Tucker Carlson Is Fine With Trump Praise For Kim

Fox News host Tucker Carlson called the North Korean government “disgusting” while he tagged along with President Trump on his trip to the region, but defended the President’s praise for murderous leader Kim Jong-un.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1232456

Wonder if Carlson understand that among the dictators Trump expressed love for, ‘killing people’ to run the country is understood to include journalists. But Carlson is safe. Not a journalist, just a tool of the US despot.

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Dems simply have to attack and dismiss Trump on this. Schumer did a pretty good job on Twitter. But I’d really like to see this issue get some prominence in the next debate.

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As these fuckwads are so fond of saying, “Then go live there if he’s such a great leader, Fucker. Maybe he’ll decide to “lead” you.”

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Not even a tool. Just a piece of toilet paper waiting to be used and thrown away.

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At no point in Carlson’s life was he ever a journalist.

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Well ya
A few in prison camps
A Few in Saudi Embassies
A few on the border
A few in wars

Everybody does it
Shit Happens

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you’ve got to be honest about what it means to lead a country. It means killing people,

Is Carlson setting the stage for broader use of those Article XII powers - people who don’t vote for you, people who openly criticize you, children who cross the border, . . .

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“Yeah, I mean, there’s no defending the North Korean regime which is a monstrous regime … it’s a choice most of the time between the bad people and the worst people."

So, the president’s chosen the worst people then? Is that what he’s trying to say? Cuz it sure sounds that way to me.

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So Carlson just defended the murder of an American Citizen.

Hope his advertisers take note of that.

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Hmmm … so it’s okay for Kim Jong Un of North Korea to become a nuclear nation, but not Iran who, arguably needs some level just for medical advances alone for their much larger population. Oh, that’s right – Iran’s people are brown and tend to be majority Muslim.

Donald is setting up numerous problems future administrations will be forced to deal with in as diplomatic as possible ways. Trump is dangerous on multiple levels.

Here’s an unsought piece of advice for the Iranian leadership – Pick something Trump just loves (say his porcelain doll, Ivanka) and lavish unending praise on the doll. Show him you two have something of importance (to Trump) in common.

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So if a President orders your death, you’ll be OK with that, huh, dimwit? Got it. Never know when that comment of his will come in handy.

At some point I really, really would like to see the dismantling and end of Faux news by whatever means necessary…at least during my lifetime. Ever since it came into being it has become the bane of America’s politics and existence.

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You know, he’s far less sentimental about this stuff and maybe, I think, more realistic about it.

But that’s true of any sociopath, Tucker.

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I look forward to him publishing the criteria by which he judges whether a governmental killing is appropriate or excessive.

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Fine; you first.

“I’m not a relativist or anything,"
“…now I will proceed to be relativist with my next 3 statements.”

Truly this man of vision and substance will be long remembered in his field.

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Killing a few people, especially journalists … the cure for fake news.

And when others report on it, kill them too.

And Republicans shrug … and smile gleefully.

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I would have loved to have seen Carlson in my Dad’s unit.

But only with enough time to get scared out of his gourd (18.7 seconds) and tossed out.

(Tossed out into…??? …Now THAT’S a question )

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He said Joyfully.

Right-wing religious nuts have code phrases on this subject:

“Culture of life:” anything right-of-center.
“Culture of death:” dreaded librullism.

So much for that.

And so much for Bill Bennett’s cottage industry of scolding the Left for “moral relativism.”