Fox News Reacts To Soleimani Strike | Talking Points Memo

It’s not often that Fox News hosts clash with the President or among each other, but Trump’s strike on Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani seems to have spurred an exception.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1282511
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Farting is the only way an asshole can speak…

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I suspect tucker will have changed his tune in tonight’s broadcast. Fox “courage” is weak tea.

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Pretty sad when they aren’t all on the same page, isn’t it?

FOX IN DISARRAY!!! LOL!!!

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This would make me smile if this wasn’t all so freaking horrible.

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I must not be awake yet.

I seem to agree with Tucker Carlson.


"As news broke of the strike on Soleimani on Thursday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson railed against the President’s decision, which he believes means that the U.S. is “lumbering towards a new Middle East war.”

“There’s been virtually no debate or even discussion about this, but America appears to be lumbering towards a new Middle East war. We have to say, it’s one that officials in Washington wanted for decades,” Carlson said. “Disgraced National Security Adviser John Bolton has made it his life’s mission to start a war with Iran and Bolton might be getting his wish.”"


Ah, there we are again…

“Carlson then pivoted to arguing that the “invasion of America from the south” is being ignored by people calling for war with Iran.”

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Poor Tucker never really recovered from Steward’s smack down did he.

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Carlson initially supported the Iraq invasion but fairly soon came to see it as a debacle. And I guess he sees another one shaping up and doesn’t mind saying so.

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Right now, the Turks are marching towards Vienna unchecked.

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While it’s vaguely entertaining I see no reason why Faux News ‘analysis’ is of any real interest. Are there any quality middle east analysts to hear from?

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It’s always amusing to watch the Nazis fall out in dispute over how to fuck over the US and the world most effectively.

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On Fox? Good question! In the world-at-large, absolutely.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/03/iran-has-invested-allies-proxies-across-middle-east-heres-where-they-stand-after-soleimanis-death/

I have to work so I can’t read about this all day. But I’d prefer to.

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“Carlson then pivoted to arguing that the “invasion of America from the south” is being ignored by people calling for war with Iran.”

Seems to me that the most persistent invasion of America and it’s professed values is from the old Confederacy

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With the assassination and the following taunting, Trump made it personal, he and his family will be well advised to keep a low profile for like the rest of their lives. Soleimani had a lot of fans that will want to take revenge.

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Did Bolton just get what he wanted to keep him from testifying?

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I find it interesting that this is mostly being discussed in terms of shockwaves as a result of Soleimani’s death. But, in terms of Iraq, al Muhandis’s death will have shockwaves too, and throw even more gasoline on the fire. Iraq is going to ignite.

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On that tangent: if IMPOTUS gets convicted by the Senate, does he lose his “life ever after” SS protection?

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“American intelligence provided that material”

Whoa we’re killing people now based on what those folks say? We know they’re all in a conspiracy against Trump, which is why he has to get his intelligence from Putin and Giuliani now.

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How can we be sure that this assassination has “stopped the next attack”? I keep hearing that, and it just doesn’t makes sense. If US intel knew of a pending attack, then surely Soleimani had shared info with others. Unless the attack was a deep, dark secret, and Soleimani was the only one who could possibly do it, then the attack is still a possibility. It’s absurd to pretend otherwise.

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Delivers about as much enlightenment as:

The tree shoved in the Godzillster’s pie hole is a good touch though.

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