For one thing, you see these two clips: What do you see, and what do you hear, if you watch Tucker Carlson Tonight?
You'll hear a lot of crazy, over-the-top, majorly pseudo analysis by the program's host. That said, not everything you hear will be crazy--and you''re likjely to see video clips you won't encounter amid all the happy talk on the other two corporate cables.
Last night, Carlson opened with a ten-minute segment featuring lots of ugly street violence from several major cities. He followed with a short interview with a Seattle talk show host who always strikes us as basically sensible. This doesn't necessarily mean that his analyses are right.
As we've mentioned in the past month, we get the impression that mainstream anti-Trump news orgs are heavily censoring what you're shown and told about the ongoing demonstrations in cities like Portland and Seattle. Last night, Carlson's guest said this about the Seattle scene:
RANTZ (8/17/10): We're pretending still that these are protests. I'm sorry, but these are no longer protests. They've not been protests for several weeks. They go out there with the intent of causing harm to these police officers. They show up with bats. They show up with [commercial grade] fireworks, with the intent of causing damage. They're not showing up to protest for some social justice cause. That's not what they're doing.Presumably, Rantz was talking about some members of the Seattle protest scene, not all. Meanwhile, we aren't there to form our own assessment of these matters. But Carlson seems to have an endless supply of remarkable and ugly footage which aligns with that analysis, with no arrests reported.
It's our impression that other news orgs have decided not to bother our pretty little heads with the footage and the complexities in question. Our advice to you would be this:
Go ahead—give those tapes a look! The happy talk and the tribal dissembling will still be waiting for you when you return to the cable channels in the control of our tribe.
Remember—you'll have to sit through absurd ascriptions of motive from Carlson. You're there to watch the videotapes, not for (the bulk of) his remarks.
"They've not been protests for several weeks."
ReplyDeleteMeh. They have never been 'protests", dear Bob.
Protests are organized around political demands, and those riots -- oh okay, let's call them 'public disturbances' when they are relatively peaceful -- had none, unless you count "defund the police" for a political demand. But then would'd be an idiot, dear Bob.
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DeleteWhy does Somerby not understand that rioting and looting are also forms of protest, inchoate protests brought by people with too little money, no job prospects, etc. Riots are not normal, these times and not normal, and Trump is not addressing people's problems. So they are out in the streets making noise and destroying property. It is what desperate people do.
ReplyDeleteInstead, he is trying to figure out which protests are legitimate and which are not -- by watching footage on Fox, as if that were not as biased as the so-called mainstream media.
There was a protest in my hometown. There were 80 BLM protesters and 200 counter-protesters who drove vehicles into the crowd of protesters, one even having to be hit by a police car to avoid hurting people. That didn't make Fox News.
If you want to see some of the ugliness without listening to Carlson, go to the link below. In the link, rioters stand over the unconscious man’s body after they beat him. They pour water on him and shout in support of Black Lives Matter. Antifa street medics are examining him. He’s not responsive. (BTW I understand that this victim is not in a hospital.)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/antifa-is-evil.php
The problem is that guy was trying to hit protestors with his truck (I was there), from which he had removed his license plate. This is an ongoing occurrence with these pro-Trump groups like Proud Boys and Patriot Prayers. These groups, along with the police, have beaten and put in the hospital many protestors, they have even murdered some.
DeleteFox has a history of doctoring footage, showing video from other times and places and representing it as current, etc. You cannot trust what you see there. Somerby has seemingly suspended disbelief with regard to Fox.
ReplyDeleteHere’s Carlson talking about the mailbox conspiracy theory as dramatized in the video by Al Gore.
ReplyDeleteSuddenly it’s The Time Of The Season for Conspiracies (and gaslighting).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=emb_title&time_continue=1&v=KGvpaejsrkU
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. You so funny
DeleteI recently heard a conspiracy theorist say the Republican Party isn't a criminal enterprise. I was amazed. It truly takes all types to make this world.
DeleteSteve M. at No More Mister Nice blog says:
ReplyDelete"They [right-wingers] don't have thoughts about Trump's corruption because it's never mentioned in the right-wing media bubble."
Maybe Somerby can tell us if that's true or not.
Correction: the victim is NOW in a hospital.
ReplyDeleteGood thing those Antifa street medics were there to help!
Delete“Look what I saw on Fox News!” isn’t media criticism.
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