This is becoming as much fun as the Watergate Scandal. I loved watching the president I hated go down in shame and defeat.

 

I am happy and sad.

Sad because the Fox employee Bill Shine has resigned from White House communications where he was just such a fucking disaster. But happy because now he is taking his toxic slime to the Trump Campaign. Where can poison that.

 

I will be honest it is both surprising and truly amusing to me to watch the drama of the DNC saying they weren't going to give Fox a primary debate after the New Yorker article about Fox being in the tank with Trump and Fox's reaction to it.

You would think they got stabbed through the heart or something. As if it could risk their masses of Democratic viewers and hurt their ratings. The howling from Fox has been just constant. Desperate.

Over what? Something no one has any idea about until a year from now? And a common situation in politics on both sides that 90% of the time turn out to be a bluff?

Damn Fox get a grip.

Fox News host Chris Wallace raked over the coals for whining about network being denied a debate featuring Democrats

*Almost every Democratic gain from coast to coast since the crash of '16 can be directly or indirectly be traced straight back to Tom Perez who accepted the challenge or raising the Democratic Party from the ashes.

**What the fuck is the chairman of the opposing party supposed to say? Gee Fox now that we have something to use against you and Trump we won't. Of course you are going to try and grab the headlines. But Perez is the DNC chairman. One guy. So one he is bluffing because anyone can hold a debate. Who cares if its sanctioned? And two who wants more publicity than the Democrats? So watching this has been just cracking me up.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/co...-banning-foxs-news-from-presidential-debates/

 

Stumbler honest.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

It is always good to be read.

 

Which rawstory is never read by us. never.

 

This just keeps getting bigger and bigger. And all Fox really had to do when the New Yorker article came out is just say "We thought everyone already knew we are a false right wing propaganda noise machine that is manipulating Trump and running the government." But instead they keep trying to lie their way out of it.

Fox News reporter who was blocked on Stormy Daniels story demands network allow her to speak about it

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/fo...my-daniels-story-demands-network-allow-speak/

 

Internet bashes Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro for xenophobic rant against Ilham Omar’s hijab: ‘Are nuns against the Constitution?’

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/in...bic-rant-ilham-omars-hijab-nuns-constitution/

 

Well now let's see how the advertisers react to this.

Shocking interview surfaces of Fox News host Tucker Carlson praising ‘young girls sexually experimenting’

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/sh...-praising-young-girls-sexually-experimenting/

 

Tucker Carlson unapologetic over ‘misogynistic’ comments on statutory rape, insults against women

Tucker Carlson refused to apologize Sunday after audio surfaced of him degrading women and airing controversial opinions about statutory rape and underage marriage on a radio program between 2006 and 2011. Instead, the Fox News host plugged his prime-time show and urged his detractors to come on as guests.

Carlson was widely criticized on Sunday following a report from the nonprofit Media Matters for America that compiled and transcribed more than a dozen instances of the host appearing on the “Bubba the Love Sponge Show,” a popular radio program broadcast from Tampa. In the segments, Carlson suggested underage marriage is not as serious as forcible child rape, called rape shield laws “totally unfair” and once said he would “love” a scenario involving young girls sexually experimenting. He also described women as “extremely primitive,” and used words such as “pig” and the c-word.

In a statement emailed to The Washington Post on Sunday, Carlson took a defiant stance.

“Media Matters caught me saying something naughty on a radio show more than a decade ago,” he said. “Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I’m on television every weeknight live for an hour. If you want to know what I think, you can watch. Anyone who disagrees with my views is welcome to come on and explain why.”

Carlson, who was employed by MSNBC before being hired by Fox News in 2009 as a contributor, reportedly spent about an hour a week calling in to the show hosted by “shock jock” Bubba the Love Sponge, born Todd Clem, according to Media Matters. During his appearances, Carlson and the show’s hosts discussed a wide range of cultural and political topics, including sexual abuse.

On at least two separate occasions, Carlson voiced opinions on underage marriage and Warren Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who is currently serving a life sentence for child rape.

In September 2006, just months after Jeffs had been added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, Carlson slammed the criminal charges, calling them “bullsh--.”

“Now this guy may be . . ., may be a child rapist,” Carlson said. “I’m just telling you that arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her.”

Three years later in another segment on the radio show, Carlson clarified that he was not defending underage marriage but added, “I just don’t think it’s the same thing exactly as pulling a child from a bus stop and sexually assaulting that child.”

Both Bubba the Love Sponge and his co-host immediately pushed back.

“Yeah, it’s — you know what it is? It’s much more planned out and plotted,” said the co-host, who wasn’t identified in the transcripts.

Bubba the Love Sponge chimed in, saying the act should almost be described as premeditated, but Carlson wasn’t swayed.

“The rapist, in this case, has made a lifelong commitment to live and take care of the person, so it is a little different,” he said.

“That’s twisted,” the co-host replied, later calling Carlson’s comment “demented.”

In that same show, Carlson continued to argue on behalf of Jeffs, saying he was in prison “because he’s weird and unpopular and he has a different lifestyle that other people find creepy.”

At the time, as the show’s co-host noted, Jeffs had already been convicted of being an accomplice to rape for his role in arranging a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.

“What do you mean an accessory?” Carlson asked when Jeffs’s conviction was brought up. “He’s like got some weird religious cult where he thinks it’s okay to, you know, marry underaged girls, but he didn’t do it. Why wouldn’t the guy who actually did it, who had sex with an underaged girl, he should be the one who’s doing life.”

Carlson went on to say that if he had made the laws, “Michael Vick would have been executed, and Warren Jeffs would be out on the street.” Vick, a former NFL quarterback, was sentenced to 23 months in 2007 for dogfighting.

“I’m not for child rape,” he said. “I’m just saying, if you mistreat dogs like that, we’re going to have to execute you.”

In other segments, Carlson called for the elimination of rape shield laws, which are intended to protect the identities and histories of victims of sex crimes and engaged in a conversation about young girls and their sexual behavior.

On the laws, he said in May 2006: “So if I’m alleging rape, I have the protection of anonymity. I can say whatever I want while hiding behind anonymity, while the person I accused, whether he’s guilty or not, has his life destroyed. That’s totally unfair.”

Then, in an October 2009 show, Bubba the Love Sponge launched into what appeared to be a hypothetical description of the young girls at the boarding school attended by Carlson’s daughter experimenting with each other sexually.

“I ain’t got my mom and dad here telling me that they love me and tuck me in bed,” the radio host said. “So, here’s Trixie, she wants to explore my body a little bit, so hey, let’s go crazy.”

Carlson responded: “If it weren’t my daughter, I would love that scenario.”

Over the years on the show, Carlson also repeatedly spoke about women using language that many found to be offensive. He once said, “I love women, but they’re extremely primitive, they’re basic, they’re not that hard to understand.” In another appearance, he implied that women like being instructed by men to “just be quiet and kind of do what you’re told.”

His criticism of women extended to prominent figures, such as Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, HuffPost’s former editor in chief Arianna Huffington and TV host Alexis Stewart, Martha Stewart’s daughter.

In May 2010, Carlson said he felt sorry for Kagan, then a Supreme Court nominee, who was “never going to be an attractive woman.”

“I feel sorry for unattractive women,” he said, adding that the “problems” with Kagan’s physical appearance were “fundamental.”

He called Huffington “a pig” and used the c-word when discussing Stewart, noting that he wanted to “give her the spanking she so desperately needs."

The audio from Media Matters swiftly went viral. By early Monday, a video shared by the nonprofit to Twitter had been watched more than 2 million times and Carlson was trending with tens of thousands of mentions, many slamming the host as “sexist” and condemning his views.

“Shame on you,” actress and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted, tagging Carlson. “You have daughters."

Michael Avenatti, the attorney for adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, calledCarlson a “complete dirtbag.”

As several people, including The Post’s Erik Wemple, pointed out, this is not the first time Carlson has expressed views widely considered to be “misogynistic.”

Media Matters President Angelo Carusone cited Carlson’s history of making controversial statements on air when explaining why the organization published the audio. As recently as December, Carlson’s show was boycotted by advertisers after he faced widespread backlash for saying immigrants make the United States “poorer and dirtier and more divided.” The host also did not apologize then. On Sunday, Carlson faced renewed boycott calls.

“The reason we released this is precisely because the things you say on your Fox News show echo the misogyny displayed in those clips,” Carusone tweeted. “We were actually helping people better understand just how vile your current Fox News show is by showing what that worldview really looks like.”

Asked for comment on the newly surfaced audio, Fox News referred The Post to Carlson’s statement.

Amid the backlash, some flocked to defend Carlson, including prominent conservatives such as Donald Trump Jr.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...ts-against-women/ar-BBUC0c6?OCID=ansmsnnews11

 

Ok this is way worse than I thought and I doubt Carlson is going to be able to survive this.

 

The despicables really need to find a new playbook.

 

Carlson was already in trouble with major advertisers. And defending child rape and calling women "primitive" is too toxic for advertisers to want to touch.

#FireTuckerCarlson now trending on Twitter amid growing calls to boycott Fox News advertisers

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/fi...d-growing-calls-boycott-fox-news-advertisers/

 

Breaking News: New Tucker Carlson tapes are just being released.

 

Fox News host Tucker Carlson uses racist, homophobic language in second wave of damaging audio


A day after releasing audio of Tucker Carlson making numerous misogynist remarks, Media Matters for America published a new video with clips of the Fox News host using racist and homophobic language to describe Iraqi people, African Americans, gay people and immigrants while speaking on a radio program between 2006 and 2011, according to a report published Tuesday by the nonprofit.

The self-described watchdog of “conservative misinformation in the U.S. media” published the audio from Carlson’s appearances on a Tampa-based radio program, the “Bubba the Love Sponge Show,” just 25 hours after releasing similar recordings in which he’s heard flippantly using sexist language to express his views on child rape, rape shield laws, underage marriage and other sensitive topics.

The new audio highlights about a dozen instances of Carlson using racist language on the “shock jock” show, which he apparently called into for about an hour per week. In 2008, Carlson lamented that “everyone’s embarrassed to be a white man,” before stating that white men deserve credit for “creating civilization and stuff.”

In another instance, Carlson is heard saying that Iraq is a “crappy place filled with a bunch of, you know, semiliterate primitive monkeys,” adding, “That’s why it wasn’t worth invading.” That follows a 2006 segment on the show in which Carlson said he had “zero sympathy” for Iraqi people and their culture because they “don’t use toilet paper or forks.”

“They’re just so awful. Just awful,” Carlson said.

A co-host on the show replies: “They’re animals, dude. They are."

In what appears to be commentary on when the United States should remove troops from Iraq, Carlson says, “The second we, I mean they, can just shut the f--- up and obey, is my view.”

“The second we leave, they’re going to be calling for us to return because they can’t govern themselves,” he adds.

In March 2006, Carlson spoke about his desire for a presidential candidate to blame the “lunatic Muslims who are behaving like animals.” That candidate would be “elected king” if they vowed to “kill as many of them as [they] can,” Carlson added.

Carlson also spoke crassly of immigrants and questioned Barack Obama’s identity as a black man.

"How is he black, for one thing? He has one white parent, one black parent,” he said in 2006. Two years later, he added, “I don’t know how black he is, but I’m sure he’s a good basketball player — he says he is, anyway.”

In a separate posting, Media Matters published a conversation between Bubba the Love Sponge and Carlson from 2006, in which both use homophobic slurs. The host tells Carlson: “I like you. I mean, I’m not trying to f-- out on you or nothing, but I like you. I like you.”

“Well I like you too, and I mean that,” Carlson replies. “You always say, ‘I mean that in a non-f-- way,’ but I actually mean it in a completely f----t way."

Bubba the Love Sponge and a co-host each reply: “I wish I knew how to quit you, Tuck,” apparently referencing the 2005 drama “Brokeback Mountain.”

Carlson opened his 8 p.m. show Monday with a defiant, six-minute diatribe in which he took aim at what he called a digital mob, and he refused to apologize.

“The great American outrage machine is a remarkable thing,” he said, in front of title cards that read “THE MOB” and “CRACKDOWN ON DISSENT.”

“One day you’re having dinner with your family imagining everything is fine, the next your phone is exploding with calls from reporters,” Carlson said.

He said he believed that his critics were motivated more by a lust for power than actual concerns. “But what if we stopped pretending for a minute? What if we acknowledged what’s actually going on? One side is deadly serious. They believe that politics is war. They’re not interested in abstractions or principles, rules or traditions,” he said. “They seek power. They plan to win it, whatever it takes.”

Then Carlson said the network supported him.

“First, Fox News is behind us, as they have been since the very first day,” he said. “Toughness is a rare quality in a TV network, and we’re grateful for that. Second, we’ve always apologized when we’re wrong, and we’ll continue to do that. But we will never bow to the mob, ever, no matter what.”

The audio released Sunday by Media Matters compiled more than a dozen instances of Carlson’s commentary on the “Bubba the Love Sponge Show” between 2006 and 2011, in which he’s heard describing women as “extremely primitive” and suggesting that underage marriage is not as serious as forced child rape and that he would “love” a scenario involving young girls experimenting sexually.

Those clips quickly went viral, and the backlash was swift as many condemned Carlson for his views.

In a statement Sunday, Carlson classified his comments on the radio show as “naughty” and invited those who disagreed with them to appear on his television show.

“Rather than express the usual ritual contrition, how about this: I’m on television every weeknight live for an hour,” Carlson wrote in the statement. “If you want to know what I think, you can watch. Anyone who disagrees with my views is welcome to come on and explain why.”

Those who support Carlson decried the Sunday Media Matters report, calling it a “hit piece” meant to sully his name. In a Monday night tweet, Fox News’s Brit Hume noted that Carlson’s 8 p.m. segment was the most-watched show in cable news, writing, “Doing well is the best revenge.”

Allyson Chiu contributed to this report.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...e-in-second-wave-of-damaging-audio/ar-BBUEAsU

 

Panicked Fox News execs undercutting Carlson and Pirro to keep advertisers from fleeing: report

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/pa...arlson-pirro-keep-advertisers-fleeing-report/

 

Heh, Trup's not enough of a target...now it's Carlson and Pirro. Heh, let's see if this reaches the heights of the Mueller Report. Heh, y'all are a trip.

 

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson won’t ‘take the left’s crap’ — but is going on vacation for rest of the week: Sean Hannity

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/tu...s-crap-going-vacation-rest-week-sean-hannity/

 

New Tucker Carlson Audio: Explicit Sex Jokes About Underage Miss Teen USA Contestant

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucke...derage-miss-teen-usa-contestant-caitlin-upton