Tucker Carlson

Tucker: Zucker’s Out

We hated what he did, we did not share his vision, we found it repugnant and destructive. but at least Jeff Zucker had a vision.

Published

1 year ago

February 3, 2022

Alan Rugger

Tucker talks about why he’s not celebrating CNN’s firing of Jeff Zucker.

Highlights include:

“You’ve probably heard CNN president Jeff Zucker got fired this morning. In a statement, Zucker said he’s been dating a colleague, didn’t disclose it, and when his bosses found out they made him leave. That’s not true, everyone in the TV business already knew about Zucker’s relationship with the head of CNN’s marketing department.”

“But as usual, with CNN, you’ve got to wade through a lot of lies to get to what actually happened.”

“On this day, when we should be celebrating Jeff Zucker’s departure, we’re not celebrating. Why is that? Because we see a pattern here.”

“Only a certain type of CEO ever gets fired. It’s not the weak ones. The guys who do what they’re told — those people tend to keep their jobs til they retire.”

“More than at any time in our history, America is run by people like that. It’s only the strong who are punished. Strong leaders tend to be abrasive, they’re arrogant, sometimes they’re what we now call ‘abusive.'”

“A lot of modern people are put off by strong leaders, but you’ve gotta’ have them.”

“Our current leaders are fearful because they are old. But the opposite is also true. They kept power into their 80s because they put safety first. They put it over creativity, over courage, over leadership. Nancy Pelosi never built anything. Neither has Joe Biden or Mitch McConnell. They’re not capable of building anything. At the very best, they can preserve what others have built, not that they’ve even tried to do that.”

“Jeff Zucker, whatever else we have said about him, and meant, Jeff Zucker tried to do something new. We hated what he did, we did not share his vision, we found it repugnant and destructive. but at least Jeff Zucker had a vision. Too few still do.”

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Tucker: We’re Back.

At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie, a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.

Published

2 weeks ago

May 10, 2023

Alan Rugger

Tucker again lays into the media propaganda machine as he announces he’s taking the show to Twitter. Highlights include:

“You often hear people say that news is full of lies, but most of the time, that’s not exactly right. Much of what you see on television or read in the New York Times is, in fact, true in the ‘literal’ sense, it could pass one of the media’s own ‘fact checks.’ Lawyers would be willing to sign off on it, in fact they may have. But that doesn’t make it true. It’s not true.”

“At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie, a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose, along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.”

“The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can, but there are always limits, and you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough, you will be fired for it. That’s not a guess, it’s guaranteed. Every person who works in the English language media understands that. The rule of what you can’t say defines everything. It’s filthy, really, and it’s utterly corrupting.”

“For the most part, the news that you see analyzed on Twitter comes from media organizations that are themselves thinly disguised propaganda outlets. You see it on cable news, you talk about it on Twitter. The result may feel like a debate, but actually the gatekeepers are still in charge. We think that’s a bad system. We know exactly how it works, and we’re sick of it.”

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Tucker Carlson

Tucker: See you soon

When honest people say what’s true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink.

Published

1 month ago

April 26, 2023

Alan Rugger

Oh gosh, I’m using Twitter. Tucker dropped a video today on his Twitter account, again commenting on the current state of US media and finishing with a hopeful “See you soon.” Highlights include:

“One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country, kind and decent people, people who really care about what’s true, and a bunch of hilarious people also, a lot of those, it’s gotta be the majority of the population, even now, so that’s heartening. The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are…”

“Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it. Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one party state. That’s a depressing realization, but it’s not permanent. Our current orthodoxies won’t last. They’re brain dead.”

“This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue, and so it won’t. The people in charge know this, that’s why they’re hysterical and aggressive. They’re afraid. They’ve given up persuasion, they’re resorting to force. But it won’t work. When honest people say what’s true calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who’ve been trying to silence them shrink, and they become weaker. That’s the iron law of the universe, true things prevail.”

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