Tucker Carlson's No Good, Very Bad Week

[CatWoman]

Between telling new lies and getting sued for old ones, Fox’s frontman is at the center of the network’s biggest storm to date

It’s been a shit week for Tucker Carlson, and it’s not over yet.

Monday and Tuesday were dominated by bipartisan criticism against the host for his transparent attempt to rewrite the reality of Jan. 6. After spending weeks combing through more than 44,000 hours of Capitol security footage from the Jan. 6 riots, Carlson’s lies about the tape were too sloppy for even Republican leadership to defend.

On Tuesday night a new set of evidentiary documents related to the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox dropped, catching Carlson in the crosshairs.

In the filing, Carlson and his fellow primetime hosts congratulate each other over the power they hold at Fox, and disparage their colleagues. Carlson even goes so far as to ask host Sean Hannity to help get one the network’s White House correspondents fired.

Determined to stretch his Jan. 6 propaganda into a multi-day spectacle, Carlson has, as usual, devoted a significant amount of time to lambasting his critics. He called lawmakers, including members of his own party, who pushed back on his lies “sociopaths” in league with the Democrats. Carlson also insisted that it was actually everyone else who was cherry-picking footage to “convince Americans that Jan. 6 was something that it wasn’t.”

Fox and Carlson are experts at dodging accountability, a well cultivated habit that has allowed them to deliver bold-faced lies to their audiences for years. All throughout, the internal dynamics of the network have been shrouded in rumors and tidbits from unnamed sources willing to give a quote. Through the release of the Dominion documents, a level of transparency Fox would have never voluntarily agreed to has been achieved, and it looks like Carlson’s pants are being flamed to a crisp.

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[Goodheart]

1. bald-faced

[tanyev]

2. Let's get this back out there to top it off.

"Dance" starts at 1:55. I like how she kept him seated for the first 20 seconds of the dance.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. He's an Entertainer

[TeamProg]

8. Make it stop! Agghh. Gone

[markodochartaigh]

9. I've seen better dancers

running around barnyards with their heads cut off.

Cit.: Basil Fawlty

[Dustlawyer]

3. But what can be done to stop their lying propaganda?

[niyad]

4. May he, and his enablers, receive everything they deserve.

f8shstick fascist!!

[CatWoman]

6. 'Beyond Embarrassing': Colby Hall Says Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 Whitewashing Came at 'Worst Possible

Mediaite Founding Editor Colby Hall told Mediaite founder and NewsNation host Dan Abrams that Fox News is acting like they’re in an “existential crisis” over two intersecting conflagrations: the Dominion lawsuit revelations and Tucker Carlson’s false spin on the Jan. 6 attack.

This week saw Carlson roll out selected clips from the 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 surveillance to which he was granted exclusive access by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), along with his own narration rewriting the history of the attack. Simultaneously, yet another batch of devastating exhibits dropped in a new filing from the Dominion lawsuit.

COLBY HALL: I mean, you said it was a tough week. I think it was a terrible, horrible no good, very bad week. I think the scale of this story. I think they’re reeling and I think they’re acting very differently. I don’t know if this is an existential crisis, but they’re treating it that way. And I’ll say, Tucker, in the middle of all of these leaked texts, the defamation lawsuit from Dominion. Tucker airing this sort of whitewashing of January 6 attack on Monday and Tuesday came at the worst possible time because, you know, they’re debating that they don’t lie. And yet, Bret Baier and Republicans all, as you said, went after him. And it’s really it’s beyond embarrassing. Will it be a tipping point? We’ll see. I kind of doubt it, but it’s huge.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/beyond-embarrassing-colby-hall-says-tucker-carlsons-jan-6-whitewashing-came-at-worst-possible-time-for-fox-news/

[niyad]

7. "As ye sow. . ."