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babylonsister

(171,079 posts)
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 08:36 AM Jan 2021

CNN Host Shreds 'Propagandist, Liar, Parasite' Tucker Carlson's Racist Insurrection Denialism

Video at link-she is terrific!!

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/01/brianna-keilar-shreds-tucker-carlson-s

1/08/21 2:52pm
CNN Host Shreds 'Propagandist, Liar, Parasite' Tucker Carlson’s Racist Insurrection Denialism
Brianna Keilar smashed to smithereens Tucker Carlson’s refusal to admit that the MAGA sedition riot at the Capitol was anything more than a “political protest that got out of hand.”
By NewsHound Ellen


Unable to defend the MAGAites and their cult leader Donald Trump, Carlson has tried to deflect by making the critics and the media the real villains.

CARLSON: What happened yesterday, they're telling us, wasn't simply that a political protest got out of hand after the president recklessly encouraged it. That is in fact what happened, but it's not what they're saying. Instead, they're calling it domestic terrorism. CNN describes it as an insurrection. Today, CNN unveiled a Soviet-style enemies list to make it a little easier to find all those Trump supporters and then destroy them.

Keilar quoted from Merriam-Webster and aired video (“since this guy pretends not to understand big words”) to show that yes, indeed, the armed takeover of the Capitol this week was an insurrection and sedition, “incited by the president calling his supporters to action.”

But what’s especially despicable about Carlson’s whitewash of the MAGA insurrection is how it compares to his demonization of Black Lives Matter protests. Keilar brought receipts:

CARLSON: It’s BLM and antifa, crazed ideologues, grifters, criminals, antisocial thugs with no stake in society, nothing better to do than to hurt people and destroy things.

These are not protests. This is not about George Floyd. This is not about systemic racism, whatever that is. America is not a racist country. They flood the streets with angry young people who break things and they hurt anyone who gets in the way. When they want something, they take it.

They’re the armed militia of the Democratic party. They’re working to overthrow our system of government. They're trying to put themselves in power. That's all obvious now.


Then she pounced. Here’s the shot.

KEILAR: Tucker Carlson rolls his eyes at the idea of systemic racism, at white privilege, but perhaps he should roll those eyes on over to a mirror. It's entirely fantastical to think that crowds of Black or Brown Americans would have been treated as the mostly white insurrectionists at the Capitol were on Wednesday. He doesn’t treat them equally.

Yes, looting is criminal behavior punishable under the law. But what we saw on Tuesday is so much more than that. And saying otherwise is false equivalence. To liken the siege on the Capitol to the violence and property damage during the summer of Black Lives Matter is to ignore that this is the United States Capitol, the seat of government, at a moment in time when the vice president is presiding over a joint session of Congress, both the House and Senate present, as they were in the process of making Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election, a fair election, official.

This isn't a Target store. This isn't a statue. This is the Capitol, supposedly one of the most secure buildings on earth.



Since he needs things explained to him in pictures, here is one. An insurrectionist parading a Confederate flag through the Capitol, the inaugural appearance there of this symbol of the American states that tried to secede from this nation under the mantle of slavery, based on the belief that Black people were inferior to white people and it was God's will to enslave them.


And the chaser:

KEILAR: When Tucker Carlson was arguing against the renaming of military bases named after Confederate generals and against the tearing down of Confederate statues, he said, quote, a country is the sum total of its history, good and bad. He said, quote, eliminating the past leaves us unable to say who we are. Well, he's trying to eliminate the present and he is spoon-feeding it to millions of hungry viewers who tune into his show. Healthy societies do not destroy their own history, he said last summer, but what he didn't cop to is that he is part of the illness, a propagandist, a liar, a parasite.


Brava!
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CNN Host Shreds 'Propagandist, Liar, Parasite' Tucker Carlson's Racist Insurrection Denialism (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2021 OP
Was tuckstain trying to say that was antifa? dawg day Jan 2021 #1
Yes, antifa and blm. nt babylonsister Jan 2021 #3
They don't have to. Their viewers are so brainwashed they haven't Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2021 #5
I'm not tucker carlson but even my ass is on fire Watchfoxheadexplodes Jan 2021 #2
Keep Radicalizing The Klan Tucker DanieRains Jan 2021 #4
I Knew Ms. Keilar's Name Would Appear ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #6
I ventured over to cnn babylonsister Jan 2021 #10
For Me, It Was... ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #11
she's great mnmoderatedem Jan 2021 #7
Carlson was conflating the Confederacy to the USA. ananda Jan 2021 #8
👀 underpants Jan 2021 #9
Keilar truly is talented at skewering the RW. radius777 Jan 2021 #12

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,771 posts)
5. They don't have to. Their viewers are so brainwashed they haven't
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 08:56 AM
Jan 2021

got a clue what constitutes a valid argument. Any gibberish, no matter how blatantly based, based in lies, and lacking in logic, especially if it blames the people they hate and praises their Dear Leader or his loyalists, is good enough for them.

ProfessorGAC

(65,136 posts)
6. I Knew Ms. Keilar's Name Would Appear
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 08:57 AM
Jan 2021

When I read "CNN Host Shreds", I instantly knew it would be her.
I truly admire her " take no prisoners" approach to that crowd.

babylonsister

(171,079 posts)
10. I ventured over to cnn
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 09:25 AM
Jan 2021

a few months ago to escape Chuck Todd at the 1pm time slot and was hooked from the get-go.

ProfessorGAC

(65,136 posts)
11. For Me, It Was...
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 10:39 AM
Jan 2021

...when it was still too cold to play golf, and I wasn't subbing with the schools closed.
I was following the pandemic and her calling the jester's statements about COVID lies hooked me.
Not "misinformed" or "exaggeration" or "mistakes". Lies!
Then she'd have a defender on and tell them "wrong" or "that's a lie".
By early April, I was in the fan club.

mnmoderatedem

(3,728 posts)
7. she's great
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 09:02 AM
Jan 2021

become more outspoken and fearless as events unfolded during the trump misadministration. She's easy on the eyes too. As I understand it, she's already married. Dang!

radius777

(3,635 posts)
12. Keilar truly is talented at skewering the RW.
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 11:12 AM
Jan 2021

She's cool and calm with a fiery edge and puts together some really good segments... deserves a prime time show where she could really let loose.

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