Tucker Carlson's rage at Zelensky caps a year of getting things wrong

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Tucker is working for Putin and this has not been a fun year

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/23/tucker-carlson-zelensky-speech-congress-2022-elections/

Carlson’s rant carried a more hateful edge than usual, a kind of shrill fury. Perhaps that’s because Zelensky’s presence before Congress was far more humiliating to Carlson and his ideological comrades than to anyone else: It demonstrated how badly they misjudged Ukraine’s will to resist Russian conquest and the durability of the U.S. commitment to our beleaguered ally.

This represents the failure of a worldview, a strain of far-right authoritarian populism, that goes well beyond Ukraine. A whole lot of things have happened that — in Carlson’s mental universe — were not supposed to happen......

In his diatribe, Carlson depicted Zelensky as little more than a sleazy street thug who had come to “demand money” from Congress, telling his audience that the lawmakers “love him much more than they love you.” He exaggerated Ukraine’s conditions for ending the war, depicting Ukraine as the unreasonable party.

Carlson has long insisted that Ukrainians are “pawns” in the United States’ quest for “regime change” in Russia, predicting our warmongering would trigger nuclear catastrophe. He has trivialized the invasion as a faraway “border dispute,” and has scoffed that Democrats are hypnotizing Americans into feeling “hate” for Russia.....

Carlson’s show also promoted 18 GOP candidates who went on to lose, as tallied by Matthew Gertz of Media Matters. And while Carlson backed Ohio Sen.-elect J.D. Vance, he also hawked Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters as “the future of the GOP.” That’s almost certainly because Masters’s demonization of migrants (including ads featuring machine-gun fire at the border) was peerless. But Masters lost by 5 points — in a border state.

Outside our borders, Carlson also lionized Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as one of the great illiberal populist hopes of the Western Hemisphere. This year, Bolsonaro was ousted after one term. (To be fair, Carlson was able to celebrate a hard right victory — in Italy.).....

But a year ago one couldn’t have predicted that Carlson’s brand of politics would be repudiated in so many ways. If that prompts a bit of, dare we say, Carlson-grade smugness from his critics, well, it’s well deserved.

[cbabe]

1. He's not a lone wolf. There is a whole team

working with and supporting him.

Script writers and lighting tech and make up and tailor and floor crew and office clerks and limo driver and.

They are all complicit. Tucker wouldn’t exist without them.

Ukraine is chasing down collaborators. Past time we did the same.

[Effete Snob]

2. "caps --another-- year" - they left out a word /nt

[underpants]

3. 👀

[Martin Eden]

4. Why does Murdoch continue to feature this tool of Vlad Putin?

First reason I can think of is Carlson attracts viewers and therefore advertising dollars.

Second is Murdoch wants liberal democracy replaced by authoritarian autocracy. As a propaganda tool of the regime, Fox would gain even more influence and wealth for the Murdoch family.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Murdoch is not the only Fascist Oligarch eXtremist trying to take over.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I hope that tucker is watching the arrest of this asshole

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