Tucker Carlson is shocked, shocked to find breasts on the internet

Who could have dreamed?

In the first ten days of June, Tucker had only two advertisers who ran more spots than the Fox internal cross-promotions


The advertiser exodus has happened despite the fact that Tucker has one of the highest-rated shows on cable – more than 4 million viewers some days.

14 thoughts on “Tucker Carlson is shocked, shocked to find breasts on the internet

  1. It should be noted that the MyPillow guy, Mike Lindell, is a dyed-in-the-wool evangelical wingnut and Trump groupie, infamously incoherently rambling at a Rose Garden propaganda session. So Carlson’s bigotry is most likely a feature, so far as he’s concerned.

    He was sued in California for making snake-oil claims about his pillows, and settled, and had his Better Business Bureau accreditation revoked, lowering his rating to F, for misleading advertising of “sale” prices.

    FWIW, my wife bought one of his shitty pillows (before we knew what a POS he is) and, you guessed it, it was shit. Mediocre Walmart-quality, at best.

  2. Fox actually does have a real news wing separate from the Hannity/Tucker/IngraHam bunch. They’re said to be halfway good; I do know that they frequently piss off the Orange Buffoon. One of them got essentially chased off by Tucker though. I’ve been watching the NBC Nightly since Chet and David (I still think of the 2nd Movement of LvB’s 9th as the “Huntley-Brinkley Movement”) so no first hand on Fox. Our local DC NBC affiliate had a living legend named Jim Vance (died 3 years ago), another reason to watch Channel Four.
    Szell and the boys could kick some butt on that 2nd Movement (NBC kept it in house and used Toscanini).

    1. Shep Smith (formerly) and Chris Wallace (now) have a pretty long history of ticking Trump off.

      I don’t watch Fox, so I can’t comment on the accuracy of their straight news programs, but I do occasionally look at their polls, and they are both professional and objective

      1. So does Neil Cavuto , who Trump called an asshole recently maybe Trump oughta look in the mirror

  3. It’s a different world from the days of 3 big commercial networks. How is a fairness doctrine enforceable with so many tv/radio/cable entities (not to mention over the Net).
    And who watches the watchmen? Minitrue?
    A standard dodge is to simply say you’re not news, but an entertainer. Rush does that.
    Also, let’s say you’re a strangely tinted would-be authoritarian President with an evil AG accomplice. Given that it’s all “Fake News”, couldn’t these clowns twist “Fairness” to demand large portions of the network news broadcast time for their own really fake news? (And on the other guy’s dime, to boot.)
    As Mr. Rotten once stated, “problems, problems, problems…”

    1. Yes, now that you mention it, Bill Deecee, doesn’t Fox News itself deny that it is a news network? There’s some doublespeak for you.

  4. To me, Tucker Carlson and those like him (Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and on and on and on) is one of the big problems America has had for the past 40 years and will have going on into the future: People with major media platforms who tell political lies constantly and without any personal consequences. They tell lies that there is a willing audience for, and therefore make money for themselves and their platforms.

    That audience believes nothing but those lies and dismisses any truth they hear as lies. The result is a solid minority willing to follow a creature like Trump anywhere he leads.

    Maybe this is a symptom of the American economy going downhill for the lower and middle classes for the past 40 years. I have no answer to it, but it is dangerous. It has resulted in people who are simply not open to truth and facts, because they absolutely deny they are truth and facts, and point to things said by Tucker, Sean, etc. as facts that others are fools not to believe.

    The Nazis and the Stalinists were like that, until their systems collapsed in disaster. It would nice to spare America that.

    1. …so get the FCC to bring back equal time for opposing views: problem solved.

      1. Is that what kept this from happening before 1980, Nature Mom? I remember hearing about the Fairness Doctrine, and I remember hearing that it had been ended, but that’s about all I know about it.

        Also, did it, or could it be, applied to cable television?

        1. Yes, the end of Fairness was the kickoff for Rush, among others. Once they knew they couldn’t be fact-checked or even opposed it was off to the races/racists.
          In a world where anyone can point a camera at themselves, spew, and attach it to an email, I think the biggest obstacle to fairness – even on cable – would be that they would have too many opposing views and the station could pick that one that opposes their hired “talent” in the weakest way.

          1. RE: “the station could pick that one that opposes their hired ‘talent’ in the weakest way.”

            Or as I call it, the Juan Williams rule.

  5. Truly sad that Carlson has over 4 million viewers for his nonsense. I wonder what his demographics are?

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