This is what happens when you speak truth to power.

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This is what happens when you speak truth to power.

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https://Twitter.com/i/status/1098354862364839936

Tucker Carlson loses his crap. Lol.

Here's the background to the video above:

This is hilarious. Tucker Carlson didn't know what to do when confronted. He became flustered, exclaimed multiple expletives, and then Fox News refused to show the interview. What did he expect? Tucker was interviewing a historian who accused billionaires of ignoring taxation.[1]


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Fox News is refusing to air this segment where Tucker Carlson loses his temper after guest @rcbregman tells Carlson he's 'a millionaire funded by billionaires' during a blunt conversation about economic inequality. NowThis obtained the full interview.

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Things become tense when Bregman tells Carlson that Fox News has tended to ignore tax because “what the Murdochs want you to do is scapegoat immigrants instead of talking about tax avoidance”.

Bregman then accuses Carlson of being bought by the Murdoch family and the Cato Institute, a rightwing thinktank of which Carlson was a fellow until 2015. Bregman says Tucker took the “dirty money” of the institute, which is funded in large part by the Koch brothers and opposes higher taxes.

He says Carlson is “a millionaire funded by billionaires” and “not part of the solution” but “part of the problem, actually”.

Bregman finishes by acknowledging that the interview probably wouldn’t be aired, but saying that he “went to Davos to speak truth to power and I’m doing exactly the same right now”.

Carlson, near-speechless for much of the interview, replies by saying: “Why don’t you go “F” yourself, you tiny brain. You’re a moron. I tried to give you a hearing but you were too damned annoying.”


And that's why FOX News is totally corrupt, in the tank, keeping people stupid about their financials.

Sad.

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:And that's why FOX News is totally corrupt, in the tank, keeping people stupid about their financials.

Sad.

- Doc

So the Twitter post cited has some rather ambiguous off camera comments without any context...but your conclusion based on hearsay totes carries weight. No pressuposition lost on you amiright?
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There's a leaked video of this online. Just mentioning.
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Jersey Girl wrote:There's a leaked video of this online. Just mentioning.

Link, please?
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Dr. Shades wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:There's a leaked video of this online. Just mentioning.

Link, please?


Yeah yeah. Sure sure.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/tucker- ... -yourself/
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Dr. Shades wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:There's a leaked video of this online. Just mentioning.

Link, please?


https://youtu.be/6_nFI2Zb7qE

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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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Well obviously the context exonerates Carlson, right?

Maybe he should sue NowThis for $250,000,000
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Kevin Graham wrote:Well obviously the context exonerates Carlson, right?

It would seem to be effectively demonstrating Carlson to be a snowflake.

No surprise there.
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Wow. That was about the only way Tucker Carlson could respond given that Mr. Bregman was right.
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What's old is new:

https://youtu.be/aFQFB5YpDZE?t=458

Here's Jon Stewart completely dismantling Tucker Carlson on CNN's Crossfire over a decade ago. This kind of demonstrates how these guys are allowed to operate with impunity while being funded by their financial benefactors.

- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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