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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,057 posts)
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 03:54 PM Mar 2021

New York Times Defends Reporter Taylor Lorenz From Tucker Carlson's 'Cruel' Attack

The New York Times is defending reporter Taylor Lorenz after Fux Noise wanker Tucker Carlson mocked her during a lengthy segment in a Tuesday night broadcast.

Carlson said Lorenz, a tech and internet culture reporter, was “at the top of journalism’s repulsive little food chain” and that she is “far younger” and “much less talented” than other prominent New York Times reporters in a segment discussing “powerful people claiming to be powerless.”

“You’d think Taylor Lorenz would be grateful for the remarkable good luck that she’s had. But no, she’s not,” Carlson said. He then read a tweet from Lorenz, posted on International Women’s Day, saying how online harassment and smear campaigns have destroyed her life.




“Destroyed her life, really? By most people’s standards, Taylor Lorenz would seem to have a pretty good life, one of the best lives in the country, in fact. Lots of people are suffering right now, but no one is suffering quite as much as Taylor Lorenz is suffering,” he continued.

On Wednesday, the New York Times released a statement defending Lorenz and calling Carlson’s comments “calculated and cruel.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/york-times-defends-reporter-taylor-220632625.html
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New York Times Defends Reporter Taylor Lorenz From Tucker Carlson's 'Cruel' Attack (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2021 OP
Tucker learned to harrass people from his father, Dick Carlson Beaverhausen Mar 2021 #1
+1 dalton99a Mar 2021 #2
If she'd said "negatively affected" instead of "destroyed" maxsolomon Mar 2021 #3
Thinks he's the new Lumbo LakeArenal Mar 2021 #4
fox, where assholes go to prosper spanone Mar 2021 #5
Shorter genxlib Mar 2021 #6
You'd think Tucker Carlson would be grateful for the remarkable good luck that he's had. Midnight Writer Mar 2021 #7

Beaverhausen

(24,470 posts)
1. Tucker learned to harrass people from his father, Dick Carlson
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 03:59 PM
Mar 2021

did any of you watch "The Lady and the Dale" on HBO?

Tucker's father was a real piece of shit.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-lady-and-the-dale-reveals-tucker-carlsons-dads-anti-trans-crusade-against-grifter-elizabeth-carmichael

"As The Lady and the Dale conveys through TV clips and candid new chats with the reporter, Carlson became fixated on Liz, doing 20+ pieces on her during which he not only uncovered her business’ shadiness, but went out of his way to condescendingly refer to her with male pronouns, and to suggest that she was a guy pretending to be the opposite gender in order to disguise her fugitive identity and to garner publicity. Liz’s brother Charles still appears rightly disgusted by this, and to further underline Carlson’s anti-trans noxiousness, Cammilleri and Drucker’s series touches upon the reporter’s notorious 1976 outing of trans tennis player Renée Richards, which thrust her into the media spotlight and complicated her efforts to turn pro. Even today, Carlson seems unrepentant, going so far as to say that if Liz’s behavior is normal, then so too is Jeffrey Dahmer’s."

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)
3. If she'd said "negatively affected" instead of "destroyed"
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:02 PM
Mar 2021

that vile propagandist would still have smeared her.

they have to have a constant drumbeat of denigration or their audience of simpletons will forget to hate liberals.

Midnight Writer

(21,770 posts)
7. You'd think Tucker Carlson would be grateful for the remarkable good luck that he's had.
Thu Mar 11, 2021, 04:24 PM
Mar 2021

But no, he's not.

Instead, he's full of hate and contempt for, apparently, pretty much everyone.

This man could use his inherited riches to make the world better. Or he could simply live a happy life of luxury. But no. He has chosen to make his mission in life spreading hate.

What a loser.

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