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Why not Tucker Carlson? Just for the record, I subscribe to The Intercept and am a fan of Glenn Greenwald.
by born_a_skeptic 6y ago
Why not Tucker Carlson?
Just for the record, I subscribe to The Intercept and am a fan of Glenn Greenwald.
- 34679 6y agoMorally flexible.
- born_a_skeptic 6y agoon what?
- mushbino 6y agoRacism, xenophobia, healthcare, transphobia, authoritarianism, income inequality, workers rights. Just to name a few.
- MattGaiser 6y agohttps://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?speaker=tucker-carlson https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?speaker=tucker-c...
- born_a_skeptic 6y agoAlright, so he was wrong 8 times out of ~10,000 statements in the last 4 years? Or, am I missing something?
- SaltyBackendGuy 6y ago> Says the Potomac River "has gotten dirtier and dirtier and dirtier and dirtier. I go down there and that litter is left almost exclusively by immigrants." I think you're missing something.
- born_a_skeptic 6y agoHelp me understand what is wrong with that statement. If he fishes there regularly and sees (what he believes) are immigrants dumping trash, then isn't that statement true? How do you what he saw? This seems like splitting hairs.
- Woberto 6y agoYou yourself said "what he believes". Not "what he knows". That's not an insignificant detail. That seems like slander, really. Also, without proof, how can anybody say whether it even did or didn't happen? There are so many credible sources with proof of large companies polluting water, why not use that as an example?
- born_a_skeptic 6y agoI get what you are saying and agree there is a difference between knowing something and believing something. However, when someone believes something is true, that can mean multiple things, I take it to mean they think there is a high probability of something being true. He’s basically guessing. That means the only thing we have to go off of is Tucker’s word because he was there. And, as I ballpark estimated above, he’s generally correct when he says something according to the fact checking website, so I think he’s got credibility. Also, Tucker talks about fly fishing every so often on the show, it’s a passion of his, so it’s very possible he has seen people, who he thinks are immigrants, dumping stuff. Again, this feels like we are splitting hairs. He's pretty consistent about his view regarding immigrants (depends on situation). You may disagree with him, but that doesn't mean he is wrong.
- mushbino 6y agoI think you're missing his nearly nightly racist, xenophobic dog-whistles.
- michaelmrose 6y agoThe fact that politifact didn't report on everything else he said doesn't imply his other statements weren't lies or more importantly represented useful truths rather than propaganda and misinformation.
- giardini 6y agoPolitifact is left-leaning and not usable as a bias check unless you are satisfied with that: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=is+politifact+biased&t=opera&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=is+politifact+biased&t=opera&ia=we... There's even a site dedicated to revealing Politifact's bias: https://www.politifactbias.com/p/about-politifact-bias.html https://www.politifactbias.com/p/about-politifact-bias.html
- Woberto 6y agoAre we reading the same results? The top result[1] says they show very little bias. It also days right-leaning sources say politifact is biased, but if these sources are being fact checked in a way they don't like, of course they would claim politifact is biased. [1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politifact/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/politifact/
- nhod 6y agoTucker Carlson drops hints that he can’t see the emperor’s clothes, but he nevertheless describes their beauty in exquisite detail almost every other night. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
- gfodor 6y agoTucker is partisan, and hence corrupted, so regardless of how wrong or right he is on any given issue he isn't someone who could step into the role of a widely-trusted journalist. Taibbi could.
- born_a_skeptic 6y agoThat's a fair point. I will say that he isn't afraid of calling out the BS on the right.
- scruple 6y agoBut he always pulls his punches when it comes to the right. His book, "Ship of Fools," is the perfect example. He's insincere.