Tucker Indignant After GOPer Calls His Show 'Russian Disinformation'

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/03/tucker-indignant-after-goper-calls-his

Tucker Indignant After GOPer Calls His Show 'Russian Disinformation'
He claims it's "slander." What part did Rep. Michael McCaul get wrong?
By Susie Madrak — March 18, 2022
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Last night, Tucker Carlson accused a Texas GOP congressman of slandering him. Via The Daily Beast:

Carlson claimed that Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) “has told a number of people that this show is an organ of Russian disinformation.”

“In other words, not only are we wrong—which is fine—we are disloyal Americans. We’re doing the bidding of a foreign power,” Carlson said of what he believes to be McCaul’s opinion.

IT IS MERE COINCIDENCE THAT TUCKER LINES UP WITH PUTIN TALKING POINTS! HOW DARE HE IMPLY OTHERWISE?

“That is not fine,” Carlson said. “That is slander.”

No, Tucker. No, it isn't. Slander requires a FALSE STATEMENT. What did Rep. McCaul say that isn't true? I mean, when the Kremlin is telling state TV they have to run your clips, doesn't that prove his point?

Carlson, whose frequent Kremlin-friendly commentary has been cited approvingly on Russian state television, dismissed McCaul’s alleged criticism by claiming that his show is “only and narrowly interested in the interests of our own country.” The Fox News host added that “we don’t care what the Russian government says”—only what the U.S. does. (Perhaps that explains his apparent indifference to being used as an instrument of Russian propaganda.)

Go ahead, Tucker. Don't make empty threats. I double-dog dare you to sue Rep. McCaul for libel. Remember the process of discovery? Let's get into your bank statements and see just what shakes out.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Keep it up, Rep. McCaul! Make yourself good for SOMEthing!

[catrose]

23. For a change

[Zorro]

40. Tucker 'jes called ya a slanderer, McCaul. Whatcha gotta say 'bout dat?

Someone should get his response.

[MagickMuffin]

2. YeeHaw! Finally a Texas republicon speaking the truth

Can't wait for the lawsuit, tucker!

[Justice matters.]

3. It's just circus bluster.

Faux Noise as a whole should be deported to Russia.

[jcgoldie]

4. brilliant

So smart Carlson to make headlines of people within your own party calling out your Russian propaganda. Keep talking by all means.

[czarjak]

5. "I'm for Russia" is treason.

[Mad_Machine76]

13. Like he said

"Why should we hate Putin?"

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

34. Remember

He told us that putin doesn't eat dog. W e l l, as long as he doesn't do that . . .

[Ohio Joe]

6. Poor old Tucky...

Siding with murderous dictators does not seem to be working out for him.

[dalton99a]

7. Kick

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216496763

[calimary]

18. Ouch!!!!!

Ouch, Ouch, and Ouch!

Truth hurts.

[soldierant]

29. Using the terms "Soviet" and "Comrade" imply that the Societ Union

still exists (it doesn't) and that Russia is a Communist nation (it isn't) I believe at one time Russia actually used the word "capitalism" but whether or not that is still the case,the current Russian system most resembles a Russian Orthodox Taliban. Look how cozy Putin and the Patriarch are - and how they speak with one voice. Remember how Pussy Riot was slammed for disrespecting the church. They are not as loud about it, or at least not to the world, as our American Taliban is - but it
s there.

I think if we miss this, if we fail to point it out, we are missing a really good tool for comminicating what has been and is happening - there AND here.

[grantcart]

38. Agree on references to SU

Disagree on equating to Taliban. Russia's current form of government is nest described as a Kleptocracy. Had Putin not
Invaded Ukraine he could have lived his life in luxury.

[soldierant]

45. You may have missed this

along with a bunch more articles on the topic.

If evangelicl Christians are accepting and loudly praising him as a defender of christianity, I think we should be paying attention. There's no telling how deeply this could get engrained intoRepublicans.

[TheFarseer]

43. You make an important point

Calling these Facists "communists" feeds into the GOP narrative that socialists/communists/ anything left is bad and is not helpful to us. Also, it's just not accurate to call facists "communists". This modern Russia is very much Right Wing.

[soldierant]

46. Thanks.

And please do consider also the fact that evangelical "Christians" here are starting to say Putin is defending Christian values from degenerate libersla. There is no telling how that could end up.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

35. I almost thought that was Stephen Miller in that second cartoon !

[LakeArenal]

8. To me Tucker is more of a tool than an organ.

However he is a dick.

[ancianita]

17. There's a law against consistently giving aid and comfort to our self-identified enemy.

[soldierant]

47. Not necessaril;y to a self identified one - but to one against whom war has been declared.

An enemy which has self-identified by committing acts of war against us, probably, yes - andPutin has been very careful to be all talk and cyber-action against us and avoid military action against us.

[ancianita]

48. Thank you for the important distinction; so then based on that legal turn, imo, we need to

just stop complaining about his echoing Russian talking points and general toxic garbage.

It corrupts democracy.
It's corrupt to allow Murdoch's & Carlson's weaponizing the first amendment to promote the empire goals of a foreign leader because they admire the 'brutal manly honesty' of a civilian murderer, and a history eraser, and destroyer of sovereign neighbors under his own Big "self defense" Lie.

It's their four-year train wreck, and they want us to keep staring at it as they pull their 2022 midterm state levers.

Far as I'm concerned, I'm just not wasting any more time on caring what alt-right media say.

In this midterm, focusing my money, manpower and messaging is my priority.

[soldierant]

49. Messaging is probably our best resource.

Civil suits against the Russian cheerleaders are posssible if we can figure out how to have standing to sur. Of course anyone dorectly slandered or libeled can sue. If our messaging can tempt them into slander/libel, that might be a path. Not a comfortable path, like getting them charged with treason, bu could definitely be worth it/.

[paleotn]

9. That's the truth, Fucker. Live with it.

[BlueIdaho]

10. Fuck that Traitor

He might as well be getting his daily talking points directly from Putin.

[Jetheels]

11. I think bow tie baby has modeled himself after

Joseph Goebbels, the chief propagandist for the Nazi party.
In a sane world he would be hauled off in a straight jacket and thrown in Guantanamo.
But we’re living in the upside down.

[Mad_Machine76]

12. If you listen to Tucker Carlson for any length of time

Being indignant is his usual state of being whenever he is accused of something that is actually true. Don't forget that he got huffy last year about the NSA monitoring his communications WITH RUSSIA! His excuse was that he was trying to get an interview WITH PUTIN, which, as he says, is his God-given right as an American!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

25. link please?

Thanks.

[Mad_Machine76]

28. For what?

It was on his show last year. Listen to the Tuckered Out podcast. They delve into it.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

30. The NSA thing eluded me.

"Don't forget that he got huffy last year about the NSA monitoring his communications WITH RUSSIA!"

He's so like tfg.

We have drifted very far from the actual Constitution. Politics seems to have made it toothless.

[PatSeg]

14. Oh, that is really rich

Tucker Carlson accusing anyone else of slander. Does he not hear the words coming out of his mouth every damn night?

Guess McCaul got a little too close to home and it is amazing that Tucker didn't know it was coming.

[calimary]

15. Well, Tucks, isn't that exactly what you're doing?

Isn’t that exactly who and what you ARE, now, son?

You’ve been doing the “aid and comfort to the enemy” thing for quite awhile. Live on TV, night after night. You’re nothing but an enemy sympathizer with a media platform. You should be yanked off the air. NOW. Selling out your country on prime time every night.

You should be yanked off the air. IMMEDIATELY.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

16. Good for Representative McCaul

It is long past time for GOPers who don't believe all of this BS to break ranks and speak out.

[calimary]

19. Hard to believe I actually approve of a Republican.

But I guess there are always exceptions.

[Tommymac]

22. I sometime approve of their actions. I never approve of them, however.

I understand completely where you are coming from claimary, in their case it's a hard thing to differentiate the horse from the shit.

ALL reTHUGlicans are hateful, racist, misogynistic people by definition. If one votes fro them, one is them.

[The Wizard]

20. If there ever was a guy who

needed a sound beating...... How much does Putin pay Murdoch for the propaganda outlet.

[Traildogbob]

21. In hindsight

If Democrats would have allowed Jarod’s request for a secure back channel direct comm network to Pooty, President Biden could have been in direct instant communication with Vladdy and no need for the Middle man interpreter, Tucker, to misrepresent any communications that lead to Putin’s genuine political discourse and peace keeping hero’s to deploy.

[BobTheSubgenius]

24. If this is an implied threat on TC's part, as it seems to be,

it is reckless and incredibly ill-advised. It's the same kind of ranting as the Russian official saying that Russia was powerful enough to put all its enemies "in their place."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. tucker is now working for Putin

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. tucker is a Russian asset

Link to tweet

[YoshidaYui]

31. Tucker can go

Sit on it and rotate!

[riversedge]

32. oh suck it up Tucker, you widdle crybaby!!

[Dopers_Greed]

33. If Tucker's show is an "organ"

It's definitely the large intestine.

[lambchopp59]

36. Just when you think Fox Noise couldn't get any more hypocritical

Along comes Tuck Carltooth.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. PROPAGAND-OFF: Russian State Media vs. US Right-Wing Media

The Daily Show did a great job on this

Link to tweet

[Cha]

39. KR TY!

💙💛

[ShazzieB]

41. Tucker Carlson is a Russian ass

kisser.

[The Jungle 1]

42. That is the part about slander that many people don't understand.

You can say a fat man is fat if he is fat. A rapist will always be a rapist. But if the statement is not true then it is slander.
Tucker is an asset for russia and that is a true statement.
He is a filthy puke who is cheerleader for a country that is blowing up children in hospitals. Russia has no excuse for what they are doing.

[orleans]

44. k&r n/t