Tucker Carlson knows his viewers want to be lied to

[Nevilledog]

https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-viewers-like-lies?utm_medium=email

After Fox News’s Tucker Carlson teamed up with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to recast the insurrectionists of January 6 as righteous victims, many were struck by Carlson’s astounding shamelessness. After all, Tucker privately heaped scorn on the conspiracy theorists who encouraged the coup attempt, including Donald Trump himself.

“I hate him passionately,” Carlson said about Trump in a January 2021 text to a member of his staff, released in connection with Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News.

In the recently revealed internal Fox correspondence, Carlson expressed alarm that the allegiance of Fox’s far right audience was on the line in the wake of the 2020 election. Tucker was also privately critical of the enthusiasm with which Fox personalities such as Maria Bartiromo spread Trump’s big lie.

But Carlson has never been concerned about being untruthful to the Fox audience. Rather, as a propagandist, he cares most about offering his audience the narratives they are willing to accept, whether they be true or false. The internal Fox documents confirm as much.

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[Yonnie3]

1. It is the genre of disinfotainment

I thought I'd just invented that term but Wiktionary has a definition.

Noun

disinfotainment (uncountable)

(derogatory) infotainment based on incorrect or misleading information

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disinfotainment

[global1]

2. Sounds Like A Chicken Or The Egg Thing - Which Came First.....

Tucker lying to his audience - Or - his audience wanting to be lied to?

[SheltieLover]

3. Who in the world actually wants to be lied to?

[John1956PA]

4. I just got back from a diner playing Newsmax lying about J6.

Newsmax showed a few Capitol security video clips which were previously shown by Carlson. The purpose of showing the clips was to bolster Newsmax's contentions that (i) the Capitol intruders were peaceful, (ii) police manhandled a person outside, and (iii) the events were the fault of Nancy Pelosi for not making adequate security preparations. Newsmax also streamed some male who stated that he represented Q Anon Shamon and who claimed the DOJ prosecuted QAS unfairly. I am sickened how traitorous lies, such as those which I saw presented by Newsmax, are being disseminated in our country. I will not return to that diner, and I will inform its management of my reason why.

[jcgoldie]

5. I sort of want to be lied to as well...

Please someone tell me Tucker Carlson's viewers aren't complete morons.