Tucker vs New York Times, Round 2: ‘Nativist Tilt and Racial Scaremongering’

The second part of this article is Part 2. New York Times’ vast hit piece against Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, “How Tucker Carlson Reshaped Fox News — and Became Trump’s Heir,” which dominated Monday’s front page, reporter Nicholas Confessore claimed the host had claimed the mantle of Trumpism if not necessarily allegiance to Trump himself.

He “had adoptedMore and more catastrophic views of immigration and the country’s shifting demographics….Even among the generally right-of-center rank-and-file, discontent was growing over Fox’s nativist tilt and racial scaremongering….”

Each night, Mr. Carlson channels the passions and grievances that have replaced the Reagan-era conservatism he grew up on…He has aggressively defended the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 — an attack that Mr. Carlson, borrowing the former president’s “deep state” canardsFederal Bureau of Investigation masterminded the false-flag operation. Ambitious Republican lawmakers now echo his embrace of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, once relegated to the far-right fringe, that Western elites are Importing immigrants to deempower native-born

The Times has previously embraced the anti-Trump “deep state,” while “replacement theory” twists conservatives’ justified concern that Democrats want to import immigrants into America and give them citizenship – Democrats who would then dutifully pull the lever for the big-spending party who fought to get them into the country.

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Most strikingly, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” began devoting more and more airtime to immigration and to what its host depicted as the looming catastrophe of demographic change. “The minute-by-minutes shows that his audience loves white nationalism, so he is ready to go all-out on it.” said another former Fox employee, who worked frequently with Mr. Carlson….Fox executives wanted to focus on “the grievance, the stuff that would get people boiled up,” According to a Fox employee,. “They’re coming for you, the Blacks are coming for you, the Mexicans are coming for you.”

The Times even managed to twist a threatening radical-left Antifa protest outside Carlson’s home against him.

….Standing in his driveway, yelling through bullhorns, they chanted, “We know where you sleep at night.” Mr. Carlson was not at home, but his wife, Susie Andrews, was. The Carlsons claim that someone knocked on their door. Panicked she locked herself inside the pantry and called 911.

That was Confessore’s excuse to go into unnecessary, disturbing detail about just where Tucker had moved in Maine. Confessore even managed to write.

….when a local newspaper, The Sun Journal, published news of the proposed purchase, [Carlson]He screamed like a besieged man. 

Perhaps because Carlson had been literally “under siege” in D.C.?

The Times wasn’t done. An allegedly terrifying statistical analysis of some of Carlson’s common show themes was put A team of Nine reporters under the rubric “Inside the Apocalyptic Worldview of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’” But perhaps it’s only scary if you’re a far-left Times Researcher, reporter. To normal people, Tucker’s catchphrases sound like garden variety populism:

Night after night, the host of the most watched show in prime-time cable news uses a simple narrative to instill fear in his viewers: “They” want to control and then destroy “you.”

They bragged that their “analysis of 1,150 episodes reveals how Tucker Carlson Pushes conspiracy theories and extremist ideas into millions of households, five nights a week.” Which begs the question: After that kind of obsessive scrutiny, is this series really the worst they could find from Fox’s horribly “racist” host?