Democratic Socialist challenger Bernie Sanders — and President Donald Trump, for that matter — regularly fill large venues with enthusiastic crowds, making it difficult for even the most determined centrist pundits to claim Biden enjoys the overwhelming support of the American people. Canceling the nominating convention, as Garrett and other establishment stalwarts are calling for, plays into the hands of the DNC, whose lawyers infamously argued in response to a 2016 voter lawsuit that they could pick the party’s candidate in smoke-filled back rooms if they so desired.
The Vermont senator is the latest presidential hopeful from the initial 29 candidates to step down from the Democratic campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the only candidate from the party to stand in the election.
US Senator Bernie Sanders has quit the Democratic presidential race, his campaign revealed on Wednesday. The politician announced his decision to withdraw from the race in a conference call with his staff and is now planning to address his supporters via a livestream at 11:45 ET.
The senator's move effectively means that former Vice President Joe Biden will run against incumbent President Trump in this year's election.
I also like Dore quite a bit, but his ideological blinders cause him to trip on a number of things too. For example, he's bought into the whole COVID-19 crisis and thinks socialism is the answer.