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So why is Tucker Carlson so antivaxx?
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the whole "I'm not being a conspiracy theorist, I'm just asking open ended questions formulated in such a way as to increase the fear mongering as much as possible" style is so soul destroying.
Yep.
Anti-science, anti-intellectualism, "I'm just asking questions, man!"-ism is the name of their game. It's how they keep control over the uneducated base. Fear and ignorance (see racism) are their most powerful tools.
"There's no proof that the vaccine is dangerous, but there doesn't need to be." - Tucker Carlson
Just think about what he's saying, there.
Fear in people gets them to tune in and watch mypillow ads.
As long as he gets eyeballs, he'll keep doing it.
As long as he gets eyeballs, he'll keep doing it.
Tucker Carlson is an absolute cancer to this country, and he can not go the way of Rush Limbaugh soon enough
Also notice a trend in conspiracy theories being blasted on fox. A lot of recent coverage on "UFOs" etc. if you feed them crazy shit they already believe, they'll more readily believe you when you say mundane shit like "trump is not a crook".
The NYMag wrote an recent article on the behaviour of a couple conservatives, including Carlson:
Tl;dr conservatives are itching for a culture war fight and making left-wingers miserable to make themselves happy.
Tl;dr conservatives are itching for a culture war fight and making left-wingers miserable to make themselves happy.
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Of course he is.
Tucker comes from the same elite circles he rails against as well.
Because it's tribal bs.
He and his racist cult wants the worse for this nation if a Dem is in office so that they can be elected back into power and allow it to rot under them.
I'm 100% sure if Trump won and was rolling out vaz rn him and his string pullers wouldn't be doing this NEARLY AS MUCH.
He and his racist cult wants the worse for this nation if a Dem is in office so that they can be elected back into power and allow it to rot under them.
I'm 100% sure if Trump won and was rolling out vaz rn him and his string pullers wouldn't be doing this NEARLY AS MUCH.
Well, thing is, almost everyone still dying from COVID is unvaccinated. So they're literally killing their base to own the libs.
This isn't anything new. For the past 40 years Republican policy has been nothing more than "oppose the left because fuck you".
The reason is that, like many conservatives, he cares more about his freedom and his ideals, than he cares about the well being of his friends/family and his community.
That's why most conservatives are against being vaccinated, against mask wearing, and doing anything to fight climate change.
That's why most conservatives are against being vaccinated, against mask wearing, and doing anything to fight climate change.
He and his audience operate on a feedback loop. What he states on air is a reflection of what his core audience believes. Feeding it back to them and the wider audience, reinforcing the belief.
He is strictly interested in growing his following.
He is strictly interested in growing his following.
Yeah, it's feedback loop bullshit. He knows the people he's catering to believe this nonsense, so he perpetuates it in order to maintain their support. It's not like Tuck comes up with his own ideas, he just looks at what the dumbest fucking people in the country think and rolls with it as aggressively as possible, because it's what his viewers want to hear.
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Because his only real beliefs is to be against the other side.
If the Biden administration announced tomorrow that vaccines are made by the devil and no one should take them, he'd be on his show that night saying "Everyone should get vaccines now!"
If the Biden administration announced tomorrow that vaccines are made by the devil and no one should take them, he'd be on his show that night saying "Everyone should get vaccines now!"
Because he's playing to a certain audience
People of the land
The common clay of the West.
God this duo was truly art.
fuck carlson
Yup, all of this. It's basically weaponized confirmation bias. Which he usually couches in the most blatant of bad faith arguments..."just asking questions".
All they have is fear and fake outrage. If Trump was still president and telling everyone to get vaccinated, their tone would totally flip.
How does fox keep finding people with the most unlikable faces. Even if he was on another network I couldn't watch just because of his face.
thousands of americans have died after watching tucker carlson. why isn't anyone asking about that? what is he and fox news trying to hide?
If it wasn't vaccines it would be something else. He needs an issue to draw battle lines over, because that gets viewers engaged. He may n
Dude is straight up killing people on TV now.
Dude is straight up killing people on TV now.
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You'd think Fox have so shame, but the Murdoch's don't care.
Ugh. I hate this dude so damn much. I feel like he should be jailed for the shit he says because it can literally result in people dying.
Wait wait wait, but I thought we were over-counting the amount of deaths to actual Covid! But now we're under-counting those having adverse effects to the vaccine?!
Can someone take some legal action against him at this point, even if it's just civil? This shit is wreck-less and serious.
He needs to be pressured into backtracking. Fox needs to be pressured into issuing disclaimers / corrections
He needs to be pressured into backtracking. Fox needs to be pressured into issuing disclaimers / corrections
He was literally the only guy in the office when the OJ trials were going on and dogwhistled like hell about wanting people to stop talking about race. And then he just fell upwards from there.
