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Go on Tucker Carlson's show to discuss the need to avoid escalation with Iran and be skeptical about the administration's claims, end up speaking over the chyron, "AMERICAN DYSTOPIA; NEXT: WEEK-LONG SERIES ON SAN FRANCISCO'S DECLINE."
The risks of Tucker Carlson’s Iran commentary
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Here's Carlson arguing that Iran is distracting officials from how "civilization itself is coming apart in San Francisco" with "junkies and feces and dirty needles," concluding, "As you watch it, remember this: This is what they'd like to do to your neighborhood."
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1. NEW: I reviewed all of President Trump's 2019 live-tweets for this study. He sent 657 live-tweets in response to Fox News and Fox Business -- nearly 10% of his total tweets for the year. mediamatters.org/fox-news/study…
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A legal team pulled from Fox's green room. By my count, in 2019 Trump sent at least 23 live tweets in response to their collective Fox appearances; 5 each for Ray and Starr and 13 for Dershowitz.
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This Kevin Williamson piece on that NR article about anti-Semitism and the ultra-orthodox conflates its critics with "also-rans in right-wing media trying to punch their way up to Fox News contracts" and I dunno I think those are different groups. nationalreview.com/corner/our-stu…
Hard to say of course because he doesn't mention any of the critics by name before moving to criticize "The servility of so much of conservative media in our time" and "partisans in the audience who want NR and other publications to function as party organs."
The people I thought he was criticizing also seem to think he was criticizing them, and seem appropriately pissed!
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