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Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Ben Shapiro while discussing self-driving trucks said he would lie to spin the story in a different way to achieve his des
by mattcantstop 3y ago
Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Ben Shapiro while discussing self-driving trucks said he would lie to spin the story in a different way to achieve his desired outcome. There is no journalistic integrity.
- MuffinFlavored 3y agoSource? Timestamp?
- pharrington 3y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awM0nrlOZxk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awM0nrlOZxk at 6:10 found by copy pasting "Tucker Carlson, in his interview with Ben Shapiro while discussing self-driving trucks" into the google and getting lucky
- blowski 3y agoI don’t know whether you meant it this way, but your comment comes across as “let me Google that for you”. Either way, I also wanted a source, and thank you for posting the link here so I also don’t have to go looking for it.
- pharrington 3y agoI absolutely did mean to be as snarky as possible. Asking for a source for something is one thing, but when the person you (not referring to you, but the original person I replied to) asked gave the word for word, verbatim search term who's first result is the EXACT thing you asked for, and you type "SOURCE TIMESTAMP" anyway, I can't be charitable.
- blowski 3y agoHN Guidelines for comments: > Don't be snarky. It makes for a nicer community if you just post the link and leave out the snark.
- paisawalla 3y agoThis is tedious. It's a time-worn strategy of all politicians and activists to justify their preferred policies pretextually. If you have something to say about the actual policy he's discussing -- industry protectionism -- you should make that comment instead. But if your comment is just "one time someone from the other team said the quiet part aloud" that's rather naive and unremarkable.
- pharrington 3y agoDid you reply to the wrong comment?
- vel0city 3y agoJust a tip, you can encode a timestamp in a YouTube URL. Right click at the time you want to point to and choose "Copy video URL at current time". Or just encode the time in seconds as ?t=<seconds_to_jump_to> in the query string. https://youtu.be/awM0nrlOZxk?t=370 https://youtu.be/awM0nrlOZxk?t=370
- rimunroe 3y agoYou can also express it as a combination of minutes and seconds (presumably hours are supported too): https://youtu.be/awM0nrlOZxk?t=6m10s https://youtu.be/awM0nrlOZxk?t=6m10s
- nawgz 3y agohttps://youtu.be/awM0nrlOZxk?t=372 https://youtu.be/awM0nrlOZxk?t=372 At 6:12 Transcribed by me: "I would maybe make up some pretext for public consumption, like 'oh they're dangerous', 'the technology's not there yet'"
- econonut 3y agoLet's not take things out of context guys. His response there is what he would say to the public if he were in charge of making decisions on self-driving trucks. Start at 4:45 for the entire segment. He starts his response by saying, "If I were president, would I say to the DOT..."
- pharrington 3y agoYeah, he sure does gleefully admit that he'd abuse presidential power to lie in under to get what he wants! Good thing there's no other context where Carlson's in control of disseminating information in order to get what he wants!
- nawgz 3y agoYes, let's not take things out of context. In a world where Tucker Carlson has gained more political power and is legislating some policy which should be very politically popular, he still believes the right way to do things is in an "ends justify the means" fashion, and would therefore be willing to mislead the public - and anyone else that required misleading - in order to enact this policy. Again, this is something that he argues would protect the jobs of millions of Americans. How can you possibly think that we are taking it "out of context"? This is ironclad evidence for people who argue something like "Tucker Carlson is a lying maniac who puts himself and what he thinks is important before justice and integrity". Even when in idealistic hypotheticals constructed for PR, he still would do what he does best: make up pretext for public consumption.
- skipants 3y agoIt's really telling how simply he glosses over saying that like it's a perfectly normal thing for a "journalist" to do. That's pretty depressing.
- Isamu 3y agoTucker and others like Hannity are not considered journalists, and I even remember Hannity being careful to make this point- they are opinion show hosts. This was also made clear in a lawsuit a few years ago. Like the opinion section in a newspaper, they are not held to journalistic standards by their organization. But they can be sued for libel and slander, as in this lawsuit.
- mrangle 3y agoWho and who is not a journalist can't be determined by any institution. According to democracy. If people find what they present to be journalism, then it is. Ironically, I just defended Rachel Maddow and many more people. It seems strange to have to impart basic civics lessons here.
- tcbawo 3y agoLiability of a hospital for actions of an independent contractor physician in a medical malpractice trial depended (at least partially…) on whether an uninformed person would confuse that individual as an agent/employee of the hospital. The intentionally murky delineation used by hospitals to shield themselves from liability by hiring non-employee contractors seems to mirror the journalist/opinion personally that media tries to get away with. I was on the jury for this trial, which also ended in a settlement. I suspect the hospital was quick to settle rather than set any precedent that might hurt their liability shield.
- laweijfmvo 3y agoFWIW the source of that quote was actually that, if Tucker Carlson were _president_, would he ban self-driving trucks solely to preserve truck-driving jobs? He said he would make up some pretense/excuse/spin when justifying it.
- mrangle 3y agoYou're the one without integrity. He was speaking in a hypothetical role as a government official, not as a journalist. In fact, he was making a very socialist / populist point that few on the Left would be able to disagree with. That is, the point was about the national necessity of protecting a job base for a immense mass of people. Protecting it from robot capitalism.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThere's footage of Tucker Carlson saying that Hannity doesn't believe the lies he tells, before he replaced Hannity and told the same lies. https://youtu.be/RNineSEoxjQ https://youtu.be/RNineSEoxjQ ”Why Tucker Carlson pretends to hate Elites"