NY Times Goes to War on Tucker Carlson: ‘Most Racist Show in History of Cable News’

The New York TimesThis expose focuses on Tucker Carlson, Fox News host. It consists of three parts. sub-titled “American Nationalist,” delivered by a staggering ten-person research/reporting crew led by reporter Nicholas Confessore, including an exhaustive analysis of 1150 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that ran from November 2016 through 2021.

Confessore relied on anonymous sourcing and hostile characterizations of the host’s populist- conservative opinions to bluntly declare both his show and Carlson himself as racist. The title to Part 1 was blared in Sunday’s newspaper headline. This set the tone and character for an extremely hostile series. Times: “How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable News.”

Confessore was a liberal journalist with no regard for journalistic standards. He seemed to be enraged at Carlson without any mention of journalism.

….Carlson created what might be the most racist cable news show ever — but also the most popular.. Though he frequently declares himself an enemy of prejudice — “We don’t judge them by group, and we don’t judge them on their race,” Mr. Carlson explained to an interviewer a few weeks before accusing impoverished immigrants of making America dirty — His show instills fear and loathing. He warns viewers night after night and hourly that civilization is under attack — from violent Black Lives Matter protesters, diseased migrants, refugees, tech companies, cultural elites, who will suppress them or call them racist if they complain.

Migrants did cross the border without the aid of COVID passports, some surely carrying the Coronavirus. BLM demonstrations can often turn into violent riots. It is also evident that tech companies and cultural elites are biased against conservatives.

Confessore whined about Carlson pointing out the supposedly non-existent “invasion” of illegal immigrants headed toward America’s southern border. Mark Hemingway noted Mark Hemingway’s observation that the paper had been chosen an odd photoTo discredit this conspiracy

The Times may loathe right-wing populism and railing against “the elites” and the “ruling class” but did not attack left-wing populists like Jim Hightower or James Carville for using the same rhetoric. (It’s a harder argument to make, now that the left undeniably holds the highest perches of the press, popular culture, even big business.) Surprisingly little hay was made about another of Carlson’s alleged moral failings, vaccine skepticism.

….His turn to flagrantly racist ideas has baffled and saddened some longtime associates there, spurring a veritable cottage industry of profiles exploring whether Mr. Carlson’s show is merely lucrative theater or an expression of his true values….

The problem with calling Carlson’s show racist is that it implicates a large number of viewers too. Is the Times think Carlson’s viewers racist?

The Times used voluminous analytical tools to “prove” Carlson had on few guests who disagreed with him — as if the Times (or liberal hosts like MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow) is a hotbed of disagreement and not a left-wing hivemind hostile to dissent.

It rings false for a newspaper that proudly upholds traditional liberal values to hammer Carlson for calling out “the elites” and “the ruling class,” two long-time enemies of liberalism. There’s nothing here of Carlson’s less traditionally conservative attitudes, nothing of his hailing liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s anti-big business stance, and very little on his anti-war stance besides painting him as a sycophant of Vladimir Putin.

Adding a soupcon of potential doxing to the mix, Confessore even included creepy details of the exterior of Carlson’s recording studio in Maine.

And that was just Part 1….