Fox News host Tucker Carlson is billed as a speaker at a far-right conference in Hungary on Saturday, according to a flier for the event. The appearance will come days after the Fox host met with the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
So Tucker is a wannabe Gorka?
Tucker is a dick. “Il-liberal democracy,” huh? I smell an ill-wind. These freakers don’t even hide their anti-democracy loyalties.
ETA: Next, Putin will be loading Tuck the Fu<k with duffels of cash to claim that Russian media is “fair and balanced.”
Thousand bucks says he’s being blackmailed.
Tucker “Taliban” Carlson is a turkey!
I think Gorka is a wanna be Tucker.
Nice…Tuckums can become known as The Hungarian Candidate…hmmm now who will be get to play the Angela Lansbury role???
That’s so sad, or it would be sad if I could muster even a shred of pity for *ucker.
Besides all the 5 star travel arrangements, I’d love to know what his “honorarium” is going to be.
Think of modern day Budapest as Berlin in the early 1930s.
So when I was last in Budapest giving a talk at Central European University, Orban was in the process of trying to force CEU to move to Austria and forcing other universities to either self-censor or close. And the government is opening a new university for the elites, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, which is basically and unapologetically a propaganda mill, indoctrinating the police and civil servants in Orban’s mantra – if you oppose Fidesz you are a communist Roma-lover in favor of opening the borders to immigrant terrorists.
Independent educational institutions are a huge threat to authoritarians. That’s why Xi, Erdogan and Orban spend so much effort bringing them into line. Tucker would of course be happy if Trump U were the only alternative for college in the US – his ratings would go though the roof.
Or Magyaran Candidate if you want to keep the “M” from the original.
Ma Hamhock
Tucker Carlson has found a soul-mate - someone who hates democracy as much as he does.
The Fat Orange Fuck seems to have emboldened all the Fascist assholes. They’re not even bothering to hide it anymore. The only thing missing are the uniforms and armbands. They already have the flag from either 1865 or 1945.
Hey Tucker!
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Disgusting, but far from surprising. Next, he cozies up with Bolsanaro, Duterte and Kim!
Of course he’s just going there to make a speech take some photos and pocket a check for….$200,000? More or less.
Yes I was wondering why Hungary stays in the EU? Is it because by staying in the EU then Orban stays as the head honcho? I mean it’s not like Hungary butts up to Russia, or Belarus? Putin would have to jump over Ukraine to get to Hungary. And what can Hungary offer Russia and Putin?
Liberal democracy is under pressure everywhere, and Tucker is prominently one of the people throwing in his lot with the other side. He doesn’t seem inclined to pretend otherwise. People who’ve done this in history are remembered, if they’re remembered at all, as a shabby, shameful bunch. You have your Oswald Mosleys, your Vidkun Quislings, all those, all the royalists, anti-communists, and anti-semites who weakened England and France between the wars. Not remembered fondly.
I’m guessing while there, he’s photographed wearing an Arrow-Cross lapel pin. Y know, just to show solidarity.