He made these tasteless comments after he had been the host of Crossfire on CNN for years and after the famous John Stewart call-out on that show

How does he still have a show? Or was he already down to Medicare fat carts and commerarive Cheeto gold coins?

Over time, as these asshats have been fired and replaced, has the level of asshattery actually decreased? I'm thinking it hasn't. We need Jason to kill the assHydra.

afaik they've only fired the rapey ones, and then only because it cost them major sponsors

fwiw twitturds are saying that he lost Outback Steakhouse and Capital One

Yeah, there are millions of deplorables and an endless supply of bottom-barrel advertisers ready to sell Trumpy Bears or Ron Paul's doomsday meal kits or whatnot. I think you only get fired if you do something legally actionable like grope an intern. Still glad to see Outback and Capital One pulling out and making him slightly less filthy rich.


PS: **** Bill Mahr

I mean who is actually legitimately outraged by this? No one actually cares about these comments, liberal or conservative. Everyone who wants Carlson to lose his job over this already despises him. Everyone who likes him and watches his show could not possibly care less about edgelord comments Carlson made ten or more years ago calling into something called Bubba the Love Sponge. Has a single person heard these comments and changed his mind about Tucker Carlson? Seems unlikely.

That's not the point and undoubtedly not true as well.

Once something becomes this public, a backlash momentum can emerge. In a case like this, it is often manifest through advertisers.

Keed, I concede my level of outrage towards ****heads on FOX is not significantly elevated today compared to yesterday. I wouldn't say it doesn't matter to anyone anywhere. A couple of advertisers decided to put their money elsewhere. Carlson's bosses must have noticed, and it's possible they eventually change their minds about employing him. They must think viewers at least have the potential to be turned off by his past comments and lack of contrition now.

His daughters? Well not really they have probably seen his disrespect for women up close.

Possibly, but I doubt it. I actually watched Carlson's show tonight because I was curious how he would handle this and he briefly discussed it at the opening of his show. He basically said that the people attacking him don't care about what he actually thinks, what he actually believes, don't care about him apologizing if he chooses to do so and only wants to silence him. Which, say what you will, is basically accurate. And that's an appealing message to folks who are Tucker Carlson fans. Carlson turned it around and made Fox News the victim, which is Fox News' favorite stance. So yeah, there's no way that this Bubba the Love Sponge stuff is going to stick if that's all there is. Going to take a lot more than decade old edgelord **** like that. I mean he already said illegal immigrants make America dirtier, on air. This is nothing compared to that.

Imagine what it's like to be someone who thinks people don't have sincere objections to some ******* defending sexual abuse.

He was just an apologist for a child sex trafficker. No big they were married....

Are you trying to reclaim the title of "worst poster of the forum" from ins0? If so, you are doing a bang up job.

will gladly take action that Carson still has his show six months from now. Since you folks think this is such a huge deal.

Just expressing my opinion that the outrage over Carlson's past statements isn't actually going to change anyone's mind in any meaningful way. If you think this is an ill-conceived opinion please note the proposed wager above.

Why would i do that i think he will too and that is part of the outrageous part. Any other network would of canned him for this, or his white supremacy courting.

You are also expressing an opinion that outrage is uncalled for.

Yes there are people legitimately outraged by this.

Then what the hell are we arguing about? I'm saying this isn't going to touch him because his supporters don't care about it. And they care even less because Carlson is correctly pointing out that folks attacking him also don't really care about it -- they don't hate him any more today than they did yesterday. They just want him to go away.

Whether outrage is justified.

Not quite. I'm saying that I don't really believe people when they say they're outraged by Carlson's comments. I don't think that folks exist who were neutral about Carlson before and now are all of the sudden just outraged by what he said. I think you hated Carlson before and you hate him now. Just as much before as now. That uDevil's opinion is what people attacking Carlson actually hold:

It's not actual outrage. It's tactical. Folks think if they act outraged enough they can get him fired so they're going to try to do that.

No i dislike him more now. I dont care if you dont believe me and think im being tactical though so...not much to argue over.

If it gets him canned and or gives fox heat its a good tactic anyway. Conservatives particularly fox news use faux outrage as a weapon all the time. Goose gander.

jman finds his brand of trolling entertaining for some inscrutable reason, so we all have to suffer.

None of the liberal posters on this board are outraged, because they didn’t expect anything less. You’re not outraged, because you condone his comments....Either that or you’ve created another straw man. If mods give you the benefit of the doubt and concede it’s the latter, it’s beyond me how you don’t catch some sort of ban.

Not quite. Outrage is justified. I'm just close to maxed out; the relief valve is open. If people still have the capacity to act outraged then good for them. They can be tactical and sincere. Don't be so cynical.

But my point isn't whether outrage is justified or not. It's more a question of marginal outrage. Like, Carlson said that immigrants made America dirtier. Carlson said diversity makes our country weaker. He said these things on his show. I'm sure he said a bunch of other offensive **** on his show too. Who in the world is not going to be outraged by that but then is going to be outraged by decade-old comments to a Love Sponge to the effect of, actually a 13 year old banging his teacher is not that bad. I'm saying that person doesn't actually exist. That if you're a Carlson fan this edgelord Love Sponge stuff isn't going to move the needle at all. And anyone saying oh hey I was on the fence about Carlson before but now I hate him, I'm shocked I say, shocked is straight up lying.