Question - is Tucker Carlson STUPID, DENSE, or a LIAR?

[NRaleighLiberal]

I am watching Tucker (why, I don't know - maybe I should go and just stick pencils in my eyeballs)....and he is saying the typical line - "every president fires all of the justices when they are elected"...."of course it is political - it is all about politics and both sides play it" - and the two guests grow incredibly exasperated at how dense Tucker is - what - "pretending?" - to be? He doesn't see the fine point (not too fine - it would smack him in the face if he had either half a brain or a shread of honesty) - that this administration waited until well into the administration, until it was clear that these eight were not doing what they wanted them to do (go after Dems), or were going where they didn't want them to (Dukie/Carol Lam). Why are the guests so incredibly uniformed to the point that they let these MSM spinmeisters run roughshod over them? Any dozen of us here at DU could do better than there newspaper types, the Donna Braziles, the Bill Press's of the world.

I shouldn't watch these shows - they just raise my bloodpressure and make me incredibly angry and frustrated!

[BeeBee]

1. Yes. n/t

[bluedog]

2. all of the above.......plus ignorant

[sam sarrha]

9. worse... he is a corporate Whore, maybe a Psychopath if he isn't doing it for the money.

like unblinkingly supporting Bu$hitCo never hurt anyone.. if you toe the party line without remorse you are a psychopath.. or worse

[babylonsister]

3. I don't think he's stupid; I DO think he's a liar. I usually turn him off

in disgust.

[volstork]

4. do we have to pick just one?

[rurallib]

5. Always thought Tuckee was a total liar capable of swinging

whichever way the wind blows. I fully expect when they start leading these criminals out, he'll be chortling how he was against them all along.

[blogslut]

6. Tucker talks a lot

and never really says anything.

[aquart]

7. Think about it.: He has to learn the talking points every day.

Just like a soap opera actor. It's hard work. Where's your pity.

[BeyondGeography]

8. Not stupid or dense...intellectually dishonest

in a big way.

[mmonk]

10. Stupid and dense are the same thing. It seems on the liar part,

most TV broadcast media "news" are liars now.

[IllLib]

11. yes, yes and uhm, yes. n/t

[Warpy]

12. Try SCARED

I saw him do a couple of really good segments on his short lived PBS show. They were largely apolitical segments, so he's potentially a good reporter.

However, he knows who signs his paychecks and there is no way he's going to sink the gravy boat.

The first thing a Democratic president with a Democratic Congress needs to do is bust the media monopolies. The country can't survive with a press that is this intimidated by huge conglomerates.

[BlooInBloo]

13. (shrug) DUers also perpetuate the falsehood that canning prosecutors is per se the issue.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. Tucker is misrepresenting one thing after another on his show

His last segment, about Peter Pace, was another totally misrepresented scenario about "don't-ask-don't-tell". He was asking his guest whether Bill Clinton was equally immoral with Peter Pace, along with Colin Powell in instituting the policy. That's a total misrepresentation. In previous times, it was "be asked and have to lie about it", not "don't ask don't tell". Clinton didn't make the policy perfect, but he made it more tolerable and fairer in that you don't even ask and you don't raise the issue. Peter Pace wasn't implementing "don't ask don't tell". He was RAISING the question and RAISING the issue in telling the world he thought homosexuality was immoral. That's beyond what Clinton ever did. Why do we need to know the Joint Chief's attitude toward homosexuality if the official policy is not to raise the issue at all? But again, like a typical conservative, Tucker totally and shamelessly misrepresented the issue in suggesting that what Peter Pace did was no different than what Bill Clinton did.

[Buzz Clik]

15. I never watch this dumbass, but I did tonight.

I was cooking dinner and felt like having some noise, and noise was all I got.

My reaction was exactly the sentiment of the title of this thread -- Carlson is intentionally repeating the talking-point tangent and refusing to confront the Congressional interference point.

First time for watching Tucker, and the last.

[leftofthedial]

16. yes

[sendero]

17. I'm not a violent person..

... but something about that guy just makes me want to beat the living shit out of him. :)

[pennylane100]

18. Why can't he be all three.

[Swamp Rat]

19. he's a...

[rocktivity]

20. The problem isn't that he fired all the attorneys

which is customarily done at the beginning of a Presidential tenure. The problem is that he fired only fired the ones that didn't show enough "loyalty" to the party. Rachel Maddow just said that 80% of the attorney's cases were against Democrats!

:headbang:
rocknation

[greenbriar]

21. yes, yes and yes

yes

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

22. Memo To Mr. Abrams At MSNBC

If you do to his show what you did to Rita's last year, you'll be very glad that you did.