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(16,786 posts)If this is the path Tucker Carlson is going to take using FOX News as his platform, advertisers would be smart to bail out. There will be a reckoning for Carlson and FOX that would result in lawsuits up the wazoo that could result in FOX possibly losing their FCC license. Any deaths at the hands of those Carlson has urged on his watchers, will be the same as if he pulled the trigger.
The justification of violence against others on Trump's behalf is and should be looked on as a CRIME on Federal and State charges.
RVN VET71
(2,694 posts)Carlson has not urged people to violent acts. He's merely laid out a table of lies and deceits that he knows will quite likely push the neanderthals who watch his show to violence. After the shots are fired and the fires have burned, he'll look shocked, shocked, I tell you, when it is suggested that his words led to the violence -- even if the maggots who are arrested and jailed insist that he was their inspiration.
He stands/slithers secure behind the First Amendment - and unless he oversteps the bounds of that Amendment and actually calls for violence, he and Fox will be free and clear, and no lawsuit will amount to a hill of beans against them.
But watch for any movement by this WASP butt-wallow across the line of actually calling for violence from the angry denizens of his TV viewership. That's the precise time when Fox will cut him loose and disavow any knowledge of his evil intentions.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)I know how scary someone can be when they deeply believe the propaganda.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)These cosplay cowboys would discover how quickly a well armed and organized force can vaporize a group of rebels. Violent insurrection is not the answer.
Ligyron
(7,636 posts)Like BlueIdaho says above, his make believe militia will be slaughtered where they stand anywhere they decide to start some serious violence.
That's the other thing: How, where and against whom exactly are they going to launch their failed potatric attack? Where are they going to find all these supposedly hate America Libruls and how do they intend to identify them as such? Any public library where there's people who can actually read comes to mind I suppose or a Starbucks maybe?
I'd be more worried about a bomb going off again at a Federal Government building somewhere than a stand up firefight where even they, as stupid and deluded as they are, surely know that in the end they'd be cremated.
Admittedly, there may indeed be one or two RW "lone wolf" domestic terrorists that manage to pull off something against an AP 3rd grade reading circle.
RVN VET71
(2,694 posts)But how many reasonable people will watch him? His audience is, rather, Trump's army of the poorly educated, of the narrow minded bigot seeking justification for their bigotry, for their racism, for their rage against a good life that eludes them.
No one who lies and twists truth as deliberately and facilely as Carlson can be a good man by any stretch of the imagination. No one who lies like Carlson can ever be a good American, either.
panfluteman
(2,065 posts)Than Donald J. Trump! This BS is pure projection of the terrible sins of the president out onto a convenient scapegoat. Tucker and Trump have not deviated from the same playbook that Trump has used throughout his presidency. It keeps on playing over and over like a broken record.
panfluteman
(2,065 posts)In the American electorate. That's what I've been saying all along - education - that is, good, quality education that teaches civics, American government and critical thinking skills - is the immune system of a democracy. If all those 62 million voters who voted for Trump had had critical thinking skills, the number of votes Trump got would have been zero, or close to it.
Grokenstein
(5,726 posts)...That is, if he's still on the air (or wasting air) by then, and not in hiding. He should already be suffering serious consequences for the attack on Sen. Duckworth.
pfitz59
(10,382 posts)Tuckers kids go to Private Boarding schools. I guess they teach his children to hate America too?