{"id":37943,"date":"2018-05-18T15:20:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T22:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37943"},"modified":"2018-05-18T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T22:23:08","slug":"fox-news-senior-douchebag-asks-why-would-the-left-be-defending-violent-street-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=37943","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Senior Douchebag Asks: Why Would the Left Be Defending Violent Street Gangs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday Donald Trump engaged in a discussion of immigration issues and created yet another controversy over his prejudice and dehumanization of whole classes of people. There is some dispute over whether Trump was referring to all immigrants or only MS-13 gang members when he said that <em>&#8220;They aren&#8217;t people. They&#8217;re animals.&#8221;<\/em> But there is no dispute that even bringing up gangs in a conversation about immigration is a deliberate attempt to associate immigrants with violent criminals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-carlson-snap.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Tucker Carlson\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37944\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2147738165240967\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump tried to justify his comments in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/997429518867591170\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a><\/strong> wherein he insisted that he was talking only about MS-13. He whined about the <em>&#8220;fake news&#8221;<\/em> media purposefully misreporting his remarks. But even giving him the benefit of a doubt as to who he was talking about doesn&#8217;t change the fact that he was maligning all immigrants by making this association.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the Trump-fluffers of Fox News immediately scrambled to his defense with ludicrous allegations of media misbehavior. They uniformly accused the press of acting in bad faith and deliberately posting untruths in order to hurt the President. That&#8217;s nothing but a severe case of mass paranoia. And one of the worst sufferers of this malady is Fox&#8217;s Tucker Carlson. The poor guy seems to have the permanently furrowed brow of someone who is simultaneously dumbfounded and hostile. On his program Thursday night he launched into a recklessly slanderous diatribe that only certified his overt bias and inbred hatred for anyone not like him (video below). <em>&#8220;Why would the left,&#8221;<\/em> he began <em>&#8220;be defending the country&#8217;s most violent street gang?&#8221;<\/em> Which not a single person on the left ever did. He continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Trump has made them irrational. That&#8217;s part of it. But the left also senses a threat to its most basic worldview. MS-13 is a living reminder that the left&#8217;s position on immigration is fundamentally a lie. The media tell you every day that every immigrant, legal or not, is a future brain surgeon or tech company founder. Therefore, immigration controls are unnecessary.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That rant by Carlson is as clear an example of a cognitive meltdown as you will ever encounter. First of all, Carlson imagines some mysterious leftist worldview that is being threatened by the existence of MS-13. That makes no sense at all. And he delivers this nutty theory right after claiming that the left has been defending MS-13. Which one is it, Tucker? Is the left defending the gang or are they threatened by it?<\/p>\n<p>Then Carlson launches into an attack on both immigrants and reality. He demeans the contributions of immigrants with his assertion that lefties wrongly believe that all immigrants have potential to achieve some form of greatness. Let&#8217;s just set aside the fact that many of America&#8217;s most successful and innovative companies were indeed founded by first or second generation immigrants (Tesla, Google, Reddit, Amazon, Yahoo, Ebay, Apple). In fact, that&#8217;s true of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/the-avenue\/2017\/12\/04\/almost-half-of-fortune-500-companies-were-founded-by-american-immigrants-or-their-children\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">almost half of the S&#038;P 500<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, progressives also recognize the hard work performed by immigrants in the agricultural sector, as well as restaurants, hotels, and healthcare. And nowhere in the agenda of the left has there been a claim that <em>&#8220;immigration controls are unnecessary.&#8221;<\/em> Only that they are fair, reasonable, compassionate, and true to the American ideals expressed by the Statue of Liberty. But those are qualities that are foreign and abhorrent to right-wingers like Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson&#8217;s hate-fest concluded with a tribute to his Dear Leader. He literally parroted the idiotic notion that Trump laid out in his address announcing his entry into the 2016 presidential campaign:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;If they admit that MS-13 is actually bad and must be stopped, they&#8217;d have to also admit that when some countries send their people here they aren&#8217;t sending their best.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, there isn&#8217;t a single person on the left who has any trouble condemning MS-13 as being something that is bad and must be stopped. However, everyone with a functioning brain knows that immigrants to the U.S. have not been sent here by by their native countries. Whether those immigrants are the best or not, they come here by their own volition. Carlson and Trump believe that there is a governmental authority that selects who will emigrate to America. And then they wonder why the left is constantly mocking them for their stupidity and preposterous ideas. Maybe it&#8217;s because they keep defending the country&#8217;s most asinine concepts.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TuckerCarlson<\/a>: &quot;Why would the left be defending the country&#39;s most violent street gang?&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tucker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tucker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5EKsQfiRFv\">pic.twitter.com\/5EKsQfiRFv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/997417511267090432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday Donald Trump engaged in a discussion of immigration issues and created yet another controversy over his prejudice and dehumanization of whole classes of people. There is some dispute over whether Trump was referring to all immigrants or only MS-13 gang members when he said that &#8220;They aren&#8217;t people. They&#8217;re animals.&#8221; But there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,16],"tags":[554,33,1013,25],"class_list":["post-37943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-immigration","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-carlson-snap.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9RZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48782,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48782","url_meta":{"origin":37943,"position":0},"title":"Fox News and the Instigator of the Trump Insurrection Say Biden is &#8216;Destroying Our Country&#8217;?","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/17\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"On Tuesday evening Donald Trump made a return appearance on his former Ministry of Propaganda network, Fox News. 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