So I listened to two 2-hour shows by Tucker Carlson and, OK, don’t judge. I had six 15-page research papers to grade. I have scared the students away from even winking in the direction of AI, which means I have to correct every article, accent, and conjugation. To be able to do it in one sitting (while I’m at a conference where I’m one of the organizers and trying to write an urgent article and managing the department in little breaks between events), I have to listen to something. Not a work of literature, obviously, but something that will keep me on point.
Yes, I have a weird brain that requires me to listen to something in a different language from the one in which I’m grading.
And so what I have to say is, Tucker is a very talented dude. Talented. The shows are great. He’s completely nuts, of course, but so talented. It’s a pity he got bitten by that demon. Because this talent plus a moderately sane message would be really powerful. He interviews complete duds and manages to make them sound better and more interesting than they could ever hope. One interviewee was some Armenian lady, embarrassingly coarse, but Tucker made her sound almost kind of not terrible.
I’m upset with that demon. The demon robbed us.
On the positive side, I finished my grading. In this one course. I have two more to go.
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Are you talking about his weird anecdote about how he was sleeping in bed with his dogs, and woke up with bites and scratches that he attributed, not to a dog, but to a demon?
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I’m sure he’s very familiar with his dogs and if he says it’s not the dogs, then I believe him.
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“if he says it’s not the dogs, then I believe him”
Put yourself in the dogs’ place…. they totally did it and covered it up so that he would think it was a demon.
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I don’t think a stranger thing has ever been proposed to me on this blog. ☺️
Tucker keeps repeating, “there will be civil war, the civil war is inevitable, civil war, civil war.” It’s not the dogs’ fault that he is trying to bring this calamity onto his own country.
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“don’t think a stranger thing has ever been proposed”
Oh… have it your way then…. the dogs pawed at him and/or were playing and got out of hand (dog claws can absolutely leave marks). Did he take pictures of the “claw marks”?
“It’s not the dogs’ fault that he is trying to bring this calamity onto his own country”
He’s a kind of terrible person and that’s the narrative that this handlers want to promote….
I’m not adverse to believing in unexplained things but his story doesn’t really pass the smell test (for me… ymmv).
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Maybe the demon possessed the dogs. But something definitely happened and I don’t think it can be attributed solely to money.
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Tucker’s longevity as a politics talking head is insane. He dates back to when I was just starting to get interested in politics and he was on a CNN show called Crossfire. This was something like 2005. So he’s been around for like 25 years.
He’s definitely very smart and a good interviewer. But ultimately he’s just a political commentor without any other actual experience. Good entertainer and interviewer, probably best not taken as some paragon of truth.
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