DawgTalkers.net Forums DawgTalk Palus Politicus Tucker Carlson Calls Combat Veteran Tammy Duckworth A 'Coward' For Not Debating Him

Tucker Carlson has an opinion show and he does just that, provides his opinion. You may not care for it or reject his opinion, but in the measurement that really matters, he does his job better than anyone, ever, in cable news.

Tucker Carlson Has Highest-Rated Program In Cable News History

It was a solid quarter for the network, which finished in first place across all of cable television for the first time in the network’s history, beating out all basic cable networks among total viewers and viewers 25-54, the demographic group most valued by national advertisers.

Agree with him or not, he's making the most money for his employer, he's winning.

well when you blatantly ignore one guy and call out another for doing the same thing, im perfectly justified in bringing up the question.

if you have a problem with my sentences.......so? keep it moving then. ive been typing like this since ive been on this board, and yet NOW, all of a sudden, its a problem for you?

maybe im not intelligent like you. and im definitely lazy with my typing.

and guess what? gonna keep posting

just.

like.

this.

Again - you are losing. Not only did he articulate exactly his message, his punctuation was fine.

When you are making a point, for example, adding commas is a correct sentence structure.

https://www.thepunctuationguide.com/comma.html

It's funny because there is a poster called Riley who often has outright bad sentence structure and grammar ... why don't you call them out from time to time and question their intellect and education???? Pfffft. Again - your put down failed.

j/c

It's a message board that lacks all body language and emotional essence from conversations and has people from many different cultures, generations and education levels.

Do we really need to nitpick typing skills, or lack of editorial review, before someone hits submit?

first off, you're trying to compare an opinion host to news anchors.

and this board has been over this before. its easy to have the highest ratings when

A. you're not even a news segment, and

B. you're the only conservative outlet on TV.

if there were just as many conservative outlets to compete with Fox news as there are with CNN, MSNBC, ABC, Vice, NBC, and other networks, and THEN tucker was still rated the highest? ok.

but that isnt the case. that would be like me bragging about being the strongest in a room full of people, even though im the only person in the room who actively lift weights, while everybody else does yoga.

miss me with that.

when it comes to me, apparently the answer is yes. its not the first, and most certainly wont be the last time somebody tries it.

AND by the way, his ratings have nothing to do with the fact that what he said about this combat veteran was straight up garbage, amongst a laundry list of garbage takes he's made on his show.

He may be ‘winning’ but his listeners are losing by allowing his poison into their brains.
Sadly you judge his winning/losing by the money he’s making. Not by the harm his words cause. A true testament to what’s wrong in our country. Money over ethics. Hence the trump presidency.

Tucker Carlson is opposite Anderson Cooper, and Rachel Maddow, both opinion shows.

i dunno about maddows but AC's show is not an opinion program, nor is he an opinion host.

stop it.

Maddow was straight up the MSNBC counter to Hannity... so she is an opinion host. I don't watch Cooper. I don't watch any of the 3 of them - but i have seen all three and watched shows. Carlson distorts more and is Limbaugh-esque in the way he frames and brain washes the audience. Maddow is very selective in the content and absolutely focuses on the worst of Trump to paint him in a negative light. I've only seen Cooper on coverage of natural disasters (floods/hurricanes) so can't truly comment - but he does not seem like an opinion host to me. Of course - simply sticking to facts and the News about Trump might upset most of his supporters and they may feel like he's an opinion host portraying fake news?

You can label him whatever you like. He's not getting the ratings, he's behind Maddow. So if he's "NEWS", CNN should put him up against Bret Baier, because CNN is sucking hind teat with their scheduling.

On the original topic - what Carlson said was disgusting.

Suggesting that Duckworth should enter a debate with him because she is in the public eye and service and should confront/address scrutiny/questions from anywhere and everywhere.... what a crock of steaming horse manure. If that was true then Trump would need to - you know - hold press conferences and be held accountable instead of only EVER appearing on Fox and having the WH Press briefings cancelled. It would mean that McConnell and Devil Nunes all the other douche-bag republicans should make themselves accessible to MSNBC and any other media outlet that leans equally strongly left as Fox leans right .... yeah, right.

So is your point that Cooper is an Opinion Host or that he's not popular? Because you started off on one path and now the message has seemingly changed changed. . . . What is the point you are trying to make?

My point didn't change. Carlson is winning the only comparison that matters, ratings. Swish tried to deflect with the opinion vs news. I didn't agree with that assertion but it was a side point.

ok but whats your point in even bringing this up?

does his ratings somehow give him a shield from being criticize? does his ratings somehow mean im not allowed to be ticked the hell off that he's trashing a disabled vet?

who cares about ratings in this discussion, except you?

i deflect from anything. im trying to figure out what ratings have to do how i view his disgusting comments.

youre tripping right now.

Ratings have everything to do with TV and it's a TV commentator you're harping about. It's why he says what he says. It got you all riled up, appears to be working.

There's a lot wrong with that post - but let's stick to one point:

So in your eyes, winning the ratings race means that saying something disgusting and baseless against a disabled military veteran is fair game??? You have no issue with what he said. . . . that's the only way I can interpret your position - please educate me if I am incorrect.

In my eyes? I never gave an opinion on this topic. I provided the fact that make up what drives his show, ratings. As I previously stated, regardless of what you think of his opinion, he's winning. He's now achieved more than anyone else, ever. That makes his employer a lot of money, that's the point. While y'all are wasting your time being offended by him, he's depositing the fruits of your irritations.

The fact it's an opinion show and even his high ratings doesn't change the fact what he said was garbage, and indicative of him as political commentator and probably human being.

Well I'll topple your little argument. Fox News gets higher ratings for two reasons:

1) It's not real news but more akin to sensationalized tabloid style faux news entertainment for the easy to entertain and emotionally manipulate conservative brain.

2) Conservatives are generally older, less tech savvy, and more likely to watch actual TV vs. streaming content. Libs are more likely to get their news from multiple sources like thinking people do, and also more likely to stream from multiple sources which does not get covered in those antiquated TV ratings.

End of the day, your argument means nothing but older conservatives using less tech are drawn to a Jerry Springer-esque level of programming with ridiculous WWF style grandstanding (where truth doesn't matter as long as the crowd is pumped) by it's prime time "opinion" shows like moths to a flame. Prove me wrong.

Which has nothing to do with this thread. Thanks

*Republicans (not conservatives)

What Carlson said about Duckworth was despicable. I don't condone that. But you'll never convince me that CNN holds the high ground over Fox. They both suck.

You and Trump, must be the only ones that think Ratings are more important than truth

Oh his ratings actually speak volumes. They promote a show by watching it where a man rants and says horrible things they themselves would never say in public. It's the perfect example of what they actually think.

Even FOX News said in a court case that his viewers didn't expect him to tell the truth.

If you wish to know what the most people who watch FOX News really think, look at which show they watch the most. It speaks volumes.

Here's what I get out of it. I'll make a comparison.

Hitler was elected as president of Germany. So Hitler was winning.

The only point I saw that he made is that how dispicable a human being is makes no difference as long as they're winning.

This is how Trump became president.

When do threads around here ever stay on topic? At least it's still in reference to someone mentioned in the header.

I usually derail threads on page 1.

That's what happens all the time on here. If I'm jumping in at page two of a thread, I fully expect it to be about something completely different than the thread title.

I don't see the comment as being disrespectful to her service.

Have you EVER jumped in on page 2 of a thread?

Well now the chorus finally speaks up!

I wasn't talking to you. Stay in your lane. You know, sitting back liking posts.

Liking posts? Bugs you?

Nah, I think it's hilarious how you put a like on every post where someone questions me. That's what lurkers do. They hide in the shadows.

So, if I agree with a post, I shouldn't do that? Like it?


It seems you've become rather combative as of late.

Thanks for your diagnosis Dr. arch. You try to be a laugh a minute but you really need to try harder.

j/c

Tammy Duckworth hits back at Trump and Carlson: 'These titanium legs don't buckle'

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a US Army veteran who lost both her legs while serving in Iraq, issued her strongest response yet to President Donald Trump and conservative TV host Tucker Carlson on Friday, calling them "self-serving, insecure men" after they questioned her patriotism.

Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat, has emerged as a top vice presidential candidate and has been the target of right-wing attacks, led by Carlson and echoed by Trump's campaign, after she called for a "national dialogue" about whether to take down statues of slave-owning Founding Fathers such as former President George Washington. Her pushback in a New York Times op-ed on Friday offers a potential glimpse into how she would acquit herself against questions from conservatives that the Democratic Party's leadership is beholden to far-left groups.

"Attacks from self-serving, insecure men who can't tell the difference between true patriotism and hateful nationalism will never diminish my love for this country -- or my willingness to sacrifice for it so they don't have to. These titanium legs don't buckle," she wrote.

Duckworth lost both her legs during the Iraq War in 2004, when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the helicopter she was co-piloting. She was awarded the Purple Heart and she eventually retired from the Illinois Army National Guard as a lieutenant colonel.

An Asian American, Duckworth accused Carlson and Trump of employing "racist insults" because "they're desperate for America's attention to be on anything other than Donald Trump's failure to lead our nation."
She argued that the President's focus on whether she is "sufficiently patriotic" is to divert from the more than 130,000 lives lost to coronavirus and a New York Times report that Russians offered bounties to Taliban militants in Afghanistan to kill US troops.

Carlson on his show Monday night pointed to Duckworth's comments as evidence she is among Democrats who purportedly "hate America." He double-downed Tuesday, calling her a "coward," "fraud" and a "callous hack." The Trump campaign claimed Duckworth is using "her military service to deflect from her support for the left-wing campaign to villainize America's founding."

Duckworth wrote in her Times op-ed that she does not "want George Washington's statue to be pulled down any more than I want the Purple Heart that he established to be ripped off my chest. I never said that I did."

"But while I would risk my own safety to protect a statue of his from harm, I'll fight to my last breath to defend every American's freedom to have his or her own opinion about Washington's flawed history," she said. "What some on the other side don't seem to understand is that we can honor our founders while acknowledging their serious faults, including the undeniable fact that many of them enslaved Black Americans."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/tammy-duckworth-tucker-carlson/index.html?

Your tone is exactly why I know you’ll never get it. Pffft talk about being hateful towards other’s. Deplorable.