Tucker Carlson get approximately 3.6 M viewers....

[brooklynite]

...or barely 1% of the population. He has significance only because we grant it to him.

[Kid Berwyn]

1. No. He has 3.6 million viewers.

Like Rush Limbaugh on Hate Radio, except it’s the tee vee.

[dchill]

2. They're watching him in Russia, too.

He's doing plenty of harm.

[haele]

3. Problem is he's curated and shared all over social media.

He gets a lot of other views that way, especially from people who might not otherwise seek him out after being exposed to his normal blather.

Haele

[brooklynite]

4. But the people who aren't watching Fox News are also not poking around on conservative social media.

[haele]

5. Facebook cesspool is exposing others to him.

Like I said, he's being curated or normalized.
My dad's cousin, who's into a lot of hobby groups, recently shared an edited 10 second soundbyte of Tucker's with my mom that sounded "reasonable" in a working class way and my mom had to remind her Tucker is a trust fund baby and a Conservative nutjob spokesman, so anything he says ends up hurting normal people and society in general.

Haele

[MacKasey]

10. Cesspool, that's what I call Facebook

Totally agree

[lagomorph777]

14. YouTube has been shoving Fucker, Fux, and Trump videos at me.

I flag each one as hateful and abusive content.

Hopefully that will help a little. At least on my feed.

[iemanja]

6. and a good portion of that is Democrats

More Democrats watch him than Rachel Maddow, which means they are responsible for his being on the airways.

[Archae]

9. Several years ago, Rachel Maddow showed why ratings are worthless.

Rachel showed 3 cable TV shows that were much higher than Bill O'Reilly (this was before O'Reilly lost his job at Fox,) a TV show about a guy who still pans for gold, a discussion of the TV program "Walking Dead," and one other.

There is also the fact, which news magazine sells more, US News And World Report, or the National Enquirer?
Obviously, the Enquirer.
The fact it does sell more doesn't mean they are more credible than US News And World Report, ratings and sales will always favor the sensational, and the guys with a big mouth.

[iemanja]

11. It keeps them Carlson in advertisers and makes him rich

and on the air. The point isn't credibility. It's contributing to GOP lies, and for some reason, Democrats make excuses for their culpability in that.

[Hoyt]

7. Think Carlson helps Democrats, more than hurts them. It's good for people

to see what white wingers are like.

Sure he attracts some folks, but believe he detracts more.

[Quixote1818]

8. That's a really good point. nt

[iemanja]

12. That's an excuse

Why are Democrats so anxious to fund the GOP's hate machine. https://thepoliticalinsider.com/more-democrats-in-key-demo-watch-tucker-carlson-than-any-other-show-including-rachel-maddow/
Obviously Democrats like him, in some way or another, or they wouldn't make up such a large portion of this audience. All I've heard is excuses for why Democrats watch him and therefore help keep him on the air. The crap he spews spreads like wildfire among the GOP. It helps no one but Republicans.

[Hoyt]

13. I've never known a Democrat to watch him. In any event, he ain't going away. We better learn

to counter these creeps. Fortunately, his audience is pretty small.

[iemanja]

16. People here do

One person posted an OP saying he recorded and watched it every day, and the ratings tracking suggest that large numbers of Dems do watch Carlson, as the article I linked to shows.

[Hoyt]

17. Well, if he only has 3.6 million viewers, let's say half of those are Democrats. That still less

than 2% or so of Democrats.

In any event, Carlson ain't going anywhere. So we better learn how to deal with his BS.

[iemanja]

19. That's not true

Read the article. He gets more Democratic viewers in the key demographic than Rachel Maddow does.

[Hoyt]

20. Sorry, it's still a small group. Heck, Maddow has a small following too in the scheme of things.

[Raine]

15. Those are very good ratings though for cable

I wouldn't hold my breath on him being dumped anytime soon.

[Torchlight]

18. You described modern currency as well.