Column: The Unintentionally Hilarious Anti-Tucker Carlson Term Paper

The New York TimesThe existence of Fox News Channel is something that has alarmist since its launch in 1996. It developed a special fear and loathing of Bill O’Reilly when he hosted the top show in cable news, and now the paper is at it again, attacking Tucker Carlson.

The following is the Sunday and Monday schedule Times published almost 20,000 words of “investigative reporting” on the Tucker show, announcing they’d watched 1,150 episodes and chronicled all the guests and the messages and the monologues. This should be defined as “opposition research.”

Overwrought thesis about Times reporter Nicholas Confessore – who is an MSNBC political analyst, no conflict there! – is Carlson dominates in the ratings because he’s “weaponizing fears and grievances” on “what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news.”

The massive term paper that is half-American finds laughable has obvious causes. There’s Confessore going on the Joy Reid show on May 2 to complain about “weaponizing fears and grievances,” like Joy Reid could never, ever be accused of such a thing.

Reid said Tucker was just like Rush Limbaugh, always saying “black people are coming for you. You are being welcomed by the brown people. They are here for you. They`re taking your stuff.” That’s not an exact quote, because Joy never needs one. She’s not a journalist.

The Times reporter also appeared on Nicolle Wallace’s Deadline White House show. Nicolle announced “I’m shocked at how committed to polarizing the country at every heated moment he is.” MSNBC never polarizes the country?

Confessore proclaimed “on Tucker’s show, everything is terrible. Because they don’t like you, they are out to destroy you. They’re determined to ruin you. Those are his words…It’s you/they, you/they every night. The repetition is part of the technique.”

Does anyone with a TV think MSNBC doesn’t use this formula? Let’s consider a few un-favorites from 2021. On Nicolle’s show, professor Jason Johnson denounced Republicans: “They don’t care who they have to sacrifice — whether that’s people in central Texas having to die over COVID or police officers in the Capitol — they don’t care who dies. They don’t care if it’s kids in Sandy Hook.”

On Reid’s show, professor Michael Eric Dyson claimed “These are the kind of people who would pass a law to keep Jesus from getting a cup of water while he’s dying on the cross.” Reid replied “Sad but true.”

MSNBC finds it shocking that MSNBC airs divisive talk-shows. The New York Times is against “stoking fear” on cable news.

The charts in this “investigative” report were unintentionally hilarious. Tucker’s show is an “echo chamber,” as the number of opposing guests has declined dramatically in the last two years. How many “guests who disagreed with Joy Reid” does she welcome? Nicolle Wallace? Rachel Maddow Even their “Republican” guests nod along in the echo chamber.

It’s also funny that the Times is shocked that Tucker’s “monologues have grown longer,” now typically lasting more than 10 minutes, with one June 2020 show featuring a 26-minute monologue. Have these people ever watched Maddow’s show?

It Times MSNBC is a favorite. Back in 2018, they published a puff piece titled “Joy Reid from MSNBC became a heroine of resistance.” In 2019, the Times published a valentine headlined “Rachel Maddow’s Moment Has Come!.” They touted people hosting a “Maddow-themed birthday party.”

So you may laugh heartily when Nicolle Wallace said Confessore’s massive takedown attempt is “an objective analysis of every show” Tucker’s done.