{"id":10300,"date":"2023-03-28T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T13:51:36","slug":"the-desperate-pandering-of-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10300","title":{"rendered":"The desperate pandering of Tucker Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“\u201cWe are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI hate him passionately.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all pretending we\u2019ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it\u2019s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn\u2019t really an upside to Trump.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tucker Carlson sent all those texts<\/a> \u2014 newly revealed as exhibits in the lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox<\/a> \u2014 on January 4, 2021. (Through the discovery process, many Fox internal emails and documents were provided to Dominion, and the company\u2019s attorneys have made them public by citing them in legal filings.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet Carlson devoted his shows this week to a revisionist history of the attacks on the Capitol two days afterward, omitting Trump\u2019s then-ongoing attempt to steal the election, portraying concerns about a stolen election as reasonable and even vindicated, and minimizing the violence that took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But to understand what\u2019s going on here, it\u2019s worth taking a closer look at the bigger narrative Carlson was trying to push this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of January 6, in Carlson\u2019s extremely selective and misleading telling to his viewers, isn\u2019t about how a mob whipped up by the president of the United States tried to prevent the transfer of power, or how that president tried to steal the election. It\u2019s about how Democrats and the media were mean to Trump supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story is also about how he, Tucker Carlson, would never do something like that. He loves you, Trump supporters. He respects you. Pay no attention to those texts behind the curtain about how he disdains and disbelieves Donald Trump. He is your loyal champion against your enemies. So please \u2014 don\u2019t change the channel.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/3\/8\/23629654\/fox-news-tucker-carlson-dominion-texts-january-6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“\u201cWe are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can\u2019t wait.\u201d
\n\u201cI hate him passionately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all pretending we\u2019ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it\u2019s been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn\u2019t really an upside to Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tucker Carlson sent all those texts \u2014 newly revealed as exhibits in the lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox \u2014 on January 4, 2021. (Through the discovery process, many Fox internal emails and documents were provided to Dominion, and the company\u2019s attorneys have made them public by citing them in legal filings.)<\/p>\n

Yet Carlson devoted his shows this week to a revisionist history of the attacks on the Capitol two days afterward, omitting Trump\u2019s then-ongoing attempt to steal the election, portraying concerns about a stolen election as reasonable and even vindicated, and minimizing the violence that took place.<\/p>\n

But to understand what\u2019s going on here, it\u2019s worth taking a closer look at the bigger narrative Carlson was trying to push this week.<\/p>\n

The story of January 6, in Carlson\u2019s extremely selective and misleading telling to his viewers, isn\u2019t about how a mob whipped up by the president of the United States tried to prevent the transfer of power, or how that president tried to steal the election. It\u2019s about how Democrats and the media were mean to Trump supporters.<\/p>\n

The story is also about how he, Tucker Carlson, would never do something like that. He loves you, Trump supporters. He respects you. Pay no attention to those texts behind the curtain about how he disdains and disbelieves Donald Trump. He is your loyal champion against your enemies. So please \u2014 don\u2019t change the channel.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,372,322,132,136,323,1847,1146,1714,170,1368],"class_list":["post-10300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-fox-news","tag-lies","tag-media","tag-misleading","tag-pandering","tag-right-wing","tag-texts","tag-trump","tag-tucker-carlson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10301,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions\/10301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}