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"[...]How Far Will Republicans Go To Bring America to Her Knees on Behalf of Putin & Trump?
[...]Putin has declared war on queer people, proclaimed Russia a “Christian nation,” and shut down all the media he called “fake news.” Check, check, check.
[...]The war in Gaza is making it even easier, with Putin-aligned politicians like Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) tweeting: “Any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel immediately.”
P - Russia’s battlefield, in other words, has now shifted from Ukraine to the US political system and our homes via radio, TV, and the internet, all in the hopes of ending US aid to the democracy they’ve brutally attacked.
[...]They believe it will help them in the 2024 election if they can ruin the US economy while convincing American voters that our system of government is so corrupt (“deep state”) that we should consider replacing democracy with an autocratic strongman form of government like Putin’s Russia. Tucker Carlson is even suggesting that Russia is a better place to live than the US.
[...]Republican-aligned think tanks are working on Project 2025, a naked attempt to consolidate power in the White House to support a strongman president who can override the will of the people, privatize Social Security and Medicare, shut down our public school system, fully criminalize abortion and homosexuality (Sam Alito called for something like that this week), and abandon our democratic allies in favor of a realignment with Russia, China, and North Korea.
P - Trump got us here by openly playing to the fears and prejudices of white people who are freaked out by the rapid post-1964 “browning” of America. Putin jumped in to help amplify the message a thousandfold with his social media trolls, who are posting thousands of times a day as you read these words. "
Related:
Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview wasn’t journalism. It was sycophancy
[...]The reasons were never completely clear. But they surely had something to do with the huge settlement – $787m – that Fox had just paid to Dominion Voting Systems after the network circulated lies about the 2020 election and that company’s supposed role.
P - ]Carlson has never been a stickler for the truth, as he proved in the run-up to this interview, when he claimed that he was the only western media figure who cared enough to get Putin on the record.
P - That’s absurd. Many American reporters have tried unsuccessfully to sit down with Putin, especially since the invasion of Ukraine.
P - But the Russian president was waiting for the right stooge. With Carlson, he got just that.
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"I’m enraged that my private texts were pulled,” Carlson said during an appearance on WABC radio.
[Carlson Trump Liv Golf Invitational] Tucker Carlson on Tuesday tried to walk back texts after the 2020 election saying he was fed up with then-President Donald Trump's false claims of rigged voting.Rich Graessle / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images file
March 23, 2023, 12:10 AM AEDT
By Summer Concepcion
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday attempted to walk back his private text messages saying that he was fed up with then-President Donald Trump after the 2020 election, which were revealed in documents this month as part of a $1.6 billion Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit against the network.
During an appearance on WABC radio, Carlson said he was “enraged” that his private texts were revealed.
“And I think this is in the text, and those were all grabbed completely illegitimately, in my opinion, in this court case, which I guess I’m not allowed to talk about, but I’m enraged that my private texts were pulled,” he said.
Fox News producer alleges network coerced her into giving misleading testimony in Dominion suit 02:28
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/fox-news-producer-alleges-network-coerced-her-into-giving-misleading-testimony-in-dominion-suit-166078533940
The Fox News host said those texts were pulled at a moment when he was texting with one of his producers because “some idiot on the Trump campaign had sent us the name of these dead voters who had voted,” referring to his false reporting after the 2020 election that echoed the Trump campaign’s unfounded claims of dead people who were fraudulently counted as voting in Georgia. After Carlson’s segment aired, a local Georgia news outlet .. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/2-georgians-accused-of-being-dead-and-voting-are-alive/85-88dff3c1-8e78-4ac2-ae9c-96838e5b02a8 .. debunked his claim, finding that two of the allegedly dead voters were alive and legally registered to vote, with CNN reporting days later that a third of the supposedly dead voters was also still living.
“And we went and I repeated them on air, and it turns out some of them were alive,” Carlson said, referring to the campaign's accusation. “So I was just — I felt humiliated.”
Carlson’s interview came the same day as a key hearing in Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox News, in which a Delaware judge considered whether to rule on any part of the case ahead of a jury trial.
Carlson was among the network’s hosts and executives who decried Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen in private text messages and emails revealed in hundreds of pages of court filings made public this month, despite the network’s promotion of the false claims on air.
In private text messages Jan. 4, 2021, Carlson said he was done with Trump and his unfounded claims of a rigged election.
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” he texted an unidentified person.
“I hate him passionately. ... I can’t handle much more of this,” he added.
Carlson’s private texts starkly contrasted what he had been telling viewers during his primetime show.
“We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest,” he wrote in another text message, referring to the “last four years.” “But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”
Fox News at the time came under fire from its core audience after it reported the 2020 election results accurately.
A judge unsealed the documents containing the private messages this month as part of Dominion’s defamation suit against Fox News.
In a statement after the judge’s ruling, Fox News accused Dominion of using “more distractions and misinformation” in an effort to a “smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press.”
Summer Concepcion is a politics reporter for NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/tucker-carlson-backtracks-private-texts-saying-hates-trump-love-trump-rcna76056
"[...]How Far Will Republicans Go To Bring America to Her Knees on Behalf of Putin & Trump?
[...]Putin has declared war on queer people, proclaimed Russia a “Christian nation,” and shut down all the media he called “fake news.” Check, check, check.
[...]The war in Gaza is making it even easier, with Putin-aligned politicians like Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) tweeting: “Any funding for Ukraine should be redirected to Israel immediately.”
P - Russia’s battlefield, in other words, has now shifted from Ukraine to the US political system and our homes via radio, TV, and the internet, all in the hopes of ending US aid to the democracy they’ve brutally attacked.
[...]They believe it will help them in the 2024 election if they can ruin the US economy while convincing American voters that our system of government is so corrupt (“deep state”) that we should consider replacing democracy with an autocratic strongman form of government like Putin’s Russia. Tucker Carlson is even suggesting that Russia is a better place to live than the US.
[...]Republican-aligned think tanks are working on Project 2025, a naked attempt to consolidate power in the White House to support a strongman president who can override the will of the people, privatize Social Security and Medicare, shut down our public school system, fully criminalize abortion and homosexuality (Sam Alito called for something like that this week), and abandon our democratic allies in favor of a realignment with Russia, China, and North Korea.
P - Trump got us here by openly playing to the fears and prejudices of white people who are freaked out by the rapid post-1964 “browning” of America. Putin jumped in to help amplify the message a thousandfold with his social media trolls, who are posting thousands of times a day as you read these words. "
Related:
Tucker Carlson’s Putin interview wasn’t journalism. It was sycophancy
[...]The reasons were never completely clear. But they surely had something to do with the huge settlement – $787m – that Fox had just paid to Dominion Voting Systems after the network circulated lies about the 2020 election and that company’s supposed role.
P - ]Carlson has never been a stickler for the truth, as he proved in the run-up to this interview, when he claimed that he was the only western media figure who cared enough to get Putin on the record.
P - That’s absurd. Many American reporters have tried unsuccessfully to sit down with Putin, especially since the invasion of Ukraine.
P - But the Russian president was waiting for the right stooge. With Carlson, he got just that.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173832360
All links
"I’m enraged that my private texts were pulled,” Carlson said during an appearance on WABC radio.
[Carlson Trump Liv Golf Invitational] Tucker Carlson on Tuesday tried to walk back texts after the 2020 election saying he was fed up with then-President Donald Trump's false claims of rigged voting.Rich Graessle / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images file
March 23, 2023, 12:10 AM AEDT
By Summer Concepcion
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday attempted to walk back his private text messages saying that he was fed up with then-President Donald Trump after the 2020 election, which were revealed in documents this month as part of a $1.6 billion Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit against the network.
During an appearance on WABC radio, Carlson said he was “enraged” that his private texts were revealed.
“And I think this is in the text, and those were all grabbed completely illegitimately, in my opinion, in this court case, which I guess I’m not allowed to talk about, but I’m enraged that my private texts were pulled,” he said.
Fox News producer alleges network coerced her into giving misleading testimony in Dominion suit 02:28
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/fox-news-producer-alleges-network-coerced-her-into-giving-misleading-testimony-in-dominion-suit-166078533940
The Fox News host said those texts were pulled at a moment when he was texting with one of his producers because “some idiot on the Trump campaign had sent us the name of these dead voters who had voted,” referring to his false reporting after the 2020 election that echoed the Trump campaign’s unfounded claims of dead people who were fraudulently counted as voting in Georgia. After Carlson’s segment aired, a local Georgia news outlet .. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/2-georgians-accused-of-being-dead-and-voting-are-alive/85-88dff3c1-8e78-4ac2-ae9c-96838e5b02a8 .. debunked his claim, finding that two of the allegedly dead voters were alive and legally registered to vote, with CNN reporting days later that a third of the supposedly dead voters was also still living.
“And we went and I repeated them on air, and it turns out some of them were alive,” Carlson said, referring to the campaign's accusation. “So I was just — I felt humiliated.”
Carlson’s interview came the same day as a key hearing in Dominion’s lawsuit against Fox News, in which a Delaware judge considered whether to rule on any part of the case ahead of a jury trial.
Carlson was among the network’s hosts and executives who decried Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen in private text messages and emails revealed in hundreds of pages of court filings made public this month, despite the network’s promotion of the false claims on air.
In private text messages Jan. 4, 2021, Carlson said he was done with Trump and his unfounded claims of a rigged election.
“We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” he texted an unidentified person.
“I hate him passionately. ... I can’t handle much more of this,” he added.
Carlson’s private texts starkly contrasted what he had been telling viewers during his primetime show.
“We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest,” he wrote in another text message, referring to the “last four years.” “But come on. There isn’t really an upside to Trump.”
Fox News at the time came under fire from its core audience after it reported the 2020 election results accurately.
A judge unsealed the documents containing the private messages this month as part of Dominion’s defamation suit against Fox News.
In a statement after the judge’s ruling, Fox News accused Dominion of using “more distractions and misinformation” in an effort to a “smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press.”
Summer Concepcion is a politics reporter for NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/tucker-carlson-backtracks-private-texts-saying-hates-trump-love-trump-rcna76056
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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