Carlsonโs style is implication with a pre-loaded denial. He paints the picture (hummus, foreign involvement in Kirkโs murder, the usual scaffolding), the people who are meant to get it get it, and then he can truthfully claim he never uttered the magic words. Treating that as a defense is exactly how the method works.
@CollinRugg Hey @CollinRugg is there anything Carlson could do or say that would make you suspicious of his fitness to represent the conservative movement?
@Noahpinion@mehdirhasan Mehdi deleted the tweet calling Gaza โworse than the Holocaustโ but still pretends everyone else is โbad faith.โ
Hard to take moral lectures seriously from the guy who once tweeted โmake American planes crash again.โ
I appreciate you highlighting Tuckerโs incompatibility with the Conservative movement and Iโm not a Tucker fan in the slightest, but also not a fan of the Goebbels comparison. If youโre going to use such powerful label, I invite you to share receipts demonstrating how Tucker has directly contributed to a genocidal machine responsible for the extermination of millions of people. Otherwise, this is exactly the type of rhetoric that makes political assanations thinkable. Again, I believe itโs possible Tucker is Jew hater and a wolf in sheepโs clothing, but I also believe we need to be very careful with our language.
@signulll Honest question: why would Iran spend billions, bury Fordow under 90m of rock, and run its highest-level enrichment there โ just to blow it up for show?
If itโs all theater, itโs a really expensive stage.