His monologues merely restate what is already known by anyone who is paying attention to the news cycle on a daily basis. I get nothing useful from him anymore.

I haven't sat down and purposely watch Tucker Carlson in years, I'll see his segments piecemeal from youtube if the topic is of interest. I have heard his show is the highest rated one out of the cable talking heads, don't really know if this is still true (I'm guessing it is).

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Rush Limbaugh gave his all, through drug addiction and illness. Tucker Carlson is not in the same class as Limbaugh and never will be.

This is true. I like some of Carlson's stuff, but he doesn't hold a candle compared to the late Rush Limbaugh, not even close.

As far as his more in depth interviews go, I agree with the earlier post that they are to drive traffic to the streaming service. Which I wont pay for.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
His monologues merely restate what is already known by anyone who is paying attention to the news cycle on a daily basis. I get nothing useful from him anymore.

Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight...


Tucker: Here's who you should be afraid of...



Yes, all the others talked about Atty. Gen. Garland's testimony before the Judiciary committee...

Others may have pointed out the disparity between the Justice Department's pursuit of abortion clinic protesters vs. those who attack pregnancy crisis centers (where women are given assistance, and counseling).

But I didn't hear anyone else saying "on some level all governments hate religious people, because it's competition...
Anyone who sincerely believes in God is a threat and that is the measure of a free country...
Are you allowed to believe in an authority higher than the people in charge of your government?"

Tucker attempts to tie things together and makes you think about the why behind the what. He sometimes extrapolates too far and it seems absurd. But he's at least a little different than what you get on other news/commentary shows.

Ted Koppell was good. Intelligent and knew the issues.

He pegged my stranger danger from day 1. Never liked him, don't trust him, seems like a dam weirdo. Even if sometimes he's saying exactly what I want to hear, he still works for Fox News and I don't consider them my friend. Believe them to be manipulators.

I agree with everything in the first post too, that scowl is just weird.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Tucker attempts to tie things together and makes you think about the why behind the what.

He can tie his dick in a knot for all I care. I am not listening anymore to anything he has to say.

I could care less for Watters. Comes across as a smug know it all. Does not check his facts. He went on about the Kamikazee attack on Pearl Harbor.

I used to not like him for his voice intonations. But, now, I like to listen to him because of his contrarian views to conservative ideas along with him being against liberalism.

I watch him on and off. I have the Fox Nation subscription. I don't hate him but I don't live for each episode of his show. It seems like he used to get some left leaning guests on the show and he would beat them up with a velvet glove covering his fist. He seldom has opposing view points on his show these days and it may be that they don't want to be publicly beat up. Tucker Carlson Originals (I think on Fox Nation only?) has some pretty good stuff like the "Death of Comedy", "Biden Inc", and "Battle For The Border" (to name a few) are interesting.

I agree completely with Para; I no longer watch TC regularly as I used to during the pandemic. At first it was extremely useful that he had people on like Marty Makary who were qualified experts daring to counter the lies of the public health establishment.
But--as a physician, trained also in epidemiology and biostatistics, with a long career of teaching and practice of evidence-based medicine--he did unconscionable things that were profoundly unscientific, and in many cases did more harm than good in my opinion. For example: one cannot use the VAERS (vaccine adverse events reporting system) to compare adverse effects of flu vaccines vs. COVID vaccines, because of the very strong self-selection factor in a highly political environment.

Having said that, I also agree with this:

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I find Tucker much more palatable on his Fox Nation one-on-one interviews. They are generally well done. Can’t stand him on regular Fox.

In these long-form interviews, Carlson does engage with his guests and gets a lot of useful information from them. Of course some are more interesting than others. Look, for example, at his interview with Dr. Steven Koonin on climate change. Or with Michael Shellenberger on urban decay under Leftist governments.

Serious question- does he scowl at his guests on Fox Nation?

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I frequently watch his long-format interviews on Fox Nation. It seems like he generally hand-picks most of his guests from the guest list of his daily week night show if he finds them interesting or if he feels they have something to bring to some particular current event.

I enjoy the majority of those shows and the only times I can recall him looking at guests with a funny expression on his face is when they say something he doesn't quite understand and then he usually gets clarification and moves on.

Thank you-I thought I wasted only one...plus the shouting matches which occur sometimes - I think I'm watching Howard Stern (whom I hate)

The paranoid in me, thinks this is an attempt to ridicule conservatism in the eyes of the populace.

Glenn Beck seemed decent, until he went crazy as well.

But, there’s another part of me which wonders what conservative would seek a television career?

That they would come to it by writing/maybe podcasts/talk radio makes sense.

Maybe being a dancing pony gets to them. Haven’t they all gone nuts after a certain level of prominence?

(Maybe all people do?)

I find Gutfeld! entertaining, provided Gutfeld isn’t speaking/preferably isn’t on the show.

However you feel about Tucker Carlson, you might consider watching tonight’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. His show, (Monday, March 6) is all about the surveillance video footage in the Capitol from January 6th, 2021. It’s very revealing, and I don’t know where you can see this, or a synopsis of the footage, anywhere else.

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Originally posted by TMats:
However you feel about Tucker Carlson, you might consider watching tonight’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. His show, (Monday, March 6) is all about the surveillance video footage in the Capitol from January 6th, 2021. It’s very revealing, and I don’t know where you can see this, or a synopsis of the footage, anywhere else.

Good god the lies the commies told about Jan 6! This is unreal. Police escorting the Shaman and opening doors for him! He thanked them in the chamber for letting him in! And he gets 4 years in jail...

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Originally posted by Lefty Sig:
Good god the lies the commies told about Jan 6! This is unreal. Police escorting the Shaman and opening doors for him! He thanked them in the chamber for letting him in! And he gets 4 years in jail...

And none of that footage was available to his defense attorney. Brady disclosure?

We all knew they were lying, blatantly, about everything.

The worst "planned armed insurrection" evah. Oopsie, forgot our weapons

At one time, I watched Tucker Carlson regularly. My television or computer hasn't been tuned to FOX since election night 2020.

He is one of the few people on TV actually asking questions. He just exposed all the J6 stuff that we knew was BS. The Youtubers are already following along by posting recordings and commenting on it.

So, while aspects of the show are annoying, at least he's asking questions the rest of the Press won't ask.