Tucker Carlson says he's rooting for Russia. Why shouldn't we believe him?
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"Rootless cosmopolitan" is a dangerous antisemitic accusation used against Jews by Stalin & Hitler alike.
Shocking to see it promulgated in broad daylight by Fox News regular Douglas Macgregor.
People that espouse such hateful rhetoric should not be offered public platforms.
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NEW: Tucker Carlson favorite Douglas Macgregor in 2021 speech: The people that "the Russians used to call... 'rootless cosmopolitans'" are "largely responsible, in my judgment, for the condition that we are in today.” mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucke
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There's a hidden pro-war bias in some of the media treatment of Biden and Ukraine. People are being too credulous about GOP calls for "strength" against Putin.
I talked to about the complex pressures on Biden right now. Highly illuminating:
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Facebook and Instagram have approved and profited from advertising pushing the false Ukraine-US biolabs conspiracy theory
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It's unconscionable that neither Wolf Blitzer nor Joe Scarborough asked Sen. Manchin about his opposition to climate policies in their interviews with him last night and this morning. Instead, they let him riff on "drill baby drill" and how the US has the cleanest fossil fuels
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I spoke to nuclear strategists this week who raised US TV news as a serious risk factor for inadvertent nuclear escalation.
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Hopefully this will remain a matter of academic and media studies interest only. But it is worth considering why much of cable news has become a nonstop cheerleading for the US to declare war on Russia, often via a 'no fly zone'.
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Fun fact: This guy was nominated by Trump as ambassador to Germany.
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NEW: Tucker Carlson favorite Douglas Macgregor in 2021 speech: The people that "the Russians used to call... 'rootless cosmopolitans'" are "largely responsible, in my judgment, for the condition that we are in today.” mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucke
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OAN using a picture of empty shelves to talk about "Biden-inflation," small snag in their narrative though because this picture was from 2017 when Trump was in office.
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Good story from Media Matters. I'm struck by the fact that Macgregor gave a speech to the Serbian American Voters Alliance.
Macgregor appeared to side with the Serbian forces during the Kosovo War, who are estimated to have ethnically cleansed at least 11,000 people.
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Here's a question.
Fox News has at times banned guests from the network due to their use of antisemitic tropes (albeit inconsistently).
Will they stop their star host Tucker Carlson from hosting Douglas Macgregor, his "first choice for foreign policy analysis"?
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This is not a dog whistle. It is a bullhorn.
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In other speeches and media appearances, he accused George Soros, a frequent target of antisemitic conspiracy theories, of various efforts to "fundamentally destroy what is left of the United States of America – its institutions, its national identity, its history, its culture”
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In a separate speech in 2019 to a Ron Paul conference, Macgregor described the 2020 election as a "spiritual battle" against "globalists caught up in the international finance arena" who are "committed to the destruction of the very country we live in." c-span.org/video/?c500603
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"Rootless cosmopolitans" was term was used by the Soviets to slur Jewish intellectuals during Josef Stalin’s antisemitic purges.
Macgregor added that these "very wealthy" people "have no connection to the country" and use BLM and antifa as their "foot soldiers."
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NEW: Tucker Carlson favorite Douglas Macgregor in 2021 speech: The people that "the Russians used to call... 'rootless cosmopolitans'" are "largely responsible, in my judgment, for the condition that we are in today.” mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucke
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If you subscribe to 's Daily Wire, you're subsidizing Russian propaganda. mediamatters.org/candace-owens/
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I am begging these people to read one (1) book.
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Candace Owens: “Ukraine wasn't a thing until 1989. Ukraine was created by the Russians”
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Barr gave Lachlan Murdoch a special shout-out for traveling so far to his party.
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Among folks at Barr book party in DC tonight: Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, Lachlan Murdoch, Pat Cipollone. Said Murdochs convinced him to go through w/book & Trump could have won if he toned it down. Said he was glad he joined because Trump was getting “stampeded” on Russia probe.
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Tucker Carlson misrepresented a Pentagon official’s remarks to justify his fearmongering about Ukrainian research labs
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Meanwhile on #Russia's state TV: yet another clip of Tucker Carlson, arguing that we're not playing by the rules in sanctioning Russia and his sidekick Clint Ehrlich (linked to Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs), who claims that Putin benefits from our sanctions.
#TuckyoRose
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Real InfoWars stuff here from Watters, and on a day that a colleague of his just died in Ukraine. Sheesh.
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Jesse Watters asks the man who turned Hunter Biden's laptop to the FBI if he thinks the war in Ukraine was "engineered" by Biden as "a distraction"
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Tucker Carlson says America could be hurting Ukrainians by providing weapons in their defense against Russia
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Fox's Jesse Watters asks if Russia’s invasion was “engineered” by Joe Biden to distract from Hunter’s laptop
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Jesse Watters asks the man who turned Hunter Biden's laptop to the FBI if he thinks the war in Ukraine was "engineered" by Biden as "a distraction"
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Jesse Watters and Tulsi Gabbard say the so-called censorship of conservatives in America is “not so different” to media censorship in Russia
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Fox News blamed Biden for rising oil prices — then prices went way down
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Fox News guest compares the atrocities in Ukraine to the effect of critical race theory
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Outlets covering state bills targeting transgender youth healthcare must note the facts - this care is safe, lifesaving and supported by every major medical association in the U.S. and around the world. Lawmakers need to listen to these experts.
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Fox News has repeatedly used Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to push the same old talking points, ranging from culture war hysteria to attacks on vaccine mandates
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Lara Logan saying Zelensky, who she notes is Jewish, was “selected” by some unnamed global force sure sounds like she’s engaging not just in Russian propaganda but barefaced anti-Semitism
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Fox Nation host Lara Logan pushed a bunch of obvious pro-Kremlin propaganda in an appearance this morning, including linking President Zelensky's prior entertainment career to the occult. mediamatters.org/russias-invasi
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Newsmax host criticizes Tucker Carlson for his pro-Putin rhetoric: "I'm so confused by it"
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Fox & Friends fearmongered about a supposed migrant invasion from a holding location in the south of Mexico mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-f
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Congratulations on platforming a woman who spread misinformation and dis-information. Really shameful.
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This morning: CNN political commentator and former White House communications director @Alyssafarah Griffin joins @TheView at the #HotTopics table to guest co-host
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Douglas Macgregor, a frequent Fox guest, claimed in a recent interview that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine “in defense of his country” and in order to prevent a genocidal Ukrainian assault on Russian-speaking civilians in breakaway Ukrainian provinces”
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