Point: Sorry, Tucker, your outrage is
too little, too late
American Thinker,
by
Dex Bahr
Original Article
Posted By: pros7767,
11/25/2020 8:42:34 AM
In what appeared to be an effort to stop the hemorrhaging of viewers after his attacks against Sidney Powell, Tucker Carlson reverted back to being the commentator on Fox News's highest-rated program on Monday.
Or did he? After re-watching the clip of Monday’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” twice, it appears to this humble writer that Carlson’s interview with Dr. Robert Epstein was an attempt to change the topic from fraudulent voting machines to Big Tech, specifically Google, as the difference of shifting six million votes to Joe Biden.
When we do a tick tock, something actually happens.
I'm done with Fox, except for Lou and Maria.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Cindiana 11/25/2020 8:49:04 AM (No. 615913)
I guess I was wrong about him after all. He really does think I'm stupid.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 11/25/2020 8:51:46 AM (No. 615916)
Watching that last night made me sad. I used to really like Tucker.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 11/25/2020 9:02:16 AM (No. 615941)
Tucker was the last show that I watched on Fox.
Done with Fox.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 11/25/2020 9:04:30 AM (No. 615944)
He turned out to be a good little minion, didn't he? Prolly sucking up to Ryan.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Namma 11/25/2020 9:06:09 AM (No. 615945)
Tucker is still on Fox. Wait, Fox is still on TV...well now doesn't that just beat all. wonder who watches
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 11/25/2020 9:06:49 AM (No. 615947)
With each passing day I feel more and more like we are coming undone across the board.....if Trump is turned out, the GOP and “Conservative” media will turn on each other like a pack of hyenas fighting over an antelope carcass....
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
thelmalou 11/25/2020 9:07:51 AM (No. 615949)
I'm heretofore unfamiliar with Mr. Band, but I'm certainly a fan now. Excellent piece.
I haven't watched FNC in many years, but did watch FBN from time to time. I was all set to watch election night because they were awesome in 2016. But they had NeverTrumper Neil Cavuto in charge, so I turned them off after about a half hour. Like #1, I will continue to watch Lou and Maria. Oh, and Stuart Barney...I love him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
thelmalou 11/25/2020 9:09:24 AM (No. 615951)
RE: #8 - Bahr, dang it!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
thelmalou 11/25/2020 9:10:41 AM (No. 615955)
RE: #8 - Varney, ding dang it!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
seamusm 11/25/2020 9:10:47 AM (No. 615956)
How the mighty fall! Tucker, just publicly apologize to Powell AND your viewers. Who knows? We MIGHT forgive you.........
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 11/25/2020 9:12:27 AM (No. 615957)
The only grown men who've worn bow ties in public are professional clowns.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
FunOne 11/25/2020 9:13:07 AM (No. 615960)
Fox used to be the channel du jour at my house, but a few months ago I started to visit Newsmax and liked the fact that they were unapologetically conservative. Like I remember Fox sort of was when they promoted a "we report, you decide" approach to the news. Now, the more I watch Newsmax, the more I enjoy that media source. Fox outfoxed themselves by insulting the viewers that made them so popular--the same viewers now fleeing from the liberal-loving fox den.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 11/25/2020 9:13:17 AM (No. 615961)
Socialism media did influence the brain dead minds of others, but Google didn't hack the voting machines, or hide millions of phony ballots and then brought them out at the last minute.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Sanchin 11/25/2020 9:13:43 AM (No. 615962)
Why do people waste their time and energy pinning their hopes on pundits and commentators? Fox News is Rubbish BUT until Facebook and Twitter are reigned in and no longer have any input or say on politics then this country will be directed towards a socialist STASI existence regardless of what pundit you wish to believe in,.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
reefdiver 11/25/2020 9:15:53 AM (No. 615966)
#7, my thoughts exactly!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
justjoe1237 11/25/2020 9:16:02 AM (No. 615967)
Wow, he really suckered me in for a long time. I saw him as a dedicated journalist willing to put his life at risk to expose corruption and skullduggery in our politics. Um, no. Sooner or later comes an Alamo moment when you are on one side of the line or the other, and when that moment came with the massive Democrat fraud in our election, Tucker remembered that he really needed to be someplace else.
Won't every watch him again. Or any of the Fox frauds.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PostAway 11/25/2020 9:17:34 AM (No. 615970)
It is time for the media to understand that Conservatives and other serious Americans want to know what is really going on. No more condescension, no more insults, no more lies. We want to know who is really behind the relentless travesties we experience every day from our government and the elite class. Maybe celebrity newsmen who enjoy wealth and privilege are afraid to tell us the truth. Maybe they are afraid of being called conspiracy theorists. Maybe they’re afraid that the only dinner invitation they will be able to muster is at Clyde’s instead of Charlie Palmer’s. Maybe they don’t have the skill or curiosity required to uncover the truth. Maybe they are afraid to burst the bubble of their privilege. In short, they are garden variety cowards who dress their fundamental weakness as discernment. If so, they need to move aside. We know something is rotten, we know that enemies of our Constitution are involved and we know the corruption is widespread. We know we are being consumed by the criminally minded and their half-witted allies in politics, big tech and the media. If Tucker, Sean, Joel Pollack, Matt Drudge, et al. won’t be honest we will move on to find whoever will. Or, we might just plant our flag right here, ignore them all and fight. Of course that it is what our enemies want but to paraphrase the T shirt says, “Underestimate us. That’ll be fun.”
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
felixcat 11/25/2020 9:19:51 AM (No. 615972)
I have grown tired of Tucker's schtick and silly smile and I'm sure he will be receiving a nice Christmas bonus this year. I highly recommend Grey Kelly on NewsMax. I like Lou but Lou takes forever to ask a question of his guests and then he interrupts them all the time. Amazed that VDH still appears on Lou's show.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/25/2020 9:22:00 AM (No. 615976)
Tucker should go back to wearing his bow tie while pontificating on his navel, like his old days. His arrogant outburst against our "Kraken Master" showed us his true colors. The Beltway Boy tried messing with a Texas lady and got a proper smack down. Time for a changing of the guard.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Newtsche 11/25/2020 9:23:12 AM (No. 615979)
There is only one story right now, the theft of the 2020 election.
There are so many angles one may look at that, Carlson cloddishly dances around them.
If he cared about his well-earned audience and our country, he'd be using Fox News resources to
do some actual investigation. Want to stand out from the crowd? Do some actual gd investigating.
Help our president and our country, you jackass Carlson.
I give him about a minute at the start of his show these days, he's not keeping me there.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Muguy 11/25/2020 9:28:58 AM (No. 615986)
There is news out there, and its not on Fox shows that are about personalities instead of the news.
CNN gets on a story and regardless of what is the REAL news out there, they stay on a relentless focus even if it is a dead horse.
I'm one of the 1 million who have reportedly dropped Fox and are watching other alternatives. Stick with radio!
It is really a shame they have thrown conservatives under the bus-- this is a breakup that is as much a death in the family as it is a divorce.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/25/2020 9:30:16 AM (No. 615988)
Yeah, I think Tucker's desperation for ratings took him down a blind alley. A shame. But, oh well. I had stopped watching Fox routinely some time ago already. Only exception since then was when we tuned into Fox to see Giuliani's and Powell's recent press conference last week that only Fox had aired.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
donnaclaire 11/25/2020 9:31:29 AM (No. 615990)
Well said, Mr. Bahr. Totally agree.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 11/25/2020 9:33:02 AM (No. 615994)
bye tucky i have not watched fox for a longtime
but i love laura and sean you are a gonner
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
terrywhite 11/25/2020 9:33:31 AM (No. 615995)
Talk about turncoats! So many of you are turning on Tucker because he made one commentary you don't like while ignoring years of his work where he was practically the only one defending conservatives and doing real reporting. Admittedly, I missed seeing his critique of Sidney Powell. I suspect it might have made me angry too had I seen it, but I don't see why you must dismiss him now just because he may only be 99.96% of what you demand. Good grief. Except for his Powell critique, I haven't heard him say much else I disagree with. If you expect someone to show fealty to your cause, perhaps you might want to display a little yourselves.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Avikingman 11/25/2020 9:56:19 AM (No. 616013)
Fool me once.
Never again.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Rinktum 11/25/2020 9:57:55 AM (No. 616018)
#26, it is not the number of stories he has covered, but the importance of this one. It is the mother lode of all stories. A political party attempts to steal a presidential election and got caught doing so is a pretty big story. We need every voice we can muster to report and investigate this. The problem I have with Tucker is that he is always challenging network “journalists” out there to do their homework and investigate, but yet, where is he? Sitting in his office demanding answers of an attorney attempting to put together evidence in the biggest case of her life. Come on! Isn’t that a little bit arrogant on his part? Additionally, to delve into the Tech censorship around the election will accomplish nothing meaningful that needs to be heard now. Sure, they censored conservatives, but that is not the battle we should be fighting right now. He knows this and that is why I can’t bother to watch his show. He knows the importance of the work Sidney Powell is doing and what it means to the future of this country. To pretend this is all a con by a female Texas attorney is wrong. Carlson is trying to put the genie back in the bottle now, but it is not going to work. He betrayed the truth and good journalism when he demanded anything. It was his job to do the work, not cast doubt on Ms. Powell’s integrity. He knows just as we all do that no attorney worth their salt would ever show their hand before they go to court. What I want to know is why the outrage from Tucker? It doesn’t make sense and is certainly not professional.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 11/25/2020 9:57:59 AM (No. 616019)
Exactly... Tucker is owned by George Soros and his minions.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Daisymay 11/25/2020 10:18:14 AM (No. 616052)
We're not Turncoats. Tucker was the Turncoat! We are with Sidney Powell all the way. We support her efforts to turn this election around and we do NOT suffer fools like Tucker when they try to destroy her! He may apologize many times, but what he did that night was what he really believes! Apology not accepted! We're done with FOX and nothing is going to bring us back other than a complete cleanse of the people who are never Trumpers! That doesn't leave many! Meanwhile, I 'm surfing between OAN and Newsmax. Hopefully Comcast will get so many angry calls for them to give us BOTH channels that they will wake up before we up and leave them in droves just like we did with FOX when we were fed up with them not listening to us!!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
southcarolina 11/25/2020 10:22:11 AM (No. 616055)
We are watching Steve Bannon from 10 until 12 each day. Otherwise Mostly Newsmax.
Especially enjoying the S. Bannon war room. But Jessie W. Judge Jeanie and Mark Levin, Lou Dobbs Maria B, Charles Payne, Hannity are still worth watching. Don't sponsors choose which programs they pay for? www.whatfinger.com often has videos available of these programs.
We were very disappointed in Laura I, and she is not welcome in our home.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
watashiyo 11/25/2020 10:44:04 AM (No. 616070)
If you're paid millions to do the job, you better do it right. Tucker betrayed his viewer's trust. Forgive him? Sure we'll forgive him, but we can still choose to turn him off. Just like the airline pilots, they can't afford to make mistakes and betray the passenger's trust. That is why they make good money. The margin of error is so narrow for those making good money. They know the stakes are high. Wrong choice, suffer the consequence.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 11/25/2020 11:33:58 AM (No. 616114)
99.96% of the time, #26, Judas was a faithful disciple and Benedict Arnold was a loyal patriot. It's just that each of them picked a critical .04% of the time to betray the ones who trusted him.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 11/25/2020 11:34:01 AM (No. 616115)
#8,9,&10 - thanks for the belly-laugh! I needed that.
Er'body else - YOU ROCK!! Fox - not so much anymore.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
anniebc 11/25/2020 12:09:12 PM (No. 616137)
Tucker is so last week.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
starboard 11/25/2020 12:17:29 PM (No. 616144)
Several months ago, I weaned myself from Fox News, except for Tucker, Maria, and Judge Jeanine.
So last week Tucker acted like a big jerk and jumped the shark. That said, I still think we need his voice and can forgive for his stupidity. None of us are perfect, not even President Trump.
Greg Kelly, on Newsmax has become my new favorite evening show and he makes no bones that he is a hard core Trump supporter Plus he's an ex Marine...Semper fi!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
MDConservative 11/25/2020 12:35:15 PM (No. 616158)
Back on the reservation, Tucker...
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
mean Gene 11/25/2020 12:42:36 PM (No. 616164)
Once Tucker admitted his soft spot for his old room mate, Hunter Biden, I knew where he was headed.
And, he went there.
So, goodbye to all of Fox News.
Tucker included.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Southron 11/25/2020 12:46:19 PM (No. 616171)
Tucker's over.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 11/25/2020 1:05:38 PM (No. 616184)
Andrea Widburg came to Carlson's defense yesterday and made some good points. I always read here work.
But this author makes some very good points about Carlson trying to deflect from "the real story" and the author is correct. Something is very disturbing about Carlson's perspective and his priorities on this election. I must admit that I am thrown off guard and puzzled by it.
Jonah Goldberg went this direction when Trump announced his candidacy. I call it the "I am the smartest person in the room, don't you doubt me!" syndrome.
Should Carlson apologize for the way he tried to interfere in Sydney Powell's work, should he just admit that his ego got the better of him, I may reconsider my opinion of Carlson.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 11/25/2020 1:10:01 PM (No. 616189)
Tucky “focks” up
We tune to Newsmax
End of discussion
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Donna M 11/25/2020 1:49:44 PM (No. 616215)
Blaming Big Tech is obvious and has no repercussions. Stuff it, Tuck. And Fox.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
FormerDem 11/25/2020 1:55:30 PM (No. 616217)
Yes, Tucker is appealing to watchers by saying something true that they want to hear said, but evaluated as an action item in this so-important month, he is pointing into thin air. OK, got it. g'bye
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 11/25/2020 2:26:41 PM (No. 616239)
I'm the odd one out, i guess, because i continue to watch Fox (certain very limited time slots). I have watched Fox & Friends for, literally, decades. As a matter of fact, it was during those years that i became acquainted with Donald Trump and about the things that interested him and concerned him, and his love for America. He was a regular, more or less on Fox & Friends. So when he started talking about running for President, it did not seem outlandish to me at all. I think he might have appeared on Box Business, too? not sure
It means a lot to me that Fox honors and respects the military, and people of faith. --they have, anyway. They have given multitudes of conservative thinkers a place to express their views and to have prime-time shows. Hannity was one of a very few people in media, particularly on tv, who fervently tried to alert voters about who Obama is.
However, where else on network and cables have the Biden + Biden stories been covered?
Until Fox goes completely over to the other side, i'm not ready to throw them overboard, off my tv screens totally, that is. I turn off the tube after F&F in the morning. When Husband comes home he likes Tucker (still) so we watch that, and if not too tired, Sean and Laura (their fill-in hosts are very good). We watch Levin and Steve Hanan on Sunday nights, sometimes Jeanine. I'm sorry to miss Harris Faulkner and a lot of the conservatives who are regulars.
As long as Fox has conservative content, i will watch. Selectively, but i will watch, and spot check other shows. The more avenues for opposition news (which Fox still is, by and large) there are, the better. If the decision-makers at Fox don't get the message, they will wither away and go kaput.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/25/2020 3:03:24 PM (No. 616274)
Tucker is smart enough to realize that he screwed up - but not smart enough to avoid screwing up in the first place. But he's young, he'll recover and find a nice spot on CNNMSNBCCBSABC.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 11/25/2020 3:38:25 PM (No. 616308)
All of FOX is dead to me.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Newtsche 11/25/2020 4:54:26 PM (No. 616397)
Thoughtful comments, #44, much of what you say is true.
Carlson has been must-see for some time but since the election, I cannot stand for what he now presents.
Not just his ugly Powell show, his dancing around the edges of the the election.
And yeah, we'd turn on Fox & Friends first thing in the am, now they look like death warmed over.
Brian and Steve appear to be fifteen years older.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 11/25/2020 6:03:13 PM (No. 616465)
Big Tech influenced some of the votes for Biden. But a HUGE amount was pure fraud.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
bighambone 11/25/2020 8:21:30 PM (No. 616576)
Smells like the Fox News Channel is intent on committing corporate suicide by becoming an obsolete conservative leaning channel.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
southcarolina 11/25/2020 9:49:56 PM (No. 616633)
Just the news.com is great. John Solomon gets to the facts quickly. i get several updates daily and also watch program on Real Americas Voice. There are many places for honest information, just need to search around.
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Comments:
I wasted my time yesterday watching the clip of this interview. Did Big Tech influence the election? Yes. Did they influence it enough to change the outcome? No way! Patriotic Americans tuned out of the MSM and recognized social media biases for years. We came out in droves to support this President and make sure we could counter the usual level of voter fraud. Little did we know that one of the arrows in Nancy's quiver was massive electronic voter fraud on top of the usual. And WTP are NOT happy, especially since Fox appears to have been complicit with it through their decision desk. Newsmax works fine for me! Good riddance Fox.