Brian Stelter: Tucker Carlson’s coworkers are embarrassed by his rhetoric

CNN's Brian Stelter looks at the effect 'Foxitis' is having on the country and says Fox News' Tucker Carlson is intentionally pushing vaccine misinformation on his audience.
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  1. Just remember they defend themselves in court with argument this was entertainment and no one takes it seriously think about that

    1. Sounds like foxnews racketeering, to proffer “news” that enables Republicans to lie. Mass communication has laws.

    2. @soylentdean there are over 200 posts on this thread when you post you need to make it a complete question or statement which means for you include the names. Dragged “who” into court?

    3. @Jonathan Jollimore not genocide? 47 people killed by police, 1800 dissapeared. That what is happening in Uighur, that is fake news created by the USA, because China is becoming more and more powerful, and the USA is afraid, Uighur thing is political. What is happening in Colombia is genocide, and based on evidence, watch the reporting about that.

    4. Exactly. The Sydney Powell defense was just like the Tucker Carlson defense in court “no sane reasonable person would take him seriously” which is actually true. Sydney Powell has said “I didn’t think anyone would actually believe me”. Yeah neither did we, and in a way I think many don’t but are angry Trump lost so don’t want to accept he lost. It’s easier for them to say it’s stolen. Even Newsmax had to settle with Dominion over their lies. Fox ‘News’ fired Bill O’Reilly and they are also being sued. They are a lie factory not news. They haven’t been for years.

  2. Tucker got the shots ….. so he can watch his followers die by the millions !😂

    1. Now think about that comment for a minute..
      Can you think up any reason why that was a stupid comment at all?

    2. Americans dying by the millions is statistically impossible at this point. If less than 1 out of 100 people who get Covid die and Fox has 100 million followers that’s one million max. And it isn’t possible for everyone in America to get Covid. You exagerate much.

  3. Reason why he doing that cuz that’s the only audience that will pay attention to him cuz right now he’s grasping at straws trying to get that big main stream audience back

    1. @Rod If you use the term “news” very, very lightly…top rated propaganda producer more fitting!

    1. @The White Rabbit project veritas is complete bs. You go on duck duck go too? 🤣🤣🤣

    2. @MIT Mathematica you see the terrorist have a list of demands. Bc that’s what they are domestic terrorist. Trump said he’s going to run and magically here they come.

    3. Taught to believe, not to think. Religious people fit the bill. Children told by their parents to do as told are to blame.

    4. @B Holmes religious. That’s me. I think all the time. Unless it involves gamers. Gamers live a life of pretend. Don’t get that confused with someone that just plays video games. I was sitting in Iraq. Said hey soldier. You have a mission tomorrow. I can’t I’m a healer and my guild needs me. That’s the response I got. In a combat zone.

  4. I try to keep an open mind about current events and check the Fox website daily but honestly, it is starting to look more and more like the Enquirer than a news station. It seems they are living in a completely different galaxy from the rest of us.

    1. It is the same with Fox, CNN MNSBC and whatever. It’s all the same entertainment bullshit. If you want to learn things, go to school, read books, watch good documentaries (not from the aforementioned media sources). Heck, even most youtubers who vulgarize history, science and such are much better.

    2. Coming from someone who clearly watches a show based on propaganda as the CNN Technical Director recently disclosed.

    3. @grandma k. So you prefer censorship when your perception of what is true is challenged by others. I don’t believe in much of what CNN says but I don’t think Gestapo agents should be breaking down their doors to take them off the air. If you have strength in your convictions you don’t need censorship to bullster your argument or validate your beliefs

    4. Exactly, they’ve even admitted that in their Tucker Carlson defense in court “no sane reasonable person would take him seriously” which is actually true. Sydney Powell’s defense is “I didn’t think anyone would actually believe me”. Yeah neither did we, and in a way I think many don’t but are angry Trump lost so don’t want to accept he lost. It’s easier for them to say it’s stolen. Even Newsmax had to settle with Dominion over their lies. Fox ‘News’ fired Bill O’Reilly and they are also being sued. They are a lie and propaganda factory not news. They haven’t been for years. You would think the people that watch it would be angry they are being taken for suckers, but the fact is even though it’s all B.S,r their viewers don’t care because they are so desperate to believe it’s true and they agree with bigots.

    1. @Brian Smith Sheeple is singular. But you ask of me a group. Makes no sense, again. Apologies if English is a second or third language.

    2. He always looks like he just shart in his pants And is desperately looking for a way off camera.

  5. Years ago 3 kids said album lyrics made them commit murder. It didn’t work. Foxitis ain’t gonna fly. They’re guilty.

    1. America will never be safe till everyone working at CNN is brought up on federal charges of murder

    2. Yet you like living in this country might have guns to protect you family and neighbors. Yall suck.

  6. Would watching 6 months of cartoons, prior to dropping an anvil on someone’s head, be a legal defense? No.

    1. It depends. If you happen to be a roadrunner and you drop the anvil on a coyote its an excellent defense. For humans, not so much…

    2. Exactly, but if I strapped two ACME rockets on me feet, I’ll bet that I can get away from the law.

    1. Yes. He was one of the first in line, when only those with wealth and power could get their shots as it wasn’t available to the masses yet. Not that he’d admit it on his show.

  7. Clearly not embarrassed enough, otherwise they wouldn’t be his coworkers anymore.

    1. @Greg Bors How do you explain their rhetoric on the voting laws? How do you explain their rhetoric on the police shootings?

      Don Lemon literally told Terry Crews that “Black Lives Matter” is not for all black people, only for those who are victims of racism in the USA. How pathetic is that?

    2. @Greg Bors Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the FBI director say that the biggest DOMESTIC terrorist threat is white supremacy? If not, then I’ll readily concede that Lemon was not lying about that.

    3. @Greg Bors Which thing?! So many things!!! Thanks, sweetie. Best wishes to you and yours. I’m off to read cartoons! Cheers.

    4. Even the Tucker Carlson defense in court was “no sane reasonable person would take him seriously” which is actually true. Sydney Powell has said “I didn’t think anyone would actually believe me”. Yeah neither did we, and in a way I think many don’t but are angry Trump lost so don’t want to accept he lost. It’s easier for them to say it’s stolen. Even Newsmax had to settle with Dominion over their lies. Fox ‘News’ fired Bill O’Reilly and they are also being sued. They are a lie factory not news. They haven’t been for years.

  8. Tucker always looks like he’s surprised, by what just came out of his mouth. So are we Tucker… so are we…

    1. @Gregory Everson it’s a result of the trump administration’s doing. Oil, and gas prices, are because the oil, and gas corporations. Food, and goods went up because of the trade war, and tariffs trump put in place. You didn’t think it wasn’t going to catch up to us. Your blaming the wrong folks.

    2. @Brent Nuckolls so do you only believe the right wing outlets? If so your no better than the people your trying to dis.

    3. “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”

  9. If Tucker Carlson’s coworkers were that embarrassed they might take some sort of action but they just stay quiet and go along with things at that channel.

    1. @Good Vibes dwindling power because of their crazy behavior. The more crazy they get the less power they have. The funny thing is that ‘Lindsey Graham’ accurately predicted that what has happened would happen, yet he still has helped to drive the GOP in to brick walls over and over again.

    2. @Benjamin Levine your registered voter number is false. But that’s ok, you can make up numbers as much as you like to support your racist, hateful world view. Thanks for outing yourself.

    3. @Alan Mercieca
      If you believe being an American Patriot and respecting the US Constitution is extreme then you should leave America and go to Venezuela or Cuba…Leave America for REAL Americans who love our country and its freedoms………..😁

    4. Ummm.. what? Stop pretending you can read minds and control ppl. You look ignorant just as this fake tv host.

  10. Ever since that judge ruled that what he says cant be relied on as bring truth, they should be forced to have a warning label at show start

    1. @Bradyn Lotterman Ok….

      1. It’s only hyperbole when Tucker gets called out for it.

      2. Carlson cherry picks data to suit his story and falsely state that any of the available vaccines cause death. NO deaths have been attributed to any of these Covid vaccines. There are stories out their and I’m open to the possibility but Tucker is out of his lane and Pfizer is calling him out for it. He is pandering to the evangelical Christians who are the most vaccine skeptic.

      3. Biden’s rhetoric is your opinion to have. Still wearing masks after you get vaccinated is a CDC guideline because even though you may not get sick, you can still transfer the virus and possibly a varient. It’s basic science Carlson doesn’t understand or want you to understand.

      4. Everyone has a right to question whether an election was fair or not. They pushed Trump’s big lie UNTIL THEY SUED FOR DEFAMATION BY DOMINION. Russian collusion did happen, Don Jr., Manafort, and Kushner took the meeting with Kremlin linked associates. Deal with it. It happened. Ukraine scandal did happen and was caught and was impeached. Deal with it. Hunter Biden was acquitted of any wrongdoing by multiple sources. Just because Fox won’t stop pushing it doesn’t mean it happened. Trump was only acquitted cause the Republicans were cowards and Bolton wouldn’t testify cause he wanted to sell his book.

      5. He was like Hitler. Hate crimes drastically rose under his presidency. His supporters openly marched in support of White Supremacy and he constantly went back on his comments to denounce them cause he needed their support. His surrogates wouldn’t denounce them outright when asked.

      6. He is a racist. He wasn’t criticized for calling MS-13 gang members, he was criticized for comparing asylum seekers and undocumented workers (The same kind he hires) as gang members. He did call all Mexicans rapists and murders in his announcement speech (of course he assumes some are good). Also, A WALL DOES NOT WORK!

      7. He was abysmal in the pandemic. He called it a hoax, he let it run rampant and tried to slow testing cause he was too stupid and cruel to handle it properly. Cuomo did screw up but DeSantis is no better. NYC got hit first and Florida was able to learn from them, and still managed to have bad numbers compared to NY. Trump’s vaccine plan was pathetic because he wouldn’t use federal authorities, Biden had a federal plan to make distribution more effective while Trump would have dragged his knuckles getting jabs to arms.

      8. Trump was inciting riots since the day he lost Pennsylvania. He wouldn’t concede and despite EVERY authority both Republican and Democrat saying the election was fair and right, Trump and co whipped his base into a frenzy knowing they would explode. He always said either he would win or it was rigged. He was responsible and Fox pushed that narrative as long as they could. Obama and Bernie always valued peaceful protest and never incited violence.

      CNN and MSNBC are any gold standard in news, but they live in reality. I said it before and I’ll do it again. FOX NEWS IS WORSE.

    2. @Noreb Lawyers ? The plot thins. Don’t believe anyone with an agenda. I can see with my eyes & hear with my ears. I don’t need the media to steer my loyalties one way or the other . Haven’t had a TV for 8yrs.

  11. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
    Goerge Orwell. ‘1984’, Chapter 1, Section VII; final paragraph.

    1. I love that book! And a lot of what was written can be held true – especially seen in the fact that whatever Donald Trump says (for example) must make it true because everything else is fake news. It was clear he only ever wanted people to hear his “truth”. And if you ever watched the montage from his “rally” on January 6th, the one he was showing on giant screens, there were tones not too dissimilar to 1984 – which is even more apparent when we know he kowtowed to Kim Jong Un, and we all know his propaganda tactics on his own people.

  12. Anyone remember South Park when Cartman becomes announcer and always say “I’m just asking questions” that’s Tucker Carlson.

  13. “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.”
    – Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

  14. I was listening to FOX radio the other day, and am still recovering. The level of spin is unreal.

    1. Did Fox report:
      -Russian collusion?
      -Wikileaks story?
      -Jussie Smollet MAGA attack? 🤣
      -Covington Boys intimidation?
      -Mueller’s imminent arrest of Trump?
      -Lev Parnas
      -Russian bounties on us soldiers?
      -And for 5 years running….”the walls are closing in on Trump”!! 😂😂😂
      You’ve been successfully indoctrinated by Fake News.

  15. Happy MOTHERS Day to all the amazing mothers in society, biological Mums, step Mums, aunties or sisters who are like Mums, and even single Dads who plays the role of Mum in the family. Happy Mother Day..

    1. Today isn’t Mother’s Day lol (Oh wait, I just checked and it’s international Mother’s Day. The more you know.) Oddly enough, the idea started in America when a woman called Anna Jarvis held a small memorial service for her own mother on 12 May 1907 (May 12th is my birthday, so I learned 2 new things lol)

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