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2022-01-09 Home Front: Politix
Dems terrified of 'Tucker Carlson primary' after Ted Cruz smackdown makes him new king of 2024
[BIZPACREVIEW] Tucker Carlson’s resounding smackdown of Senator Ted Cruz;
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet...
for parroting Democrat talking points about the so-called "insurrection" has stirred up the party’s media mouthpieces who are piling on the Texas Republican who was put on the spot by the Fox News ratings king for his flippant remark that Trump supporters were terrorists.On Thursday, Carlson hosted Cruz and raked him over the coals for the misleading characterization that was also used by AG Merrick Garland
...Attorney General of the U.S., who classifies indignant parents as domestic terrorists. The is the respected legal scholar Obama nominated for the Supreme Court...
, remarks that the senator admitted were "dumb" while walking them back in an interview that has leftists jittery over the influence that Tucker will have on GOP candidates as the all-important midterm elections draw nearer.

One talking head who wasn’t pleased about Cruz’s straying from the narrative that the chaos at the Capitol was a legitimate threat to overthrow the entire U.S. government was CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
’s Brian Stelter who bemoaned Carlson’s clout with the Republican base and what he fears will be a "Tucker Carlson primary" this year and in 2024.

During a "CNN Newsroom" segment with co-host Victor Blackwell, Stelter said, "Cruz folded like a paper airplane. I think what it shows is the Republican messaging about being tough on crime, which is something that’s gone back decades, that Cruz was trying to lean into, has come up against this denial of the Jan. 6 crime," putting a devious spin on the GOP’s anti-crime message.

"So, you have Tucker Carlson try to take a position that what we saw with our own eyes didn’t really happen, or not that many coppers were maimed," he continued, "even though some of the officers that were attacked that day still can’t get back to work because the injuries were so severe. But Carlson’s in such profound denial about that, Victor, that he has to put on this performance and Cruz absolutely begged for forgiveness."

He added, "About a year ago, media news hounds like yours truly started to say Tucker Carlson is the new Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
, and I’ve never seen a bit of proof that’s better than this. This is the ultimate example of Tucker Carlson’s power, he essentially now runs the GOP media and as we think about the midterms and 2024, there is going to be a Tucker Carlson primary and you just saw what it’s going to be like. It’s going to be this kind of obsession with sticking to the party orthodoxy and denying the reality of the riot."
Posted by Fred 2022-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 The passing of Rush gave the talking heads on the Right the conservative mantle for the taking. And Tucker has taken hold of that mantel.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-09 01:01||   2022-01-09 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ True, and thank goodness.
Posted by Dale 2022-01-09 03:47||   2022-01-09 03:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Tucker is shockingly based. He's much more like a Youtuber than a mainstream media personality. He speaks the truth and doesn't shy from it. No wonder they're terrified of him, their whole plan is 1984-style reality control, where nobody is allowed to show the man behind the curtain.
Posted by Punky Elmigum9411 2022-01-09 06:06||   2022-01-09 06:06|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^^ In a business communications class in college once it is called "CONCISE COMMUNICATIONS". Fantastic, powerfull communications class.

We had to cut entire paragraphs down to one sentence as part of the assignments. And entire chapters into one paragraph.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-09 07:21||   2022-01-09 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5  We had to cut entire paragraphs down to one sentence as part of the assignments.

Trailing daughter#2’s native tongue. ;-) I spent years explaining to her that, while efficient, she could not thusly convince others to agree with her unless she unpacked her thoughts for them.

Procter & Gamble trains their people to write their famous one page memos starting with a single sentence labeled Conclusion, followed by a short paragraph for Background, another two paragraphs or so for Data, and a final sentence or two under Next Steps. New hires spend a good part of their first six months rewriting to master the style and cut out all verbosity to meet the single page limit, part of the reason P&G only hires at the entry level.

Challenging, but it brutally forces clarification of thought as well as respect for the time of others.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-01-09 17:33||   2022-01-09 17:33|| Front Page Top

#6 As one of the officers in Catch 22 said of an underling's reports, "Your prose is too prolix..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-09 17:54||   2022-01-09 17:54|| Front Page Top

#7 TW. Texas Instruments was also like that.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2022-01-09 19:02||   2022-01-09 19:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Limbaugh was essentially an entertainer. A master of the medium and a user of dopey invented slang & code words designed to create a "community." Limbaugh made a fortune and enjoyed life in Florida. He didn't threaten anyone.

Carlson is a genuinely angry man. His goal is not to make money or sell ads; he doesn't pander to anyone, including his own audience.

He lives and moves within the D.C. environment. They're terrified of him: they know he's serious about tearing down this whole USSA shambolic structure.

Carlson for POTUS 2024
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-09 19:31||   2022-01-09 19:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Carlson is "angry" like me.
Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-01-09 19:37||   2022-01-09 19:37|| Front Page Top

#10 It is not anger to see clearly. It is not "hate" to speak the truth.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-09 19:40||   2022-01-09 19:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Anger is good and necessary.

Anyone who's not angry at our kakocrats is either brainwashed, sedated or not paying attention.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-09 19:44||   2022-01-09 19:44|| Front Page Top

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