New York Times Public Enemy #1: Tucker Carlson
The Gray Lady goes green with envy
The New York Times has met the enemy and it is Tucker Carlson. Carlson believes that Washington should enforce federal immigration law — and that makes him a “white fear monger.”
Tucker Carlson does not belong in The Club.
AMERICAN NATIONALIST: PART 1
How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable
April 30, 2022
This is the first article in a series on Tucker Carlson. Read Part 2 and Part 3.
Tucker Carlson burst through the doors of Charlie Palmer Steak, enfolded in an entourage of producers and assistants, cellphone pressed to his ear. On the other end was Lachlan Murdoch, chairman of the Fox empire and his de facto boss.
The Gray Lady concocted a three-part series on the Fox News host. The first part consumes 20,000 words. Its headline: “How Tucker Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable.”
The Paper of Record’s obsession with Fox News is truly unattractive. How dare an upstart challenge the journalism behemoth? How dare the network demonstrate a right-leaning bias when only left-wing bias is allowed? (And really, it’s not bias but just how all smart people think.)
Reporter Nicholas Confessore, whose byline headlines the series, is a contributor to rival MSNBC. Apparently the paper couldn’t find an in-house reporter not saddled with a glaring conflict of interest.
Big media’s jihad against all things Fox smacks of envy and poor sportsmanship. Worse, the package smacks of an utter lack of self-awareness.
A graphic of Carlson’s remarks about big-name figures includes quotes which we are supposed to see as false, when many of those quotes are true or arguably true. Didn’t anybody notice? Anybody?
On Big Tech, aka “tech entrepreneurs”: “The tech oligarchs join forces to censor their political opponents. You may be one of them. You weren’t being paranoid to worry about this. You were absolutely right.” He’s right.
On VP Kamala Harris: “Things are getting more dangerous in this country. Luckily, Kamala Harris has a plan. She plans to disarm you.”
On President Joe Biden: “Biden, instead, demands that your forget about your so-called rights as an American and obey his orders. No questions allowed.”
The story doesn’t explain how these remarks are supposed to be false — because if you work at the Times, you just believe Carlson’s remarks can’t be true. It’s an article of faith.
You’d think there’d be someone on 8th Avenue who understands what a bad look this is. But if there is, no one hears the buzzing in the background. The only sound is the reassuring thrump inside the bubble.
The series includes information about Carlson that, if true, is not flattering. I refer to Carlson’s alleged bullying of producer Dan Gallo and former White House Correspondent Kristin Fisher. Sort of reminds me of Bari Weiss and Donald G. McNeil, Jr.
From Weiss:
Part of me wishes I could say that my experience was unique. But the truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at The Times. Why edit something challenging to our readers, or write something bold only to go through the numbing process of making it ideologically kosher, when we can assure ourselves of job security (and clicks) by publishing our 4000th op-ed arguing that Donald Trump is a unique danger to the country and the world? And so self-censorship has become the norm.
Note to NYT staff: The U.S. President, and the Senate and House are run by Democrats. Since they’re the people in power, a paper that wants to “afflict the comfortable” might want to probe the party that’s actually in power.
The economy is in big trouble. The border is a hot mess. Less than 42 percent of Americans approve of Biden, according to the RCP average of polls. Yet the Times sees its mission is to go after a conservative pundit, because some day he might run for office. That possibility means there is no need to investigate those already in leadership positions.
We know why. It’s the same reason the paper didn’t pursue the Hunter Biden laptop story until March of this year — more than a year after the 2020 election, when the story might have informed voters about the Bidens’ money grubbing.
NYT management is everything the left says about Fox News: clueless.
Debra J. Saunders is a fellow at the Discovery Institute's Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership. Contact her at dsaunders@discovery.org.
I enjoyed this line: "How dare an upstart challenge the journalism behemoth?" For a split second, I wondered who the upstart really was.
Another good, on-the-money commentary. Thanks!