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That quote was not from a conversation with Tucker Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-37c3c8

Interestingly, someone said the same about Tucker Carlson's position on Fox News and it was Tucker Carlson, a few years before he got the job.

https://youtu.be/RNineSEoxjQ?t=7m50s

Wasn't Tucker Carlson essentially kicked off of Fox for believing something different?

He was kicked off for being a sex pest and knowingly pushing the election lies internally at Fox News.

I still love when Putin just drops his Kompromot on Tucker right on his head during the interview. "We know you tried to join the CIA and we know they wouldn't take you :)"

I wonder if there is a timeline where Tucker responds, "Actually, they did" and then assassinates Putin with his bare hands.

Thanks. I needed this today.

I am convinced that the whole 'sexual abuse' thing is very common in upper echelons and make for a convenient excuse to take down someone now towing the line.

I almost always look for 'root cause' when I hear a sexual abuse scandle taking down someone in power.

I wish people would shut up about it. It's gotten to the point where normal peers can hardly even talk about sex without being afraid of getting in trouble.

Flirting with coworkers is fine, natural even. Calm down or become a shut in and leave the rest of us alone.

I go to work to work, not to hear about other people’s sex lives. Save that kind of talk for your friends, or talk to your mom about it, but don’t involve me. I shouldn’t have to hear about it just because we both work on the same widget.

By the way, Carlson did a lot more than flirt. He allegedly retaliated against an employee for rejecting his advances. That’s horrible.

I agree it is horrible but the point I am making is this type of stuff is more common than we'd think. So almost anyone with power would have some 'skeletons in the closet'.

think about it, we lost al franken as senator but still have DJT as president (& many more if you think DJT is unstoppable).

There was the $787M lawsuit settlement Fox agreed to because of Carlson's content. That probably had a bit more to do with it.

It's kind of part of the same thing. He said stuff Murdoch didn't like so he was gone. Whether he believed it or not is hard to tell.

No, he finally said something that cost Murdoch money instead of making him money.

Exactly. They were totally fine with Carlson's content until it cost them a significant amount of money.

Did he say something different after the $787 million judgement? Because the whole reason that judgement came down is because Murdoch was fine with what Carlson was saying.

Part of the lawsuit is that he and the other Fox hosts were texting each other and mocking the lies they were saying on air as obvious nonsense.

The Dominion lawsuit was Hannity [1] not Carlson.

Carlson is much smarter and lets his guests actually make wild accusations while Carlson is "just asking questions".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hannity#2020_election

You said Carlson twice.

Now, I've said Carlson thrice!

Oh no! He's going to appear behind me.

Carlson is essentially a performer. He has publicly said so many contradictory things I'm not sure why it matters what he thinks at any given point in time.

He’s changed opinions over time and admitted it, but been consistent for the last handful of years.

I'm not sure what you're trying to defend, but if you are asking me to admit that tucker carlson is consistent, you'll have to wait a few decades.

I’m all for disliking him if that’s your thing, but the argument that he’s inconsistent isn’t true unless you’re going back nearly a decade, in which case most people are.

I said what I said. If you're tuning into Carlson expecting consistency, expect a bad time.

The only way you’d know is by tuning into him, right? So do you listen to him often?

Wow. A Tucker simp on hacker news, didn’t have that on my bingo card.

I don’t like him, only argued he’s relatively consistent.

Funny how people can’t help but think you support someone just because you’d prefer they argue from facts.

Thus proving the point. The moment he went against the talking points he got fired.

Well, Tucker was saying Bill O'Reilly was faking it as an everyman when really a millionaire right winger.

That isn't Tucker Carlson, it's Andrew Marr.

>That quote was not from a conversation with Tucker Carlson

>not from a conversation with Tucker Carlson

>not

No it is!

Yes it isn't!

I think we should ask Grok.

He will then ask Elon

Ok lets just go direct to Elon then. Cut out the middleman.

I would like to have an argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlv_aZjHXc

My mistake, thank you.

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