That New York Times Hit Piece on Tucker Carlson Is Exposed By What They Did Not Highlight – Opinion

The latest attempt at impacting Tucker Carlson’s reign atop the ratings will again prove fruitless.

The New York Times has just published a long attempted debunking of Tucker Carlson. This will surely impact Tucker’s stature on Fox News. Meaning — it is more likely to blow his ratings higher. Carlson, a white supremacist, is exposed as unfit to air on this episode.

Yes, again.

Tucker was so deeply impacted by the scathing report that he took to social media to…well, not exactly to dispute the charges.

Tucker spoke also about the future piece on his show on Thursday, in a dismissive fashion. It was noted that his alleged racism was the focal point of the attempted hitjob. “If that sounds like a familiar attack, that’s because it is. You know this is the tenth, 27th or 217th similar story.” To say Carlson was not altogether fretting over the fallout is a more than fair measure of things; it is dead-on accurate.

The release was a three-part measure of Tucker’s entire career, written by Nicolas Confessore, that entailed not just his early journalism work but also his home life and the various personal struggles he has endured which supposedly help form Tucker’s claimed allegiance to white supremacy. 

Confessore’s claims are the only unique aspect of this work. he has come up with a definitive measure to prove Carlson’s racism, which he declares with what he offers up his supposed clinical proof.

It may have been the most racist cable news program ever.. This isn’t an opinion or a take. It’s a fact — supported by our content analysis of 1,150 episodes of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ by Karen Yourish, Dawn Cai, Larry BuchThey and their coworkers.

Well, not meaning to quibble over semantics, Nic — but your use of the word “may” undercuts your boasting it is a fact.However, biased measures of media matters are not scientific studies. You can’t find the data for other pundits who were measured with the same metrics. If you want to find out the racist cable news pundit, Joy Reid would be a good choice. She cannot appear on an episode and not make multiple references to racism.

However, this is the indicator that they used in their research. We watched over a thousand Carlson videos over many years.. “(Carlson.) Regularly denigrates Black women as ignorant or ineligible for their positions.These examples include Ilhan Omar and Kamala Harris. This is because, although the commentary stands alone, there is no way to know what it means. You need to look at the bigger picture. 

Tucker engaging in political discourse, and being critical or exaggerating when necessary, is expected to be a primetime pundit. Although he has a lot of critical-to–caustic words to say about opponents on issues, these are not political actors he’s commenting on. He could say the same things about Elizabeth Warren, but if he were to use the exact words for Alexandria OcasioCortez, he would be unable to raise a pencil in a checkbox column. racist.

Confessore is also very reticent about displaying from just where it is he is approaching Carlson’s judgment. Nic, you see, is actually employed by Tucker’s competition in the cable news industry, a detail that seems rather significant in this attempted takedown, but one he barely makes known. He actually does get around to disclosing this detail…eventually. The revealing sentence included –  “(The writer of this article is an MSNBC contributor.)”  – Does not appear until paragraphs deep after close to 6,000 words.

The second section is a repeat of the blithe parenthetical. It’s at a depth which would bend if the reader were to return to the headline quickly. Nic is about 60 paragraphs into the article before he feels the need alert readers to his affiliation with Fox-competing networks. 

There are also other competitive disqualifiers. One section contains details about an internal Fox News human resource issue. This was delivered by a Fox employee. It’s kind of. Jeanine Pirro once asked Jeanine Pirro if Ilhan Olmar would be loyaler to her Muslim faith rather than the Constitution on a previous show. This asking of a question is described as a  “slur” by Confessore, revealing the measures of their “study.” This intolerant query then involved further involvement with a producer in Los Angeles, Dan Gallo.

Gallo mentioned ongoing issues with Fox HR about Pirro or Carlson. He also provided email to the Times detailing some of that correspondence. We are served information about the primary source after a few paragraphs that establish this internal contempt. This is the part about Tucker confronting Gallo to resolve his complaint.

“That night, Mr. Gallo wrote again to the human resources executives, asking who had told Mr. Carlson about his complaint. They said they would talk to Carlson. They did not disclose the leak until a later phone call. [Fox executive Kevin]Lord did not investigate the matter. He blamed workplace gossip, and insinuated that Mr. Gallo himself was responsible for the leak.That was insulting,” Mr. Gallo said. “I stuck to the proper channels and had moved on.” He left Fox that summer, and now works for MSNBC.

Gallo left Fox News in the spring of 2019 to join his new employer. The testimony that was supposed to have been from Fox News was in fact commentary by another MSNBC contestant on an issue that occurred many years ago.

Beyond the track record of impotent attacks on his character over the years, this petty gripe from within the offices of MSNBC, delivered as an impartial and meticulous study in The Times “proving” Tucker Carlson is a racist is all the reason you see why the Fox News host was laughing with the release of this report.

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