Tucker Carlson

[veritas1]

What kind of sense that does make? The hoax was the claim by Bryant that she was physically and verbally assaulted by Till and he ultimately never received justice.

Look, if you want to parse words over Sharpton's hoax, go ahead. However, the issue here is why Carlson needs to go but Sharpton gets a platform. Nobody is talking about a murder and the Emmett Till case is a diversion.

 

[Acadia]

Nope. Like in other cases, we should let the market decide. If Carlson is bad for their business, Fox will fire him. Otherwise, people don't have to watch him if they don't want to. You know, I don't like seeing fricking hemorrhoid cream, KY jelly and ED med ads at the dinner hour but I'm not telling anyone they can't run them. I think 95% of what's on TV is idiotic garbage but I don't say that people must stop making it. I just don't watch it. That's the answer for the libs and Tucker Carlson.

Even better, people don't have to tune into Tucker!
Have the calls for boycotts started yet?

 

[bullseyelqcs]

Here's a newsflash. It's not a "hoax" if somebody actually gets murdered. Nobody is talking about that, anyway. We are talking about why Tucker Carlson seems to be unfit for TV but Al Sharpton isn't.

The death isn't the hoax part, genio...we are all quite aware of exactly how dead Emmitt Till ended up..the "hoax" was the information that was circulated that ended up in Till being murdered to begin with.

Hoax and lie are one and the same.

Try to keep up.

 

[Rogue Valley]

However, the issue here is why Carlson needs to go but Sharpton gets a platform.

Well lookie here. It's Hamilton Trump defending the misogynistic Tucker. I'm shocked lol.

 

[bullseyelqcs]

Look, if you want to parse words over Sharpton's hoax, go ahead. However, the issue here is why Carlson needs to go but Sharpton gets a platform. Nobody is talking about a murder and the Emmett Till case is a diversion.

You are the one who called the Tawana Brawley incident the worst hate crime hoax in history. You just happen to be wrong. You have been shown why.

 

[Geoist]

Like I said, no transcript, no context.

That has to be the dumbest argument I've heard on DP in a month... and that is saying a lot. I bet you didn't even listen to the audio. There is no justifying what he said. I guess better living through ignorance when one is a hyperpartisan.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

And heeeere’s Carlson!
YouTube
The creep in all his creepiness.

How is this any different from "Grab 'em by the *****" and Trump's locker room talk about trying to sleep with a married woman? Maybe Tucker should just run for Republican nomination.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

This is just a bizarre attempt to change the topic.

Like someone trying to change the topic to Al Sharpton? :roll:

Tucker said women are primitive. I think that's the end of his career. Who says stuff like that?

 

[calamity]

He's a very easy example of the left excusing and dismissing behavior they'd NEVER tolerate in conservatives.

And, you have done a very fine job of showing us how little you know about our racial past.

 

[calamity]

Look, if you want to parse words over Sharpton's hoax, go ahead. However, the issue here is why Carlson needs to go but Sharpton gets a platform. Nobody is talking about a murder and the Emmett Till case is a diversion.

Ah, so a hoax that leads to the murder of an innocent black teen is somehow not qualifying as the "worst racial hoax in history." But, whatever Al Sharpton said--yeah that--somehow is.

I see. :roll:

 

[RaleBulgarian]

How is this any different from "Grab 'em by the *****" and Trump's locker room talk about trying to sleep with a married woman? Maybe Tucker should just run for Republican nomination.

Who said there is any difference? Carlson’s disgusting and degrading comments were mostly on par with Trump’s (except for Carlson’s defense of Jeffs raping/enslavement of little girls. That went beyond anything even Trump has said that I’m aware of).

And calling it “locker room” talk is a BS excuse for completely unacceptable behavior from supposed grown men.

 

[RaleBulgarian]

Like I said, no transcript, no context.
Still looking for the pig calling story.

Ridiculous. No doubt if it were Dems saying the same thing, you’d be up in arms and demanding their heads on pikes.

 

[bullseyelqcs]

Like I said, no transcript, no context.
Still looking for the pig calling story.

What do you mean no transcript?

The words being spoken are clearly written on the ****ing screen for you to read.

What do you mean no context?

You hear the questions and the answers in thier entirety.

I would say he stuck his foot in his mouth....but that would imply that what he said was accidental.

 

[veritas1]

The death isn't the hoax part, genio...we are all quite aware of exactly how dead Emmitt Till ended up..the "hoax" was the information that was circulated that ended up in Till being murdered to begin with.

Hoax and lie are one and the same.

Try to keep up.

Yes, I realize this. Thank you. However, it is still a diversion.

 

[veritas1]

Well lookie here. It's Hamilton Trump defending the misogynistic Tucker. I'm shocked lol.

I defend Carlson exactly to the same degree you defend Sharpton. If I don't have to watch Sharpton, then you don't have to watch Carlson. Pretty simple.

 

[veritas1]

You are the one who called the Tawana Brawley incident the worst hate crime hoax in history. You just happen to be wrong. You have been shown why.

If you insist. Since the term "hate crime" wasn't being used back in Emmett Till's time, I wasn't considering it. Now, if we are past that side trip, maybe we can discuss why liberals hardly ever get the same treatment as conservatives in these cases.

 

[bullseyelqcs]

I defend Carlson exactly to the same degree you defend Sharpton. If I don't have to watch Sharpton, then you don't have to watch Carlson. Pretty simple.

Nobody defended Sharpton. You are conflating issues again.

Pointing out your terribly wrong statement about him perpetrating the worst hate crime hoax in history as being wrong is not the same thing as defending him.

 

[calamity]

If you insist. Since the term "hate crime" wasn't being used back in Emmett Till's time, I wasn't considering it. Now, if we are past that side trip, maybe we can discuss why liberals hardly ever get the same treatment as conservatives in these cases.

Ah, the good old days. Amirite?

 

[veritas1]

Like someone trying to change the topic to Al Sharpton? :roll:

Tucker said women are primitive. I think that's the end of his career. Who says stuff like that?

Who made you the arbiter of when his career ends? I also wasn't changing the topic to Sharpton. I was pointing out the hypocrisy. There is a great deal of hypocrisy on the left concerning how they react depending on who the target is. Fairfax is still in office even after being accused of two sexual assaults. But hey, Carlson made a "naughty" comment unapproved by the left so he has to go.

 

[veritas1]

Ah, the good old days. Amirite?

No, unsurprisingly, you are wrong and are yet another fool who has to spew garbage. This discussion had NOTHING to do with race until you and your slobbering sidekicks made it about it. Nice job.

 

[veritas1]

Nobody defended Sharpton. You are conflating issues again.

Pointing out your terribly wrong statement about him perpetrating the worst hate crime hoax in history as being wrong is not the same thing as defending him.

Uh yea, I got that already. However, since nobody on the left ever calls for Sharpton's removal, they must approve of him. If they approve of him then they have no business talking about Carlson or any other conservative.

 

[bullseyelqcs]

If you insist. Since the term "hate crime" wasn't being used back in Emmett Till's time, I wasn't considering it. Now, if we are past that side trip, maybe we can discuss why liberals hardly ever get the same treatment as conservatives in these cases.

Man.....if only conservatives weren't so damned sanctimonious about some of the issues you are bellyaching about.....

Heres the thing....first off, they DO get the same treatment. It just happens differently. Since most of the time, liberals are trying to hold others to a standard they themselves aren't living up to, a personal failing isn't as much of a fall from grace as it is when the person doing the falling railed against the very thing they have been proven guilty of.

Case in point.....I live in Colorado Springs. Years ago, Ted Haggard was a prominent religious figure in this town. He had berated homosexuals on multiple occasions. He stated that drub abusers didn't deserve salvation. Then it came out that he had been caught using meth while in a truck trying to solicit sex with another man. Priceless, right? All of a sudden, the same guy who was all fire and brimstone was begging the community for the very forgiveness he wasn't willing to give when his skeletons were still in the closet. Fortunately for him, the community is filled with better Christians than he was, because after a couple year hiatus from hollering from a pulpit, he now has ANOTHER church he has started up in town.

Point being.....its a bigger deal when one claims to be better than they really are and expect everyone else to actually be.

 

[bullseyelqcs]

Uh yea, I got that already. However, since nobody on the left ever calls for Sharpton's removal, they must approve of him. If they approve of him then they have no business talking about Carlson or any other conservative.

Approve of what? Name something that Sharpton has said on record that even comes close to the **** Carlson said and we can begin the discussion from there.

Otherwise, you got nothing.

 

[Kobie]

Uh yea, I got that already. However, since nobody on the left ever calls for Sharpton's removal, they must approve of him. If they approve of him then they have no business talking about Carlson or any other conservative.

Tucker Carlson is a scumbag and so is anybody who defends him. Period, end of conversation.

 

[veritas1]

Man.....if only conservatives weren't so damned sanctimonious about some of the issues you are bellyaching about.....

Heres the thing....first off, they DO get the same treatment. It just happens differently. Since most of the time, liberals are trying to hold others to a standard they themselves aren't living up to, a personal failing isn't as much of a fall from grace as it is when the person doing the falling railed against the very thing they have been proven guilty of.

Case in point.....I live in Colorado Springs. Years ago, Ted Haggard was a prominent religious figure in this town. He had berated homosexuals on multiple occasions. He stated that drub abusers didn't deserve salvation. Then it came out that he had been caught using meth while in a truck trying to solicit sex with another man. Priceless, right? All of a sudden, the same guy who was all fire and brimstone was begging the community for the very forgiveness he wasn't willing to give when his skeletons were still in the closet. Fortunately for him, the community is filled with better Christians than he was, because after a couple year hiatus from hollering from a pulpit, he now has ANOTHER church he has started up in town.

Point being.....its a bigger deal when one claims to be better than they really are and expect everyone else to actually be.

So, not having any real standards means you get more leeway? Besides, in the case of Sharpton the guy should have done serious prison time. Smollett just got charged with 16 felonies and his caper can't begin to compare to the Tawana Brawley mess. There's also a difference between committing a crime and saying something that upsets people. It is the latter which we have now made into a de-facto crime and it isn't right, regardless of who is suffering it. We have to be able to withstand unpopular ideas, fringe views and even simple mistakes. Carlson is guilty of nothing more than making off the cuff statements that upset some people. When that is enough to ruin your career, we have embarked on a slippery slope.