Boy, somebody should write a piece about Tucker Carlson, the top-rated cable news host by a wide margin. It’s funny how we never hear he mentioned, especially since he hosts the “most racist program in the history of cable news.” Get this, and we’re not kidding: The New York Times can do an analysis of 1,150 episodes of “The Tucker Carlson Show” and deem it the most racist show ever while, like CNN’s Brian Stelter, completely ignoring that absolute bat-s**t racism shown on MSNBC’s Joy Reid’s “The ReidOut” every single night. No one ever calls out Reid for her racism and conspiracy theories, even after she claimed “hackers” were responsible for homophobic content on her old blog. Wake me up when the Times does a three-part series on Reid.
Today, @nytimes is publishing “American Nationalist,” our 3-part investigation into the fall and rise of Tucker Carlson and the transformation of American conservatism. Part 1 will appear in Sunday’s paper. A 🧵on our story and findings: https://t.co/pfj78NBwsw
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) April 30, 2022
More successfully than almost anyone else, Carlson has taken a set of themes and conspiracy theories, formerly caged on the fringe of American politics, and brought them to a mainstream audience. His show may be the most racist program in the history of cable news.
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) April 30, 2022
Even better? This isn’t an opinion. It’s fact.
This isn’t an opinion or a take. It’s a fact — supported by our content analysis of 1,150 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” by @karenyourish @dawncai624 @larrybuch and their colleagues @nytgraphics. That's Part 3 of our series. https://t.co/sjlXv2kf9k
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) April 30, 2022
Night after night, Carlson warns his viewers that they inhabit a civilization under siege — by violent Black Lives Matter protesters in cities, by diseased migrants from south of the border, by refugees importing alien cultures, by falling birthrates & a hateful “ruling class.”
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) April 30, 2022
This narrative originates with various white nationalists, neo-Nazis, “alt-right” types and so-called “identitarians” on the right, who have said that Carlson is the best advocate around for their ideas. Thanks to Carlson, more GOP politicians echo those ideas, too.
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) April 30, 2022
Even Nick Confessore knows enough to put “alt-right” in quotation marks because no one’s managed to define it yet.
guys.
— Caleb A Shrum (@CalebAShrum) April 30, 2022
Great, 5,000 words of carefully considered thumbsucking carefully curated for college educated centrists. I'm sure this is going to get lots of attention. (It won't).
— 408Nate (@408Nate) April 30, 2022
Left-wing media's latest hatchet job on their much more successful competitor.
— BillHobson (@BillHobson1) April 30, 2022
Yawn – another day, another corporate media smear job on Tucker Carlson.
These people are so deluded that they really do convince themselves that their ridiculous leftwing opinion takes are "facts." pic.twitter.com/TmQh3Jv3QF
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) April 30, 2022
New proscribed pronouns just dropped pic.twitter.com/oVSNNdhJXh
— NPR Tote Bag Normie (@paper_american) April 30, 2022
"A New York Times analysis of 1,150 episodes reveals how Tucker Carlson pushes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories into millions of households." Over time "the show has gotten darker…" https://t.co/bsAR023d8b
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 30, 2022
And in all 1,150 episodes he beat every show on CNN in the ratings.
But I will say that making NYT reporters watch 5 years of Tucker to own the right is hilarious. https://t.co/yxWloVuwRu
— Royce Lopez (Activist) 🏴 (@hippojuicefilm) April 30, 2022
Hey, how’s y’all’s campaign to get
Tucker and Fox kicked off TV going? https://t.co/TsFV2hqWMs— Matthew D. Dempster (@dempstermd) April 30, 2022
This fuckin’ potato would have you believe Tucker is any more of an extremist than he is. Then turns replies off because he knows he’s wrong. https://t.co/WJ7fPsFgOz
— alec (@dontcallmebruna) April 30, 2022
I wonder who the Ministry of Truth will target first?
Guessing it's not gonna be Stelter or Ried. https://t.co/ivpGzyN9Cj
— Uncle Mike (@1968f100) April 30, 2022
Tucker Carlson has zapped you out of every ounce of life…. https://t.co/xHCxLhdM8h
— SickOfItAll😡 (@JacobDelguercio) April 30, 2022
Imagine being so universally disliked and wrong on everything, that you can’t even let people comment on your posts. Stelter is an epic failure and 💯 clown. https://t.co/JsQWYBN8kJ
— Sig Jordan 🇺🇸 (@jordan_sig) April 30, 2022
Brian still believes they get to decide who’s an extremist. Silly potato. https://t.co/UlPv6LDWWN
— theRoddick (@OriginalRoddick) April 30, 2022
Rating success directly corresponds to reporting the truth. You know, actual journalism. A lesson the failed @NYTimes could learn from.
— Chris McCown (@ChrisMcCown) April 30, 2022
No, Carlson’s rating success corresponds to the majority of cable news viewers being alt-right white supremacists. He wouldn’t be the number one program in cable news without them, would he?
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