{"id":34501,"date":"2017-04-26T11:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34501"},"modified":"2017-04-26T11:31:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T18:31:43","slug":"lmfao-a-new-fox-news-promo-for-tucker-carlson-portrays-him-as-a-major-dck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34501","title":{"rendered":"LMFAO: A New Fox News Promo for Tucker Carlson Portrays Him as a Major D*ck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Bill O’Reilly has been exiled<\/a><\/strong> to sexual harasser’s purgatory, Fox News is pouring on the coals to heat up his replacement, Tucker Carlson. The story of Carlson’s career is one of a silver spoon elitist failing upward for years until he found a home at Fox. He has had programs canceled at PBS, CNN, and MSNBC before supplicating himself<\/a><\/strong> to his Fox masters.<\/p>\n

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Fox News is clearly worried that their new prime time lineup isn’t going to hold up without O’Reilly anchoring the effort. Carlson’s record of failure continued even at Fox where he was losing to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow<\/a><\/strong> prior to his move into O’Reilly’s slot. So Fox put their marketing department into action to create a promotional video that they plastered all over Twitter the day after his premiere. Befitting the subject, it’s a festival of fail they call “Eight Reasons to Watch Tucker Carlson”<\/em> (video below).<\/p>\n

The video consists of eight soundbites from Carlson’s program that Fox seems to think will excite viewers into making his show appointment television. In reality, the video showcases what is most obnoxious and repellent about him. It’s a chronicle of what made his programs on other networks so unwatchable. Each clip is just a brief, but abrasive, remark that only succeeds in making Carlson look like a jerk. Let’s break down the eight reasons here:<\/p>\n

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  1. “You’re just repeating dumb liberal talking points.”<\/strong>
    \nCarlson spit this out at a Northeastern University student, Elan Axelbank, wearing a “Socialist Students”<\/em> t-shirt. And the best argument that he could could muster was a vacuous insult that ignored the segment’s topic.<\/li>\n
  2. “So much of this you don’t know. You pretend that you know, but you don’t know.”<\/strong>
    \nCarlson aimed this empty rant at Science Guy Bill Nye, a recognized expert in science and education. Those are two of the many fields about which Carlson is painfully ignorant.<\/li>\n
  3. “If you want to make America great again, you’ve gotta make work cool again.”<\/strong>
    \nThis was actually spoken by Carlson’s guest, Mike Rowe, a reality TV host of Dirty Jobs<\/em>. And it manages to regurgitate Donald Trump’s airhead slogan with a Soviet style platitude intended to keep workers docile and productive.<\/li>\n
  4. “You’re incapable of writing a clear sentence…I couldn’t understand any of them.”<\/strong>
    \nThis was Carlson’s response to George Ciccariello-Maher, PhD., a Drexel University Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Global Studies and Modern Languages. No wonder Carlson couldn’t understand him.<\/li>\n
  5. “This is performance art. I’ve never had an interview like this in my life. Nobody\u2019s getting anything out of this.”<\/strong>
    \nHere we see Carlson bragging that he can’t conduct an interesting interview. I’m sure his puzzled guest, Newsweek author Kurt Eichenwald, felt the same.<\/li>\n
  6. “You have no principles…All the things you’ve been saying for the last eleven minutes are totally untrue.”<\/strong>
    \nOnce again Carlson seems proud to have wasted eleven minutes of his viewers’ time. And New York University grad student Kouross Esmaeli must have been wondering what principles Carlson was demonstrating, other than being a dick.<\/li>\n
  7. “I want to believe that the U.S. government is not secretly collecting information on me and then use it against me for political ends. That is what they have done. You’re fully aware of that.”<\/strong>
    \nActually, Rep. Jim Hines (D-CT), was only aware that Carlson had ventured completely off the subject of Trump’s ludicrous tweet that accused President Obama of wiretapping him. Carlson had entirely ceased to address the subject, or make any sense.<\/li>\n
  8. “The idea that people take a crackpot like you who would throw something out there with no evidence is distressing, and shame on the Huffington Post for promoting garbage. The interview is over, Alex. Done!”<\/strong>
    \nThat’s how Carlson abruptly cut off his guest, Alex Mohajer of the Huffington Post, without allowing him to respond. It’s typical of Carlson’s style wherein he insults people, strays from the subject, and then kills any substantive discourse.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s what Fox News considers compelling television. It’s the cream of their programming crop. At Fox News mindless conflict and yelling is their idea of journalism. Although in the first promos for Carlson they posted ads on the Fox News website<\/a><\/strong> that labeled the show “entertainment,”<\/em> not journalism. So maybe I’m expecting too much.<\/p>\n

    You’ll notice that not a single clip in the promo shows Carlson exhibiting any signs of intelligence or integrity. It’s just a montage of a bullheaded, petulant preppy lashing out like a cornered rat. Yet Fox thinks so highly of this sort of bombastic bellowing that they devoted the whole promotional video to it. They think these are affirmative reasons to watch their loathsome successor to O’Reilly. But then, in that context, Carlson seems like a good choice to follow The Factor<\/em>. He should easily slide right into O’Reilly’s clown shoes.<\/p>\n

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    How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
    \n    Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
    \nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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    TONIGHT: @TuckerCarlson<\/a> Tonight moves to a new time! Tune in to Fox News Channel at 8p ET for more must-see #Tucker<\/a> moments. pic.twitter.com\/wAbgiJrq75<\/a><\/p>\n

    — Fox News (@FoxNews) April 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n