Kimmel on Tucker

Jimmy Kimmel Shreds 'Despicable Mother Tucker' Carlson With Blasts From The Past 

  Entertaining and informative video. Quite honestly I never watch the show but I found the Trump rant the most revealing and disturbing. All these ‘losers’ that he names are far more intelligent, interesting and informative than he, who is truly the Biggest Loser. Trumps unmitigated narcism and aggressive lying has brought more shame to America and done more harm to America than any president at any time in our history. I used to like Trump, I used to watch him on the Apprentice and look for his name on buildings when I visited New York. In those days his unabashed egotism was entertaining and relatively harmless but as President and now as former President he paints the darkest picture of America preaching this sermon of doom and gloom at the hand of the ‘liberals’ In all of my years, which are more than Trump, I never ever doubted the greatness of America or the love I have for my country. Trump, and his legionnaires of media hatred at Fox News, are tearing away at the fabric of honesty, integrity and sense of community that actually does make America great and holds our country together. 

I’m so glad that talented people as Kimmel, Letterman, Colbert, Meyers, Noah, Cordon https://youtu.be/aFS9ytY_ZqE 

and others can be articulate and knowledgeable and yet still find the humor in the sadness and shame that Trump/Carlson/Fox/Newsmax etc. are inflicting on our country. I love capitalism but I don’t like it when people capitalize on our susceptibility to misinformation, hatred and vicious lies.

One more thing… growing up we watched the news for a half an hour every night. It was the news with trusted names like Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite. They faithfully reported the news with minor inflections, a touch of sadness when JFK was gunned down, or excitement when America landed on the moon, One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Rupert Murdock took the nightly news, a nightly public service loss leader to the networks and turned Faux News into a 24 hour profit driven slasher movie. Ratings addicts assault us with fear mongering innuendo where all of our problems can be blamed on the other guy and sadly convenient scapegoats are easy prey.

Tucker Carlson

For the Murdochs, Tucker Carlson had become more trouble than he was worth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/26/tucker-carlson-rupert-murdoch-fired/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F39d3fbd%2F64494af2a61bab12f73e60c4%2F5ec7bc41ae7e8a4360a88af4%2F10%2F72%2F64494af2a61bab12f73e60c4

 Fox News is a Right Wing conspiracy outlet. They have cultivated and groomed a loyal audience using slogans like Fair and Balanced and We Report You Decide as part of a very clever campaign to somehow make white supremacy paranoia, The Great Replacement Theory, motivate angry white men to watch, to identify and to vote against anything or anyone who threatens their sense of pious entitlement. Murdoch has been extremely skilled in developing this counter culture into mainstream culture. But…. But I don’t believe he wants to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. I don’t think he really wants to destroy democracy or the ‘liberal’ media because he knows that the money is in the David and Goliath struggle. Tucker had believed himself to be Goliath and Murdoch said not in My House. Fox has cultivated an appetite for hate and lies but Murdoch set some limits. Now we’ll see if these fear mongers thrive on their own.