Tonight’s Question

As an avid Tucker watcher (in a flaming carwreck kind of way), he sounds like he's feeling the heat a little for the first time.

The lies are catching up to him and he's getting boxed in, which he has admitted is a problem in the past. pic.twitter.com/GZAtxZS6ZZ

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) March 8, 2023

I’m remembering the writer who wrote a book about Murdoch and FoxNews and insisted Murdoch really wasn’t fooled by Ailes or the crazies at FoxNews and didn’t agree with them at all.

The best way to understand Carlson is that every word he says is a lie, including “and” and “the.” He knows the lies are catching up to him? How do we know even that isn’t a lie?

I really think more people understand that than don’t.

It totally works. https://t.co/ubEjvhijVA

— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 8, 2023

And if you were (still) thinking about "Freedom Cities" (why? In the name of all that’s holy, why?), rest assured: the intent is still thoroughly racist:

Now they just aim for Orwellian, don’t they? pic.twitter.com/dHs56aIhIe

— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 8, 2023

Stephen Miller knows who the “illegals” are on sight.  It’s easy, right?

Now, tonight’s question:

Good. Clearly ignoring it doesn't work. https://t.co/Sn7mcoG0A1

— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 8, 2023

Did the White House squash Tucker like a bug?

In an unusual broadside against a major conservative television star, the Biden administration directly criticized the Fox News host Tucker Carlson over his on-air portrayal of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as a largely peaceful event. https://t.co/byQWOzEJKx

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) March 8, 2023

Or did it elevate him to greater prominence than cable TeeVee or Twitter can provide? The President does have a bully pulpit, and sometimes using it is not the attack it’s supposed to be.

On the other hand, the attack on the Capitol is not just an expression of political opinion.

“We also agree with what Fox News’s own attorneys and executives have now repeatedly stressed in multiple courts of law: that Tucker Carlson is not credible.” - White House spokesperson.

The MAGA base, with their collective memory being that of a https://t.co/1TOM9CA1cJ… https://t.co/gdXFQgchgA

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) March 8, 2023

That’s kinda worth it, though.