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Late Night Open Thread: TUCKER CARLSON WILL NOT BE OUT-CLOWNED!

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Adam’s already done a sercon (serious, constructive) post on the merits of Carlson’s Very Important Schpy Schtuff, but I want y’all to know that Joe Biden’s social media team is skilled.


Of course, once his ‘dog ate my big reveal’ story was shown for the shabby farce it was, the pretense was dropped…

But in the interim, much entertainment was had:

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  3. 3.

    Winston

    Where it all began:

    <iframe width=”545″ height=”409″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/z3U0udLH974″ frameborder=”0″ allow=”accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture” allowfullscreen></iframe>

  4. 4.

    Gemina13

    Biden | Harris War Room (Text JOE to 30330)

    @BidenWarRoom

    We disagree with Tucker Carlson on the issues, but no one should ever lose their mail. Joe will make sure the USPS receives the funding it needs to prevent this from happening, and end Trump and DeJoy’s efforts to sabotage it so that people like Tucker can get their mail on time.

    7:06 PM · Oct 28, 2020·TweetDeck


    Rough translation:  “Fuck you, Carlson.  Go get your shinebox and polish your fucking clown shoes.”

  5. 5.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Achrachno: Carlson is the ridiculous clown. Trump is the menacing psycho clown. They’re both parallel paths in the famous “Clown School of White Supremacy”.

  8. 8.

    jl

    OK, thanks for breaking info on Biden giga-scandal.
    Will Fox News evacuate its studios so UPS can’t schedule another deliver attempt? Hmmmm…. Will that be more evidence that the Deep State conspiracy has taken over the entire universe?
    Scary, very scary.

  11. 11.

    Martin

    This is comforting.

    Walmart on Thursday said it has pulled guns and ammunition from the sales floors of its U.S. stores as it seeks to keep firearms from being stolen should social unrest erupt.

  12. 12.

    piratedan

    well its simply another illustration that there is no depth to which they will not sink….

    we can’t “nail” Sleepy Joe, so we’ll go after his kid, we know he’s “soft” on his family

    won’t matter what we say about him, because his dad is famous, we can say whatever the fuck we want

    but as flimsy as our half-baked” scandal is, we’ll treat it with all the reverence it deserves.. after all, if we can peddle this bullshit, we have to treat it with the reverence needed to sell it… oops, I guess not.

    These guys are fond of saying that “both sides” are just as guilty, well then thank you, I’ll vote for Dems because at the bare minimum, they’re competent villains who don’t get caught with their dicks in their hands with the cameras rolling.

  14. 14.

    NotMax

    The entire mishegoss was a waste of digital real estate yesterday, is a waste of it today and will be a waste of it at any time in the future.

  15. 15.

    sukabi

    The last tweet…NPR headline…
    You Literally Can’t Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox’s Lawyers

    If FOX’S lawyers have concluded that Tucker spews bullshit and lies, it’s pretty clear those aren’t FACTS. NPR is a failure at reporting facts and is content with promoting propaganda and lies.

  16. 16.

    Anne Laurie

    @Martin: In a way, it actually *is* good news!

    IIRC,  WalMart’s been trying to slide out of the guns’n’ammo market for some years — it’s just not profitable enough to be worth the shelf space, much less the potential for putting off non-ammosexual customers.

    Every time they move the stuff behind the counter ‘just temporarily’, it’s an excuse to keep them there.  If they choose to use ‘scary antifa n**** rioters!!!’ as an excuse, well, they know who’s gonna yowl about the removal.

    Actual meat hunters will get their supplies from dedicated suppliers (probably much of it online, like everything else these days).  Impulse domestic shooters and dumbarse ‘hold mah beer’ fools will have to work marginally harder to act out their worst impulses.

  17. 17.

    WereBear

    The amazing thing about Trump voters is that they don’t care what the truth is. They far prefer soothing lies, even if all of them contradict each other.

  18. 18.

    Rokka

    I just turned on Tucker and saw some guy named Glum Greenwad or something like that say the CIA, Deep State operatives, neocons, Bush Cheney operatives, Silicon Valley and Wall Street have a union of power who are fully behind the Democratic Party who are censoring suppressive authoritarians and could take over the government and that would a very alarming proposition.

  19. 19.

    Mary G

    Get these prosecutors over here ASAP:

    The Supreme Court of South Korea on Thursday upheld a 17-year prison term for ​former President Lee Myung-bak ​and ordered him sent back to prison. He will be the second former leader of South Korea​ behind bars on corruption charges.https://t.co/EpHjg8Krxx
    — The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2020

    Please, oh, please FSM, make it so here.

  21. 21.

    Mary G

    Intercept EIC lets Glenn Greenwald have it:

    The narrative Glenn presents about his departure is teeming with distortions and inaccuracies — all of them designed to make him appear as a victim, rather than a grown person throwing a tantrum. It would take too long to point them all out here, but we intend to correct the record in time. For now, it is important to make clear that our goal in editing his work was to ensure that it would be accurate and fair. While he accuses us of political bias, it was he who was attempting to recycle the dubious claims of a political campaign — the Trump campaign — and launder them as journalism.

    We have the greatest respect for the journalist Glenn Greenwald used to be, and we remain proud of much of the work we did with him over the past six years. It is Glenn who has strayed from his original journalistic roots, not The Intercept.

    Bold mine.

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    Late Night Open Thread: TUCKER CARLSON WILL NOT BE OUT-ASSCLOWNED!

    Fixed!  You’re welcome! :)

  25. 25.

    SWMBO

    Trying again.  This is completely OT for Amir Khalid.

    I found a meme that said:

    If you aren’t happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship.

    Remember happiness comes from guitars, not relationships.

  26. 26.

    glyph2112

    The October surprise is such a joke.  Anything the republicans could come up with, Trump has already done.  At this point, I would truly love to meet an undecided voter because what piece of information could they possibly be waiting on?  And I keep hearing the race is tightening.  Really?  Someone sat through 20 straight political ads and decided to switch sides?

    The deciding is over.  Its all up to the process now.

  28. 28.

    lol chikinburd

    News of this depressed the hell out of me when I heard about it tonight — not because I expected many people to believe it, but because people believing it seemed not so much the point of it.  This has looked like power flexing in public about its capacity for ruining the lives of people who cross it, a message seemingly aimed more at future political actors than at present ones.  Want to run for office?  Expect this.

  29. 29.

    mrmoshpotato

    why would tucker ship a bunch of documents via delivery when he could just scan them and post them on stormfront like usual.

    It’s topical because Fucker Carlson with a white supremacist Nazi shitstain.

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Could some kind person please explain this simile to me?

    the tucker stolen mail thing is absolutely a heat check, like a guy hoisting three pointers from further and further away to see if they keep dropping. his deranged fans will buy it, and he’ll hoist more shots even further out.

    I assume it’s some kind of sports reference, but I can’t even figure out what sport it is. If I could, I’d look it up myself.

    Thanks!

    (ETA: And where in the world did that weird font come from?

    (ETA2: And why did the weird font suddenly disappear? QUIT FUCKING WITH ME, 2020!)

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    @SiubhanDuinne: Basketball. There’s a line on the court where if you make a basket beyond that line it’s worth three points. The point being that making such a shot is hard so repeatedly trying is rather difficult. The metaphor is a wee bit strained methinks.

    EDIT: Annnd Opie gets there before I do. :P

  36. 36.

    opiejeanne

    Ok, let me see if I’ve got this straight. Tucker says that his letter has been stolen from the mail, but it’s really a package that was dropped in the Fed Ex box, and UPS has located it. If it was sent by UPS or FedEx, it can be traced by the sender or the intended receiver. Twits.

    And what has all of that got to do with someone reading his messages? Of course someone is reading them, you twits. Probably more than one of our fine security agencies, like the NSA.

  39. 39.

    NotMax

    @HumboldtBlue

    Guitars never make a commitment, they just string you along. Not to mention argumentative recalcitrance – a stubborn insistence on keeping both your hands full before reaching ‘accord.’

    :)

  40. 40.

    Yutsano

    @opiejeanne: I can’t even recall where I heard heat check before. I just noticed it must be fairly recent. Also: hockey wants its metaphor back please and thank you.

  41. 41.

    Sab

    OMG! Doug Emhoff was in my hometown in Akron Ohio at a Goodyear union hall today and I missed it!

    ETA  Of course my and my husband’s family were Goodrich and Firestone, but still rubber workers (now steelworkers.)  Go Kamala!

    Go Blimp!

  42. 42.

    Yutsano

    @glyph2112:

    At this point, I would truly love to meet an undecided voter because what piece of information could they possibly be waiting on?

    They’re not undecided. They’re waiting on that sweet sweet justification to vote for Drumpf over Biden. But it has to be at least somewhat believable so they can feel smug at Thanksgiving even if he loses. “Well at least I didn’t vote for Biden because…” That’s it. That’s all they’re waiting on.

  44. 44.

    Sab

    @Amir Khalid: Gave my guitar to my step grand-daughter. She plays it a lot. I still miss it and playing, but I do not miss the calluses on my fingertips. Nice to have a sense of touch.

  45. 45.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @opiejeanne:

    @Yutsano:

    Thank you both. I’ve (obviously) never followed basketball, but I have certainly heard the term “three-pointer.”

    Wonder if I might have figured it out on my own if I hadn’t just that minute woken up.

  46. 46.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Is anyone else getting this ad? What is it all about, and what benighted algorithm thinks it’s a good fit either for me or for Balloon Juice?

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  47. 47.

    WereBear

    @Amir Khalid:

    In other words, Trump’s base choose to dine on bullshit.

     
    Yes. I think most people know the truth, deep down. But they suppress that knowledge because what they get, even from a cult, serves their needs in ways they can’t figure out themselves.

    My theory on this springs from that classic study that started the whole cognitive dissonance discussion. People joined a small town cult and prepared for the aliens to come and take them away. When the ship didn’t arrive, some of them fell away, and some doubled down.

    Their preparations were painstaking, took weeks, and included NO METAL, like zippers on pants or eyelets on their shoes. Which they all eliminated.

    But none of them even thought about the fillings in their teeth. If they really believed, I think someone would have thought of it.

    I’ve read a lot of ex-cult-member memoirs over the past few years. Their doubts might not rise to consciousness because of the anti-process cult followers get pounded into their heads.

    But it’s still there, and it’s like holding a beach ball under water. One slip, and it pops to the surface.

  57. 57.

    montanareddog

    @NotMax: I bet you feel so superior and I don’t want to pike but agata no answer to that (not having your talent and desperately trying to find jeux de mot amongst the list of potato cultivars on Wikipedia) :-)

  62. 62.

    trnc

    When Carlson and Fox won a court case by successfully arguing that his show is not meant to be taken seriously, you’d think that would sort of undermine his claim on every future broadcast. I don’t know who the judge was on the case, but I assume a right wing hack who ignored the obviously too large number of social media users who refer to information “learned” from his show. I would also think a judge would require a label on the broadcast that it is not intended to be taken seriously.

  63. 63.

    evodevo

    @WereBear:   Yes, this.  And according to the Atlantic article on it, one woman DID think of her fillings, but didn’t say anything, I suppose out of fear that her fellow cult members would leave her out or pull her teeth lol

  64. 64.

    germy

    Now comes the claim that you can’t expect to literally believe the words that come out of Carlson’s mouth. And that assertion is not coming from Carlson’s critics. It’s being made by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York and by Fox News’s own lawyers in defending Carlson against accusations of slander. It worked, by the way.

    Just read U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil’s opinion, leaning heavily on the arguments of Fox’s lawyers: The “‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.’ ”

    She wrote: “Fox persuasively argues, that given Mr. Carlson’s reputation, any reasonable viewer ‘arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism’ about the statement he makes.”

    Vyskocil, an appointee of President Trump’s, added, “Whether the Court frames Mr. Carlson’s statements as ‘exaggeration,’ ‘non-literal commentary,’ or simply bloviating for his audience, the conclusion remains the same — the statements are not actionable.”

    Vyskocil’s ruling last week, dismissing a slander lawsuit filed against Carlson, was a win for Fox, First Amendment principles and the media more generally, as Fox News itself maintains. As a legal matter, the judge ruled that Karen McDougal, the woman suing Carlson, failed to surmount the challenge.

     

    (bold mine)

  65. 65.

    Ruckus

    @opiejeanne:

    Wasn’t it also lost in the mail? And of course FedEx, UPS are not the USPS, even though they may use the service for that last few miles, because it’s cheaper than having a truck/driver to cover large areas with few paying customers.

  66. 66.

    Ruckus

    @Amir Khalid:

    Dine on it, breath it, scrub with it, as long as two things happen.

    1. The people they hate have less in some way than them.
    2. They get to hate people to make themselves into something better. It never occurred to them to actually try to be better.

    That’s it. That’s all there is to it.

  67. 67.

    Dmbeaster

    @germy: The decision is, by the way, legal horse-pucky.  More Trump judge “justice.”  No way that question can be resolved as a matter of law.

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