With their ratings in free fall, they desperately need "the new Trump." They tried to make it Marjorie Taylor Green but nobody cared about a first-term backbencher, so they're now auditioning Tucker for the role. A bit bizarre for cable hosts to elevate another TV host this way:
https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1371139124305002499
One earnest question I have:
Why is it OK to devote hours of TV time to maligning and stoking hatred against a cable host (and I do think it's fine), but it's not OK -- it's abusive and violent -- to voice criticisms of a front-page NYT reporter.
What's the principle here?
Why is it OK to devote hours of TV time to maligning and stoking hatred against a cable host (and I do think it's fine), but it's not OK -- it's abusive and violent -- to voice criticisms of a front-page NYT reporter.
What's the principle here?
Tucker Carlson actually had protesters outside his home when his wife and kids were inside. Using the logic now marshalled to place off-limits criticisms of NYT reporters, couldn't he allege that CNN's attacks on him incite harassment and violence?
apnews.com/article/5aa410…
apnews.com/article/5aa410…
One very significant defect plaguing contemporary discourse is the inability to think in terms of principles:
Q. What's the principle that permits a cable host to be harshly critiqued but not a NYT reporter?
A. One sucks, the other doesn't.
That's the opposite of a principle.
Q. What's the principle that permits a cable host to be harshly critiqued but not a NYT reporter?
A. One sucks, the other doesn't.
That's the opposite of a principle.
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