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By early January 2021, Fox News hosts and executives were ready to move on from then-President Donald Trump and his insistence that the election was stolen.
"it's been 8 weeks and none of them has produced anything tangible or verifiable. and now he wants thousands of his supporters to go to DC without shelter or food to demonstrate," host Lou Dobbs texted a producer on his show on Jan. 3. "I believe the election was stolen — but without evidence we can do nothing significant."
"We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights," Tucker Carlson wrote in a Jan. 4 text to an unidentified person. "I truly can't wait."
"I hate him passionately," he continued. "I can't handle much more of this."
The revealing private messages were unsealed Tuesday night, part of a massive cache of evidence in the $1.6 billion Dominion defamation suit against Fox News and the Fox Corp. They paint a remarkably frank picture of how key players at Fox News viewed the stolen election lie that motivated a mob to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Fox News argued the voting systems manufacturer was skewing the evidence.
“Dominion has been caught red handed again using more distortions and misinformation in their PR campaign to smear FOX News and trample on free speech and freedom of the press," a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement.
Dominion has said the released documents speak for themselves.
Trump and his lawyers "have so discredited their own case, and the rest of us to some extent, that it's infuriating," Carlson continued in his texts. "Absolutely enrages me."
The next day, Jan. 5, Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tapped an email out on his iPhone: Maybe our top talent needs to take a stand.
"It's been suggested our primetime three should independently or together say something like 'the election is over and Joe Biden won. We are all disappointed by it happened. We love America and have to turn the page. We will now be the loyal opposition criticizing every liberal mistake the new administration makes,'" Murdoch wrote to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott.
"Not those words, but a refinement would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election stolen," he added. "And the basis of his 2024 campaign."
Scott forwarded the email to Meade Cooper, the executive vice president of prime-time programming.
"I told Rupert that privately they are all there — we need to be careful about using the shows and pissing off the viewers but they know how to navigate."
Trump's troubles multiplying. His businesses now ruined! Who is going to throw a party at one of his golf clubs or hotels?
Rupert Murdoch in an Email on Jan. 12, 2021
But the top talent at Fox News never did take a stand.
Instead, prime-time hosts talked up the Stop the Steal rally taking place in Washington on Jan. 6.
On the night of Jan. 5, prime-time host Sean Hannity put Eric Trump on the air, who ran through a laundry list of exaggerated or debunked fraud claims he suggested cost his father the election.
"The Republic, its future, our futures, are hanging in the balance," Dobbs said on Jan. 5, teeing up Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton, who argued that the outcome of the election could be changed by state legislatures and Congress on Jan. 6.
And next morning, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitolin an effort to block the certification of the results of the 2020 election. Rioters smashed windows and doors, looted and ransacked offices andengaged in hours of violent clashes. About 140 officers were assaulted that day, andtwo pipe bombswere also planted nearby, but did not detonate.
The privatetexts and emails included in Dominion's evidence offer a remarkable snapshot of the frustration and discontent at Fox News hours and days after the attack — messages that were far different from what they were putting on air.
"he isn't saying what's actually going on. just beating around the bush," Carlson producer Alex Pfeiffer complained in a text exchange with Carlson senior executive producer Justin Wells and an unnamed individual, dissecting Carlson's show on Jan. 6. "why do people think it was stolen? didn't happen immacutately. trump told them thats what happened."
Inside the Fox companies, the shift was urgent, sometimes frenzied.
"Fox News very busy pivoting. ... We want to make Trump a non person," Murdoch wrote in one email on Jan. 8.
Fox News "is pivoting as fast as possible. We have to lead our viewers which is not as easy as it might seem," he wrote in another days later.
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The day after Biden's inauguration, Murdoch was facing heat from Republican senators.
That morning, he met with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and other GOP senators who were opposed to impeaching Trump.
“Still getting mud thrown at us!” Murdoch wrote. “Maybe Sean and Laura went too far,” he continued, referring to Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
He asked Scott whether it was “unarguable that high profile Fox voices fed the story that the election was stolen and that January 6th an important chance to have the result overturned.”
Scott punted the request to a group of executives, noting “please send specifics.”
Six hours later, Irena Briganti, the Fox News executive in charge of communications, responded with more than 15 pages of transcripts of examples.
In a Jan. 12 email exchange with former House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Murdoch said "everything changed" on the day of the riot.
"Trump's troubles multiplying. His businesses now ruined! Who is going to throw a party at one of his golf clubs or hotels?"
He went on: "Could he still resign and get Pence to pardon, then just disappear? Would Mike Pence agree?"
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Friday, October 12, the Metropolitan Republican Club in New York City invited Proud Boys founder and right-wing media host Gavin McInnes to speak.
On his CRTV show (CRTV is the digital network run by Fox News host Mark Levin), McInnes advocates for revanchist positions: He's called for "a big memorial for all the whites," teamed up with a men's rights activist to attack Black women, talked about how great he thinks the patriarchy is, made disgusting remarks about LGBTQ people, argued that women don't belong in the workplace, and much more. McInnes' written work can best be described as attempting to forge new ways to be racist.
McInnes is also the founder of the Proud Boys. Proud Boys is a self-described “Western chauvinist” men-only fraternal organization. There are two crucial things to understand about the group: Misogyny and violence. Misogyny is the core operating principle of the group: Not only are women not allowed to join, they are not even allowed to be present when meetings take place. The group even has a ritual where members subject themselves to punches while naming breakfast cereals. To reach the inner sanctum of the group, a Proud Boy must engage in violence with anti-fascists. The group also has ties to white supremacists; the chief organizer of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville was a Proud Boy, and when a white nationalist narrative goes viral, there's usually a link to the Proud Boys. In terms of finding members, Proud Boys has used Facebook and Infowars to recruit. If you had to sum up the Proud Boys, it would be to describe them as a pro-Trump street gang, the violent wing of the modern Republican Party.
After the event, Proud Boys assaulted three protesters; video shows "more than a dozen" Proud Boys, including at least three skinheads, punching and kicking protesters on the ground. The NYPD told Buzzfeed News that they were still "researching a response" as to why none of the Proud Boys were arrested even though there were officers on the scene. Video from the scene is horrifying.
As the beatdown happened, Fox News immediately put the blame onto left-wing protesters and portrayed the Proud Boys as the victims. There is no evidence whatsoever for that conclusion, and to the contrary, while Fox News warned of "swords and vandalism" at the event, the only sword was wielded by McInnes himself -- the event was to commemorate and reenact the execution of the Japanese socialist Inejiro Asanuma.
While shocking, Fox News' protection of the Proud Boys should come as no surprise. Fox News is explicitly deferential to the Proud Boys. They've interviewed McInnes on air without even identifying him.Tucker Carlson has posed for pictureswith Proud Boys and refused to distance himself from the group, and in fact has even echoed some of McInnes' rhetoric. A New York Post columnist recently arguedon Fox & Friends that the Proud Boys "don't have any real dark beliefs."
But it's not just right-wing media that gets the Proud Boys wrong. NBC News profiledthe Proud Boys in 2017 and made a series of mistakes, in the end only glamorizing the group. A New York Times headline about the melee merely labelled McInnes a "right-wing provocateur."
Trump has repeatedly incited violence at his rallies. Of course a pro-Trump group would take that call to action to the streets.
Amidst right-wing violence, conservatives complain about angry left-wing mob
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Friday, Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson provoked outrage with a segment in which he questioned the value of diversity as a "strength" in American society.
On Monday, Carlson doubled down, and inexplicably, he chose to cite "E Pluribus Unum," the original de facto motto of the United States, as proof of his thesis thatdiversity is bad.
"'Out of many, one,' a country in which our differences mean less than our common identity as Americans," Carlson said. "For centuries, this was the source of our national strength. Then, a few decades ago, that changed. With no vote or even an acknowledgement, our elites jettisoned the old motto and adopted a new one: 'Diversity is our strength.'"
"The new slogan seemed to have the opposite meaning from the ones the founders wrote," he continued. "Our differences, they begin telling us, are now the single most important thing about us. The less alike we are, the better. Now, it's possible that is true, that disunity somehow makes us stronger. What's striking is that nobody has ever bothered to explain exactly how." [vid?] Carlson's argument makes no sense whatsoever. For one thing, "E Pluribus Unum" has nothing to do with our racial or ethnic identity; it simply means that from the original thirteen states, one nation is forged. This is driven home by the fact that the motto is thirteen characters long.
For another, Carlson can't seem to provide a source for when exactly America changed its motto to "diversity is our strength," because it never did (Congress did, however, establish "In God We Trust" as the official motto during the second Red Scare).
On the other hand, America has always been a nation of immigrants, and the obsessive desire of certain elements of the population to keep the nation as homogenous as possible has lead to far more misery, public strife, and violence than anyone arguing we should all simply coexist.
Carlson has increasingly used his time slot to express overt racism. His show has promoted white nationalist conspiracy theories about South African farm attacks, and his frequent guest Mark Steyn has argued that Hispanic schoolchildren aren't American because "the border has moved north."
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Wednesday, Donald Trump briefly interrupted his ongoing Twitter tirades denouncing various investigations into his shady behavior with a bizarre tweet about "the large scale killing of farmers" and "land and farm seizures and expropriations" in South Africa. It didn't take long for journalists to figure out what Trump was talking about. He was referencing a racist (and false) conspiracy theory that floats around white supremacist and neo-Nazi websites and had been elevated by Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host who has grown increasingly bold about mainstreaming ideas picked up from the white supremacist fringe.
That Trump often expresses racist views is neither new nor surprising information, so while news sites dutifully published pieces debunking this conspiracy theory — which implies that the South Africa government is working with vigilantes to steal land from white farmers through violence — it seems likely that both the media and the public will rapidly move on, especially since there are so many other big stories vying for attention.
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government of South Africa is attempting to address the Apartheid-influenced concentration of land ownership by whites. This issue has become a hobby horse for white nationalists, who regularly (and inaccurately) portray the issue as whites under siege, using racist tropes. As an example, Alex Jones this week warned of whites being "wiped out" in Africa and said that Black South Africans are trying to be as "barbarous" as possible.
Tucker Carlson covered the matter, using the same framing as white nationalists. Carlson complained about the land reform policy of the South African government being the “definition of racism.” This wasn't the first time Carlson complained about the issue either.
This time, though Trump tweeted about it.
Trump echoed what Carlson said, and furthermore ordered secretary of state Mike Pompeo to look into the matter. The former ambassador to South Africa said that Trump was running with a "disproven racial myth." Other experts also debunked the claim. In fact, murders of farmers in South Africa are at a 20 year low.
Maenwhile, white supremacists were thrilled.
As Vann Newkirk II points out in The Atlantic, this underscores the fact that the Trump administration and its allies are "the chief launderers of white-supremacist and white-nationalist ideas in America today."
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Last weekend's Unite the Right rally in Washington — scheduled to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, that culminated in the murder of one woman and injuries to many others — was supposed to be a massive show of white nationalist power. Instead, the event was a whiff, with only a couple of dozen attendees, who bailed out early after realizing what a failure the whole thing turned out to be.}:
Monday night, Tucker Carlson, on his prime-time Fox News show, was triumphant, declaring that this was proof that white supremacy is a liberal myth.
"White supremacy is not ubiquitous in America, it's not a crisis. It's not even a meaningful category. It is incredibly rare," he declared, claiming that the country that legalized slavery and had Jim Crow laws in many states until 1964 is "a generous, tolerant country" and has "always has been that." "People who tell you otherwise are either delusional or trying to control you with fear, likely both," he concluded.
Carlson is not telling the truth, and it's quite likely he knows that. His own show — which is the third most popular cable news program in the countryand gets 2.7 million viewers a night — is itself a celebration of white nationalism, dedicating to popularizing views that could be directly lifted from an overtly racist website.
"Tucker Carlson probably has been the No. 1 commentator mainstreaming bedrock principles of white nationalism in this country, which is fear of immigrants, fear of Muslims, keeping them out and arguing that whites are under attack," said Heidi Beirich, the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project.
"What white supremacy is about is keeping this country white," she continued, saying that was "exactly the sentiment" Carlson consistently promotes on his show, "the idea that the demographics are shifting in a bad way.”
Beirich added that the rhetoric on Carlson's show, as well as on Laura Ingraham's program later in the Fox News evening lineup, has grown so extreme that "the views of Richard Spencer have become mainstream, at least on the right."
“You can get away with anything on Fox News, be as racist as you want, as long as you don’t use a racial slur," Lawrence said. Carlson is “a friend of the extremists, of the neo-Nazi movement, of the Daily Stormer," said Andrew Lawrence, a researcher for Media Matters who watches Carlson's show every night. "They all look to Tucker Carlson as a voice in mainstream media that’s pushing their rhetoric." Lawrence added that Carlson "dances around" using loaded and overtly racist terms like "white genocide," but is “so good at pushing those ideas that those people know exactly what he’s talking about."
None of this is an exaggeration. Ever since Carlson took over Fox's prime evening slot from the disgraced Bill O'Reilly early in 2017, he's been churning out a torrent of stories painting white people as victims of a conspiracy between liberal elites and racial minorities, who are determined to destroy white people's power and influence, if not wipe them out altogether.
Carlson has argued that Central Americans seeking political asylum are an "invasion" force rather than migrants or immigrants.
In arguing against the right of black athletes to protest police violence, Carlson said, "We aren't like other nations with a homogeneous population," and concluded therefore that the only way to maintain social peace was for people of color to silence their objections to systemic racism.
In defending the Trump administration's policy of punishing legal asylum seekers by taking their children away from them, Carlson declared that his favorite villain, the liberal elite — which he calls the "ruling class," even though Democrats currently hold no government power — "care far more about foreigners than their own people."
He argued that Mexico "is routinely interfering in our elections by packing our electorate" — an argument which clearly implies that naturalized citizens, at least those from Mexico, have no legitimate claim to the American citizenship they had to study for and earn.
He claimed that Latino immigration is "more change than human beings are designed to digest" and asked rhetorically, "How would you feel if that happened in your neighborhood?” During that same rant, Carlson declared that the nefarious liberal elite "are for diversity, just not where they live."
After that episode in particular, white nationalists on the Stormfront site celebrated, pointing out that this is avery close paraphrase of the white nationalist slogan "diversity for thee, but not for me," which makes the same claim — that white liberals are somehow foisting diversity on other whites while living in lily-white enclaves themselves.
Perusing the "Tucker Carlson" tag on Media Matters shows the drumbeat of white nationalist talking points is constant: Claims that white Americans have never been racist toward Koreans. Hosting a violent British white nationalistwho interfered with court proceedings to create propaganda smearing Muslim immigrants as pedophiles. Claims opposition to mass deportations violates a "basic principle of Anglo-American civilization." Unsurprisingly, white nationalists have returned the love, with neo-Nazi leaders openly praising Carlson.
Most people think of white nationalists as virulent racists, which they are, but what is less widely understood is the methods contemporary white nationalists employ to justify their hate. Their primary argument is that in 21st-century America white people, not people of color, are the real victims of racism. The argument is that people of color and white liberal elites (sometimes explicitly called out as "the Jews") are conspiring to destroy "white culture" through policies that accept or even encourage racial diversity. This delusional theory is called "white genocide," and while Carlson avoids that specific phrase, its basic premise is embedded throughout his show.
Carlson's program has frequently "focused on how white people have it tough" and how unnamed evil forces are "coming for white people," Lawrence said, noting that Carlson employs the thinnest possible excuses for segments claiming that white people are being racially abused, while repeatedly denying that racism against people of color is real. "It’s shocking to see, night after night, really," Lawrence said.
All of this may explain why I declined an invitation to appear on Carlson's show about the "threats" to "Western civilization" (his preferred euphemistic work-around for "white genocide"). I understood perfectly well that Carlson intended to cast me in the role of the villainous "liberal elite," even though he probably earns more in a year than I will in a lifetime.
In reality, the sparse turnout at last weekend's Unite the Right rally is not a sign of the movement's failure in the slightest. As Adam Serwer at the Atlantic wrote last week, white nationalists win "by activating white panic, by frightening a sufficient number of white people into believing that their safety and livelihoods can only be protected by defining American citizenship in racial terms, and by convincing them that American politics is a zero-sum game in which white people win when only people of color lose."
By that measure, the project has been a smashing success — and Carlson, who captures the eyeballs of millions of avid conservatives every night of the week, has been instrumental in helping the white nationalist movement reach its goals.
Beirich and Lawrence both suggested that the low turnout at the rally reflected the implosion of overt and organized white nationalism since last summer's violence in Charlottesville. Many prominent alt-right figures were arrested. A number of rally-goers were doxxed and lost their jobs and their social standing. The death of Heather Heyer, when a white nationalist slammed his car into a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators, damaged the movement's image. There's been infighting and drama that has further torn apart the small community of overt white nationalists and fascists.
But one could also argue that the low turnout at the D.C. rally is a sign of white nationalist success. People may feel no need to expose their views at a controversial public event when they can turn on Fox News or look to the president of the United States as validation for their bigoted views. Why bother adopting the stigmatized identity of a neo-Nazi when you can hold the same beliefs and presenting as pretty close to a "mainstream" Republican?
Carlson is not actually celebrating some withering-away of American racism. Instead, he's defining "racism" very narrowly, to allow his viewers to tell themselves that they can hold odious, bigoted views without having to worry that they deserve that dreaded label.
But while Carlson would have people believe that white nationalism is "about a fringe neo-Nazi with a swastika tattoo," Beirich said, the real issue is the "conception that white people should rule and control this country," which is embedded in every diatribe about the threat of demographic change heard on Carlson's program.
Behind that, Beirich said, lies "a racial conception that white people are somehow superior to black and brown people." Which is the fundamental viewpoint of white supremacy, no matter how much Carlson tries to pretend otherwise.
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tuucker Carlson Claims Democrats Have Been 'Plotting, in Effect, a Coup' Through Immigration Policy
This guy gets more ridiculous by the day.
By Media Matters Staff / Media Matters July 6, 2018,
From the July 5 edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight:
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Signs of growing extremism in this country on the left are everywhere. Just yesterday, a Congolese immigrant shut downthe Statue of Liberty -- our Statue of Liberty --, to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies. The left applauded that.[when they go low, i went as high as i could]
But take three steps, and think about what you are watching right here. Congo is a war-ravaged hellscape, a country noted for mass rape and cannibalism. Imagine escaping a country like that, and being welcomed in our country, the United States. You would be grateful, wouldn't you? Many Congolese are grateful.
This person is not grateful at all. She took over one of our monuments to scream about how racist we are, and progressives support her. They have gone insane.
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What happened to liberals? Well, a lot of things. One, they lost power, and that drove them off the deep end. They plan to get their power back, no matter what it takes. A new book by Professor David Faris is called It's Time to Fight Dirty, and it explains how the left plans to do it.
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As Faris puts it in the book, quote, "Republicans have always feared that immigration would change the character of American society. Democrats should reward them with their very worst nightmare." Remember that paragraph. It is the blueprint for what we are about to see.
They're going to tell you it's about civil rights, or about some other principle that they pretend to care about, but they are lying. It's about seizing power and holding it. That's their only aim, they're deadly serious about it. While you were grilling in the backyard last night, they were plotting, in effect, a coup.
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Ever since Tucker Carlson took over the reigns of the 8 p.m. slot in Fox News’ prime-time lineup with his show Tucker Carlson Tonight, he has been using the hour to mainstreamwhite nationalism. Carlson, a belovedfigure of the white nationalist community, dedicates significant time tofearmongerabout immigration,defend whitenationalists, complain aboutracismagainstwhite people, orregularly provideaplatformforbigots, all the while accusing "the left" of making everything about race. Watch:
White nationalism https://www.mediamatters.org/stories-and-interests/white-nationalism
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UCKER CARLSON (HOST): I mean I guess the 30,000 foot question is, can you be surprised that when you change a society as old as a European society, or even one as old as ours, completely through immigration in a short period of time, that some people won't like it? And that there will be a backlash against it? Does that surprise you?
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SASHA POLAKOW-SURANSKY: People like David Duke and Richard Spencer have emerged into the public square. We need to have a debate about immigration in this country, and I think you and I agree about that, but David Duke should not have any part in that debate.
CARLSON: But he doesn't, actually. What you're doing with fear-mongering like this is shutting -- is shutting down that debate.
POLAKOW-SURANSKY: Tucker, what happened in Charlottesville? What happened in Gainesville a few days ago, when people fired into a crowd of protesters? Doesn't that scare you? Isn't that a threat to our country and democracy?
CARLSON: Well what -- I mean, I guess what you're looking at is a completely myopic picture of what is actually happening. You're seeing a lot of drama, because there's massive social change in this country, it's coming from all directions, and some of the directions are not even possible to understand.
But it's not as simple as the rise of white nationalism, it's that you get a volatile society when you change it overnight, and you don't give people a chance to weigh-in on whether they like it or not. Like, it's really simple.
Previously:
Fox News' New Prime-Time Host Tucker Carlson Is Beloved By Neo-Nazis And Misogynists
Tucker Carlson attacks tech companies for banning white supremacists
Tucker Carlson Sympathizes With "Wacko" "Alt-Right" Figure Baked Alaska
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https://www.alternet.org/foxs-tucker-carlson-abruptly-ends-contentious-interview-after-dem-calls-him-out-being-more-bothered
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/tucker-carlson-unleashes-racist-broadside-fox-news-against-latino-immigrants
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https://www.alternet.org/media/tucker-carlson-fueling-demented-new-conspiracy-theory-about-las-vegas-massacre
CARLSON (HOST): We received this document from a confidential source this afternoon. It's a Customs and Border Patrol form, and it shows that Jesus Campos entered the United States from Mexico at the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego county almost exactly, to the hour, one week after the Las Vegas shooting at the beginning of October. Now the document does not reveal how long Campos had been in Mexico. Our source told us that Campos entered the U.S. at the same crossing in January of this year. At that time he was driving his own vehicle with Nevada plates. And yet, in this document from a little over two weeks ago, Campos was driving what appears to be a rental car with California plates.
This information raises a number of questions about the Las Vegas investigation and the crime itself. Jesus Campos is the only eye witness to the biggest mass shooting in modern American history. At the time he was in Mexico, the press was reporting that investigators thought Paddock, Stephen Paddock may have had an accomplice in these killings. Why did authorities allow Campos to leave the country just days after the shooting, while the investigation was still chaotic and of course ongoing? How did Campos who reportedly had a gunshot wound to the leg, from a high-powered rifle round, manage to travel to Mexico? Did he fly? Did he drive? Was his employer aware that he left the country? Were investigators aware? Did they facilitate the trip? What day did Campos get to Mexico? How was he able to drive back for hundreds of miles from the San Diego border back to Las Vegas? Why did he take a rental car instead of his own car?
The union that represents Campostold us they were aware he left the country, and they claim it was a preplanned visit. Why did it take a government leak for the rest of us to find that out? Why is MGM been so intent on controlling availability to Campos, booking him on the Ellen Degeneres show, and shielding him from press inquiries? Why did he appear with a co-worker instead of solo? Why did Ellen only ask leading softball questions? Why have so many people gone to so much trouble to shape this story of Jesus Campos?
ABC spoke to Campos on October 4th -- Was he in Mexico when they talked to him? Did they know where he was when they talked to him? What do we actually know about Jesus Campos? For example, is he really a licensed security guard? We checked today and it turns out he's not registered with the state of Nevada's private investigator's licensing board. Confused by this, we called the Clarke County Sheriff to find out what license is required to be a security guard at a Las Vegas casino. The sheriff's office refused to tell us this. "Jesus Campos is a victim," the spokesman said, "We don't speak about victims." Naturally we repeated the question. He became angry and started yelling and ultimately hung up on us, which raises the question, we won't authorities answer basic questions about Jesus campos? And here's a few more.
Does Jesus Campos have a criminal record? Not attacking him. It's an honest and obvious question. What exactly did he do for the hotel? Had he ever have previous contact with Stephen Paddock? How exactly was Campos injured? Countless press reports claim she was shot in the leg from a rifle round, from an AR-15-style rifle, probably a NATO 5.56 round. That bullet travels at 3 times the speed of a handgun round. It could easily destroy a man's leg and often does. Given that, how could Campos possibly have driven 700 miles from Las Vegas to the Mexican border and back less than a week later?
Previously:
Tucker Carlson wonders why the Mandalay Bay guard who was shot is considered a hero
Tucker Carlson says Las Vegas gunman's bump stock may have saved lives because it was less accurate
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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/one-right-wing-pundit-almost-singularly-responsible-taking-white-nationalism
Trump’s temper tantrum last week, in which he defended a torch-wielding mob of people chanting Nazi slogans as “fine people,” was so terrible that it may be hard to believe that Republican voters will stand by him. But sure enough, they are doing just that. A CBS poll found that an alarming67 percent of Republicans approved of Trump equating white supremacists with those who showed up to resist them.
If this is a surprise, it shouldn’t be. Huge chunks of conservative media have spent months, in some cases years, softening up audiences for white supremacist apologetics and inviting white supremacists in as active members of the conservative community. With sites like Breitbart, whose comment section sometimes reads like a Klan rally, this has been more obvious. But one of the most effective mainstreamers of white supremacist ideas has been Tucker Carlson, both in his role as a Fox News host and through the website he founded in 2010, the Daily Caller.
Carlson started the Daily Caller in 2010 as a right-wing alternative to the Huffington Post, but, as a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center lays out, the website has drifted towards a more white nationalist bent in recent years.
“Throughout the 2016 election and since, the Daily Caller has not only published the work of white nationalists, but some of its writers have routinely whitewashed the Alt-Right, while one editor there is an associate of key Alt-Right figures,” write SPLC researchers Stephen Piggott and Alex Amend.
For instance, the Daily Caller has published the writing of Jason Kessler, the organizer of Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville that descended into deadly violence. After ProPublica exposed Kessler’s history of white supremacy, the Daily Caller dropped him, but it continues to work with white nationalists and the site’s list of contributors includes several people tied to the white nationalist movement.
Even more disturbingly, according to the SPLC report, Daily Caller deputy editor Scott Greer “has questionable ties to many younger members of the white nationalist movement.”
But none of this should come as a huge surprise, since Carlson has been busy promoting white supremacist ideas to the more mainstream audience at Fox News.
“He’s further mainstreamed ideas that begin in the far corners of the radical right,” Ryan Lenz, a senior investigative reporter for SPLC. “On his Fox program he is taking the white nationalists who have infiltrated the Daily Caller and giving them an even larger platform.”
For instance, Lenz pointed out, Carlson had Greer on his program to push his book “No Campus for White Men,” even though Greer has extensive links with white supremacist movements and has been photographed attending a white supremacist gathering.
“These white nationalists and supremacists and neo-Nazis really love Tucker Carlson’s show,” Matthew Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, explained to Salon. “With Tucker Carlson taking on this prominent role on Fox News, it’s a major opportunity for what had been a fringey movement to make inroads in national discourse.”
Since Carlson got his primetime spot at Fox News, Gertz explained, he has been heavily pushing two themes “that white supremacists have been making for years”: That immigration, legal or otherwise, is a threat to America and that Western or “European” culture is being undermined not just by immigrants, but by native-born Americans who support diversity and multiculturalism.
One particularly telling example came when Carlson devoted an entire segmentof his show to demonizing a group of 40 Roma immigrants, who were trying to escape oppression in Romania. Carlson accused the immigrants, whom he called “gypsies” — that term is generally now understood as offensive — of spreading human feces in the streets. This legend was apparently the result of one 10-year-old boy having an accident, as children do, but the story grew in the racist grapevine, as ugly rumors do.
The choice to pick on the Roma strongly suggests that Carlson is deliberately pandering to white nationalists. Modern white nationalists see themselves as part of a “European” identity movement and appear to think adopting European-style bigotry, such as fearing or distrusting the Roma people, is more sophisticated than the traditional image of the white supremacist as a hood-wearing hillbilly. That desire to appear respectable is also why so many of the fascists marching on Charlottesville were wearing polo shirts and khakis, with dandified haircuts.
This goes a long way towards explaining why white nationalists just love Tucker Carlson.This strategy is part of “an effort to provide a semblance of political respectability,” said Lenz, to convey the impression that “people who order flights of microbrews and can talk about lofty books” are the face of white supremacy.
“You think of Tucker Carlson as the mild-mannered, bow-tied guy from ‘Crossfire’ back in 2004,” Gertz explained, “but you read the commentaries that people on these neo-Nazi and white supremacist websites write, and one of the things that really impressed them was not only his ideas but how effective he is at communicating them.”
Since the events in Charlottesville, Carlson has been hustling hard to minimize the ugliness of the white supremacists, defending some of their arguments and, according to Gertz, focusing on claims that “liberals are going too far”.
Since Charlottesville, Carlson has compared the tearing down of cheap, mass-produced statuary to the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, priceless cultural artifacts that had survived for 1,700 years. He has minimized the importance of chattel slavery to the antebellum South by arguing that other cultures did it, too, as if that justifies monuments to men who are only famous for committing treason on behalf of that “peculiar institution.” Carlson also did ansegment denouncing tech companies that exercise their legal right to deny service to those who use it to spread racist propaganda.
All of these segments are about one thing: Convincing his audience that the real problem isn’t the Nazis, but the liberal resistance to Nazis.
“You will never see Tucker Carlson say white people are superior” to other races, Gertz said, “and I expect if you were to ask him if he believes that, he would say no.” But such disavowals matter little when the bad-faith arguments of white supremacists are being mainstreamed through Carlson’s show and the Daily Caller.
“Tucker Carlson Tonight” is the most watched cable news show in the country. Not that we needed more reminders after an unrepentant racist like Trump was elected president, but it’s just further evidence that there are a whole lot of people in this country sympathetic to white nationalist arguments, and they are getting more emboldened and radicalized in their views.
Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon.
Each year, Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller marks “Equal Pay Day” by publishing a piece attacking the idea that women are paid less than men or trying to rationalize the pay gap.
This year, The Daily Caller criticized Google for highlighting the pay gap through Cheryl Sandburg’s Lean In initiative and a Funny or Die video about women being paid 20% less than men.
The piece, attributed to Carlson’s non-profit charity, the Daily Caller NewsFoundation, was illustrated with a photo of a woman “showered with money.”
The author, a recent college grad who is a Breitbart alum and former Koch intern, noted without irony that “the so-called wage gap only makes sense if hours worked, years of experience, and education of male and female laborers are considered.” It might help to read that “critique” again.
For good measure, the Daily Caller ran a second piece that day, a reprint of a blog claiming Elizabeth Warren paid women less than men. That spin bounced through the rightwing echo chamber from the Washington Free Beacon to the Daily Caller, Breitbart, and Fox, before it was refuted by Warren’s payroll data. No correction was issued by any of the outlets that spread the attack on Warren. (The Beacon has described itself as an “aerial hunting operation” and it has attacked watchdogs like the Center for Media and Democracy.)
But that’s par for the course for The Daily Caller. Though its website has more than 16 million visitors and a huge staff of writers who produce content for it through its non-profit the Daily Caller News Foundation, the site routinely relies on rightwing bloggers and groups to provide many of the “facts” it asserts as true in its news stories.
During the presidential election season, The Daily Caller was rife with articles attacking Hillary Clinton, including a piece by the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF)that reinforced Trump’s nicknaming Clinton as “crooked,” which some might consider projection given his documented history of cheating contractors out of their full pay or the Trump University scam or more.
IWF’s smear piece published in The Daily Caller in the run-up to the presidential election could have been written this year about the policymaker-in-chief: “The bigger problem is that she doesn’t think the rules should apply to her in the first place. HRC – or Her Royal Crookness – sees herself as a Queen, existing in a realm above the minions who work for her, and even higher above her lowly subjects. Queens don’t have to bother with the system meant for ordinary schlubs. She doesn’t have to accept facts or findings; we peons are expected to accept her version of events, rather than trust our own lyin’ eyes.”
IWF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity that is theoretically barred from intervening in an election by criticizing the character of a candidate. That story by the head of IWF concludes with: “Americans recall that we are supposed to be a nation of laws, after all, and those laws are meant to apply to everyone, even those with titles like Secretary or Senator. That’s bad news for Her Royal Crookness, Hillary Clinton, who epitomizes the elitism that Americans resoundingly reject.” IWF has not issued, and The Daily Caller has not published, a follow-up on that take in light of Trump’s acts as president.
Last summer, CMD released a major report detailing IWF’s history and role in the War on Women, a story that was broken by Joan Walsh in The Nation. CMD also documented that almost all of the publicly known funders of the IWF”s affiliated (c)(4), the “Independent Women’s Voice,” were men. CMD also filed an FEC complaint against IWV last November contending that the group violated election laws, which IWV denies.
CMD also documented how as IWF was claiming there was no “war on women,” IWV was running ads and doing calls to aid politicians like Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that IWF has sponsored a forum where its panelists contended that “rape culture statistics have been blown out of proportion in the United States, and that this is largely a product of the media’s focus on rape and sexual assault.” That’s the description from The Daily Caller’s coverage of the event. Another piece, titled “Restraining Orders Hurt Women” also credited IWF’s analysis.
IWF, by the way, has opposed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) for years and its renewal, despite the strong support for its protections by groups that represent women’s interests in not getting killed by a violent partner. VAWA helps fund a coordinated community response to help women who are beaten, raped, or stalked–and it helps ensure that those restraining orders are enforced across jurisdictions to help protect women where ever they may flee for safety.
IWF’s out-of-step assertions as a mainstream “women’s voice” have found a ready distribution channel in The Daily Caller. Take, for example, an article headlined “Stay vertical a bit longer, ladies: Study claims men as winning the game of love,” which featured IWF’s claims about marriage and sex. IWF’s rep expressed concerns about women engaging in “commitment-less sex” because “when it comes to marriage there is certainly a marketplace and many factors have changed that marketplace.”
That Daily Caller story also cited the controversial academic Mark Regnerus, who as CMD recently noted, has “claimed, for example, that ‘liberal’ and ‘very liberal’ women want to have much more sex than other women [and to] speculate that liberal women want more sex than other women because they’re not religious enough.Specifically, Regnerus theorizes that sex provides the “transcendent” feeling others achieve through faith – that these liberal women are getting in bed, as it were, what they’re not getting in church. ‘Basically,’ Regnerus writes, ‘liberal women substitute sex for religion.’ (Insert obligatory ‘Oh, God! Oh, God!’ joke here.)”
It’s not just sex on the brain of The Daily Caller, which regularly features swimsuit models to peddle its spin, like its “story” minimizing the effects of climate change on the day Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris agreement: “These 14 Models Prepared for Trump to Drop the Climate Deal.” The text accompanying the slideshow stated: “As we approach President Trump’s decision on the Paris climate accord, we decided to turn our attention to the models out there who have been hoping for warmer temperatures.”
The Daily Caller’s news presentation has sought to undermine grassroots efforts to secure paid leave and increase the minimum wage. One example is their story “Social Justice Activists Want Olive Garden To Be Nicer to Cows Before Serving Them As Meatballs.” That story emphasized that “Thus far, the coalitions’ campaign is not going well. The group’s attempt to set up meetings with Darden in the fall was an abysmal failure. The company responded with a letter rebuffing meetings and generally rejecting the demands set forth.” Other pieces pushed the rightwing narrative that requiring paid sick leave and increasing the minimum wage would lead to higher unemployment rates.
The Daily Caller has even written against maternity leave pay. One such piece was written by the Independence Institute, which is part of the State Policy Network: “Mandated Paid Maternity Leave: A Bad Idea for Women.” That’s not the view of most women or even of most CEOs, as CMD revealed last year after it was given a detailed survey by Frank Luntz’s group showing overwhelming support for maternity leave, paid sick leave, raising the minimum wage.
That survey of 1,000 executives was commissioned to help the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its global corporate funders and its state affiliates in their efforts to defeat popular paid sick leave policies and efforts to increase the minimum wage. Luntz’s team said the problem was business leaders have
Another Daily Caller piece amplified the assertions of the controversial PR flack Rick Berman–who 60 Minutes helped dub “Dr. Evil”–that “The $15 Minimum Wage Could Lead to More Youth Crime.” Like IWF, the claims of Berman’s front groups get plenty of play in The Daily Caller. CMD recently detailed how Berman’s front groups are funded not just by corporations but also with millions from the rightwing Bradley Foundation, which also funds IWF’s promo of “free market” alternatives to paid sick leave and raises in the minimum wage. CMD also published the audio of Berman bragging about his tactics: “I get up every morning and I try and figure out how to screw with the labor unions” and “marginalize the people on the other side….”
CMD has previously refuted to The Daily Caller’s claims about ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and its assertions on climate change and fracking, but has not responded to every erroneous claim the outlet has made about CMD. Among other things, like other rightwing outfits, the Daily Caller has repeated the claim that CMD is “Soros-funded,” even though CMD has pointed out that it is not funded by George Soros and was awarded a grant from the Open Society Institute several years ago as part of a set of grants to examine national security surveillance of Americans, along with a grant to the Kochs’ Cato Institute–which the Daily Caller has never called “Soros-funded.”
During CMD’s investigation of IWF, its researchers noted the wayThe Daily Caller was readily echoing IWF claims on numerous issues. That led CMD to take a closer look at The Daily Caller’s operations, which resulted in the investigation reported by the Washington Post on June 2, 2017. More details about that research, which showed that Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller had received a six-figure sum from the Trump Campaign in the weeks before the election, are availablehere.
As Callum Borchers noted in the Washington Post story,tax experts have expressed concerns about how Tucker Carlson’s charity benefits his for-profit media outlet,The Daily Caller, which profits from the web traffic and list-building resulting from its content, a substantial portion of which is provided by the non-profit. CMD has also noted that Carlson did not tell FOX News viewers that he had financially benefited from the Trump Campaign cash, as he critiqued other outlets for their purported bias against Trump or when he interviewed Trump for a primetime show on FOX this spring.
How much Carlson received in pay or bonuses from The Daily Caller last year after it received the money from the Trump Campaign is not known.
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TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): You're using the language of politics, look you're not a scientist as you know. You're a popularizer and that's fine.
BILL NYE: I'm using the language of economics.
CARLSON: I'm just saying to the extent that you prevent people from having an honest conversation you’re doing a grave disservice to science, don’t you think that?
NYE: You asked how long it would be before -- what the climate would be if humans weren’t involved right now, is that right?
CARLSON: Yeah, yes, that’s exactly right. At what point would it have changed and I’m just saying you don’t actually know because it’s unknowable so why aren’t you open to questions?
NYE: So this is how long it takes you to interrupt me, okay? So it takes you quite a bit less than six seconds. So the climate would be like it was in 1750, and the economics would be that you could not grow wine worthy grapes in Britain, as you can today, because the climate is changing. The use of pesticides in the Midwest would not be increasing because the parasites, or the pests are showing up sooner and hanging around longer--
CARLSON: I think that’s probably all true but--
NYE: --The forest in Wyoming would not be overwhelmed by Pine Bark Beetles as it is because of climate change. That’s how the world would be different if it weren’t for humans.
CARLSON: So much of this you don’t know, you pretend that you know, but you don’t know, and you bully people who ask you questions.
Previously:
Seth Meyers Hosts Climate Scientist To Rebut The “Ignorance” Of Donald Trump And Ted Cruz
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IV. Complicity Of Others
The “alt-right” is the engine driving this harassment, and fake news is the tool. But it’s clear that failure of others in the media landscape helped the perverse movement get this far.
For one, the tech industry is profiting from this activity every step of the way. Twitter’s failure to stop harassment is legendary. The Trump subreddit has grown completely out of hand. Facebook’s complicity in the spread of fake news is clear. The tech industry is so concerned with engagement that companies have been reluctant to act even when it is clear that some of that engagement is outright abuse and harassment.
While mainstream media outlets seem to realize that fake news is a problem, they largely raise concerns only to the extent that fake news is a competitor or when the abuse is big enough that they can easily see it. There is surely fake news of every political stripe, and it should all be disincentivized. But there is no built-out ecosystem to weaponize it anywhere like there is with Breitbart, Alex Jones, Reddit, and the “alt-right.” That’s what mainstream media’s scolding about fake news and “both sides” gets wrong, time and again. In their reluctance to show the unique damage that fake news has on the right, mainstream media are continuing their biggest mistake of the Bush and Obama years: ignoring the growing radicalization of the right in America.
And this ecosystem of fake news and the “alt-right” is entirely different from the previous right-wing media ecosystem. The previous model involved moving the audience from mainstream news to Fox News and then to the deeper trenches of talk radio and online email lists, where right-wing operators can often bilk their recipients financially. Now, things are different. Fox News’ brand of right-wing misinformation is pervasive, and over recent decades fewerpeople are watching mainstream news networks.
The independence of the fake news/“alt-right” ecosystem has interesting consequences. First, members feel empowered to attack Fox News, framing it as part of the establishment media rather than an alternative to traditional sources. Aside from “Pizzagate,” the clearest example of this ecosystem is the harassment directed at Fox anchor Megyn Kelly. The first fake news story to trend on Facebook after the company fired its editors was about Kelly, falsely claiming that Fox fired her for being “‘a closet liberal who actually wants Hillary to win,’” according to CBS. Versions of this fake story featured language like “Megyn Kelly has gotten into a lot of hot water for her many attempts to smear Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump.” Another fake news story called her a “traitor” for her behavior toward Trump. As Kelly has now recently explained, she also was the recipient of torrents of online abuse from Trump supporters. The harassment may not have begun with the fake news story, but their connection seems clear. And the attacks on Fox News are not limited to Kelly -- Alex Jones attacks the network regularly.[hence newsmax TV?]
Secondly, traditional figures like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are functionally irrelevant to the "alt-right." They may support Trump on a given day or they may not, but the “alt-right” operates independently of anything they say or do. Alex Jones or Breitbart issuing a call to action will move people, while Limbaugh and O’Reilly are now glorified book salesmen.
And yet, right-wing media are still allied with and permissive of the “alt-right,” continuing to train their focus on mainstream media. Rather than concerning themselves with the issue of fake news, right-wing media use the term to attack mainstream outlets.
In fact, right-wing media go out of their way to give space for the “alt-right” to operate. Fox News dramatically undercovered “Pizzagate” compared to other mainstream outlets. Fox News reporters (not just pundits) have dismissed the concept of “fake news” and defended the “alt-right” on air. When Facebook announced its plan to alleviate its fake news infestation, the most aghast were right-wing pundits.
It is unclear where the phenomenon is going, but one clue may be Fox’s newest host.Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ Elf on the Shelf, is a huge favorite of “alt-right” trolls.If Carlson’s show is a success, Fox News in the future could drift more toward the “alt-right” model. (Worth noting is that Rupert Murdoch is reportedly a fan of Carlson's.) And the biggest glue tying together traditional right-wing media and the fake news ecosystem are the NRA and The Drudge Report, both of which were undoubtedly further empowered this election season.
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http://www.alternet.org/media/nobody-getting-fooled-newsweek-writer-trolls-fox-news-tucker-carlson-binder-falsehoods-air
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bails for fox:
Carlson told Fox News's Howard Kurtz during his media affairs program "Media Buzz" on Sunday that walking away from his [The Daily Caller ?]editor-in-chief position was a difficult decision.
“It was really hard," Carlson said. "Not because I’m a great manager, I’m a terrible manager. But I loved it and I loved the guys."
Carlson co-founded the publication nearly seven years ago with Neil Patel, an adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney.He will maintain his ownership stake in the publication.
Carlson was recently awarded the open 7 p.m. slot on Fox News following Greta Van Susteren's sudden departure in September. His new program, "Tucker Carlson Tonight" debuted Nov. 14.
The Daily Caller is ranked No. 9 on the list of the most-visited political websites in the country, with an average of 10 million unique visitors per month, according to Alexa's rankings.
http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/01/19/jane-mayer-dark-money-book-koch-brothers-nypd-fbi
The just-published book “Dark Money,” penned by New Yorker staff reporter Jane Mayer, reveals that the Koch Brothers hired the former commissioner of the New York Police Department (NYPD) — and his daughter, a former FBI agent — to smear her as a “plagiarist” in the months after the release of her August 2010 bombshell article on the Kochs.
That article, titled “Covert Operations,” served at the time as one of the first in-depth pieces of long-form investigative journalism on David and Charles Koch and the influential right-wing political and climate change denial Tea Party network they had Frankensteined. Mayer's book exposes that the Kochs hired the firm Vigilant Resources International, run by former NYPD head Howard Safir and his daughter Jennifer Safir (the former FBI special agent), to do dirty work on their behalf.
The story, as Mayer told it in “Dark Money,” began when she received a January 3, 2011 email from her New Yorker editor, David Remnick.
“In his e-mail,” to me, Mayer wrote, “Remnick explained that ten minutes earlier he’d received a baffling inquiry about me from Keith Kelly, the reporter who covered the media industry for the New York Post.”
Remnick's query centered around accusations — most likely emanating from somewhere within Koch World and handed to the New York Post and other outlets — that Mayer's journalistic track record, according to their research, was rife with plagiarism. The main issue: it wasn't in the slightest. Mayer has impeccable journalism credentials.
That didn't stop the witch hunt from proceeding and nearly reaching take off mode, though.
Smear Appears
With or without real evidence, the point of the covert campaign was not to find genuine evidence of plagiarism, but rather a classic case of attacking the messenger.
“Their aim, according to a well-informed source, was to counteract The New Yorker’s story on the Koch brothers by undermining me,” wrote Mayer. “'Dirt, dirt, dirt' is what the source later told me they were digging for in my life. 'If they couldn’t find it, they’d create it.'”
Vigilant Resources International, “Dark Money” details, got a retainer fee to help the effort along according to sources who spoke to Mayer on the condition of anonymity.
“VRI’s Threat, Risk and Vulnerability Assessments focus on safety and value and address a full spectrum of physical security, integrity, intellectual property and other operational risks,” VRI explains of its work on its website.
VRI goes on to explain of its business conduct:
We provide our findings and prioritized recommendations as actionable 'blueprints' for what should promptly and continuously be addressed to drive the best outcomes in risk management, crisis prevention and mitigation for each facility assessed. Our findings, recommendations and plans comport with applicable regulatory requirements and present industry best practices that are custom-tailored to the unique organizational structure, culture, profile and operations of each client.
After receiving initial contact from the New York Post, Mayer also got what she described in her book as a more alarming plagiarism query from the right-wing news website The Daily Caller, along with more benign ones from The Washington Post, ThinkProgress and a couple others. The Washington Post and ThinkProgress denied plagiarism victimhood, however, as did two other outlets not named by Mayer in the book.
“Paul Kane, a reporter at The Washington Post, quickly looked up the story in question and sent me an e-mail saying, 'Not only did you not steal from me, you Frickin’ credited me in the VERY NEXT line,'” Mayer explains in “Dark Money.” “The New Yorker had even linked to his story online. And, I later learned, my husband, who was then an editor at The Washington Post, had edited the story that I supposedly stole.”
Lee Fang, now a reporter at The Intercept and formerly a blogger for ThinkProgress, similarly denied the copyright infringement accusation.
“Ms. Mayer properly credited me in her story, and clearly did a ton of her own research,” Fang declared in a January 2011 statement provided to the New York Post. “I have nothing but admiration for her integrity as a journalist.”
Smear Disappears
Mayer killed the smear campaign before it gained any momentum or press time, however, mostly due to deft handling of the situation before it spun out of control and developed a life of its own.
“With only a few hours before these allegations were set to go online, all I could do was to try to get out the truth before the lies were spread,” Mayer explained of how she management of accusations. “By midnight, I had reached three of the four authors from whom I was alleged to have plagiarized. All offered to make public statements supporting me and denying I had misappropriated their work.”
Most importantly, Mayer had the truth on her side. The allegations? Tantamount to a ruse, as she laid out in the book:
Someone, probably using a computer program, had mechanically sifted through almost a decade of my work and isolated quotations from officials, and other widely repeated phrases, to argue that 'the structure and wording' were 'quite close' to four other reporters’ news stories. None of the supposedly purloined sentences were of any particular significance…Even sillier, in two of the four stories I was alleged to have 'plagiarized,' I had specifically given credit to the authors whose work The Daily Caller was claiming I'd stolen.
Rather than plagiarism becoming the story, then, the genesis of how the smear campaign appeared and subsequently disappeared was picked up by the likes of the New York Post, Business Insider and Salon. At the heart of that campaign was The Daily Caller, an alternative right-wing version of The Huffington Post founded by Tucker Carlson, the former MSNBC host and senior fellow at the Koch-founded and Koch-funded Cato Institute.
“In the end, even the Daily Caller found the allegations to be unfounded, and to its credit, abandoned the story,” wrote the New York Post. “The story is dead but the person or persons behind the allegations remains a shadowy mystery.”
Tucker Carlson proclaimed cluelessnessas to how his publication was tipped off to the so-called story to begin with.
“I never ask the reporters where they get stuff, only whether it’s true,” he told the New York Post. “In this case, we didn’t have enough.”
Safir and VRI did not confirm or deny any retainer ties to the effort, Mayer reported in the book.
A source told Mayer that Nancy Pfotenhauer— former head of Koch front group Americans for Prosperity and Citizens for a Sound Economy, as well as former Koch Industries lobbying in Washington, DC and senior adviser to U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — served as one of several ringleaders of the effort.
Koch Industries already came out swinging in advance of the book's publication, responding to an advanced review by New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore by accusing Mayer of working to “further an agenda-driven story line [that] is grossly inaccurate.”
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15.Fox News Hosts CongratulateSen. Inhofefor Usinga Snowball to Dispute Global Warming
The Feb. 28 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends Saturday aired footage of Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) bringing a snowball onto the Senate floor to dispute the scientific finding that 2014 was the warmest year on record. Following the footage of Inhofe’s stunt, co-host Tucker Carlson declared, “Well that’s Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe using a snowball on the floor of the Senate to make his point about global climate change. The whole country seems to be blanketed in the white stuff. This, during global warming.”
The hard-hitting questions Carlson and the other Fox hosts had for Inhofe were why some people are “trying to shut down debate” on the causes of climate change, whether the U.S. should be “nixing” all climate change-related funding, and how Inhofe was able put together such a “nicely packed, well-constructed” snowball.
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- Tucker Carlson, "Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism"[5] See ALEC Featured Speakers for more.
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Prior to co-founding the General Partner, Mr. Patel served in the White House from 2001 through January, 2009 as a top advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. He finished his tenure in the Vice President’s office as the Assistant to the Vice President for Domestic and Economic Policy. In this role, Mr. Patel served as the Vice President’s primary advisor on all domestic and economic policy issues, including: energy and environment, health care, financial services, transportation, international economics and technology/telecommunications. He also represented the Vice President at White House economic and domestic policy meetings up to the Cabinet level.
Before joining the Bush Administration in February 2001, Mr. Patel served as Assistant General Counsel at UUNET Technologies, Inc., a Worldcom company. UUNET was one of the world’s leading carriers of internet traffic. At UUNET, Mr. Patel was involved in a broad array of technology policy issues including: e-commerce, internet taxation, and internet security and abuse. He also served as UUNET’s lead for law enforcement issues.
Prior to joining UUNET, Neil practiced law with the Washington, D.C. office of Philadelphia based Dechert Price & Rhoads. He also served as Staff Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Patel has been an active investor for nearly 20 years and he has extensive experience investing in early stage private companies.
Mr. Patel received his B.A. from Trinity College (CT) and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Law and Policy in International Business
wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_Carlson
Family and education
Carlson grew up in Carlsbad, an affluent resort town north of San Diego. He is the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former Los Angeles news anchor and U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles who was president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and director of Voice of America.[2] His adoptive mother is Patricia Caroline Swanson (born 1945), former wife of Howard Feldman and an heiress to the Swanson food-conglomerate fortune.[2][3] He has a brother, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson.[4][5] A great-uncle was Sen. J. William Fulbright.[3]
He attended St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. After graduation, he majored in History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
He is married to Susan Carlson, née Andrews. They have four children together: Lillie, Hopie, Dorothy, and Buckley.[6][7][8][9]
Journalism career
Carlson began his journalism career as a member of the editorial staff of Policy Review, a national conservative journal then published by the Heritage Foundation (and since acquired by the Hoover Institution). He later worked as a reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas and at The Weekly Standard.
As a magazine and newspaper journalist, Carlson has reported from around the world. He has been a columnist for New York and Reader's Digest. He has also written for Esquire, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, and The Daily Beast.
Carlson joined CNN as its youngest anchor ever, remaining at the network until February 2005. Carlson got his television start in 2000 as co-host of The Spin Room opposite Bill Press.
CNN's Crossfire
He later was appointed co-host of Crossfire, where he represented the political right. During the same period, Carlson also hosted a weekly public affairs program on PBS, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered.
Interview with Jon Stewart
One of Carlson's most memorable appearances on Crossfire was his 2004 heated exchange with Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, prior to the 2004 presidential election. Stewart criticized the format of shows like Crossfire, calling Carlson and co-host Paul Begala "partisan hacks," and asked them to "stop hurting America."
Carlson countered by criticizing Stewart's July 2004 interview with then U.S. Presidential candidate John Kerry. He accused Stewart of "sniffing Kerry's throne" and "not asking tough questions." Stewart replied, contextualizing his own show as a comedic rather than journalistic venue, "It's interesting to hear you talk about my responsibility [...] I didn't realize that, and maybe this explains quite a bit, is that the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity." Jon Stewart further emphasized his distaste for Crossfire by adding the comment that "To do a debate would be great. But that's like saying Pro Wrestling is a show about athletic competition." After Carlson told Stewart "I think you're more fun on your show," Stewart replied by saying: "You know what's interesting though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show."[10] Probably a defining moment in the assertion of Carlson's that The Daily Show was a news program, was Stewart's comeback to Carlson's remonstration that " You need to get a job at a journalism school, I think.". to which Stewart quipped " You need to go to one."
After their televised confrontation, Carlson recalls, Stewart "stayed at CNN several hours after the show to discuss the issues that he raised on the air... He (Stewart) needed to do this".[11]
In January 2005, CNN announced they were ending their relationship with Carlson and would soon cancel Crossfire.[12][13] CNN chief Jonathan Klein told Carlson on January 4, 2005, that the network had decided not to renew his contract.[14] Carlson, however, claims he had already resigned from CNN and Crossfire long before Stewart was booked as a guest, telling host Patricia Duff: "I resigned from Crossfire in April, many months before Jon Stewart came on our show, because I didn't like the partisanship, and I thought in some ways it was kind of a pointless conversation... each side coming out, you know, [raises fists] 'Here's my argument,' and no one listening to anyone else. [CNN] was a frustrating place to work."[15]
MSNBC's Tucker
Main article: Tucker (television program)
Carlson's early evening show, Tucker, premiered June 13, 2005, on MSNBC (originally entitled The Situation with Tucker Carlson). The show lasted fewer than three seasons; the network announced its cancellation due to low ratings on March 10, 2008.[16] The final episode aired on March 14, 2008. Brian Stelter of the New York Times noted that "During Mr. Carlson’s tenure, MSNBC’s evening programming moved gradually to the left. His former time slots, 6 and 9 p.m., are now occupied by two liberals, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow." Carlson himself stated that the network had changed a lot and "they didn't have a role for me."[17]
Carlson had also hosted a late afternoon weekday wrap-up for MSNBC during the 2006 Winter Olympics, during which he attempted to learn how to play various Olympic sports. In July 2006, he reported live for Tucker from Haifa, Israel, during the 2006 Lebanon War between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. While in the Middle East, he also hosted MSNBC Special Report: Mideast Crisis. He appeared regularly on Verdict with Dan Abrams as a panelist in political discussions.
Fox News Channel
In May 2009, it was announced that Carlson was hired as a Fox News Contributor. Since then, he has been a frequent guest panelist on Fox's late-night satire show Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, made frequent appearances on the All-Star Panel segment of Special Report with Bret Baier, been a substitute host of Hannity in Sean Hannity's absence, and produced a Fox News special titled "Fighting for Our Children's Minds."
In March 2013, it was announced that Carlson has been tapped to co-host weekend editions of Fox & Friends.[18] Beginning in April, Carlson, a Fox News contributor and frequent guest host on the program, will officially join co-hosts Alisyn Camerota and Clayton Morris on Saturday and Sunday mornings. He replaces Dave Briggs, who left for the NBC Sports Network on New Years 2013.
The Daily Caller
Main article: The Daily Caller
On January 11, 2010, Carlson and former Vice President Dick Cheney aide Neil Patel launched a political news website titled The Daily Caller. Carlson serves as editor-in-chief, and occasionally writes opinion pieces with Patel.[19] Other high-profile bloggers include Jim Treacher (DC Trawler) and Mickey Kaus (Kausfiles.)
The Daily Caller is in the White House rotating press pool.[20] Its reporters have appeared on MSNBC, Fox News Channel, CNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS, and radio stations across the country. Reporters and columnists for The Daily Caller include Matt Lewis, Mickey Kaus, Alex Pappas, Jamie Weinstein, Will Rahn, Caroline May, Nicholas Ballasy, Vince Coglianese, Matt Labash, Jeff Poor, Alexis Levinson and Jim Treacher.[21]
In an interview with The Politico, Carlson said that The Daily Caller will not be tied to ideology but rather will be "breaking stories of importance". In a Washington Post article, Carlson added "We're not enforcing any kind of ideological orthodoxy on anyone."
Political views
DWTS
11. Tucker Carlson: Perhaps the poster child for Fox’s Disgraced Reporter Rescue Program is Tucker Carlson, who has managed to fail on CNN, PBS and MSNBC before receiving salvation from Fox. Like Sanchez, Carlson once held Fox in low esteem, calling it “a mean, sick group of people,” after it published his home phone number on the Fox website. But when Carlson was jettisoned from MSNBC he worked his way back into the good graces of Fox as the editor of the Daily Caller blog, then as a Fox contributor, and now the co-host of the weekend edition of "Fox & Friends."
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Column: Conservatives' shameless race-baiting usatoday
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/10/04/hannity-tucker-carlson-obama-video/1611601/
desperate ctr to 47% video? rev wright replay?
koch funded intern
Founded by Tucker Carlson, a 20-year veteran of print and broadcast media, and Neil Patel, former chief policy adviser to Vice President DIck Cheney, The Daily Caller News Foundationis a 501(c)(3) non-profit providing original investigative reporting from a team of professional reporters that operates for the public benefit.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tucker_Carlson
Tucker Carlson is a senior fellow with the Koch-founded and -funded Cato Institute.[1] He is involved with conservative Web site The Daily Caller and as a "contributor" to FOX News. He was host of MSNBC's Tucker (formerly The Situation with Tucker Carlson). He is former host of PBS's Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered and former co-host of CNN's Crossfire; has served as a panelist on The Chris Matthews Show; and has served on the editorial staff of Policy Review.
Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council
Carlson spoke at a plenary session of the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 5th, 2011, along with David L. Dieter, Head of Government and External Affairs at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, an ALEC member corporation.[1]
ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve “model” bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. (ALEC says that corporations do not vote on the board.) They fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovations—without disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills. ALEC boasts that it has over 1,000 of these bills introduced by legislative members every year, with one in every five of them enacted into law. ALEC describes itself as a “unique,” “unparalleled” and “unmatched” organization. It might be right. It is as if a state legislature had been reconstituted, yet corporations had pushed the people out the door. Learn more at ALECexposed.org.
Additional PRWatch resource: Nonpartisan "Truthtelling" at ALEC
Tucker's Scooter Libby "Secret"
Carlson, who "has made quite a fuss about the Libby case from the get-go, trashing Patrick Fitzgerald at every possible opportunity, and blathering sympathetically about Scooter Libby's kids...oh, the kids, for God's sake, the kids. Never mind that had Scooter not committed multiple felonies in the first place...well, Tucker doesn't really care about that, now does he?," ReddHedd of Firedoglake Blog wrote in February 2006.[2]
"But Tucker has a secret," ReddHedd wrote: Tucker's father is Ambassador Richard Carlson, Vice Chairman of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and an Advisory Board Member of the Libby Legal Defense Trust[3].
Note: See I. Lewis Scooter Libby, Treasongate, and the trial of Scooter Libby articles for details.
Controversy over Gore, Wellstone memorial
In a Weekly Standard cover story, Carlson claimed Al Gore had said the U.S. would have to spend $100 billion a year on his plan, when he actually wrote the rest of the world would pick up most of the tab.
Carlson also quoted Gore as writing "We now face the prospect of a global civil war", calling it a typical quote. But Gore said no such thing. Instead, Gore wrote we faced "the prospect of a kind of global civil war".
Carlson further claimed Gore had kept up a busy campaign schedule on the day his sister died in 1984, accusing him of callousness. But as his advance person wrote the magazine, Gore immediately flew to the hospital upon hearing she'd "taken a turn for the worse" and before that had often driven across the state of Tennessee to visit her.
Upon hearing this, Carlson responded by saying the real issue was not Gore's campaigning, but "the cheap way he treated her memory at the Democratic convention last year." What was he referring to? Gore had recounted his final conversation with his sister, who died of lung cancer, and explained how it inspired him to fight to protect "our children from the dangers of smoking." Carlson claimed that during Gore's 1984 senatorial campaign, Gore "didn't talk much about curbing smoking that year." But he later went on to quote a journalist who said that during the campaign Gore "was willing to call the tobacco industry Merchants of Death."
On Crossfire, Carlson said Sen. Paul Wellstone's memorial was "hijacked by partisan zealots and turned into a political rally. Republican friends of Senator Wellstone were booed and shouted down as they tried to speak." He called it "revolting" and said "It makes me sick." But as Carlson admitted to Al Franken, he hadn't actually watched the service, and the events that he described did not happen, according to Duncan B. Black, Tucker Carlson: An unfiltered Media Matters for America analysis of the new PBS host, Media Matters for America, June 17, 2004.
Women want to be "spanked" and "bring a friend"
"One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality -- this apparent increased willingness of girls to bring along a friend. That's a pretty good thing." [1]"[Women] want to be listened to, protected and amused. And they want to be spanked vigorously every once in a while." [2]ELLE: Who is your guilty fantasy?TC: "Hillary. Every time I see her I think I could, you know, help.… She seems tense." [3]
Wartime flip-flop
In the May 12 New York Observer, Carlson said "I think [the Iraq war is] a total nightmare and disaster, and I'm ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting it." But the same night he attacked Senator John Kerry for expressing the same view!
"Kerry did vote for it, but then he opposed it. Now he wants to prolong it. What does John Kerry think about Iraq? Who knows. Who cares." [4]
Democrats love crossdressers...
"So there you have it: cross-dressing and abortion, two great Democratic values that go great together." [5]"... the Democratic Party has announced a new affirmative action plan for gays, lesbians, and cross-dressers. According to the Associated Press, the party has set sexuality-based quotas ..." [6]
But the May 13, 2004, Associated Press article said exactly the opposite: "Officials are quick to point out that the goals aren't quotas. Neither a state nor a presidential campaign is penalized if they do not reach these goals." The article also noted the plan was not affiliated with the national party, but state parties.
... but hate churchgoers
Commenting during The Chris Matthews Show:
"People who run the Democratic party, its activist wing have contempt for churchgoers, and my experience is they absolutely do have contempt for churchgoers." [7]
Carlson provided no evidence for the claim. However, a CBS News/New York Times poll conducted two months earlier showed that 67% of Democrats think religion is very or extremely important, while only 9% consider it not at all important. [8]
Shant Mesrobian, "Tucker Carlson on Dems' outreach to 'gays, lesbians, and cross-dressers'", Media Matters for America, May 26, 2004.
Nicole Casta, et. al., "It's not just the cable guys: conservative misinformation on Sunday morning", Media Matters for America, May 24, 2004.
Against the 'do not call' list, but don't call me
Carlson denounced the federal government's do-not-call list, which allows people to opt-out of receiving phone calls from telemarketers, saying: "Score one for any yuppie community. They've won the right to trample on free speech" and calling it "special interests legislation". [9] When the audience dared Carlson to give out his home phone number, he pretended to comply but actually gave out the number of Fox News's Washington switchboard. [10]
Hughes a liar
Carlson also interviewed George W. Bush for a 1999 profile in Talk, which featured Bush "swearing like a truck driver, making fun of Karla Faye Tucker's death penalty appeals, mimicking her saying, 'Don't kill me!'". In response, Bush communications director Karen Hughes said Carlson was lying and told Carlson she'd never heard Bush use profanity, even though Carlson claims he'd seen Hughes listen to Bush use profanity. Carlson told Salon:
"I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness." [11]
Norquist a "creep"
Carlson has broken ranks with some conservatives, calling fellow conservative Grover Norquist a "mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep ... the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home."[12]
Since 14!!
"I’ve worn it since I was 14"
— Tucker Carlson, regarding his bow tie; cited in Richard Leiby, "A Transplant to the Garden State" (The Reliable Source, Washington Post, February 2, 2005).
Resources and articles
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 American Legislative Exchange Council, "Solutions for the States," 38th Annual Meeting agenda, on file with CMD, August 3-6, 2011
- ↑ ReddHedd, "Tucker's Got a Secret," Firedoglake Blog, February 28, 2006.
- ↑ Advisory Committee, Libby Legal Defense Trust: Bio: Richard Carlson, Libby Legal Defense Trust, accessed July 6, 2007.
External articles
- "Tucker to Evangelicals: Chumps," Atrios Blogspot, October 9, 2006.
- John Aravosis, "Tucker Carlson: The Republicans hate evangelicals," AMERICAblog, October 10, 2006.
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daily caller
A conservative/Republican news spin organization founded by conservative reporter Tucker Carlson and former Dick Cheney aide Neil Patel.[1] The Daily Caller's announced objective is to be a "content" response tool to articles on The Huffington Post.
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Foundation
Tucker announced a loose idea for it at the 2009 CPAC. He and Patel than officially announced it at a Heritage Foundation gathering in May 2009, after which $3 million in capital from unnamed outside sources was invested.
Employees
It's unclear besides an editorial and accounting staff whether they actually employ any journalists other than Carlson, who's career has been as a talking head as opposed to a reporter. According to Carlson, they intend to use and adapt content from bloggers, possibly under freelance contracts. Per a 2010 article in The Washington Independent, it's reporters are from the conservative Washington Times (Jon Ward) and Government Executive (Gautham Nagesh) along with a humor opinion writer Jim Treacher (real name Sean Medlock).
Writers
Those who have written for it include Andrew Breitbart and Newt Gingrich.
Outlets
They use Youtube to post video/audio.
External
stone c#nt
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